Abstract:

Visual literacy is essential and Vocational education and training (VET), students are required to use and produce visual materials, and they must be prepared to do so. We present in this paper a framework for the development of Visual Literacy competences required for engineers and technicians. Its objective is to provide adequate resources to develop their Visual Literacy competences and then contributing to improvement of engineering and VET. This guide offers provide a reference for engineering education as well as technology educational programs in general.

The methodology used is supported by the conviction that it can be provided a presentation to Visual Literacy for engineering and its particular competences according to a rigorous academic research but also accessible and useful. Teachers, professional educators and HE/STEM stakeholders can then find it directly relevant to the opportunities and challenges they face.

Our goal is to understand, catalogue and communicate the Visual competences, skills and abilities specific to engineering that most contribute to engineers’ creativity and productivity. ETCS establishes competences generic as well as specific. Goal of this research is to establish the set of Visual Literacy competences specific to engineering. In this Framework it is established the relationship between visual literacy and engineering education and undertaking an assessment of what represents competence attainment.  We expect that the VLEE Competence Framework shall be a new element of teaching for Higher education as well as VET organizations.