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Soft skills are important for any career and are necessary to access and face the labor market. This research focuses on soft skills by exploring engineer profiles. It also determines how soft skills are developed through the study of a representative sample of 314 undergraduate engineering students from 15 different Italian universities. The instr...
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... study of the internal consistency (CI) of the BIP scales with the engineers' samples was measured by calculating Cronbach's alpha coefficient. As can be seen in the Table 3, the reliability of the scales is very good in selfcontrol, relationship building, orientation to teamwork, communication, emotional stability, ability to work under pressure, and self-confidence. The scales with moderate reliability are openness to change, sociability, sensitivity, and impression management. ...Similar publications
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... They are crucial to individuals' development, by combining intra-and interpersonal characteristics, and attributes [14]. It is beneficial to develop and strengthen these skills [16], as it promotes self-efficacy [17], and, consequently, improves work performance [15,18], well-being and success [19] in overcoming difficulties [8], meeting goals, and completing tasks [10]. For this reason, the engineering education community has been addressing the transferable skills relevance in engineering courses [10,20,21]. ...
... Também chamadas de habilidades intangíveis, elas são um contraponto às competências técnicas (hard skills), provenientes do conhecimento teórico e científico. Segundo Caggiano et al. (2020), algumas pesquisas apontam que os empregadores estão buscando, cada vez mais, funcionários que possuam boas habilidades técnicas, mas que também tenham desenvolvido habilidades relacionadas à comunicação, resolução de problemas, relações interpessoais, trabalho em equipe, criatividade, busca por contínua aprendizagem e ética de trabalho positiva. ...
... Existe uma insuficiência no mercado de trabalho quando falamos de profissionais com um bom desenvolvimento de soft skills relacionadas à empregabilidade, valores morais, comunicação, liderança, capacidade de adaptação ao ambiente de trabalho, entre outros fatores (Caggiano et al., 2020). Alguns estudos buscaram entender a importância dessas habilidades em diversos contextos, desde estudantes de engenharia (Santos et al, 2017), professores (Nagib & Costa e Silva, 2020), engenheiros de produção (Bischof-dos-Santos & Oliveira, 2020), engenheiros elétricos e da computação (Yanaze & Lopes, 2014). ...
Este trabalho teve por objetivo avaliar possíveis relações entre a participação no Movimento Empresa Júnior e a empregabilidade e autoeficácia de estudantes universitários. Optou-se por uma abordagem de métodos mistos, com aplicação de instrumentos para avaliação da empregabilidade e autoeficácia e de uma entrevista estruturada. Participaram deste estudo 119 (51,26% estudantes, 48,74% egressos) com 2,21 anos em média de participação em Empresas Juniores (DP = 1,14). Os resultados indicam escores elevados para empregabilidade e para autoeficácia. Os resultados quantitativos são corroborados pela análise qualitativa que indicou a importância das Empresas Juniores no desenvolvimento das competências dos estudantes.
This study aimed to evaluate possible relationships between participation in the Junior Enterprise Movement and the employability and self-efficacy of university students. A mixed methods approach was chosen, with the application of instruments to assess employability and self-efficacy and a structured interview. 119 participated in this study (51.26% students, 48.74% graduates) with an average of 2.21 years of participation in Junior Companies (SD = 1.14). The results indicate high scores for employability and self-efficacy. The quantitative results are corroborated by the qualitative analysis that indicated the importance of Junior Enterprises in the development of students' competences.
... (g) Engineering skill: professional skills of engineering students suitable for smart construction include both hard and soft skills. Hard skills refer to generic skills in specified engineering majors, such as design and development, application of modern tools, project management and financial analysis, research and study, and engineering analysis [31,32,64], while soft skills include exploring and management skills as well as communication skills [65][66][67]. [68] were the first to introduce and use the concept of "linguistic landscape" and defined it as "the language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings combines to form the linguistic landscape of a given territory, region, or urban agglomeration." e linguistic landscape has two main types of functions, namely, informative and symbolic. ...
