scholarly journals UNIVERSITY-ENTERPRISE COOPERATION: EXPERIENCE OF A BASE DEPARTMENT IN ENGINEER TRAINING

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 122-136
Author(s):  
M. B. Flek ◽  
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E. A. Ugnich ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Theory Theory ◽  
State Technical ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
Aerospace Enterprise ◽  
Engineering Staff

This article discusses the problems and prospects of university-enterprise cooperation in the sphere of engineer training, in particular the phenomenon of ‘base departments’. The article focuses on the case of the Aeronautical Engineering Department of the Don State Technical University, whose purpose is to train engineering staff for the partner aerospace enterprise PAO Rostvertol. The study draws from the empirical data collected through the sociological survey of the Department’s faculty and students as well as the partner enterprise’s employees (graduates) and managers. Methodologically and conceptually, the study relies on the systemic approach, stakeholder theory, theory of competencies and the method of situation analysis. We sought to evaluate the sufficiency and relevance of the hard and soft skills that students developed during their studies at the Department. It is shown that the Department has managed to provide its students and graduates with a sufficient level of hard and soft skills to enhance their employability in aeronautical engineering. The Department uses a dual education system, which combines work-based learning with theoretical courses. In future, it is planned to expand this system and maximize student engagement by encouraging students to do their individual research projects at the partner enterprise. The research findings may be used to develop strategies of university-enterprise cooperation and to assess the efficiency of the training process.

Information Systems Education for the 21st Century

2005 ◽  
pp. 171-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glenn Lowry ◽  
Rodney Turner
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Research Findings

In this chapter, we consider how information systems educators might revise curriculum content and adopt student-centered/active learning pedagogical approaches to achieve a better fit between the workplace and the university ‘studyplace’. In considering What to Study, numerous research findings suggest a repertoire of ‘soft’ skills that are seen as essential to success for new IS professionals. The research findings discussed in this chapter present evidence that traditional business subjects such as Marketing, Economics, or Finance do not equate to the ‘other’ or soft business skills that employers of IS graduates are seeking in new hires. Soft skills are cultivated elements of professionalism that derive from example, reflection, imitation, and refinement of attitudes, personal capabilities, work habits, and interpersonal skills. Soft skills are seldom taught in dedicated subjects in tertiary information systems curricula. Somehow, the soft areas such as teamwork, communication skills, ability to accept direction, and others are expected to be picked up along the way through an unspecified, osmotic process. Turning to How to Study, a critical and contentious issue is determining the appropriate learning environment to best help new graduates develop soft skills and higher order thinking. Course delivery paradigms may be characterized as traditional, passive ‘teacher-centered learning’ and active ‘student-centered learning’. We argue that student-centered/active learning approaches may be more effective in helping students to cultivate and refine soft skills than those currently in use. The chapter concludes with a discussion of IS curriculum reform issues and strategies for reducing confusion, overcoming tradition and inertia, finding resources, and neutralizing vested interests, to meet the educational needs of students.

Information Systems Education for the 21st Century

2011 ◽  
pp. 2791-2816
Author(s):  
Glenn Lowry ◽  
Rodney Turner
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Active Learning ◽  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Business Skills ◽  
New Graduates ◽  
Vested Interests ◽  
Research Findings

In this chapter, we consider how information systems educators might revise curriculum content and adopt student-centered/active learning pedagogical approaches to achieve a better fit between the workplace and the university ‘studyplace’. In considering What to Study, numerous research findings suggest a repertoire of ‘soft’ skills that are seen as essential to success for new IS professionals. The research findings discussed in this chapter present evidence that traditional business subjects such as Marketing, Economics, or Finance do not equate to the ‘other’ or soft business skills that employers of IS graduates are seeking in new hires. Soft skills are cultivated elements of professionalism that derive from example, reflection, imitation, and refinement of attitudes, personal capabilities, work habits, and interpersonal skills. Soft skills are seldom taught in dedicated subjects in tertiary information systems curricula. Somehow, the soft areas such as teamwork, communication skills, ability to accept direction, and others are expected to be picked up along the way through an unspecified, osmotic process. Turning to How to Study, a critical and contentious issue is determining the appropriate learning environment to best help new graduates develop soft skills and higher order thinking. Course delivery paradigms may be characterized as traditional, passive ‘teacher-centered learning’ and active ‘student-centered learning’. We argue that student-centered/active learning approaches may be more effective in helping students to cultivate and refine soft skills than those currently in use. The chapter concludes with a discussion of IS curriculum reform issues and strategies for reducing confusion, overcoming tradition and inertia, finding resources, and neutralizing vested interests, to meet the educational needs of students.

