Changing Paradigms of Technical Skills for Data Engineers

Would Engineers Need Non-technical Skills or Non-technical Competences or Both?

The Engineers’ Non-technical Competences

This study empirically tests a heuristic model of non-technical engineering competences. The results of factor analysis and regression analysis support the model proposing six non-technical competence domains consisting of 19 competences engineers use in their everyday work. Furthermore, the competence domains have a shared component with their neighboring competences. Engineers use more freque...

Changing challenges and paradigms.

Change comes as a surprise because things do not happen in a straight line. Concepts often evolve haphazardly, reacting to specific events. Assumptions are made but are not challenged, sometimes for political or social expedience. It has long been recognized that the dose makes the poison. Concepts of the relationship evolved from both events and the availability of exploratory tools. There are...

Changing times and Paradigms

Colleagues at a large public university I recently visited are doing some excellent research on first-year engineering students—what attracted them to engineering, how they view engineering as a curriculum and career, how they feel about their first-year courses (it isn’t pretty!), their confidence levels before and after those courses, and why the ones who drop out do so. I sat in on one of th...

Cloud Programming Paradigms for Technical Computing Applications

In the past four years cloud computing has emerged as an alternative platform for high performance computing. Unfortunately, there is still confusion about the cloud model and its advantages and disadvantages over tradition supercomputing based problem solving methods. In this note we characterize the ways in which cloud computing can be used productively in scientific and technical application...