Representation of an Electrical Engineering Curriculum using an Ontology of Controlled Quality

Published in: Innovation in Engineering, Technology and Education for Competitiveness and Prosperity: Proceedings of the 11th Latin American and Caribbean Conference for Engineering and Technology
Date of Conference: August 14-16, 2013
Location of Conference: Cancun, Mexico
Authors: Carolina Sarmiento Gonzalez
Oscar Duarte
Angélica Ghisays
Marla Barrera
René Soto
Refereed Paper: #156

Abstract:

A curriculum is a complex system that includes a set of core competencies, objectives, contents, methodological and evaluation criteria, regulation among other things. In order to represent a curriculum taking into account the deep and complex relationships among its elements, a representation of an engineering curriculum using ontologies has been developed. This paper presents the construction of an ontology for undergraduate Electrical Engineering Curriculum domain at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, which aims to represent, organize, formalize and standardize the knowledge of this domain, so that it can be shared and reused by different groups of people in the field of education and engineering. The ontology includes four Curriculum aspects: Knowledge in Electrical Engineering, skills in Engineering, Electrical Engineering Curriculum and regulation. For the ontology development, Methontology was selected as methodology and Protégé as implementation tool. In addition, there is a proposal of documentation for this methodology, based on principles of Quality Management Systems. This ontology is designed in order to be used in any field of engineering.