Interviews of IE graduates
Past Students employed in industry
Interviews of employed students
Their experience with IE, and how IE has helped in their now professional careers.
Quotes from employed students
“I’m working on a new app ‘Parcel Send’ – very cool and lots of fun. I’ve done everything from requirements gathering to design and testing. It’s funny that all the things we learnt in IE about the ‘real world’ have been so very true. So far sitting in meetings and talking to people and the type of work we are doing – wow – IE has helped so much!”
IE Graduate, 2023
“The IE project encourages us to work with people we’ve never met before, from differing backgrounds and experiences. This means that international students have the opportunity to gain exposure to an Australian working environment, and the Australian students have the opportunity to work with students from different cultures.”
IE Graduate, 2021
Wong Swee Soon Student Excellence Award for FIT Industry Experience
For every semester, the best student teams and projects are awarded the Wong Swee Soon Award for Student Excellence, an award in honour of Dr. Chek Yoon Wong’s father and their passion for strengthening the connections between students and industry, and the belief in that the Industry Experience Studio Projects helps shape the career paths of thousands of up-and-coming IT professionals graduated from a Monash Bachelor of IT degree.
Student quotes of their experience
These student quotes are from many documented exit interviews that we hold with each student at the end of the program
“The unit has assisted me in achieving my goals and practices as it has truly helped me to see how handling a website and client should be. There’s a lot of steps that should be considered and how it should be done with a careful approach. It has helped me become more mindful of my actions and how the end user and product should always be valued.”.
IE Student, 2025
“The unit has given me a real example of what its like working with a development team, communicating with a real client, working under strict time constraints while using agile.”
IE Student, 2025
“This unit gave a genuine experience with a real client to be able to work on certain parts of our skills that we will need for our future work places. We were able to test our skills and develop new ones in a more challenging environment with real consequences, and use our skills for long term projects instead of small ones found in other units.”
IE Student, 2025
“Yes, this unit has really helped me achieve the goals I set in Week 1 and Week 6. At the start, I wanted to use tips from mentors and class materials to do a good client interview and gather useful information. Thanks to that, I learned how to ask the right questions and use what I learned to plan our first solution. The unit gave us helpful tools and support to do all of these. It guided us through each step, helped us plan for the go-live, and taught me how to keep the team focused and motivated. Overall, the unit helped us build something useful for the client and work better as a team.”
IE Student, 2025
“This unit helped me improve my skills through a real project development which i really enjoyed the process， so that i feel more confident in relevant skills such as technical skills，communication skills etc.”
IE Student, 2024
“This unit gave me the place to demonstrate the technical knowledge I had gained over my course, while also continuing to learn how to work in a team in an Agile context and how to work with a client. Also, as there was something each week I was able to develop my skills in staying on top of tasks as I, alongside my team, developed a good rhythm for getting some work done each week.”
IE Student, 2024