Employability Skills for Civil Engineering

2021 ◽  
pp. 115-135
Author(s):  
Thokozani Isaac Mtshali ◽  
Sylvia Manto Ramaligela
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Personal Traits ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Method Approach

One of the striking characters of civil engineering is its emphasis to the development of hands-on practical skills, innovation, and creativity. Civil engineering's unique epistemological feature is heavily geared towards equipping individuals with relevant skills for occupational safety.. The purpose of this study was to identify employability skills that civil engineering teachers use to prepare students for 4IR. This study used a mixed method approach, where questionnaire and interviews were used to collect data. This study was guided by EASTA's “employability skills for TVET graduates.” This study found that most civil engineering teachers have a challenge in equipping their students with various employability skills. This is as a result of a PAT that only focuses on generic skills than core skills and personal traits. Therefore, this study recommends that the approach for civil engineering course to Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) should be viewed through an employability skills lens and calling for teachers to challenge their comfort zone in preparing their students with skills that are pertinent to the 4IR needs.

The Alignment of Civil Engineering Tools and Equipment Between TVET Colleges and Industries

2021 ◽  
pp. 29-48
Author(s):  
Thokozani Isaac Mtshali ◽  
Sylvia Manto Ramaligela
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Engineering Industries ◽  
And Training

This study was conducted in response to the call made by the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) in South Africa to strengthen the awareness levels of TVET colleges' readiness to embrace the 4IR era. The purpose of this study was to focus on equipment alignment between TVET colleges and industries. This study used Eulau and Karps' theory of responsiveness as a guide to explore the purpose. Also, this study purposefully sampled five TVET colleges in Limpopo province and two civil engineering industries linked to these institutions. This study used a descriptive qualitative research design. Document analysis and non-participant observations were used as data collection instruments. The study found that the working tools and equipment used by these TVET colleges were not fancy or showing prospects of Fourth Industrial Revolution. This was the same thing with the linked industries. Hence, all tools used were simply outdated when it comes to 4IR integration. And so, the study recommends that TVET colleges should institute new partnerships with 4IR responsive industries than being linked to industries that are using conventional tools and equipment.

scholarly journals Enhancing the Employability of Students Undertaking English Language and Linguistics Programs in Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huy Cuong Pham
Keyword(s):  
English Language ◽  
Academic Programs ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Curricular Integration ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Hands On ◽  
English Major ◽  
And Linguistics ◽  
University Industry

This study addresses the development of employability skills among English-major graduates to facilitate their transition from university to the workplace. Contemporary research has pinpointed that universities fail to sufficiently prepare their students in terms of professional knowledge and work-related skills. There is also a mismatch between the focus of academic programs and the demands and requirements from potential employers regarding graduates’ performance. Drawing on the document analysis and simple descriptive statistics of the undergraduate English language/linguistics program descriptions of six distinct universities located across Vietnam, this study aims to explore the extent to which English-major students are empowered with employability skills and provide recommendations for promoting these skills. Findings show that there is a substantial shift in reconsidering the imbalance between theoretical and practical components in the program design. The programs also exhibit certain degrees of preparation for students’ employability through the curricular integration of generic skills such as critical thinking, public speaking, presentation skills, communication skills and research skills. This study reiterates the significance of promoting work-related skills and strengthening university-industry partnerships in designing academic programs and providing English-major students with hands-on experience.

scholarly journals Development Of A Realistic Smart Information Guide Solution To Support Multi-Devices

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 326-332
Author(s):  
Mi-Jung Kim, Hyu-Chan Kim
Keyword(s):  
Image Recognition ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Information Services ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Motion Recognition ◽  
Utilization Of Services ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Future

: In this study, a realistic smart information guide solution to support multi-devices was developed. The upload of diverse realistic contents, as well as the support of smart devices with specific characteristics and the management of integrated contents, was made possible. Additionally, it was important to guarantee the quality of the contents (AR, VR) alongside the realistic smart information guide solution. Recently, there have been many positive responses from the expansion on and utilization of services of the fourth Industrial Revolution such as AR technologies, which include image recognition-based information services, and VR technologies, which include hands-on information services using motion recognition sensors. In the future, the development and planning of AR and VR content for visitors and tourists for locations such as museums and exhibition halls will be actively required.

scholarly journals The emergence of an education policy dispositif in South Africa: An analysis of educational discourses associated with the fourth industrial revolution

