1. Bologna Process @ FESB (FESB) UNIVERSITY OF SPLIT
FACULTY OF ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING, MECHANICAL ENGINNERING AND NAVAL ARHITECTURE
(FESB)
Bologna FESB
Tomislav Kilić
Vicedean for education
Engineering Education: Bologna’s Process – Three Years Later
Zagreb, November 2007

2. Content
About FESB
Bologna process at FESB
Study programs
ICT in eduction
Analysis of study results
Open questions and problems

3. FESB 1960 – 2007
Founded in 1960
1980 – New building (first part)

4. FESB - PRESENT
Finally in full size

5. Organisation Departement of Computing center Library
Power engineering
Departement of
Electronics
Mechanical engineering and naval architecture
Mechanical technology
Mathematics and physics
Center for common courses
Computing center
Library
Office of the Dean
205 employees
140 lecturers and researchers

6. Some statistics Students: Teaching staff: Bachelor/Master
Vocational studies
Current number of students
1600
700
Enrolled each year
400
200
Graduated
3500
1500
Master of science
PhD 80 30
Full professors 28
Associated professors 22
Assistant professors 19
Assistents and lecturers 68
Technical support 18

7. Bologna process @ FESB PhD 3 years 180 ECTS Master 2 years 120 ECTS8. 7. 6.
Master
2 years
120 ECTS 5. 4.
Bachelor
3 years
180 ECTS 3.
Bachelor
of vocational studies
2.5 years
150 ECTS 2. 1.
UNIVERSITY STUDIES
YEAR
VOCATIONAL STUDIES

8. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Bachelor of
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Specialisations: same as in Master studies
Master of
AUTOMATICS AND SYSTEMS
ELECTRONICS AND COMPUTING ENGINEERING
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Freshmen per year:
200

9. Computing
Bachelor of
COMPUTING
Master of
Freshmen per year:
100

10. Mechanical Engineering
Bachelor of
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
Master of
Specialisations in:
ENGINEERING DESIGN
PRODUCTION ENGINEERING
COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN AND ENGINEERING
Freshmen per year: 90

11. Naval Arhitecture NAVAL ARHITECTURE Bachelor of
Master studies: Zagreb, Rijeka …
Freshmen per year: 40

12. Industrial Engineering
Bachelor of
INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING
Master of
Freshmen per year: 50
Joint study with Faculty of Economics in Split

13. Doctoral studies ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

14. Doctoral studies About 90 elective courses ~ 40 % in ICT Flexibility:
Students choose course list with supervisor
One obligatory course
Research methods
Nine elective courses
Thesis qualification exam
Public defense of thesis subject
Strong emphasis on research
Mobility:
Scholarships, interships, visits etc. strongly encouraged and supported
Recognition of ECTS from abroad

15. Vocational studies ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
NAVAL ARHITECTURE
Students per year: 80
Students per year: 60
Students per year: 40
Students per year: 40

16. ICT in Education: E-learning
Moodle: open source Course Management System (CMS)
World leading open source CMS
Localized in Croatian
Very user friendly
For all users (professors, students, administrators …)
General framework
News, chats …
Students forum, ‘Ask vicedean’ forum
Courses
Forums, news, teaching materials, assignments, quizes, blogs, attendance, quick mail, reports, grades, …
General politics
All students and teachers automatically enrolled
All “Bologna” courses automatically active
Other courses on-demand
New Moodle version: roles
Authentication needed
Widely accepted by students
More than logs per day

17. Calendar

18. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
Study results in academic year 2006/2007
Total number of students: 156
Total number of students: 167

19. Computing Study results in academic year 2006/2007
Total number of students: 53
Total number of students: 55

20. Mechanical Engineering
Study results in academic year 2006/2007
Total number of students: 27
Total number of students: 14

21. Industrial Engineering
Study results in academic year 2006/2007
Total number of students: 35
Total number of students: 15

22. Open Questions and Problems
Problem: Academic year based enrollment
Solution: Semester based enrollment
Action: Law modification
Problem: Large number of exam terms (mid-terms )
Solution: Restrict to mid-terms
Action: University constitution modification
Problem: Large study groups
Solution: Smaller study groups (max 60 for lectures)
Action: Standards modification
Problem: Insufficient number of teaching staff
Solution: Increase of employment
Action: Increase of budget
Problem: Transition to master studies
Solution: To be discussed/defined
Action: This conference and …