The competence of an engineer and how it is built through an apprenticeship program: a tentative model

• Autores: Bernard Blandin
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 28, no. 1, 2012, págs. 57-71
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents some findings resulting from a four-year research aiming to identify what competence are developed bystudents following an apprenticeship program in engineering and what the developmental steps are in conjunction with thecurriculum. The main findings presented here suggest: 1) that competence has three dimensions; 2) that the competence frameworkof an engineer has five main components; 3) that there are four main steps that comprise the competence development framework;4) and that building competence results from three different and interlocking processes. Our competence framework is thendiscussed by comparing our graduates’ profile with those of other engineers in France, as well as with existing internationalstandards for professional engineers.