Revitalising advanced rotorcraft research – and the compound helicopter

2016 ◽  
Vol 120 (1223) ◽  
pp. 83-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. A. Ormiston
Keyword(s):  
Faculty Member ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Senior Vice President ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Aeronautical Engineering ◽  
Compound Helicopter ◽  
The Impact

PREFACEI was honoured to have been selected to deliver the 35thNikolsky Honorary Lecture. My graduate education at Princeton University owed much to the influence of Alexander A. Nikolsky, the second faculty member appointed to the Princeton Aeronautical Engineering Department in 1943(1). I arrived in 1963, only months after he passed away, but the memory of his presence was still vivid in the minds of his students and colleagues, as well as the professors who introduced me to rotorcraft(2,3). Bob Lynn, Senior Vice President at Bell Helicopter Textron, one of Nikolsky's most illustrious students, recalled the impact of his teaching in the 12thNikolsky Lecture in 1992(4).

Nixing Engineerese

2009 ◽  
Vol 131 (08) ◽  
pp. 30-31
Author(s):  
Jean Thilmany
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Working Relationships ◽  
Soft Skill ◽  
Skill Levels ◽  
Instant Message ◽  
Management Consultants ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Engineering Team ◽  
E Mail

This article focuses on requirement of soft skills for communicating across departments in an organization. Fortunately, laying the foundation for good working relationships with other departments is a learned skill as experienced by management consultants. It starts with evaluating the role of the engineering department in an enterprise and continues with learning how to best communicate with employees of all personalities and skill levels. One soft skill that is easily learned and honed over time is the ability to communicate clearly. Another tip is to treat the person making a request of you the way you would for an outside customer. If another customer request supersedes, explain that to the employee requesting your time. Always take the time to proofread an e-mail or instant message, or any other form of written communication. Always treat employees from other departments just as you would for those in your own engineering team.

scholarly journals ANALISIS EFEKTIFITAS CBET (COMPETENCY BASE EDUCATION AND TRAINING) SEBAGAI UPAYA PENINGKATAN SOFT SKILLS, TANGGUNG JAWAB DAN DISIPLIN TERINTEGRASI (STUDI PROGRAM MAGANG MAHASISWA JURUSAN ADMINISTRSI NIAGA POLITEKNIK NEGERI JAKARTA)

Epigram ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wahyudi Utomo ◽  
Azwar Azwar
Keyword(s):  
Soft Skills ◽  
Education And Training ◽  
Dual System ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Industrial Needs ◽  
And Training ◽  
Base Education ◽  
System Program

AbstractThis study aims to improve the mastery of student soft skills and discipline through a dual system program and also to find industrial needs about the abilities and skills of students during an internship at the company. This research is descriptive quantitative, using questionnaires and documentation to collect data from respondents. It is expected that the research findings show the effectiveness of the form of dual system learning developed to be able to improve competencies, especially soft skills, responsibilities and discipline of the students.Keywords: competency, internships, soft skills, and effectivenessAbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk meningkatkan penguasaan soft skills tanggung jawab dan disiplin mahasiswa melalui program sistem ganda dan juga menemukan kebutuhan industri tentang kemampuan dan keterampilan mahasiswa selama magang di perusahaan. Penelitian ini bersifat deskriptif kuantitatif, yang menggunakan kuesioner dan dokumentasi untuk mengumpulkan data dari responden.Diharapkan temuan penelitian menunjukkan efektifitas bentuk pembelajaran sistem ganda yang dikembangkan mampu meningkatkan kompetensi terutama softs skill, tanggung jawab dan disiplin dari para mahasiswaKata Kunci: kompetensi, magang, softskills, dan efektifitas

PTBL

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
LieHuo Chen ◽  
Qiang Liu ◽  
XiaoGuang Sun
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Learning Task ◽  
Learning Model ◽  
Software Projects ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Engineering Department

With software projects are becoming increasingly complicated, soft skills such as collaboration, effective communication, rhetoric, socio-cultural, accountabilities and collision resolution in real-life software projects, as well as computer programming are badly required for team members to cooperate and finish the strenuous projects. Therefore it is fundamental for software engineering students to improve such skills, if they want to accelerate the success of teamwork. Nowadays, the ability of effective cooperation and communication is much more important than raw programming talent. Teams with average programmers who communicate well are more likely to success than those with superstars but not good at communication. At the same time, these soft skills are just difficult to teach and learn which require true collaboration and communication between students. The traditional learning activities for training soft skills are insufficient based on the facts that teachers and mentors pay too much attention on professional and technical abilities instead of soft skills. In this paper, a novel learning model called Problem and Task Based Learning is proposed which includes Problem-Based Learning, Task-Based Learning, and Web3D technologies. This new model could elevate the teamwork skills in software engineering and overcome the common limitations of the traditional course. This paper also presents two courses using this learning model-a Task-game course and a virtual 3D meeting, as well as some experimental results obtained from the students and the teachers who have participated in the two case studies. Both students and teachers are from Software Engineering Department of Tsinghua University.

