NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY of ATHENS (NTUA)
“Employment and Career
Structures (ECS) for
Graduate Engineers”
Prof. A. Moropoulou,
Vice Rector of National Technical
University of Athens, Scientific
Responsible of ECS, NTUA
EEDC EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL
ASSEMBLY 2012 13.IX.2012 FLORENCE
The Global Environment
The increasing threats by various risks and the out bursting socioeconomic crisis are challenging engineering at all levels
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Profession
Education
Employment
Socio-political role
Lessons learned from local, national, international projects intrinsically
linked, taught us the need to investigate, document, share and evaluate
engineering profiles features and curricula in order to figure out a
strategy to bridge the gap between Academia, Industry and Policy.
Lessons learned from problems solving taught us that the emergence of
possibilities requires the convergence of tools and innovations as well as
synergies of global partnership in order to implement the goals pursued.
With final objective the Lisbon Goal of increasing
the employability common strategy is suggested
to the EEDC
The synergies that SEFI presents as a very important international body,
bridging Universities and Higher Education Institutions offering various
levels of 3 – 5 years curricula, provide a unique opportunity in unifying
the Engineering qualifications versus educational programs with the
classification of the technical responsibilities’ levels, accordingly:
Qualifications arising from studies
program
Technical Responsibility based on the qualifications accessibility to professional activities, based on the
qualifications
In Greece the Summit of Rectors and Deans of Engineering
Universities and Engineering Schools along with the Technical
Chamber of Greece (Association of about 110.000 engineers), is
coordinating the strategy.
• The proposals of the above mentioned body are discussed at
the National Board of Education which consists of the Board of
Higher University Education and the Board of Higher Technical
Education,
with the attempt to unify all levels of Higher Engineering
Education, on the field of the gradation of technical
responsibility and the accessibility to professional activities
Levels of technical responsibility based on educational levels
1st (Highest) level of technical responsibility
 5year diploma of engineering programs of Technical Universities / Schools
 Responsibility for study, supervision, integrated application of works
2nd (Mid) level of technical responsibility
 3-4 years educational programs focusing on technical applications (higher technological
education – not University level)
 Partial technical responsibility for application of works and participation in study groups
or supervising committees
3rd (Lowest) level of technical responsibility
Technicians at various levels
 Technical responsibility for application of works under supervision
Greek system of accreditation of engineering diplomas
Hellenic Quality Assurance and
Accreditation Agency
Greek Constitution:
Autonomy and Self Management
of Public Universities
Greek State
Ministry of Education
Public University
(National Technical
University of Athens)
Technical Chamber of
Greece
(Regarding University assessment and
evaluation)
accreditation
Accredited Engineering
Programs
license
Integral 5year studies
engineering diplomas
(Master level) of 300 credit
units & diploma thesis (10th
semester)
Acquired Qualifications Complying with
C111/6 EU Recommendation Level 7
Knowledge
“highly specialized knowledge, some of which is at the forefront of
knowledge in a field of work or study, as the basis for original
thinking and/or research critical awareness of knowledge issues in
a field and at the interface between different fields”,
Skills
“specialized problem-solving skills required in research and/or
innovation in order to develop new knowledge and procedures and
to integrate knowledge from different fields”
Competence
“manage and transform work or study contexts that are complex,
unpredictable and require new strategic approaches take
responsibility for contributing to professional knowledge and
practice and/or for reviewing the strategic performance of teams”
The outcome of the 5 – years Studies Program is an
Engineering Diploma Equivalent to Masters Degree
The structure of the Engineering Schools Studies Programs, along with
the evaluation of the students to it, lead to a Diploma with 300
ECTS Units equal to Master Degree, meeting the requirements
arising from the EQF, in order to classify the Diplomas of Engineers
at the 7th level of the 8 grade scale of the EQF.
