A student website portfolio is a living and changing collection of records that reflect your accomplishments, skills, experiences, and attributes. It is an intentional collection of work samples to record and showcase a student's progress over time or a school semester. It highlights and showcases samples of some of your best work, along with life experiences, values and achievements. The personal information that you incorporate into your portfolio can greatly reflect on your abilities as an individual as well as become a useful tool for students to market their talent to potential employers, scholarships, colleges and universities. The main function of an academic portfolio is to help students assess their academic performances on a regular basis. For engineering students, this is a great opportunity to demonstrate your understanding of technical concepts and to showcase the importance of design skills in engineering that you have developed. A portfolio does not take the place of a resume, but it can accentuate your abilities and what you can offer in the chosen field. Students can gain a lot from maintaining an online portfolio website, and there many free online resources Google Sites, Kidblog, freeportfolio and weebly. I strongly recommend using www.weebly.com and have the students setup their account with their personal email address so that they can access the website forever.