The main idea behind this research is to create and use a system for managing the quality
of university education based on criterion scoring and monitoring of professional student
development, the comparison of information received with the graduate requirements specified in
the Federal State Educational Standard for Higher Education (FSES HE) in engineering and the
adjustment of didactic conditions for professional and personal student development based on
these indicators. The availability of such information provides the possibility to compare the actual
student development with FSES HE requirements for a particular field of education. It also gives the
opportunity to modify the educational process and identify “gaps” in contents, technologies and
other characteristics of educational process and make the appropriate changes.
The technology that is used to evaluate the maturity level of a future engineer’s competence does not
represent the evaluation of education quality as such. However, it creates a continuously updating
database for implementing such evaluation. It is used to determine the effectiveness of contents,
methods, means and forms of educational activities, etc. The suggested technology can be applied
as a specific tool for “deciphering the gaps” identified in students or, in other words, for discovering
failures in educational process management. By assessing the gaps in students’ knowledge, skills and
thoughts it is possible to discover the “failures” in educational process and the aspects that have gaps
and “defects”.