Soft skills in engineering education: A practical experience in an undergraduate course

Cukierman, Uriel; Palmieri, Juan María

doi:10.1109/icl.2014.7017776

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“…Skills play a role in highlighting the potential of an individual. A person with advanced skills will get more attention and respect compared to others (Cukierman & Palmieri, 2014). Students with these skill sets will have the ability to be successful in the society as they are able to solve problems and be contributors of ideas in the development of new world technologies (Heggen & Cody, 2018;Kassan, Looi, & Tham, 2016;Mohaghegh & Mccauley, 2016).…”

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Improving Students’ Achievement on Computational Thinking Skills Via Mobile Application Development Module

Shanmugam¹,

Khalid²,

Hashim³

et al. 2021

IJARPED

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This research aims to enhance students' achievement on computational thinking skills through mobile application development module. Computational Thinking (CT) skills are a value that plays a role in highlighting the potential of an individual and who has advanced skills often will get more attention and respect than others. The design of this study is quasi-experimental. For this quasi experiment there are two groups of control and treatment. Both groups of respondents consisted of business administration students at one of the universities in Malaysia. The variables involved in this study are that the study groups use different methods of intervention; the treatment group used the module and the control group used the conventional method. Students' achievement in computational thinking skills was identified through the results of the analysis after intervention on 91 respondents. All respondents of this study are students as well as studying same course in University A. Before the post-test was conducted, the respondents involved in the study were tested for the homogeneity to reduce the internal and external threats. CT is a very interesting terminology and gets a good response among researchers. Most researchers have been aware and pay much attention to CT because most industries have started to focus on computational thinking skills as well as future work skills and one of the skills required among graduates is CT. Thus, we developed a mobile application development module to helps undergraduate students to learn and understand the concept of CT in well.

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Improving Students’ Achievement on Computational Thinking Skills Via Mobile Application Development Module

Shanmugam¹,

Khalid²,

Hashim³

et al. 2021

IJARPED

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“…The common view regarding the training of engineers with soft skills is that higher education institutions have an important role in this but higher education institutions do not give the necessary importance to soft skills (Hairi et al, 2011;Berglund and Heintz, 2014;Cukierman and Palmieri, 2014;Sousa and Mouraz, 2014;Hayati and Mir, 2004;Andersson and Logofatu, 2018;Nicola et al, 2018). Willmot and Colman (2016) stated that responsibility for developing soft skills is not only in higher education institutions but also in other educational institutions, employers, parents, and individuals.…”

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T-Shaped Engineer: Horizontal Component Comprising of Soft Skills

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Ersöz

2020

Endüstri Mühendisliği

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Under 21st century conditions, engineering education should focus not only on professional skills such as design, manufacture, and maintenance but also on soft skills, which play an important role in supporting career advancements, such as communication, interpersonal relations and teamwork. In other words, it is an obligation for engineers to be competent in their own discipline. In addition to its own discipline, it will be a plus to be able to work with individuals from other disciplines and to exchange information seamlessly in the work environment. In this context, graduation as a T-shaped engineer with sensitive skills that will enable this acquisition will be prominent in career planning. The aim of this study is to introduce the T-shaped term that is not yet widespread in Turkey and to investigate soft skills forming the horizontal component of the T-shaped engineer. In line with the purpose of the research, studies on the soft skills that engineers must acquire, the program outcomes determined by the accreditation boards and job ads are analyzed. In addition to the determination of soft skills, suggestions compiled from the literature are presented for higher education institutions to train their students as T-shaped engineers.

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“…[38]. Cukierman & Palmieri [39] identifies a hierarchy of skills, with hard skills at the bottom, denoting their connection to down to earth physical reality. The next level covers conventional soft skills including foreign language proficiency, communication abilities and attitude to team work.…”

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Profile About Initial Soft Skills Understanding of Pre-Service Science Teachers’

Erlini¹,

Wilujeng²,

Susilawati³

et al. 2021

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Pre-service science teachers' understanding of soft skills is very important. Soft skills are skills closely related to intrapersonal abilities that determines the success of individuals in conducting their profession as teachers. This study aims to find out the initial profile of pre-service science teachers' understanding about soft skills. Design of the study is descriptive quantitative research with a survey method. The questionnaire is used as the instrument to find out the initial profile of pre-service teachers' understanding of soft skills, as well as urgency, and constraints. By the purposive sampling, 30 undergraduate students as pre-service science teachers from Tidar Magelang University were investigated. The result showed that pre-service science teachers understand soft skills literally, 78.1% students chose very important that a science teacher should qualified of soft skills. This study generates to produce insight into the importance of acquiring soft skills because it will contribute to improve the quality of teachers' teaching.

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Soft skills in engineering education: A practical experience in an undergraduate course

Cited by 19 publications

References 1 publication

Improving Students’ Achievement on Computational Thinking Skills Via Mobile Application Development Module

Improving Students’ Achievement on Computational Thinking Skills Via Mobile Application Development Module

T-Shaped Engineer: Horizontal Component Comprising of Soft Skills

Profile About Initial Soft Skills Understanding of Pre-Service Science Teachers’

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