Samenvatting

The Fontys University of professional Education, department of Mechanical Engineering, has started development of a new curriculum during the year 2000-2001, Human Mechanical Engineering (HME). Next to immersion of our students in actual technology practices, we aim to include for our students new topics in the field of Mechanical Engineering. We aim to include methods and an approach towards a career as an intermediary between the market and the company. We also include a well developed valuesystem, compatible with the working of Society, a sense of responsibility and a capacity for independent thought. Skills such as entrepeneurship and following market developments are combined with management of product-creation processes and some depth in selected mechanical engineering topics. The curriculum will be designed with 14 so-called competences as educational targets (See also Dick van Schenk Brill & Peter Boots 2001). Knowledge as well as skills and attitudes are combined in a competence in such a way that it meets a standard of behaviour for an excellent engineer. Also the individual career expectations will be used to arrive at optimal choices for papers, assignments and traineeships for every given student. At this moment recruitment is at full speed. During the season 2001-2002 further developments will be undertaken from a general baseline within the department of Mechanical Engineering. Furthermore work will be done on implementing interdisciplinary (Hans van Zonneveld & Hay Geraedts 1997) as well as international collaboration and communication (Peter van Kollenburg & Hay Geraedts 2001) and further developments into topics like sustainability and ethics.