Student centered

The specialization category is student centered. We put our attention on the knowledge, skills and abilities of the students. The guidelines are based on the widely used cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy. We evaluate the Specialization of the students, with emphasis on their knowledge, skills, and abilities. The main scale is:

Rubrics of evaluation

The aspects of the performance criteria for the category Specialization, as specified in the evaluation forms, are:

A: Quality of literature review

Definition: Orientation on literature, identification of relevant sources, evaluation and interpretation of sources;

Main gradient: Collection of papers → Motivated collection → Extracted methods and trends → Classification → Vision on history and future.
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B: Level of specialized knowledge

Definition: Level of knowledge and technical skill set relevant for execution of research project;

Main gradient: Sufficient understanding → Apply and implement in a relevant way → Confront, justify work against the state-of-the-art → Produce novel trade-offs and solutions → Visionary interpretation of knowledge.
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C: Disciplinary knowledge

Definition: Broader knowledge on research area, total skill set, insight in scope and context of research, discipline of EE;

Main gradient: Facts, terminology, theories and basic skills → Application and analysis skills → Able to motivate all decisions → Able to create new links and theories → Motivated broad and far-reaching vision.
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D: Ability to connect problem definition to research field or sub-questions

Definition: Ability to deconstruct research problem(s) in sub-problems, connect to knowledge, and synthesize solutions;

Main gradient: Able to guess a solution → Able to consider conceptual alternatives → Abstraction and synthesis skills → Able to derive new abstract, conceptual relations → Able to produce and defend visionary argumentation.
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5 and lower

• The student does not understand and cannot reproduce the theory, methods, and techniques, which are relevant for the project;
• The student is not able to connect relevant theories to the project;
• The committee should argument the decision in details.