scope:

This guideline serves as an orientational resource

• for the preparation of curricula for courses at universities, universities of applied sciences, technical engineering colleges, or other colleges and further education institutes leading to qualification as an RE, and

• for human resources development, further training concepts and instruction programmes prepared and implemented for technical specialists and managers who wish to be employed in the future as REs.

The RE must acquire the corresponding competence not only in technical methodology but also in management skills. Both abilities are employed in performing duties as part of reliability activities, and for steering, co-ordinating and successfully completing their implementation. This is done on the basis of both existing technical and also organisational knowledge.