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aslam Fataar
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Research Association ◽  
The South ◽  
African Education ◽  
Generic Skills ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
South African Education ◽  
The Impact

The notion of the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) has recently entered the public and policy domain in South Africa. It has rapidly found resonance in policy discourse and the popular media. It has also entered the language of educational policy and institutions. The impact of 4IR on educational thinking and practice has hitherto not featured in academic discussion on education in South Africa except for a keynote plenary session at the annual conference of the South African Education Research Association (SAERA) in Durban (October 2019). The South African Education Deans Forum recently published a call for the submission of chapters for a book on teacher education, 4IR, and decolonisation. In this article, I develop an address that I delivered at the SAERA 2019 conference as part of the plenary panel. The article consists of four sections. The first offers a consideration of the entry of 4IR discourse into the educational imaginary. I suggest in this section that 4IR discourse has installed a socio-technical imaginary in South Africa's unequal educational dispensation. The second section concentrates on the construction of educational governance. Based on research on 4IR-related policy making, I discuss the policy directions taken by the Department of Higher Education and Training and the Department of Basic Education in giving effect to ways of engaging with 4IR in each of their domains. The third section features a discussion of the impact of technological disruption on society, the economy and education. The final section presents a discussion of the emerging educational architectures in the 4IR and a critical consideration of the curriculum and pedagogical dimensions of 4IR, which, I argue, are informed by an orientation that prioritises the acquisition of generic skills. Sidelining knowledge and concepts as central to the structuring of the curriculum, a generic skills approach succumbs to what might be called a knowledge blindness that holds pernicious consequences for epistemic access in South Africa.

Digital Approaches to Embedding Employability

2018 ◽  
pp. 234-265
Author(s):  
Jessica J. Vanderlelie ◽  
Andrew G. Pearson ◽  
Brooke E. Harris-Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Employability Skills ◽  
Workplace Change ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Selection Of

The fourth industrial revolution has seen significant national and international workplace change, with greater emphasis on innovation and digital adaptation. In response, universities across the sector are recognizing the importance of supporting the education of work-ready graduates and the continuing professional development of the existing professional workforce. Digital technologies have the potential to facilitate the development of employability skills such as digital literacy and reflection and foster continuing links to the profession and learning community. This chapter discusses the importance of embedding authentic, digitally enabled employability curriculum across the student and professional lifecycle, and showcases practice in the context of health professional education. A matrix for the selection of technologies that support the development of employability skills is also proposed and discussed.

Reskilling and Upskilling to Develop Global Relevance in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Kehinde Oladapo Oladele ◽  
Eniola Olutunde Lisoyi ◽  
Isaac Idowu Abe
Keyword(s):  
Skill Acquisition ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Learning Methods ◽  
Global Village ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution ◽  
Core Skills ◽  
Teaching And Learning Environment ◽  
Conventional Teaching ◽  
The World

The chapter identifies factors that influence readiness, acceptance and skill acquisition that are relevant in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) and to expose the reader to the advantages the 4IR offers. To harness and embrace changes cum strategies that can be adopted to equip individuals across generations with the core skills needed in the workplace. A systematic literature review approach will be adopted to expand on the variables of the activated classroom model, which can create a teaching and learning environment that empower learners with needed creativity and an innovative mindset to better position them for the fourth industrial revolution. This chapter will highlight issues in conventional teaching and learning methods, how they limit creativity in learners and how the activated classroom model solves these issues. It is imperative to focus on teaching and learning methods, as the world is a constantly changing global village and will require individuals to learn, unlearn and relearn concepts to acquire new skills to stay relevant.

HEALTH AND SAFETY MANAGEMENT IN THE ASPECT OF IMPLEMENTED INDUSTRY 4.0 SOLUTIONS

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-105
Author(s):  
Teresa Lis ◽  
Tomasz Małysa
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Occupational Safety ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Work Process ◽  
Fourth Industrial Revolution

The issue of ensuring safety, hygienic and ergonomic working conditions is one of the basic obligations of work process organizers. Their actions aimed at improving safety should be based on changes constituting scientific and technical progress. Contemporary enterprises are entering the era of the fourth industrial revolution, however, organizations that are representatives of the Industry 3.0 concept should still be remembered. The purpose of the study is to present the possibilities of adapting solutions implemented in Industry 4.0 in the aspect of changes taking place in occupational health and safety management. The authors of the study paid special attention to the issues of occupational safety, ergonomics of working conditions, normalization in the aspect of changes introduced by the fourth industrial revolution.

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