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CLEMENTINA MARINONI ECCE – THE ENGINEERING OBSERVATORY ON COMPETENCE-BASED CURRICULA FOR JOB ENHANCEMENT - THE BASIS FOR A EUROPEAN PERMANENT ALLIANCE BETWEEN UNIVERSITIES AND ENTERPRISES IN THE ENGINEERING FIELD
LO category
Learning outcomes
Management and Sustainability I
Ability to evaluate the economic implications of different engineering solutions.
II
Ability to apply project management techniques to handle engineering activities and projects.
III
Ability to apply risk assessment techniques to handle engineering activities and projects.
IV
Ability to evaluate the environmental implications of different engineering solutions.
V
Ability to evaluate the social implications of different engineering solutions.
VI
Awareness of legal, health and safety issues (and any corresponding standards).
Soft Skills I
Awareness of ethical issues.
II
Work and communicate effectively in national contexts.
III
Work and contexts.
IV
Function effectively as member of a (multidisciplinary) team, taking responsibility for decisions, where required.
V
Recognise the need for, and have the ability to engage in independent, life-long learning.
communicate
effectively
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international
Source: ECCE elaboration based on EURACE
The means of relating LOs to EQF levels explained in the ECCE Handbook (in the course of publication), is the same as that used to create Los, i.e. one in which account is taken of the three dimensions of context complexity, action verbs or tasks and level of autonomy. The LO Engineering Analysis II in Table 1 may serve as an example, the action verb develop in conjunction with innovative and complex problems referring to EQF level 7 (cf. EQF level 7 description: specialised problemsolving skills required in (…) innovation in order to develop new knowledge (…)), see also (DOCET 2008). While the application of problem-solving techniques is present at lower EQF levels, the development of such techniques points to level 7. LO translation and positioning as regards the EQF of specific educational programmes was carried out in the project by the Elte University and Politecnico of Milan (ECCE Final report). Table 2 shows the relationship between the ECCE LOs and the EQF levels.