Greek system of professional accreditation
According to the law the Technical Chamber of Greece provides
professional licences
Steps
1. Classification to the basic disciplines
2. Evaluation of appropriateness through
exams based on diploma thesis
3. Professional license to exert the
engineering profession at the highest
level of technical responsibility
9 basic disciplines
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Civil Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Architecture
Chemical Engineering
Rural and Surveying Engineering
Mining Engineering and Metallurgy
Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
Computer Engineering
1247 different engineering programs
with total or partial cover of
professional rights according to the
basic disciplines
Justification by the Scientific
Committee of the discipline
 Decision of the Executive
Committee of the TCG
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Employment and Career Structures (ΔΑΣΤΑ - ECS) for
Graduate Engineers
In this framework common efforts are being developed
between all the Greek Engineering University Schools
and the Technical Chamber of Greece along with
organizations of development towards the easier
access to employment opportunities for graduates
from Engineering Schools. For this Employment and
Career Structures (ΔΑΣΤΑ – ECS) were created.
The page of www.dasta.ntuagr
Objectives of the Employment and Career Structure
(ECS) information management system
• User admission through appropriate internet
portals
• Access to information and data regarding career
student and liaison office (CSLO)
• Content and course management services related
to the Entrepreneurship Office (EO)
• Information and legislation dissemination for
promoting and supporting individuals as well as
groups of individuals engaging in entrepreneurship
• Integrated IT support and automation of the
Co-Op Office (CO) operations
• Data collection and compilation of executive reports
Technical Characteristics of ECS information
management system - Use of open source
technologies and frameworks
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Modular Layered Architecture
Java Implementation using the Java Persistence API
(JPA/Hybernate) as Object Relational Mapping (Persistence
Layer)
Use of relational databases Postgress, MySQL
Use of BIRT (Executive Reporting) for the compilation of
management reports
Use of the LifeRay and Joomla open frameworks for content
management
Data collection from the system’s databases through the use of
OData and REST framework and architecture
Support for future integration with other systems through Web
Services
Use of the Vaadin (Java framework for Web Applications)
framework for the implementation of user interfaces (UI)
System security based on RBAC (Role Based Access Control)
User authentication using SAML Assertions from the NTUA’s
Shibboleth server
Career and Student Liaison Office (CSLO) Services
Support
• Collection and storage of student data records that are
participating or benefited from the CSLO services
• Information dissemination related to novel technologies,
trends, and scientific directions pertaining to the engineering
profession
• Support for the NTUA “Observatory” services, tracking the
trends of the engineering profession and placement of the
NTUA alumni
• Compilation of user reports evaluating CSLO’s services
• Compilation of executive reports pertaining to the operations
of the Career and Student Liaison Office
Entrepreneurship Office (EO) Services Support
• Provision and dissemination of educational material related to
innovation and entrepreneurship based on an e-learning
platform
• Storage and management of information that relates to
entrepreneurship studies, and practices
• Support of interactive discussion forums, as well as
compilation, processing and storage of questionnaires and
other related student provided content
• Compilation of executive reports pertaining to the operations of
Entrepreneurship Office
Internship Program Services Support
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Data entry, processing, management and storage of
information pertaining to agencies and companies offering
Internship Program positions
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Data entry, processing, management and storage of student
records, for students participating in the Internship Program
program
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Management of the placement of students to Internship
Program positions
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Support for managing Internship Program related student
payments and financial records
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Support for managing general correspondence and insurance
coverage related data
Automated Search and Categorization of
Engineering Job Opportunities/Postings
(EUREKA)
•EUREKA as a component of ΔΑΣΤΑ - ECS
•Architecture
–System
–Algorithm
•Integration with ΔΑΣΤΑ - ECS
–RSS FEED
–Database Queries
•System Management
•Reporting
EUREKA is Not Google
• Targeted search robot
• Realtime tracking of new information (takes
into account chronological order)
• Linguistic analysis and filtering of
information based on specialized criteria for
engineering job postings
• Parametrized automatic categorization and
grouping of information.
