Abstract Professional profiles and Multidisciplinary Engineering curriculumProfessional profiles are the set of skills and knowledge that a professional (i.e. an engineer)should have. For multidisciplinary engineering programs, the definition of such professionalprofiles is difficult, because of the inherent flexibility of those programs. We need flexibility in thecurricula, the question is how this flexibility affects the professional profile of the students.In this paper we propose a definition of "professional profile" that allow us to do a quantitativeassessment of skills and knowledge associate to a curriculum.Based on this definition, twoconcepts have been raised: • Ideal profile: It is the set of skills and knowledge that a student must achieve according to his/her expected future professional role. These expectations are definite by educational institutions, industry, organizations and the society and they are based on current requirements of each sector. • Individual profile: It is the set of skills and knowledge acquired and/or developed by a student during the professional training process.Through a representation of curriculum by means of ontologies and the use of informationaggregation techniques taken from computational intelligence, we propose a quantitativeassessment of profiles (both, ideal and individual). Consequently, a student can compare his/herindividual profile with each ideal profile, and then visualize his/her compliance level regarding awanted profile. This methodology can be used like a tool in self-learning decisions.Other potential uses of professional profiles are: • To serve as a support system to curriculum evaluation into educational institutions. • To serve as a baseline to generate an academic tutor that can recommend learning routes. • To aid to place the graduates in a specific work field or area of pertinence in the industry.This methodology has been tested on the Electrical Engineering curriculum at the UniversidadNacional de Colombia. 1