Soft Skills in Engineers, a Relevant Field of Research: Exploring and Assessing Skills in Italian Engineering Students
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| author | Valeria Caggiano |
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| contents | Soft Skills in Engineers, a Relevant Field of Research: Exploring and Assessing Skills in Italian Engineering Students Valeria Caggiano Teresa Redomero-Echeverría Jose Luis Poza-Lujan Andrea Bellezza Ingeniería BIP engineer curriculum university Soft skills 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 instrument used is a questionnaire that investigates soft skills and is based on the Business-focused Inventory of Personality (BIP). Answers are grouped into four areas: intrapersonal, interpersonal, activity development, and impression management. Results show that these engineers have more self-confidence than the reference sample; they demonstrated a great commitment in setting job goals and pursuing projects, a good emotional adaptation to social situations, and enough attitudes in terms of problem solving and openness to change. Perception on the ability to work under pressure is in the average, and they seem ready to take on challenging tasks. The score shows that engineers from the sample are able to express positive and negative ideas and feelings in balance with the reference average, but sometimes they have difficulties in establishing personal relationships. Therefore, they are unable to understand the moods of those who around them and may also have difficulty in understanding their expectations. This results in some difficulties in teamwork. The general result underlines the opportunity of empowerment programs regarding soft skills. 2020 artículo científico 0120-5609 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=64379865008 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/64379865008.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/movil 10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.83717 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=643 Ingeniería e Investigación application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Ingeniería e Investigación (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.40 |
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| spellingShingle | Soft Skills in Engineers, a Relevant Field of Research: Exploring and Assessing Skills in Italian Engineering Students Valeria Caggiano Ingeniería BIP engineer curriculum university Soft skills Soft Skills in Engineers, a Relevant Field of Research: Exploring and Assessing Skills in Italian Engineering Students Valeria Caggiano Teresa Redomero-Echeverría Jose Luis Poza-Lujan Andrea Bellezza Ingeniería BIP engineer curriculum university Soft skills 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 instrument used is a questionnaire that investigates soft skills and is based on the Business-focused Inventory of Personality (BIP). Answers are grouped into four areas: intrapersonal, interpersonal, activity development, and impression management. Results show that these engineers have more self-confidence than the reference sample; they demonstrated a great commitment in setting job goals and pursuing projects, a good emotional adaptation to social situations, and enough attitudes in terms of problem solving and openness to change. Perception on the ability to work under pressure is in the average, and they seem ready to take on challenging tasks. The score shows that engineers from the sample are able to express positive and negative ideas and feelings in balance with the reference average, but sometimes they have difficulties in establishing personal relationships. Therefore, they are unable to understand the moods of those who around them and may also have difficulty in understanding their expectations. This results in some difficulties in teamwork. The general result underlines the opportunity of empowerment programs regarding soft skills. 2020 artículo científico 0120-5609 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=64379865008 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/64379865008.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/643/64379865008/movil 10.15446/ing.investig.v40n2.83717 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=643 Ingeniería e Investigación application/pdf Universidad Nacional de Colombia Ingeniería e Investigación (Colombia) Num.2 Vol.40 |
| title | Soft Skills in Engineers, a Relevant Field of Research: Exploring and Assessing Skills in Italian Engineering Students |
| topic | Ingeniería BIP engineer curriculum university Soft skills |
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