• Can support multiple languages and track
thousands of sources
System Architecture
Επεξεργασία
Processing of
Διαδικτυακού
Υλικού:
Collected Internet
Content
Ιντερνετ
Internet
Αλγόριθμος ορισμού γλώσσας
Ρομπότ επίσκεψης
Robot visits
Διαδικτυακών
τόπων
Internet
with
με
αγγελίεςsites
εργασίας
job postings –
συλλογή περιεχομένου
content selection
Language
Definition,
περιεχομένου
& κωδικοποίησης
Analysis,
κειμένου Tagging
Material
Διαδυκτιακό
Collected
from
the
Υλικό
Internet
Αλγόριθμος
δημιουργίαςand
Categorization
κατηγοριών
για το Algorithm
περιεχόμενο
grouping
Αλγόριθμος
και
Filteringελέγχου
algorithms,
διορθώσεως κατηγοριών
uniqueness,
exclusions
περιεχομένου
Επιλογές ΔιαδιJob posting sites
κτυακών Τόπων
selection/seeding
Επιλογές
System
Management
Διαχειριστή
Αλγόριθμος αναγνώρισης όμοιου
περιεχομένου
Παρουσίαση
Presentation
of
πληροφορίας
collected
information
σε δυναμική
onιστοσελίδα
a dynamic web
page
Αποθήκευση
Information
Πληροφορίας
Storage
Algorithm- Key Elements
• Continuously visits selected websites.
• Can discriminate relevant content from general or
irrelevant information
• Performs linguistic analysis of relevant content ad creates
appropriate XML tags.
• Categorizes content into dynamically defined categories
based on the derived XML tags. These categories are based
on TAGS either derived automatically from the sites or
defined by the system manager.
• Populates database with all the selected and categorized
content.
• Ranks content relevance based on recency and addictional
user defined criteria.
• Checks uniqueness of entries.
Specialized Characteristics
Algorithm
Function
Code
Content Selection & Processing
Collects all content from selected sources.
PHP
Analysis of HTML content
Content Processing
Robot Management System
Parses HTML content and understands the relevance of selected
information. Indentifies relevant sections.
Morphological analysis, date/time of content entry, title of entry,
source of content entry
Parameterization of all component algorithms. Definition of
processing order. IF_THEN (rule-based) scenarios definition
PHP
PHP
PHP
Definition of Language, linguistic features, tagging, automatic
Linguistic processing
detection of language both from features and from character sett
PHP
used.
Categorization based on seed key–words. Blending or HTML
Content Categorization Algorithm
source tags and user defined tags. Automatic
PHP
repopulation./expansion of tags.
Categorization Check &
Correction Algorithm
Based on Tag Synonyms, Rule based filtering
PHP
Detects same content/positng. Similarity filters parse title, and
Uniqueness of Entry Algorithm
content and use word ending filtering and time of posting aspects.
Tag by tag comparison.
PHP
Integration with ECS website
RSS FEED of the most recent announcements
Search Interface
• Characteristics of Search
– Free form text
– Can also be used with key-words
– Job categories based on Greek
Chamber of Engineers
categorization
Presentation of Search Results
Results from the visits of ΔΑΣΤΑ – ECS of
NTUA
Operation of ΔΑΣΤΑ - ECS of NTUA
20-6-2012
Structures for students and
young graduates to explore
their future employment
The proposed strategy focuses on:
• Interactive platform of employment and career
structures of Universities with development
carriers like industries, constructors, consultants
enterprises, e.t.c.
• Employment Observatory: documentation and
evaluation of engineering employment market and
the developing trends on the job market
• Networking with:
 European Engineering Universities, Association of
Engineers (like FEANI etc), as well as, their bridge to
 International Organizations, Carriers and Structures like
OECD, ILO, UNESCO, etc
SEFI integrated strategy for a unified regulatory
framework that certify the potential access to
professional activities based on the qualifications
arising from the Studies Programs of all Technical
Professions
With gradation of the technical responsibility, in order
to assure that the Engineer will have the position
according to its qualifications, assuring the public
interest.
In other European countries (i.e. the UK) the free
market regulates the access to the profession taking
into consideration the professional experience.
Therefore, SEFI should have an extended strategy,
including studies and experience in its’ assessment