Developing Soft Skills for Engineering: Experience with Student Team Projects

• Authors: Franc Gider , Tanja Urbančič
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

While advanced technologies are entering schools at all levels, we claim that other skills required to deal with them in the complex modern world should not be neglected in the education system. In this article, a promising approach to interdisciplinary postgraduate education is described. The idea of the »Team project« course is to give the students the opportunity to gain experience in an extensive project where various skills are needed, e.g. teamwork, coordinating work, project management, research, problem solving, public presentations, time management, etc. The course is obligatory and held in the first year of the master study program at the School of Engineering and Management of the University of Nova Gorica. The main advantage of the course is to give the students hands-on experience of work on a project that is very close to reality. Students are forced to gain experience in teamwork and to overcome the uncertainties and obstacles that arise in such projects. Since the launch of the course, several improvements have been made with the aim of improving the performance of the course. Nevertheless, the course remains a challenge for both students and teachers.

Keywords

EN

teamwork; student project; engineering and management

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Organizacija
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 43
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 35-39

Dates

published

2010-01-01

online

2010-02-19

Contributors

author

Franc Gider

author

Tanja Urbančič

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10051-010-0004-3