Development of Competencies and Their Inter-Relationships in an Engineering Design Course

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Madhumitha Ramachandran ◽  
Zahed Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Concept Generation ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
The Core ◽  
Structured Problems ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Principles Of Design ◽  
Over Time

Design courses in engineering play an important role to enhance development of competencies needed by students to excel in the 21st century workplace. Problems solved by undergraduate students in engineering programs are mostly well-structured, while real world engineering problems are most likely to be ill-structured and complex. These ill-structured problems have vaguely defined goals and constraints, which demand graduates to apply the learnt knowledge beyond the understanding of fundamental concepts. To prepare and educate the future workforce for engineering workplace, we must provide them with opportunities to learn how to internalize the principles of design and to develop competencies to tackle ill-structured problems through an authentic, immersive experience that involves designing, building and testing an artifact. In this paper, we use students’ self-reported level of competencies to see how students develop competencies and how the inter-relationships among these competencies change overtime in a senior-level design course. We performed this study in Principles of Design course, during fall semester of 2014, where students addressed an ill-structured design problem. Five questionnaires were developed and administered for self-reported assessment of competencies by students. The development of competencies was tracked over time across all five surveys, followed by t-tests to identify the significant patterns of change in the developed competency level. Students showed lack of confidence in competencies related to understanding problem, requirements, concept generation and selection. Communication did not vary significantly throughout the semester. The relationships among the competencies were examined using the correlational analysis at each point and over time to identify the core competencies. Competencies related to communication, understanding problem and understanding requirements are found to be the core competencies as the development of other competencies are dependent on the level of these competencies. Recommendations have been made to modify the course in the areas of core competencies, where students lack confidence. We believe continuous improvement of student professional competencies through course modifications will help students to develop more professional competencies in a semester long design course.

PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCIES OF ARCHITECTURE GRADUATES: PERCEPTIONS FROM GRADUATES, ACADEMICS AND EMPLOYERS IN THE NIGERIAN CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Joy Joshua Maina
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Construction Industry ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Architecture Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Study Results

The clamour for better quality graduates by architects in the Nigerian Construction Industry (NCI) necessitates a look into the core competencies and the adequacy of architecture education in preparing architecture graduates for professional practice. 116 self-report likertscale questionnaires from architecture graduates (2009-2015), academics and employers were analysed to establish core competencies developed by the graduates while in school. Descriptive statistics, t-tests as well as Mann-Whitney tests for differences in ratings were employed for the study. Results reveal the perceived adequacy of architecture education for the future career of graduates from the academic perspective. Graduates were most proficient at design related competencies while AutoCAD was still considered the most important CAD competency for architecture graduates in the NCI. The study recommends more frequent evaluations of competencies for employability in collaboration with industry as well as embracing BIM related software in line with global best practices. Keywords: Academics, Architecture, Employers, Graduates, Professional competencies, NCI

The practice of licensure, the licensure of practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 101 (6) ◽  
pp. 19-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey Phelps ◽  
Gary Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Core Competencies ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Professional Knowledge ◽  
Teacher Licensure ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
The Core ◽  
Assessment Tasks ◽  
Licensure Testing ◽  
Licensure Tests

Licensure tests play a critical role in any profession. Well-designed tests both delineate the core competencies that are required to enter a profession and provide evidence that candidates can safely practice in the profession. They also identify the professional knowledge and skill that differentiates any educated individual from the well-prepared professional. Geoffrey Phelps and Gary Sykes use a series of assessment tasks to illustrate how teacher licensure testing can be designed to focus more directly on assessing aspiring educators’ performance of the professional competencies that make up the day-to-day and moment-to-moment work of teaching.

Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salman Ahmed ◽  
Minting Xiao ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Personal Competencies ◽  
Core Characteristics

