On adequacy of electrical engineering and computers curriculum to current and future technological challenges — A case study

Abstract

Nowadays, the current global socio-economic challenges offer new opportunities for engineering. Advances in electrical engineering have been central to human progress ever since the discovery of the electromagnetic field. In the last hundred and fifty years, electrical engineering has transformed the world we live in, contributing to a significantly longer life expectancy and has enhanced life quality for large numbers of the world's population. If engineering's role were more visible and better understood, more people would be attracted to it as a career. The mission of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from “Transilvania” University of Brasov is to fulfil the needs of Romania's emergency region, as EU Member State, by providing undergraduate technical education in Electrical Engineering and Computers to diverse groups of students. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science strives to continually update its curricula in order to qualify its students for positions in main global industries located in the region and beyond, while providing sufficient breadth and depth in its programs, so as to provide its graduates with successful practice in the profession. Using the Graduate Employment as a performance indicator for higher education has been applied and reprocessed within “Transilvania” University. The present paper provides an examination based on a case study into the effectiveness of the policy-driven approach in enhancing the electrical engineering curricula after Bologna reform.