The engineering environment of the 21st century requires skills and capabilities not generally incorporated in the traditional engineering curriculum. This paper discusses the combination of technical and non-technical skills needed by engineers along with presenting an interactive collaboration between two universities to develop some of these additional skills and capabilities. The collaborat...

Cybersecurity advocates attempt to counter the tsunami of cyber attacks by promoting security best practices and encouraging security technology adoption. However, little is known about the skills necessary for successful advocacy. Our study explores the motivations, characteristics, and practices of cybersecurity advocates. Preliminary analysis of 19 interviews reveals that effective advocates...

Case oriented tutoring gives students the possibility to practice their acquired theoretical knowledge in the context of concrete cases. Accordingly, tutoring systems for individualized learning have to take the skills of students at applying their knowledge to problem solving into account. This paper describes a case-based methodology for planning tutoring processes depending on the skills of ...

A recovery orientation during brief psychiatric hospitalization focuses on improving adjustment and functioning and reducing future psychiatric crises and hospitalizations. Crisis rehabilitative skills training imparts knowledge, understanding, and abilities during a critical period of restabilization. After describing a rehabilitation oriented skills training program that occurs during brief i...

This paper describes an experimental study investigating pilots' manual flying skills. In today's line oriented flight training, basic flying skills are neglected frequently. So, the study examines the manual flying skills of commercial airline pilots under the influence of several performance shaping factors like training, practice or fatigue in a landing scenario. The landing phase shows a di...

Recent work in human resource development emphasises the fact that individual skills are strongly oriented towards the future. They enable a person to tackle upcoming challenges in a self-organised manner. So both the current requirements and the skills necessary in the future have to be seen as a strategic competitive advantage for the company. This change in perspective makes it possible to u...

Basic software engineering education is an important part of IS education. This paper shows and critically discusses how experiences gained from years of software engineering training in the industry can be transferred to mass university education. The approach relies on cyclic, iterative, and problem based learning and puts equal stress on technical skills (such as object-oriented and database...

To present a framework for compassionate teaching, the views of teachers and students on the topic were sought. These informants were chosen from among their corresponding populations in Tehran, using the snowball and mixed methods. Semi-structured interviews were used to gather the needed data. To analyze the data open coding and descriptive categorization were utilized. Results show that from...

This paper presents a two level factor model describing gender differences in perceptions of the relative contribution and importance of education and skills required of new information systems (IS) professionals. Model development took account of technical skills found in most IS programs, other business oriented academic studies, and soft skills sought by employers in new graduates. The model...