This study investigates the mechanism of digital linguistic landscapes in enabling engineering education for smart construction according to the educational dimensions of A (ability), S (skill), and K (knowledge). A questionnaire survey was conducted based on the core concepts of the informative dimension and symbolic dimension in digital language landscape as well as the ability dimension, knowledge dimension, and skill dimension in engineering education. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used as the test method. The results of the research demonstrate that the informative dimension and symbolic dimension are two main aspects of DLL in education of engineering students for smart construction. Additionally, DLL has a significant positive impact on the ability, knowledge, and skill education of engineering students for smart construction. The research has theoretical and practical significance, as it not only enriches research on the relationship between DLL and engineering education for smart construction but also expands the theoretical understanding of engineering education from the perspective of linguistics. Furthermore, the study explores the path of the practical application of digital language landscape to engineering education for smart construction.
... Soft skills refer to a collection of interpersonal skills that enable people to enhance their relationships and performance at work [12]. These skills are necessary for any career and are crucial for joining and facing the labor market [13]. Soft skills in software development processes (SDP) are generally considered complementary to hard skills [14]. ...
Software requirement engineering (SRE) is the process of establishing, documenting, and maintaining software requirements. The goal of this research is to investigate the importance of soft skills in SRE. The data collection was performed through an on-line questionnaire. Descriptive statistics, principal components analysis (PCA), and stepwise regression techniques were used to analyze the data. A comprehensive review determined the 31 soft skills associated with SRE. There were 122 software development experts in Gaza who participated in the survey. The PCA analysis extracted six factors, named problem solving , learning willingness, commitment, pressure resilience, critical thinking, and interper-sonal skills. The analysis discovered that the level of SRE practice in Gaza is 73.71%. Furthermore, it was determined that 89.2% of respondents have critical thinking skills, and 85% have problem-solving and commitment skills. The result shows that all soft skills factors have strong links to SRE. However, only four soft skills (problem-solving, willingness to learn, pressure tolerance, and critical thinking) were found to have an impact on SRE. Considering these findings, we recommend focusing on the development of soft skills, especially problem-solving and willingness to learn skills, for the team analyzing software system requirements. ACM CCS (2012) Classification: Software and its engineering → Software creation and management → Software development process management
... There is no research like the present that allows corroborate the results; however, it is relevant to highlight the study of Zhang (2012) For its part, the study of Caggiano et al. (2020) determined the importance of soft skills by obtaining that the engineers of the sample under consideration were able to express positive and negative ideas and feelings in balance with the reference mean, although they sometimes struggled to establish personal relationships. In this research the students studied show that they almost always perceive compliance with the elements evaluated, both in perception of interaction in virtual classroom and in soft skills. ...
The purpose of this study is to specify the relationship between the perception of classroom interaction and the level of soft skills. A cross-cutting, correlal observational study was conducted on a sample of 507 students from the seventh to tenth cycle of the branch's professional schools in Arequipa from a private Peruvian university, recruited electronically in 2020. The instruments applied were the Virtual Classroom Interaction Perception Scale and the Soft Skills Scale. The results show the existence of a positive weak relationship between the perception of virtual classroom interaction and soft skills. The correlation was .114, the size of the effect is medium, being 0.3376389. In terms of statistical power, the value exceeds 0.80, obtaining the value of 0.950. It is concluded that there is a significant and positive relationship between the variables, even though the relationship between the two variables is weak.
Given the current need to provide students with all the tools to develop in the professional world, research on soft skills and student stress becomes relevant. In this sense, the present investigation had the objective of determining how soft skills influence the reduction of student stress; Thus, the methodology used was the systematic review of the literature (SLR), in addition the systematic search has been developed under the parameters of the PRISMA flowchart. Finally, the study found that there are various investigations that prove that student stress decreases due to the implementation of soft skills within the classroom.
The importance of soft skills in the professional work of an engineer is becoming increasingly important, even more so since the emergence of Covid-19 boosted the digitization of all professional sectors. In order for future engineers to acquire this type of skills, it is necessary for engineering professors to have an optimal level of technical and transversal skills. This article analyzes the assessment made by a group of engineering professors about their degree of development of soft skills and describes gender gaps in these assessments. Based on a self-created survey to evaluate different families of soft skills relevant to engineering education, a sample of 284 Latin American engineering professors reported: 1) high evaluations of their soft skills and 2) the existence of gender gaps in the families of work behavior and social skills in favor of females. This gap is especially wide among participants younger than 45 and older than 65 in the social skills family. In addition, females also rate their work motivation skills higher, except in the 55–64 age range.