Barriers to Environmental Technology Adoption in Hotels

2015 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 829-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric S. W. Chan ◽  
Fevzi Okumus ◽  
Wilco Chan
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Management System ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Barriers To Adoption ◽  
Environmental Technology ◽  
General Managers ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Environmental Technologies ◽  
Internal Barriers

This study investigates potential barriers to the adoption of environmental technologies used in Hong Kong hotels. Data were collected via in-depth semistructured interviews with senior hotel professionals including general managers, financial controllers, directors of engineering department, and environmental management system managers. The research findings illustrate several specific barriers to adoption of environmental technologies which are grouped under three categories: (1) product-related barriers, (2) external barriers, and (3) internal barriers. The study findings are discussed and specific recommendations for overcoming these barriers are put forward. Conclusions and suggestions for future research are also provided.

scholarly journals Ilmu Pengetahuan dan Teknologi Bagi Masyarakat Pada POS Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini (PAUD)

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Busyro Karim ◽  
Siti Fadjryana Fitroh
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Problem Solving ◽  
Lesson Plan ◽  
Situation Analysis ◽  
Training Process ◽  
Training Material ◽  
Implementation Team ◽  
Learning Plan ◽  
Partner Institution ◽  
Early Childhood Learning

Pos TPAI Bermain dan Belajar Imamul Kholil and Pos Taman PAUD Melati that are Pos PAUD located at RW 007, Banyuajuh Village on Kamal District. Both Pos PAUD aforementioned are declared on the initiative of citizens who care about the presence of children who are unable to attend school at PAUD level. Both partners have the same problems, especially the incomplete operational licenses of the institution, the unorganized management of the institution and the unstructured learning plan. The proposer provides advice on problem solving through the activity of mentoring and counseling of the institution. Based on the situation analysis of the existence of Pos PAUD in Banyuajuh, the operational license of the institution has not been officially processed. The result of agreement with the manager of partner institution, the management will be facilitated by the assistance and guidance of the proposer team in some stages. Based on the initial coordination results, the implementation team prepares the training material by taking into account the institution’s proposal or as required by the institution. In addition to preparing the materials, the team also conducted briefing to students and teams of facilitators to alleviate the implementation of the training. The materials provided in the training are the preparation of the lesson plan, the management of the institution and the producing of teaching media from the used materials. During the training process, the team has monitored and interviewed the trainees regarding the materials, methods and presenters in this activity. Generally, the teachers stated the training was very excellent and the material provided was indispensable material in early childhood learning and management.

scholarly journals Student-centred, lecturer-centred, and hybrid teaching methods: Impacts on accounting students' technical and soft skills

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-92
Author(s):  
Noor Adwa Sulaiman ◽  
Suhaily Shahimi ◽  
Zarina Zakaria
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Teaching Method ◽  
Soft Skills ◽  
Public University ◽  
Accounting Students ◽  
Minimal Impact ◽  
Hybrid Teaching ◽  
Modelling Procedure ◽  
Research Findings

Research aim: This study examines the impacts of teaching methods: student-centred, lecture-centred, and hybrid (lecture-student) on technical and soft skills of accounting students. Design/ Methodology/ Approach: The impacts are assessed via a structural modelling procedure using Smart PLS based on survey data gathered from accounting students in one public university in Malaysia. Research findings: Results show the lecturer-centred method impacting the students’ technical skills, and the hybrid method impacting students’ technical and soft skills. It is evident from the analysis that there is minimal impact of the student-centred teaching method on technical and soft skills and of the lecturer-centred teaching method on soft skills of the accounting students. The results suggest that the hybrid teaching method is the most effective teaching method in enhancing accounting students’ technical and soft skills. Practitioner/ Policy implication: This research could assist universities and policymakers to formulate relevant teaching strategies and approaches to enhance accounting students’ competency. Limitation/ Implication: The findings in this study is revisiting and revising the current teaching methods is necessary to prepare future accountants for a career in accounting.

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