This guide is designed to help college students understand educational states, portfolio assessment, competency matrices, and self-evaluation as it relates to the presentation of technical materials in the engineering sciences. Part 1 discusses definitions of education and learning, the concept of lifelong learning, and educational states (cognitive, affective, and psychomotor domains). Part 2 addresses the presentation of technical work, focusing on techniques to present homework, graphical material, analytical models, computer models, and spreadsheets. Part 3 discusses the creation of portfolios and matrices, focusing on portfolio structure, filling the portfolio, creating an index, and appropriate matrix columns. Part 4 explores the self-evaluation process, focusing on various documentation instruments that are used for recording and storing assignments, including portfolio notebooks, competency matrices, work logs, run charts, and reflection logs. It also outlines a self-evaluation process for use with portfolios and competency matrices. Two appendixes present activities at various cognitive levels of learning and affective degrees of internalization, as well as a sample competency matrix, a reflection log template, a work log template, and a sample run chart. (MDM)