Competence Portfolio for Students of Physics and Engineering Majors

Abstract:

The authors introduce the concept of competence portfolio for graduates of physical and engineering majors, the relevance of which is undoubtful due to recently emerged dynamic of the content of physical and engineering majors. One needs to make up a portfolio to achieve two goals. The first - is to create a complete "picture" of the content of graduates’ competencies for employers, which is modified annually. Such portfolio, along with achievements of social and scientific activities includes competency structure as a hierarchical graph. The nodes of the graph contain learning disciplines, the study of which helps students of physical and engineering majors to develop this competence. The second goal – is the accumulation of graduate’s memory bank, which includes semantic structure of educational problems of physical and engineering disciplines that make an important contribution to the development of competencies. This article describes the strategy of achieving the first goal.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 670-671)
• Pages: 1667-1670
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.670-671.1667
• Online since: October 2014
• Authors: Tatyana N. Gnitetskaya, Elena V. Karnauhova, Natalia Kovalchuk, Elena B. Ivanova*
• Keywords: Competence Portfolio, Competencies, Hierarchical Graph, Memory Bank, Model of Competencies, Portfolio

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