Traditionally, there haven't been many courses offered in colleges or universities that cover the fundamentals of release engineering.  This means that students don't get exposed to the potential that a career in release engineering has to offer.  Conversely, it also doesn't provide students who become employed in more traditional developer roles the background regarding the complexity and challenges that arise within the scope of  release engineering.  However, this is beginning to change which is fantastic!  For example:

Release Engineering as a Discipline,  Center of Computer Science, RWTH Aachen University in Aachen Germany

Overview of the Build and Release Process, Seneca College, Toronto


Release Engineering -- Applications of Mining Software Repositories, 'Ecole Polytechnique, Montr'eal

Software Release Planning, University of Calgary

Seneca College Library Image ©moqub,  https://flic.kr/p/9PyVVm Creative Commons by-nc-sa 2.0

If anyone knows of other courses that are offered, I'd love to hear about them.  Maybe someday I won't have to explain to new people I meet what a release engineer does all day.  Just kidding, this will still happen :-)

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