Certification of students in non-technical engineering skills : What do the companies think?
(2020) 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, ICSIT 2020 In ICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings p.49-54- Abstract
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... (More)
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.
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- author
- Lindholm, Christin LU and Nyberg, Christian LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Company view, Engineering skills, Non-technical engineering skills, Student certification, Survey, Technical engineering skills
- host publication
- ICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings
- series title
- ICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings
- editor
- Callaos, Nagib C. ; Robertson, Lorayne ; Sanchez, Belkis and Tremante, Andres
- pages
- 6 pages
- publisher
- International Institute of Informatics and Systemics
- conference name
- 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, ICSIT 2020
- conference location
- Orlando, United States
- conference dates
- 2020-03-10 - 2020-03-13
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85085916273
- ISBN
- 9781950492305
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- d8f75919-ce7f-418e-aa18-0fac90dddddf
- date added to LUP
- 2021-01-11 12:27:14
- date last changed
- 2022-04-19 03:28:02
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abstract = {{<p>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.</p>}},
author = {{Lindholm, Christin and Nyberg, Christian}},
booktitle = {{ICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings}},
editor = {{Callaos, Nagib C. and Robertson, Lorayne and Sanchez, Belkis and Tremante, Andres}},
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keywords = {{Company view; Engineering skills; Non-technical engineering skills; Student certification; Survey; Technical engineering skills}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{49--54}},
publisher = {{International Institute of Informatics and Systemics}},
series = {{ICSIT 2020 - 11th International Conference on Society and Information Technologies, Proceedings}},
title = {{Certification of students in non-technical engineering skills : What do the companies think?}},
year = {{2020}},
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