Dr. Evans has over 20 years of executive and senior technical management experience at 3M Company and IBM Corporation, primarily leading multidisciplinary, global technical organizations responsible for R&D; new business and market development; manufacturing engineering; quality; environmental, health and safety; and others. Before joining National University, he acquired 12+ years of voluntary involvement with higher education, including adjunct teaching and research in engineering at the University of Colorado and formal advisory involvement in both science and engineering at the University of Texas. Other past professional and academic activities include being a founding member and officer in the Central Texas Electronics Association; past chairman of IBM's Materials Shared University Research Committee; Ph.D. Recruiting Coordinator for IBM's Systems Technology Division; and executive sponsor for 3M division's student programs. He has published and presented widely in areas of surface science, electronic materials and processes, project management, and industry/university relations. He holds 4 patents and has received awards for excellence in technical innovation (IBM), technical authorship (IBM), teaching (University of Colorado), and scholarship (National Science Foundation). John Bugado, National University John Bugado has a MBA Degree from San Diego State University with a specialization in Technology Management, and a BS Degree in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical Engineering from Oregon State University. John is currently enjoying his 20th year at NU, the last 6 years as a full time member of the faculty. A skilled and versatile adjunct faculty member for 14 years, he taught numerous computer science and software engineering courses at National University. After retiring from NCR, he joined National University in 1998 as the lead faculty responsible for the first ever Masters of Science in Electronic Commerce Program. This dynamic and first-of-its type program focuses on the integration of client server network technologies and electronic commerce software with the business processes that interact with customers and suppliers in the changing global business marketplace. He later was assigned to be the lead faculty of the Software Engineering Program for 2 years. John is currently the CSIS Department chair and Lead Faculty for the Information Technology Management (ITM) Program for the

This study is conducted in the context of a Spanish Business School, applied to different Master degree programme. The objective is focused on the identification of which generic skills are needed and developed in a Final master thesis (FMT). Therefore, this study is double folded. On the one hand we use a survey to ask the students which generic skills they consider that should be needed and developed in their FMT, and on the other, we explore the elaboration process as well as validation process of tools to gather information and evidences in order to assess the final results of the FMT being submitted by the students at the end of their learning journey. Specifically, this paper develops the preliminary results approach to the identification of the competencies from the student’s perspective.

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