An Australian study of generic competencies required by engineers

Male, Sally; Bush, Mark B.; Chapman, Elaine

doi:10.1080/03043797.2011.569703

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“…According to the ABET, the ability to identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems is among the 11 student outcomes that an engineering degree must ensure [5]. Australian studies have also identified problem solving as an important skill for engineers [6]. There is widespread agreement on its importance in the employability of engineers [7].…”

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Development of Procedures to Assess Problem-Solving Competence in Computing Engineering

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Abstract-In the context of higher education, a competence may be understood as the combination of skills, knowledge, attitudes, values, and abilities that underpin effective and/or superior performance in a professional area. The aim of the work reported here was to design a set of procedures to assess a transferable competence, i.e., problem solving, that is basic for learning, in both academic and professional life, and crucial for engineering. The study involved a total of 71 students enrolled at three universities at two different stages of their studies. The development phases of the assessment device included an analysis of the competence and its facets, the design of the assessment task, the development of criteria to rate student performance, and the analysis of the basic psychometric properties for assessment methods in the area of education. The conclusion was drawn that the training process and the elaboration of scoring criteria are costly but necessary if objectivity in the interpretation of results is to be guaranteed. The main achievement of this project was the development of a procedure that measures learning outcomes and, more specifically, problem solving.

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“…The lack of visibility of writing practices in the curriculum, with the associated disengagement of the development of writing in the discipline by faculty staff, is evident in engineering faculties throughout Australia and overseas, despite ongoing concerns about gaps in the development of engineering graduate capabilities of written (and spoken) communication, and of the quality of writing of engineers [4][5][6][7][8][9][10]. This is also despite the implementation of a wide range of studies, initiatives, strategies and programs to investigate and develop engineering students' writing abilities, dating from at least the 1980s [11][12][13][14][15].…”

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Using practice architectures to investigate the invisibility of writing practices in the engineering curriculum

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2017 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)

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“…Mistree [8] indicates that the primary competency needed by engineering graduates today is the ability to adapt; this is largely due to the way that engineering practice is changing rapidly due to technological innovation and globalization. Further, we have, in prior iterations of the course, structured our course around competencies identified by ABET [9], Eggert [10], Lahidji [11], and others [12][13][14][15]. We consider the challenges in incorporating the project-based learning construct and possible solutions identified by Todd [16] and Etlinger [17].…”

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Zahed Siddique is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the School of Aerospace and MechanicalEngineering of University of Oklahoma. His research interest include product family design, advanced material and engineering education. He is interested in motivation of engineering students, peer-to-peer learning, flat learning environments, technology assisted engineering education and experiential learning. He is the coordinator of the industry sponsored capstone from at his school and is the advisor of OU's FSAE team. Prof. Farrokh Mistree, University of OklahomaFarrokh's passion is to have fun in providing an opportunity for highly motivated and talented people to learn how to define and achieve their dreams. His current education focus is on creating and implementing, in partnership with industry, a curriculum for educating strategic engineers-those who have developed the competencies to create value through the realization of complex engineered systems.

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An Australian study of generic competencies required by engineers

Cited by 74 publications

References 20 publications

Development of Procedures to Assess Problem-Solving Competence in Computing Engineering

Development of Procedures to Assess Problem-Solving Competence in Computing Engineering

Using practice architectures to investigate the invisibility of writing practices in the engineering curriculum

Board # 38 : Work in Progress: Quantification of Learning through Learning Statements and Text Mining

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