Professional Skills

In addition to professional knowledge and engineering skills, you need skills to do your profession well. This includes communication, reflection, planning and organization. For that reason, each major includes basic professional skills, worth 5 ECTS. The skill lines are:

• presentation
• writing
• teamwork
• reflection
• planning and organization
• gathering and processing scientific information

The total number of hours per skill line is spread over the three years of your bachelor’s degree program, giving you several opportunities to practice and assess your skills. You will also be awarded the ECTS spread over three years. If a major course includes a professional skills learning objective, you will get a formal assessment. Sometimes, passing the skill assessment is required to pass the major course.

Based on the feedback you receive, you can write your reflection reports and decide whether to further develop a skill.

Below, you will find the learning objectives per skill, their relative weight and the courses and projects that assess these skills. You will also practice these skills outside the listed courses and projects.

• You can prepare and give an English presentation on a technical subject, attuned to the audience and to the purpose of the presentation, adequately using tools supporting the presentation
• You can impart information, ideas and solutions clearly to peers in oral form and informal setting
• You can pitch yourself
• Assessed in: 2IOA0; at least one out of {2IO70, 2IO90, 2IS70, 2IOC0}; 2IPE0

• You can impart information, ideas and solutions in a written form in English to either fellow specialists or a lay public
• Assessed in: 2IOA0; at least one out of {2IO70, 2IO90, 2IS70, 2IOC0}; 2IC60; 2IPE0

• You are a reliable and effective team member, taking responsibility for your allocated tasks
• You can give constructive feedback to your team members on their contribution and react adequately to feedback from your team members
• Assessed in: 2IOA0; at least one out of {2IO70, 2IO90, 2IS70, 2IOC0}; 2IPE0

• You can reflect on your contribution and role in the project team and, if necessary, adjust one or both
• You can reflect on your future career and, if necessary, adjust your learning plans
• You can reflect on scientific integrity (i.e. the academic code of condut) and its implications for your learning strategies
• Assessed in: 2IT80; 2IOA0; at least one out of {2IO70, 2IO90, 2IS70, 2IOC0}; 2IPE0

• You can plan and organize your own activities within a project and to adapt when unforeseen circumstances occur
• You can use current methods and tools for organizing software engineering projects
• Assessed in: 2IOA0; at least one out of {2IO70, 2IO90, 2IS70, 2IOC0}; 2IPE0

• You can find and evaluate various sources of information and adequately refer to them in written communication
• Assessed in: 2IOA0; 2IC60

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