Developing competence portfolios in engineering undergraduates

Abstract

This evaluation aimed to identify the student view of activities based around engineering graduate attributes and the presentation of these to potential employers. This included the introduction of an ePortfolio, activities to identify students’ strengths and a reflection framework to help students analyse their strengths. Students are required to do work experience throughout this degree. It was thought that this would motivate the students to collect evidence of their strengths so they could present them to potential employers.

Overall the ePortfolio activities had a limited impact. The evaluation collected evidence about the ePortfolio aided activities and the barriers and enablers to students learning. The questionnaire had a section to identify the level of student reflective thinking. Students who were straight from school had a similar level of reflective thinking to older students.