Designing Computing academic programs with disciplinary and competency frameworks

We characterize qualitative skill gaps that impact the employability of computing graduates. We consider the shortage of computing talent in Latin America and particularly in Costa Rica. We establish the need for collaboration between industry and universities, which must go through developing a common language. Mutual understanding enables defining educational and career profiles and improving job descriptions for computing staff. We present a curriculum development process based on educational and engineering principles. We summarize representative experiences of curricular design of higher education computing programs with disciplinary frameworks and competencies validated by the IT industry based in Costa Rica. We prospect on future curricular design exercises of higher education computing programs.