The T-Shaped Engineer as an Ideal in Technology Entrepreneurship: Its Origins, History, and Significance for Engineering Education

Neeley, Kathryn A.; Steffensen, Bernd

doi:10.18260/1-2--31127

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“…Lovat, Clement, Dally, and Toomey (2010) believe this nurture of character or spirit, also known as values formation, has strong connections to successful pedagogy and must not only be confined in the province of faith schools. National governments, particularly, the US National Academy of Sciences, agree, promoting aggressively both cognitive and non-cognitive competencies also referred to as t-shaped skills (Neeley & Steffensen, 2018). T-shaped thinkers, adept in their own fields, perform "cross-disciplinary collaboration" and are capable of handling technical and social rigors as "new employees of the digital age" (Conley, Foley, Gorman, Denham, & Coleman, 2015, p. 1).…”

Section: The Bumpy Road Toward 21 St Century Pedagogymentioning

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Output-based approach in media and information literacy toward 21st century skills development in the Philippines

Santos¹

2020

IJRSE

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The educational landscape, notably the whole-person movement, continues to evolve, with experts and policymakers from various fronts espousing the integration of information and communication technology in pedagogy, the development of life and work skills, and the nurture of the mind and spirit via project-based instruction. A prior examination of the Media and Information Literacy (MIL) for senior high school in the Philippines, however, showed a tendency to teach knowledge transfer and a lack of emphasis on interpersonal and intrapersonal skills development. This research attempted to measure the manifestations of the development of cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal potentials of respondents using a reinvented and project-based 21CC paradigm in teaching MIL, as well as determine any correlation between respondents' demonstration of these potentials in the implementation of the output-based curriculum with their class performance. A 42-item Likert Scale online self-assessment questionnaire was administered to 138 out of the 150 Grade 11 students from five sections between May 19 and 22, 2019, with items pertaining to assessment, group presentations, publication, visual design, audio production, interview, media fasting, and responsible media use. Analysis of quantitative data was done using inferential statistics. Results showed furtherance of cognitive skills development and strong acquisition in the metacognitive skillsets. Furthermore, the Pearson r test revealed strongly significant correlations for cognitive (r(100) = .307, p < .002), interpersonal (r(100) = .288, p < .003), and intrapersonal competencies (r(100) = .313, p < .001), indicating that the newly designed MIL curriculum can enhance cognitive, interpersonal, and intrapersonal skills.

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Section: The Bumpy Road Toward 21 St Century Pedagogymentioning

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Output-based approach in media and information literacy toward 21st century skills development in the Philippines

Santos¹

2020

IJRSE

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“…When the studies on T-shaped engineers (Oskam, 2009;Wu et al, 2012;Boehm and Mobasser, 2015;Tranquillo, 2017;Simmons, 2017;Neeley and Steffensen, 2018;Boehm, 2018;Kletzenbauer and Gögele, 2019;King, 2019;Belonovskaya, Kiryakov, Shukhman, Kolga, and Ezhova, 2019) are examined, it is seen that the studies are not sufficient, although it has been a long time since the emergence of this concept. To contribute to these studies, in this study, T-shaped engineers were introduced and the importance of T-shaped engineers for employability was stated.…”

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T-Shaped Engineer: Horizontal Component Comprising of Soft Skills

Kokoç

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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“…Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), such as Universities, are jointly responsible for educating these competencies for sustainable development. One approach for educating this way is described by "t-shaped" scientists or professionals, who combine depth and breadth of knowledge and expertise (Babatope A, Samuel, Ajewole, & Anyanwu, 2020;Conley, Foley, Gorman, Denham, & Coleman, 2017;Demirkan & Spohrer, 2015;Neeley & Steffensen, 2018). This concept is based on Leonardo da Vinci, known as universal genius of the Renaissance (Gadol, 1973).…”

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Interdisciplinary Teaching at RWTH Aachen University – Project “Leonardo”

Winkens¹,

Böschen²,

Leicht-Scholten³

2021

ECE Official Conference Proceedings

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For coping with global challenges based on best available knowledge, the interdisciplinary training of scientists is seen as a key feature of academic education. Scientists educated this way -t-shaped scientists -are seen as being better prepared to facilitate problem-solving processes by combining different disciplinary views on the strong fundament of one discipline. In order to promote these competencies and to enable students to participate in shaping society in the sense of shaping competence, the interdisciplinary teaching project "Leonardo" was launched at RWTH Aachen University. A central characteristic of "Leonardo" is that lecturers from different disciplines offer joined courses focusing on global challenges, which are directed at students from all faculties. The goal is to discuss a guiding theme in an interdisciplinary perspective and to bring together both students and lecturers from different disciplines. Three selected courses, namely "Sustainable Development Goals", "Technology and Society" and "Resource Policy", offered since 2019, serve as case studies to show, whether this approach succeeds in reaching the goal of t-shaping scientists while the following research question is in focus: What are opportunities and challenges of interdisciplinary teaching, especially regarding the t-shaping focus? Results of analysing the evaluation outcomes and reflection papers of the students show that the main challenge is on both producing depth and breadth of knowledge in thinking. Besides, students appreciate interdisciplinary teaching and -independent of their disciplinary background -they reflect this as common knowledge in the context of social responsibility.

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The T-Shaped Engineer as an Ideal in Technology Entrepreneurship: Its Origins, History, and Significance for Engineering Education

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Output-based approach in media and information literacy toward 21st century skills development in the Philippines

Output-based approach in media and information literacy toward 21st century skills development in the Philippines

T-Shaped Engineer: Horizontal Component Comprising of Soft Skills

Interdisciplinary Teaching at RWTH Aachen University – Project “Leonardo”

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