Continuing Education and Training (CET) and Management and Business Skills for Engineers

Levy, Jack; Dawkins, Bryony

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“…This curriculum issue is long-standing. Decades ago the need was anticipated for curriculum that would enable 'transition of the engineer from a technical specialist to an engineering management generalist who will constitute the large majority of future professional engineers' [18], and that need has never really abated [19]. It has been observed that undergraduate education primarily trained engineers for research & development (R&D) and academic positions, whereas most graduates went into management related areas with time [20].…”

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Relative importance of professional practice and engineering management competencies

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2015

European Journal of Engineering Education

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Problem-The professional practice of engineering always involves engineering management, but it is difficult to know what specifically to include in the undergraduate curriculum. Approach-The population of New Zealand practising engineers was surveyed to determine the importance they placed on specific professional practice and engineering management competencies. Findings-Results show that Communication and Project planning were the two most important topics, followed by others as identified. The context in which practitioners use communication skills was found to be primarily with project management, with secondary contexts identified. The necessity for engineers to develop the ability to use multiple soft skills in an integrative manner is strongly supported by the data. Originality-This paper is one of only a few large-scale surveys of practising engineers to have explored the soft-skill attributes. It makes a didactic contribution of providing a ranked list of topics which can be used for designing the curriculum and prioritising teaching effort, which has not previously been achieved. It yields the new insight that combinations of topics are sometimes more important than individual topics.

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Relative importance of professional practice and engineering management competencies

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European Journal of Engineering Education

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A scoping review of professional skills development in engineering education from 1980–2020

Chadha,

Heng

2024

Cogent Education

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Continuing Education and Training (CET) and Management and Business Skills for Engineers

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Relative importance of professional practice and engineering management competencies

Relative importance of professional practice and engineering management competencies

A scoping review of professional skills development in engineering education from 1980–2020

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