A Transferable Competency Portfolio Based on the Personal Development Process

Dujardin, Rani (0000-0003-4584-8446) is a Doctoral Student at KU Leuven, Belgium, in the ETHER research group (Faculty of Engineering Technology) with a background in theoretical and experimental psychology. In the TRAINeng-PDP project, she studied the impact of portfolios on the preparedness of engineering students for lifelong learning.

Lynn Van den Broeck is a postdoc at the Faculty of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven. She holds a MSc in Chemical Engineering and a PhD in engineering education from the same institute. She is closely involved in education and, more specifically, the inclusion of professional competencies in the study programme. In addition, she is responsible for educational professionalisation and teaching assistant training. She is the chair of the study career guidance theme within LESEC, co-chair of SIG Engineering skills at SEFI. Her research interests focus on study guidance, effectiveness and efficiency of educational interventions, LLL and professional competencies, and feedback. 

Langie, Greet (0000-0002-9061-6727) is a Professor at the Faculty of Engineering Technology, KU Leuven, Belgium. She’s a physicist by training and focuses on engineering education research, specifically on the issues surrounding the transitions from secondary education to higher education and from higher education to professional life.