DLP: A tool to develop technical and soft skills in engineering

Redoli, Judith; Mompó, Rafael; Mata, David de la; Doctor, Miguel

doi:10.1002/cae.20572

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“…Over the past decade, the development of CT has also emerged as a fundamental goal for engineering education [33]. At present, engineering education research has widely studied CT and reasoning [34][35][36]. CT and its related education model have become the research focuses of the engineering education [37,38].…”

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Cultivation of the Students’ Critical Thinking Ability in Numerical Control Machining Course Based on the Virtual Simulation System Teaching Method

Zhu

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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Critical thinking is an important part of the quality cultivation of engineering students. At present, many colleges and universities in China have gradually realized it, and mainly strengthen the training of students' critical thinking by offering relevant humanities courses, but there are few researches related to this topic through the penetration of engineering professional courses, and they are not deep enough. This study mainly discusses the efficacy of virtual simulation system teaching method in improving critical thinking of engineering students engaged in NC (Numerical Control) machining. It integrates the types of learning activities in the proposed teaching method with the development elements of critical thinking, and then constructs the context-based teaching design along with a self-developed virtual learning environment for the cultivation of students' critical thinking. We also evaluated students' response towards the research topics to investigate its teaching-learning effectiveness and acceptance by student community. Responses from questionnaires were collected from a convenience sample of 63 junior students majoring in NC machining from the author's university. The subsequent empirical study was conducted to exhibit superior results for mostly the cognitive skills of critical thinking. Students' feedback also revealed that students obtain more satisfaction and self-confidence, and demonstrated high positive attitude towards the proposed teaching method, and showed high perceived usefulness of the context-based teaching design to acquire complete, concrete and confident knowledge of NC machining. The findings of this study are valuable for academic institutions and educators to design the virtual visualized lectures and classrooms to enhance students' performance in critical thinking.

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Cultivation of the Students’ Critical Thinking Ability in Numerical Control Machining Course Based on the Virtual Simulation System Teaching Method

Zhu

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IEEE Access

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“…This soft skills model is produced based on the process of DLPT to suit the needs of engineering students as used by Redoli et al (2011). By using SPSS, the reability value of this model is high with Alpha Cronbach value of 0.819 (α > 0.7).…”

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SoSTeM Model Development for Application of Soft Skills to Engineering Students at Malaysian Polytechnics

Esa¹,

Padil²,

Selamat³

et al. 2015

IES

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Soft skills are some of the skills needed to ensure that graduates fulfill the needs of the job market. Until 2010, almost 30% of unemployed graduates in Malaysia are technical graduates and one third comes are graduates from polytechnic. Most engineering graduates are proficient in technical skills but lack in soft skills. The lack of relevant knowledge among lecturers in order to identify appropriate ways and methods in the process of teaching and learning is one of the causes of lack in soft skills application. This study aims to identify the suitable teaching methods for the application of soft skills in the engineering programs for engineering students in Malaysian polytechnics. 488 students and 332 lecturers in engineering courses at the polytechnic had been questioned using questionnaires and interviews. The results showed that there is a relationship between the level of application of soft skills element with the teaching & learning methods used by lecturers. Based on these relationships, researchers had produced SoSTeM model as the model of application of soft skills for engineering students. Researchers also discovered that the use of teaching & learning methods for applying soft skills in engineering programs vary according to the elements of soft skills.

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“…However, as we said before, the traditional teaching practice of lectures and tutorials is still not providing the context nor sufficient practice for students to develop the skills needed to solve real work problems. Therefore, it becomes important to provide opportunities for engineering students to learn the knowledge and skills required through using software tools and applying pedagogic principles as part of their formal education .…”

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Using TSPi and PBL to support software engineering education in an upper‐level undergraduate course

García

Pacheco

2012

Comp Applic In Engineering

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In recent years, software engineering education has rapidly changed to incorporate more realistic ways of learning. More frequently the software industry requires more skilled and qualified staff; however at the university level students are young, inexperienced, and relatively homogeneous in background and abilities. This article describes an approach that integrates a student teamwork methodology (TSPi) and project‐based learning (PBL) to improve software project managerial skills in undergraduate students. As complementary support, a computational tool, the Teamwork Platform for Software Engineering Education, has been developed to establish an interactive software engineering course with local software industry collaboration. Experimental results show that a set of software metrics was defined to demonstrate performance improvement of 45 students following our approach.© 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 22:736–749, 2014; View this article online at http://wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

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DLP: A tool to develop technical and soft skills in engineering

Cited by 12 publications

References 29 publications

Cultivation of the Students’ Critical Thinking Ability in Numerical Control Machining Course Based on the Virtual Simulation System Teaching Method

Cultivation of the Students’ Critical Thinking Ability in Numerical Control Machining Course Based on the Virtual Simulation System Teaching Method

SoSTeM Model Development for Application of Soft Skills to Engineering Students at Malaysian Polytechnics

Using TSPi and PBL to support software engineering education in an upper‐level undergraduate course

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