| Resumo: |
The importance of educating engineering graduates capable of functioning as professionals with relevant technical knowledge, but also professional skills, is emphasized by the professional bodies, the governments and the employers worldwide given the changing societal challenges and the critical role engineers play in addressing these. This consortium brings together European academic institutions and a large number of professional body/employer organizations from these countries in order to develop a robust assessment framework for evaluating the effectiveness of delivery of core engineering knowledge and employability competencies. Thus the consortium sets out the following objectives:
* Review the learning outcomes of a chemical engineering HE formation.
* Promote closer involvement of employer organizations in chemical engineering curriculum formation.
* Establish state-of-the art in assessing the effectiveness of teaching of core (chemical) engineering knowledge and of the development of professional competencies required to increase graduate employability.
* Define various indicators of the effectiveness of teaching in chemical engineering HE, share them with the community to help HE institutions to improve their formations in chemical engineering as well as broader subject areas.
* Investigate in more depth methods of effective acquiring employability competencies.
* Identify the most appropriate evaluation methods and develop a robust framework for supporting effective delivery of core knowledge and employability competencies.
* Test the framework focusing on various pedagogic methodologies in each geographical area.
* Promote wider exploitation of the assessment framework via a network of associated academic partners The project will not only provide the tangible exploitable deliverables described above, it will also raise the profile of engineering education and provide objective means of recognizi  |
Resumo
The importance of educating engineering graduates capable of functioning as professionals with relevant technical knowledge, but also professional skills, is emphasized by the professional bodies, the governments and the employers worldwide given the changing societal challenges and the critical role engineers play in addressing these. This consortium brings together European academic institutions and a large number of professional body/employer organizations from these countries in order to develop a robust assessment framework for evaluating the effectiveness of delivery of core engineering knowledge and employability competencies. Thus the consortium sets out the following objectives:
* Review the learning outcomes of a chemical engineering HE formation.
* Promote closer involvement of employer organizations in chemical engineering curriculum formation.
* Establish state-of-the art in assessing the effectiveness of teaching of core (chemical) engineering knowledge and of the development of professional competencies required to increase graduate employability.
* Define various indicators of the effectiveness of teaching in chemical engineering HE, share them with the community to help HE institutions to improve their formations in chemical engineering as well as broader subject areas.
* Investigate in more depth methods of effective acquiring employability competencies.
* Identify the most appropriate evaluation methods and develop a robust framework for supporting effective delivery of core knowledge and employability competencies.
* Test the framework focusing on various pedagogic methodologies in each geographical area.
* Promote wider exploitation of the assessment framework via a network of associated academic partners The project will not only provide the tangible exploitable deliverables described above, it will also raise the profile of engineering education and provide objective means of recognizing and incentivizing excellence in teaching. |