EUINet Research WP 1

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EUI-Net ResearchWP 1

• Coordinator
• Transilvania University Brasov
• Romania

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Partners in the research

• Inner circle of the research -university
  partners in the project SIG 1 and SIG2
• Outer circle of the research
• All partners other than universities which are
  interested in tuning the educational system with
  the labor market requirements. They will
  participate the research in gathering data and
  will be kept informed with the progress of the
  research.

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The aims of the research

• To analyze the structure of engineering education
  system in Europe, concerning the engineering
  domains related to industry1 mainly the
  similarities concerning the length of studies,
  content of curricula, the proportions of
  compulsory, semi-optional and elective modules.
• To identify the generic and specific competences
  and skills required by each engineering domain at
  European level.
• To analyze the way universities prepare the
  graduates at the first and second cycle level for
  the requirements of the labor market, in terms of
  competences and skills tuning engineering
  education with professional requirements.
• 1 In the following pages, by engineering
  education we will refer to engineering domains
  related to industrial sector.

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The aims of the research

• To identify the perspectives on ECTS in
  engineering education in different countries.
• To identify the perspectives on teaching and
  learning, assessment, performance and quality in
  different countries.
• To present good practice examples for curricula
  development in different engineering domains.
• To identify points of convergence and common
  understanding in educational structures,
  contents, actual teaching and learning in
  different countries in the field of engineering
  education.
• To suggest improvements for the curricula in
  different engineering domains.
• 1 In the following pages, by engineering
  education we will refer to engineering domains
  related to industrial sector.

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The methodology used will be similar to the
TUNING methodology

• Consultation of the academics, graduates,
  employers and other stakeholders concerning the
  general and specific competences and skills
  required by the engineering domains for the fist
  and second cycle.
• Definition of academic and professional profiles
  for engineers.
• Translation of the generic and specific
  competencies and skills into desired learning
  outcomes.
• Suggestions for translation of the learning
  outcomes into curricular contents (knowledge,
  understanding and skills) and structures (modules
  and credits).
• Suggestions and proposals for defining approaches
  to teaching and learning, evaluation and quality
  assurance.

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Types of questionnaires and targets
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Practical approach has to be decided

• There are 2 possible kinds of approaching the
  issue of engineering education for the industrial
  sector
• By country the contributor has to portray the
  educational system related to industrial
  engineers in his / her country for the first and
  the second cycle in the end all country reports
  will depict the panorama of engineering education
  at national level.
• By engineering domain each contributor has to
  synthesize the information about a specific
  industrial engineering domain in all European
  countries involved in the project.

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The book on the research will be similar to the
TUNING REPORT1 and will contain

• The coordinator's report on generic skills,
  specific competences, perspectives on ECTS,
  approaches to teaching and learning, assessment,
  performance and quality, general conclusions and
  recommendations.
• The country contributors' reports
• Best practice examples in engineering education
  curricula
• Appendix I the questionnaires used
• Appendix II length of studies / industrial
  engineering domains or / country and industrial
  engineering domain.
• 1 Gonzalez, J., Wagenaar, R. eds. (2003).
  Tuning Educational Structures in Europe. Final
  Report. Phase One. University of Deusto
  University of Groningen.

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The research team will be structured as
following

• Joint general coordinators from Transilvania
  University and .
• Area (country) / engineering domain coordinators
  to be decided according to the type of approach.

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The research coordinators will have the following
responsibilities

• To synthesize the data gathered from the survey.
• To do the statistical analysis of the data.
• To write a report on the required general skills
  and specific competencies as seen by the
  employers, graduates and academics.
• To assemble and articulate the country / domain
  reports and prepare the final version of the
  manuscript for publishing.
• To do the final checking for the English
  language, considering the necessity of having a
  homogenous presentation the most of the
  contributors are not native English speakers.

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Contributions from each country

• A short report on the engineering education
  system in each country, including the following
  information (and others, if considered
  necessary)
• The state of the art in introducing the Bologna
  three cycle structure in engineering education
• Bachelor - 180 / 240 ECTS (3-4 years),
• Master - 90 /120 ECTS (1,5 2 years),
• Doctoral degree 180 ECTS (3 years).
• Number of engineering domains existing in each
  country
• Number of disciplines / modules for each main
  engineering domain for the first and second cycle
• Examples of compulsory, semi-optional and
  elective modules in different domains of
  engineering.
• Examples of credit distributions between
  compulsory, semi-optional and elective modules.
• Examples of curricula innovations (good practice
  cases)

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Specific instrument to be developed for the
country contributors' research

• In accordance to the type of approach decided!

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Issues to be decided concerning the EUI-Net
research

• Type of approach by area (country) / engineering
  domain?
• Country / domain contributors the research team
  
• Format of the country / domain reports (type of
  information to be gathered)
• Deadlines
• Flowchart of the research book publishing
• Steps to be taken
• Timing
• Responsibilities
• Second coordinator for the English checking of
  the final version of the manuscript
• Time and place for the workshop on analysis of
  the industrial related curricula.