Evaluating engineering competencies: A new paradigm

Araceli Queiruga Dios, María Jesús Santos Sánchez, Juan José Bullón Pérez, Jesús Martín-Vaquero, Ascensión Hernández Encinas, Snezhana Georgieva Gocheva-Ilieva, Marie Demlová, Deolinda Dias Rasteiro, Cristina M. T. Caridade, Victor Gayoso Martínez

Abstract: The team that has developed this project is part of a consortium of several European institutions that have joined with a common goal: to help the current engineering teaching-learning system, so that to make possible a competencies-based assessment. Moreover advocacy and networking will be part of the consortium activities during the whole project. RULES_MATH acronym corresponds to `New rules for assessing mathematical competencies', and that is exactly what we propose: to work with the mathematical competencies, specifically try to incorporate them into the assessment process. We focus on science and engineering degrees, since in all these studies several Mathematics courses are part of their curriculum, mainly in the first couple of years. In this paper we present one of our first activities that we want to achieve under the project: the selection of several tools and rules that will make possible an assessment and evaluation according to our high education common European space. These ideas are part of the objectives of promoting and institutionalizing good teaching practices and the enhancement of teaching materials. Other goals are to improve the dissemination of academic activities to the business world, administrations and society in general.