| Resumo: |
The objectives of the project is to present among the partners the experience and practices of the participating institutions in quality control and accreditation for engineering education and vocational training, to analyze an debate the models that can be used taking account the different experiences on both sides of the Atlantic, to produce guidelines advisable for quality assurance and accreditation, to test the recommendations and to adapt the guidelines to the feedback results. The planned activities consist of presentation of experiences and case studies in the area of accreditation and quality assessment of engineering education and training, joint meetings of partners to discuss the models and strategies that will evaluation for partners from US and EU, test the recommendations among partners and within the organizations active in this area and to reformulate the models and guidelines according to test results. There is a project external evaluation for each one of the two years allowing a formative judgement of the project. The principal benefit of this project is to improve the quality of the CEE courses on both sides. There are other impacts that also deserve consideration like the development and acceptance of common methods of quality evaluation that will facilitate the recognition between EU and US companies, individuals and universities of the CEE courses taken indifferently on each region. Another direct consequence is the expansion of the repository of CEE courses based on a distance mode, online or otherwise. A third marginal benefit is the contribution on a global scale of the definition of guidelines that benefit from the experience of two main advanced engineering education environments. The promotion and dissemination of the project and of the project outputs will be performed by the partners and by the participation in related organizations and associations. The partners will participate in several conferences and workshops and it is expec  |
Resumo
The objectives of the project is to present among the partners the experience and practices of the participating institutions in quality control and accreditation for engineering education and vocational training, to analyze an debate the models that can be used taking account the different experiences on both sides of the Atlantic, to produce guidelines advisable for quality assurance and accreditation, to test the recommendations and to adapt the guidelines to the feedback results. The planned activities consist of presentation of experiences and case studies in the area of accreditation and quality assessment of engineering education and training, joint meetings of partners to discuss the models and strategies that will evaluation for partners from US and EU, test the recommendations among partners and within the organizations active in this area and to reformulate the models and guidelines according to test results. There is a project external evaluation for each one of the two years allowing a formative judgement of the project. The principal benefit of this project is to improve the quality of the CEE courses on both sides. There are other impacts that also deserve consideration like the development and acceptance of common methods of quality evaluation that will facilitate the recognition between EU and US companies, individuals and universities of the CEE courses taken indifferently on each region. Another direct consequence is the expansion of the repository of CEE courses based on a distance mode, online or otherwise. A third marginal benefit is the contribution on a global scale of the definition of guidelines that benefit from the experience of two main advanced engineering education environments. The promotion and dissemination of the project and of the project outputs will be performed by the partners and by the participation in related organizations and associations. The partners will participate in several conferences and workshops and it is expected to have papers presented at these conferences. The involvement with engineering organizations and associations will allow the testing and feedback from other universities but will foster the dissemination of results. |