Over the last few decades, a wide range of works have featured studies
documenting successful pedagogic collaborations in the form of
university-industry partnerships in engineering education. In light of
this, we conducted a systematic literature review of these studies
centred around five key research questions: (a) purposes of universityindustry collaborations, (b) theories used to guide such work, (c) types
of methods employed, (d) evidence-based best practices identified and
(e) areas of future work to be explored. Publications were selected for
inclusion by screening and appraising results obtained from databases
and keywords refined through a scoping study. We conclude from our
findings that future studies would benefit from better alignment with
literature or theoretical frameworks and specific robust methods.
Additionally, early and middle years of undergraduate engineering
programs offer underutilised opportunities for partnership, in line with
designing a more futures-focused educational curriculum
