The importance of microcredentials has grown in recent years. The gap between study programs offered by Higher Education Institutions and the industry job demands gave rise to more open and bitesize modules in the shape of Open Educational Resources, MOOCs and microcredentials. This article shows two novel cases bridging this gap based on the recognition of the competences learning units. In addition, the article elaborates on how these competences were selected and what approaches are appropriate for the recognition of these competences. Therefore, we describe how learning outcomes are mapped to competences in tow disparate lifelong learning contexts. Finally, lessons learned and cues for further research are discussed.

Global and collaborative engineering projects across borders are reality in industry today. However, most of the universities fight with different obstacles to develop and train international collaboration skills in engineering programs. In this paper, we present different methods to prepare students and faculty for globalization. All methods we describe to train international/global skills have advantages and disadvantages. In this paper, we present our experience and students’ opinion on international training. We continuously develop all the named forms of international collaboration and work on to include more faculty members in this work. Our goal is to develop needed global, multicultural and interdisciplinary skills in engineering programs, prepare students for their future jobs in global world and increase the faculty engagement in international collaboration.

A pan-European team, including the representatives from 45 European universities, is working on an EU supported project to firstly explore and then provide models for ways in which Higher Education Institutions of Europe in the Electrical and Information Engineering disciplines can respond to current challenges. This paper presents the objectives and actual results of the EU supported project which runs from October 2012 to November 2015, named SALEIE - Strategic Alignment of Electrical and Information Engineering in European Higher Education Institutions. We describe in this paper the preliminary results of the project's work packages WP3 (Global Challenges) and WP4 (Widening Participation and Student Support).

This paper presents the contents and the teaching methods used in the fourth semester course - REG4E - an important subject in engineering, namely Control Theory and Dynamical Systems. Control Theory courses in engineering education are usually related to exercises in the laboratory or to projects. However, in order to understand complexity of control systems, the students need to possess an analytical understanding of abstract mathematical problems. Our main goal is to illustrate the theory through the robot project, but at the same time we force our students to train their analytical skills by mandatory exercises including problems of abstract mathematics. This paper describes our effort to motivate students to work with the theory. We conclude with our and students' own opinion on their work during the semester. Ideas for future development of this course are presented.

In this paper we present the development process of the small, autonomous mobile robot. The development of the robot is the main part of the interdisciplinary undergraduate course (4/sup th/ semester, 20 ECTS points) at The Copenhagen University College of Engineering, Denmark. The aim of the course is to teach the basics of mathematical modeling, control theory and how to complete the engineering design project from the specification to the working model of the specified product. During the course we work in teams and build the robots, which perform a compulsory task decided by professors and a free task decided by us (students). Each team consists of 3 to 5 students and has an appointed supervisor, who is one of the supporting professors attached to this course. The course ends with a competition where the fastest, most precise and most elegant robots - 3 STARS - win prizes. This paper describes the process of learning new disciplines, especially control theory, by combining the theory and practical design. We describe our learning process throughout the project, the advantages and disadvantages connected to this learning by doing method. Finally, we compare the time schedule planned at the beginning of the semester with the actual one.