Publication
Building on the coherency of activities within the Special Interest Group (SIG), Engineering Skills SIG proposes a workshop with three distinct goals: (1) explore the usefulness of a method for determining the relative importance of different skills for future engineers, (2) discuss the skills framework proposed in the forthcoming SEFI handbook on teaching competencies & skills in engineering, and (3) generate “curriculum skills profiles” that can be further used to guide curriculum development. Participants of the workshop will be asked to sort skills proposed by the forthcoming handbook in a pre-set grid, and then reflect on their choices, definitions and implications in terms of the impact on teaching and coherence in institutional leadership. We will experiment with a hands-on method inspired by educational research, through which we will gain individual and collective insights. This will make the basis for a pertinent discussion on clustering and categorising skills. To generate results that we can all discuss within the workshop time, a simple visual analysis will be done aiming to create “curriculum skills profiles” that can inform curriculum development tailored towards educating a responsible engineer.