TY - JOUR
T1 - Teaching Soft Skills in Engineering Education
T2 - An European Perspective
AU - Caeiro-Rodriguez, Manuel
AU - Manso-Vazquez, Mario
AU - Mikic-Fonte, Fernando A.
AU - Llamas-Nistal, Martin
AU - Fernandez-Iglesias, Manuel J.
AU - Tsalapatas, Hariklia
AU - Heidmann, Olivier
AU - De Carvalho, Carlos Vaz
AU - Jesmin, Triinu
AU - Terasmaa, Jaanus
AU - Sorensen, Lene Tolstrup
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2013 IEEE.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Higher Education engineering students need to be prepared to address sustainable solutions to the complex problems faced in this century. They should become proficient problem solvers, able to work in multidisciplinary teams, ready to adapt to new technologies, and able to acquire new knowledge and skills when needed. Usually known as soft skills, these competences play a key role in Engineering and have being taught in the last two decades, to a greater or lesser extent, using different methodologies and tools. This study reviews the promotion and teaching of soft skills in Higher Education across 5 European countries: Greece, Estonia, Denmark, Portugal and Spain. It provides an overview of best practices on these countries, focusing also on technological solutions to actually enable the development of soft skills. The purpose of this research is to shed some light about how soft skills are being taught presently and the difficulties involved in that process.
AB - Higher Education engineering students need to be prepared to address sustainable solutions to the complex problems faced in this century. They should become proficient problem solvers, able to work in multidisciplinary teams, ready to adapt to new technologies, and able to acquire new knowledge and skills when needed. Usually known as soft skills, these competences play a key role in Engineering and have being taught in the last two decades, to a greater or lesser extent, using different methodologies and tools. This study reviews the promotion and teaching of soft skills in Higher Education across 5 European countries: Greece, Estonia, Denmark, Portugal and Spain. It provides an overview of best practices on these countries, focusing also on technological solutions to actually enable the development of soft skills. The purpose of this research is to shed some light about how soft skills are being taught presently and the difficulties involved in that process.
KW - best practices
KW - employability
KW - Higher engineering education
KW - soft skills
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85100914867&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3059516
DO - 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3059516
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85100914867
SN - 2169-3536
VL - 9
SP - 29222
EP - 29242
JO - IEEE Access
JF - IEEE Access
M1 - 9354626
ER -