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Higher Education Competences versus Companies Professional Needs in Engineering

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This paper presents the result of the incorporation of Work Integrated Learning programs in a higher education master of the School of Engineering of Porto. Its starts by making a state of the art analysis related to the subject, checking the results of other international institutions. It is presented the way of organizing the collection of internships in industrial companies and institutions, which have needs for engineers in the areas of instrumentation and metrology. It summarizes and presents the information on the situation of students that, by the end of the first academic year can opt for a professional internship in a company or by a research project conducted in ISEP laboratories. Finally, the results achieved during the study period are presented, confirmed by feedback from students and companies supervisors. The good results achieved, regarding the competencies acquired by students during the master, were also confirmed by the fact that students are hired by the companies to continue their work after the end of professional training.

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