Socrates programme

Objectives:

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  a reflection on how to adapt our curricula in Electrical and Information Engineering in order to comply with the Bologna directives, also known as the B-M-D system (Bachelor-Master Doctorate).
  
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  application of the TUNING methodology to our activities.
  

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  Extension to the doctoral program.of this methodology
  

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  a reflection on the best practices of high engineering education in the specific field of Electrical and Information Engineering in a European perspective,
  

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  To enable a curricula comparison that will facilitate the transfer of knowledge between higher education institutions.
  

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  an overview of the ECTS available, which can be helpful in our quest .
  

For that, we have completed a book and a CD-ROM with an overview of the curricula available in EIE in Europe, and their transition to the BMD system emphasising the structures and contents of these curricula, in order to try to bring out a generic approach

This harmonisation will make possible the establishment of common accreditation, crediting and certification procedures.

The whole aim is to get an harmonisation, or at least a tool to help in this harmonisation (curricula comparison), of the curricula in EIE throughout Europe in order to facilitate the exchanges of students (and of teachers also...). This work has resulted in a monography/state of the art on the teaching of EIE in Europe. However we would like to extend its contents by enlarging it with an overview on recent changes in the doctorate system.

The work we will achieve will be useful to adapt our curricula to the B-M-D format recommended by the European countries ministers for education. In our mind, this kind of work can be achieved only thanks to a representative network of institutions. In this sense, the consortium we propose is composed of more than 80 institutions from all around Europe, and lays on the EAEEIE (European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, http://www.eaeeie.org), this association of teachers in EIE in Europe being a very useful tool for dissemination.
Taking benefit of the outcomes achieved during our first thematic network (INEIT-MUCON, http://www.eaeeie.org/ineit-tn), and second thematic networks, we will also perform harmonisation by providing in each specialisation inside Electrical and Information Engineering a set of modules developed by different universities integrated in a common framework.

These modules have the specific purpose to prepare students before a mobility by giving them the opportunity of:

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  acquiring the basic level,
  

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  beginning to learn in the foreign language and with the foreign approach the academic content of one particular course.
  

The pedagogical resources developed can also be used in LLL and ODL.