Resumen de Developing a cad portfolio to advance engineering students’ professional careers
This paper presents the important elements of compiling a student portfolio. In the field of engineering, there is often a widegap between students’ technical knowledge and their ability to communicate concepts to a broad audience. As a result,many new engineers enter careers without the necessary skills to clearly discuss their work with colleagues from differentdepartments, peers from different organizations, and the wider public.Some engineeringeducation programsare attempting to incorporate more emphasis onwriting and communicationintotheir course curricula, but there are still few opportunities for building and testing students’ skills in this area. This paperpresents the purpose of a powerful portfolio in terms of what it can offer students, their educators, and their futureemployers. It also makes an argument for strong communication as a necessary skill in the engineering classroom, in R&Dsettings within a company, and across different departments and industries. It also offers some suggested guidelines for theprocess of compiling a portfolio, based on data and documents compiled from both educational institutes and engineeringorganizations. The intent of this work is to offer students and educators a brief overview of the portfolio process, withemphasis on organizing the components of such a collection so that a potential employer or peer would find them intuitiveand easy to understand.
