The article gives a review of reasons for developing and adopting a new web-based model of studies by Warsaw University of Technology. That is followed by a description of the Internet and multimedia - based educational model, known as SPrINT. The article presents also a structure of the four-year engineering studies offered by Electrical Engineering Faculty, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology and Faculty of Mechatronics for given specialization. Then follows a description of the structure and tools of the electronic books. One of the subjects common for all students of the three Faculties is Virtual Laboratory. Virtual Instruments, as well as networked and distributed measurement systems, are the natural tools, which can be used in a modern didactic process for creating virtual laboratories.

After couple years of discussions, on different levels, at different academic centres and academic institutions, the very important decision was undertaken concerning the Teaching Quality Assessment. As a result of the act of July 20th 2001, regarding changes to the act of higher education and the act of polytechnic school, the National Accreditation Commission was created – the statutory organ of higher education working for the quality of education. According to the expectations and demands of the academic community the whole higher educational system is evaluated by equal set of standards.
The National Accreditation Commission completely takes over the duties regarding the evaluation of applications for opening new schools, studies and giving rights to train for a masters degree. The Commission has the rights to estimate the quality of training and the conditions of higher studies in all polish universities: public, not public, academic and vocational. The last task will lead to many inspections and controls.
According to “The Status of the National Commission of Accreditation”: "The Commission cooperates with national and international organisations that assess the quality of education and accreditation". In the field of cooperation the following questions have to be discussed:
How to compare accreditation results of the National Accreditation Commission in Poland with the rules concerning:
1) Accreditation of Colleges and Universities in the Middle States Region of the United States of America
* Silesian University of Technology, Institute of Automatic Control, Akademicka 16 str., 44-100 Gliwice, Poland, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 2) The Teaching Quality Assessment conducted by the Higher Education Funding Council for England
3) FEANI Register of European Engineers

A completely new engineering curriculum has been introduced in 2000-2001 at our University with a modern pedagogical approach, the keywords of which are problem-based learning, project-based learning, active learning. The lecture will, as an introductory part, present the why’s, what’s and how’s of this revolution.
This new context of teaching, which privileges the knowledge acquisition through practice better than theory, certainly favours creativity and especially motivation. But consequently, the place for formal, traditional courses is reduced to a small portion of the curriculum.
It is in particular the case for the courses in electrical measurements and instrumentation, of concern in this lecture, in the new curriculum of students in electrical engineering. Furthermore, the necessary rigour inherent to any training programme in this discipline becomes difficult to achieve in a pedagogical method enhancing the selftraining.
It is in this context of limited time budget that a recentering is needed on what is essential to keep in a basic training in electrical measurements and instrumentation for every student in electrical engineering. A rapprochement with the course of electrical circuits is also a new accent to be emphasised.
The lecture will draw up a list of uncircumventing topics which will be commented often through very simple examples. Only low frequency measurements (below 1 MHz) are here considered.

One can notice a great need of improvement in designing quality. This problem concerns also a specific branch of factories that produce electronic measuring instruments. We are using new generation electronic circuit, for example: the microprocessor system. They are further called "functors". Their application to get unified functional scheme of measuring instruments. Their use simplifies assembling. A short term "measuring means" is proposed in order to search uniformity of terminology. It describes technical means for measurement purposes. The MM's is created as a result of realisation of multistage process of technical operations. The process can be divided into to parts. The first one contains "creations" and another contains "products". The model presented can be useful for training future engineers with respect to creation and understanding the creation process.

Ability to prepare, perform and process data obtained during an experiment is essential skill for engineers. At Measurement System Group at the Silesian University of Technology run the speciality Measurement Systems. At this speciality there is a course on Measurement Procedures. The course is performed for students of the 8^th semester. The half-year lecture course is supported by classes and laboratory classes at the same semester. The lecture shows the procedures and fields of their applications. It is intended to show variety of procedures and complexity of process of choosing a proper method to the task. The aim of classes is to illustrate the lecture. There are solved hypothetical problems that refer to selected sections of the lecture. The laboratory classes are intended to develop self-reliant proficiency in using procedures on real and simulated data. Students solve problems, perform computations, comment and interpret results.