Annals of the University of Oradea: Fascicle of Textiles, Leatherwork (May 2019)
HARMONIZING ACADEMY WITH THE INDUSTRY: PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROMANIAN TEXTILE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM
Abstract
Changes in the business world as a result of economic instability, innovations in technology, the increasing diversity on the labor market, may be altering the kinds of competencies and general skills that universities are being called to deliver [1].It is the goal and responsibility of textile programs and faculties to producing graduates with the skills, competencies, and attributes to find employment and to be viable in their career. The purpose of this study was to identify the content of apparel and textiles curricula in textile programs at the bachelor level and then to establish which elements of that content were perceived as important to job performance in the occupational field of textile engineering, with emphasis on knitwear, garments engineer. It has been described the main textile programmes offered from Romanian universities and examined and compared similarities and differences between “Knitting and clothing technology” programme, the only common programme in all three universities that provides textile studies. This paper provides an overview of the careers in textile and textile product development, the universities offer, and the differences between, so that changes can be made to align important competencies.
