Competence Driven Methodology for Curriculum Development based on Requirement Engineering

AbstractDeveloping a study program always leads to target conflicts of the different stake holders industry, students, state resp. politics and universities. Unfortunately today a lot of new study courses are developed by mixing existing courses (e.g. industrial and commercial engineering or commercial information technology) or adjusting existing courses (e.g. technology of sustainable energy formed from mechanical and process engineering or environmental engineering formed from civil engineering). In most cases universities try to keep their well-known infrastructure and lecture courses based on the expertise of the current staff while using attractive short term hypes to make their course offer more attractive. Since this leads to frustration for the students expecting different content and may not fulfil the expectations from industry; we developed a new approach focussed on skills and competences in RiFLE project. This paper gives an overview how this approach works and how it was used while developing a master program (MSc in Rail Freight and Logistics)