Certification of students in non-technical engineering skills: What do the companies think?

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To systematically address non-technical engineering skills (NTES), six mandatory "Engineering Days" (Ing-dagar) were introduced in two bachelor programmes. The students were also allowed to perform voluntary activities leading to a Certification of Non-technical Engineering Competences, a certificate the students can attach to their CVs. To be certified, the student must have performed activities in at least three of these five areas: entrepreneurship, ethics, sustainable development, international/intercultural aspects, and professional role (defined as comprising leadership and teamwork). To investigate what skills the software industry thinks are important and whether a related certificate is regarded as advantageous when students seek employment, two surveys were administered to company representatives. The study clearly indicates that 85% of software company representatives thought that NTES certification would give an applicant an advantage if technical merits were equal to those of other applicants. Representatives of participating companies asked to rate the five NTES areas ranked professional role the highest and international/intercultural aspects the lowest.

Originalspråkengelska
Titel på värdpublikationICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings
RedaktörerNagib C. Callaos, Lorayne Robertson, Belkis Sanchez, Andres Tremante
FörlagInternational Institute of Informatics and Systemics
Sidor49-54
Antal sidor6
ISBN (elektroniskt)9781950492305
StatusPublished - 2020
Evenemang11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, ICSIT 2020 - Orlando, USA
Varaktighet: 2020 mars 102020 mars 13

Publikationsserier

NamnICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings

Konferens

Konferens11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, ICSIT 2020
Land/TerritoriumUSA
OrtOrlando
Period2020/03/102020/03/13

Ämnesklassifikation (UKÄ)

  • Utbildningsvetenskap
  • Annan teknik

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