Over the last decade there has been a significant increase in doctoral students and researchers in Engineering. Entry-level skills for these academic positions are often mostly technical and frequently associated with profiles that thrive in analytical and frequently solitary tasks in laboratorial environments. However, success in doctoral programs and research careers is highly dependent on competencies that a...
The motivation of this proposal intends to monitor the learning and the skills acquired throughout the attendance of the discipline along the entire semester. This monitoring is based on the preparation by each student of e-portfolios with range of two or three weeks. These e-portfolio documents will be registered in the library of competences acquired with percentage of the respective quantification and with p...