NDLI: Teaching Soft Skills to ECE Students

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Jouny, I. Hornfeck, W.
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	This paper summarizes techniques, methodologies, and processes used to teach soft skills to electrical and computer engineering students at Lafayette College. A quarter of the curriculum is devoted to broad education, and a substantial portion of the engineering courses including senior design devote adequate time to teaching, assessing, and improving non-technical skills of our graduates. The common term for these skills is "soft skills" and they include cross-cultural, legal awareness, language, entrepreneurship, ethical, political, management, economic, and interpersonal skills. While we have an ad-hoc approach to teaching some skills, we do have a systematic well established and continually assessed approach to teaching others. We have developed courses, lectures, and small programs to support learning and enhancing these skills. Some of the failed attempts are briefly discussed, but the focus is on what works, and how to improve it.
Starting Page	1
Ending Page	12
File Size	507966
Page Count	12
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424460403
e-ISBN	9781424460427
DOI	10.1109/TEE.2010.5508889
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2010-04-06
Publisher Place	Ireland
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Knowledge engineering Design engineering Art Law Intellectual property Electrical engineering computing Educational institutions Accreditation Computer science education Engineering students
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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