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Describing ‘generic’ graduate engineer skills

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Shawcross, JK 
Ridgman, Tom W 

Abstract

Being able to describe skills effectively is essential for teaching and enabling students to learn skills. A previous study [1], investigating the development of real industrial problem solving skills in a taught Masters course, found inadequate skill descriptions were a significant problem. On further investigation, it was determined that skills could only described at a high level, unless the task and associated context was known. Such high-level descriptions e.g. project management, do not communicate the skills graduates need for work.

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Proceedings of the 46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018

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46th SEFI Annual Conference 2018

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EPSRC (972390)