This article is based on the findings of a survey of employers having Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) engineering and ICT students undergoing industrial training at their organisations. The study seeks to explore the employers’ perceptions of the employability skills that technical students need to possess, as well as assessing the employers’ level of satisfaction with the students’ ...

The ASCE’s body of knowledge for the 21st century and vision for civil engineering in 2025 outline skills and capabilities necessary for civil engineers to create a sustainable world. An undergraduate course at Georgia Institute of Technology introduces undergraduates to a systems-sustainability approach to civil and environmental engineering, applying systems methods to analyze decisions over ...

Traditionally, healthcare professionals have been expected to acquire technical skills while minimal attention has been paid to the non-technical skills (NTS) they require to work in complex health environments, such as resuscitation rooms. This article explains the importance of NTS in improving patient outcomes and why a model of dynamic nurse leadership is useful in resuscitative care.

The capstone design experience is an important component of our undergraduate engineering program. Until recently the capstone project was only the second major design experience for undergraduates, the first occurring in the freshman year. Because of this gap in project experience, seniors often had difficulty with non-technical skills (teamwork, effective communication, project management, et...

Transformation of the monopolistic electric industry into a competitive and free market system is underscored by the wide price variation of electricity. To address price variation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has proposed the development of fair competition in the wholesale power market as a first step toward full deregulation of the industry. This paper will discuss the steps tha...

EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG PARENTS’ ORAL AND WRITTEN LANGUAGE SKILLS, THE HOME LITERACY ENVIRONMENT, AND THEIR PRESCHOOL CHILDREN’S EMERGENT LITERACY SKILLS by Nicole A. Taylor Studies have examined the impact of parents’ educational level on their child’s emergent literacy skills and have found positive associations (Korat, 2009). However, a review of the literature indicates that previ...

This paper presents a capstone course given to CIS seniors involving projects which utilize programming, database design, requirements analysis, use cases, object modeling, project management, and written and oral communication skills in an active learning environment. The learning objectives for this course correspond with most of the learning units described for the upper level courses in the...

The IS program is housed in the College of Business allowing IS graduates to obtain a broad background in business concepts. This allows them to develop expertise in bridging the gap between business professionals and computer technologists. IS graduates develop important business knowledge and skills such as communication, teamwork and problem solving as well as technical knowledge and skills ...

Employers have been critical of the opportunities students have to integrate technical business and soft skills in IS programs. The IS capstone course is one mechanism through which to address this need. Literature indicates IS capstone courses differ in the weight they place on technology, business, and soft skills integrated as a part of the course. This paper argues it is important to addres...