Turning Software Engineers into AI Engineers
This addresses the need for practical AI education in industry and academia, but it is incremental as it builds on existing educational frameworks.
The paper tackles the problem of educating software engineers to become AI engineers by describing an educational program, tools, and literature, with lessons learned from three years of experience.
In industry as well as education as well as academics we see a growing need for knowledge on how to apply machine learning in software applications. With the educational programme ICT & AI at Fontys UAS we had to find an answer to the question: "How should we educate software engineers to become AI engineers?" This paper describes our educational programme, the open source tools we use, and the literature it is based on. After three years of experience, we present our lessons learned for both educational institutions and software engineers in practice.