Educating the New Generation of Engineering Managers to Stay Relevant in the 21st Century Workforce

The Quest for Sustainable Teaching Praxis: Opportunities and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Teamwork

“…The third characteristic warrants that sustainable practices aim at cultivating 21 st century competencies. These competencies concern twelve skills that today's students need to acquire in order to keep up with the fast-pace changes in contemporary industry [4]. Overall, sustainable education exists in a wider context, where multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion are central to the discussion agendas in Higher Education [5] -hence the emphasis on multicultural teamwork in the current study.…”

“…They are also likely to deal with real-world complex situations that require knowledge of various disciplines. Multidisciplinary group collaboration helps student develop deeper knowledge, improve communication, comprehend collaboration processes, share their diverse experiences and reach a consensus agreement on professional solutions, which results to sustainable education [4]. This process could be sustainable education inasmuch as it improves students' awareness, critical thinking, and skills to deal with the issue in the real world.…”

The Quest for Sustainable Teaching Praxis: Opportunities and Challenges of Multidisciplinary and Multicultural Teamwork

“…Being accredited and validated by local authorities, isn't all teaching supposed to be sustainable? Inasmuch as its primary purpose is to prepare students for employment and long-term career [2,3,7], isn't formal education sustainable? The answers to these questions, along with the contribution of this article, predominantly concern an emphasis on teaching practices that adapt to the changing environment, as well as the student competencies, changing learning styles and new technologies that come with it.…”

“…The third characteristic warrants that sustainable practices aim at cultivating 21 st century competencies. These competencies concern twelve skills that today's students need to acquire to keep up with the fast-paced changes in contemporary industry [7]. Overall, sustainable education exists in a wider context, where multiculturalism, diversity and inclusion are central to the discussion agendas in Higher Education [8] -hence the emphasis on multicultural and multidisciplinary teamwork in the current study.…”

Personnel Evaluation Under Intuitionistic Fuzzy Environment

“…Despite the increasing interest and demand for T-shaped engineers, there are not enough studies in the literature. Although there are studies investigating the skills that T-shaped engineers should acquire for 21st-century conditions [32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49], there are no studies evaluating the engineers' skills within the framework of the T-shaped engineer. In this study, a new approach is proposed to solve multi-person and multi-attribute evaluation problems in an intuitionistic fuzzy environment for a new application area related to personnel selection.…”