Competencies of BSc and MSc programmes in electrical engineering and student portfolios

General goals of a BSc and MSc in electrical engineering are formulated, leading to a 'mission' statement clarifying the rationale behind the programmes in relation to the needs of society. These goals are made operational in terms of competencies that engineers educated through our programmes are required to have in order to operate successfully in society. These competencies are detailed to a level that they can correspond to individual items in the curricula. A methodology is described for the evaluation of the level at which the students have acquired the needed competencies. It involves a portfolio of self evaluation that is kept by the students and records kept by staff, together constituting an individual portfolio describing the students abilities that can be used as part of a CV.