TY - JOUR
T1 - A new approach in standardising a European curriculum in production engineering
AU - Boud, F.
AU - Bayard, O.
AU - Chatti, S.
AU - Axinte, D.
AU - Nicolescu, M.
AU - Agirre, J.
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors would like to thank the LdV Programme for its financial support and all EPRODEC partners – Thomas Brunk, Kim Møller (Oxford Research, Denmark), Magnus Areskoug (Teknikföretagen Sweden), Maksim Saat, Madli.Krispin, Harald Kitzmann (Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia), Bertil Colding (SMR, Sweden), Philippe Wauters (FEANI), J. Duate Silva (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal) – for working towards advancing PE education.
PY - 2009/12
Y1 - 2009/12
N2 - The need for a flexible and versatile workforce that is constantly learning and upgrading its skills has led to a continual demand for courses in which employees are re-trained and updated on a lifelong basis. Students and workers now have to be prepared for a labour market in which they can be expected to change jobs many times, and they need to acquire appropriate skills that are transferable and portable across sectors, countries and cultures. This paper presents a new approach to unifying a European curriculum for production engineering. The paper discusses the background, developments, module structure, testing and ongoing work that is carried out in the European Production Engineering Certification project - a two year pilot project granted by the European Union Programme Leonardo da Vinci.
AB - The need for a flexible and versatile workforce that is constantly learning and upgrading its skills has led to a continual demand for courses in which employees are re-trained and updated on a lifelong basis. Students and workers now have to be prepared for a labour market in which they can be expected to change jobs many times, and they need to acquire appropriate skills that are transferable and portable across sectors, countries and cultures. This paper presents a new approach to unifying a European curriculum for production engineering. The paper discusses the background, developments, module structure, testing and ongoing work that is carried out in the European Production Engineering Certification project - a two year pilot project granted by the European Union Programme Leonardo da Vinci.
KW - Accreditation
KW - Certification
KW - Engineering curriculum
KW - Engineering education
KW - Production engineering
KW - VET (Vocational and Education Training)
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=75249087656&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03043790902939791
DO - 10.1080/03043790902939791
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:75249087656
SN - 0304-3797
VL - 34
SP - 487
EP - 496
JO - European Journal of Engineering Education
JF - European Journal of Engineering Education
IS - 6
ER -