In this session we describe in four parts the pedagogy and out-comes of a course Designing for Open Innovation designed to empower 21st century engineering students to develop competencies associated with innovating in an inter-connected technologically flat world: 1. Competencies for Innovating in the 21st Century, [1]. 2. Developing Competencies In The 21st Century Engineer, [2]. 3. Identifying Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering, [3]. 4. Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering - this paper. In the first paper we describe the core characteristics of the engineering in an interconnected world and identify the key competencies and meta-competencies that 21st century engineers will need to innovate and negotiate solutions to issues associated with the realization of systems. In the second paper, we describe our approach to fostering learning and the development of competencies by an individual in a group setting. We focus on empowering the students to learn how to learn as individuals in a geographically distanced, collaborative group setting. We assert that two of the core competencies required for success in the dynamically changing workplace are the competencies to first identify and then to manage dilemmas. In the third paper, we illustrate how students have gone about identifying dilemmas and in the fourth paper how they have attempted to manage dilemmas. In papers three and four students have briefly described the challenges that they faced and their takeaways in the form of team learning and individual learning. In this the last of four papers in this session, we focus on how students learned to manage dilemmas associated with the realization of complex, sustainable, socio-techno-eco systems, namely, energy policy design. The example involves the identification of a bridging fuel that balances environmental, economic and socio-cultural concerns. The principal outcome is clearly not the result attained but a student’s ability to learn how to learn as illustrated through the development of personal competencies in a collaborative learning framework and environment.

scholarly journals Build It, Buy It, or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Alvin J. Silk ◽  
Marta M. Stiglin
Keyword(s):  
Core Competencies ◽  
Binary Choice ◽  
Operating Model ◽  
Agency Model ◽  
Advertising Industry ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
The Core ◽  
Current State ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Hybrid Policies

<p>This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today’s advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build <em>and</em> buy<em> </em>to procure the customized bundle required to develop, produce, and implement relevant, resonant promotional campaigns. Increasing numbers of advertisers are discovering that the demand for advertising and marketing services is best served through the coordination and integration of resources from both inside and outside the company, rather than assuming that these options are mutually exclusive.  A review of advertising industry history reveals why internal agencies have long operated in the shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core competencies underlying the contemporary in-house agency model are analyzed and the competitive position that in-house agencies presently occupy in relation to external providers is assessed. Two case examples of successful internal/external agency collaboration are presented. Finally, recommendations are offered for advertisers seeking to bring their internal and external agency resources together and arrive at a more-collaborative operating model for advertising services.</p>

Identifying Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christon Bertus ◽  
Amirhossein Khosrojerdi ◽  
Jitesh H. Panchal ◽  
Janet K. Allen ◽  
Farrokh Mistree
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Policy Design ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Collaborative Group ◽  
Group Setting ◽  
Acceptable Solution ◽  
The Core ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Personal Competencies

The pedagogy and outcomes of a course Designing for Open Innovation designed to empower 21st century engineering students to develop competencies associated with innovating in an inter-connected technologically flat world are described in four parts: 1. Competencies for Innovating in the 21st Century, [1]. 2. Developing Competencies in the 21st Century Engineer, [2]. 3. Identifying Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering - this paper. 4. Managing Dilemmas Embodied in 21st Century Engineering, [3]. In the first paper we describe the core characteristics of the engineering in an interconnected world and identify the key competencies and meta-competencies that 21st century engineers will need to innovate and negotiate solutions to issues associated with the realization of systems. In the second paper, we describe our approach to fostering learning and the development of competencies by an individual in a group setting. We focus on empowering the students to learn how to learn as individuals in a geographically distanced, collaborative group setting. We assert that two of the core competencies required for success in the dynamically changing workplace are the competencies to first identify and then to manage dilemmas. In this paper, we illustrate how students have gone about identifying dilemmas and in the fourth paper how they have attempted to manage dilemmas. In papers three and four students briefly describe the challenges that they faced and their takeaways in the form of team learning and individual learning. We suggest that dilemmas associated with innovation cannot be solved they can only be managed. We assert that 20th century problem solving paradigms are ineffective for addressing 21st century dilemmas in which there are multiple and diverse stakeholders who are called on to find an acceptable solution to the competing interests such as profit, environment and socio-cultural. In this paper, we focus on how the students learned to identify dilemmas associated with the realization of complex, sustainable, socio-techno-eco systems, namely, energy policy design. The principal outcome is clearly not the result attained but a student’s ability to learn how to learn as illustrated through the development of personal competencies of two students (Bertus and Khosrojerdi) in a collaborative learning framework and environment.

scholarly journals A holistic exploration of leadership development

2007 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Von Krosigk
Keyword(s):  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Character Development ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
The Core ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach ◽  
Over Time

Aligning body, mind and spirit, acquiring emotional intelligence, an unshakable belief in their own intuition and producing outcomes in the context of organisational abilities encompass the attributes of leaders that emerged from this holistic exploration of leadership development. Emotionally aware leaders demonstrated their authenticity and cared for peaceful process. In this exploration such leaders started at the bottom within their enterprise working their way up over time. Agreeableness and flexibility were the core competencies they developed amongst others. A complex mix of behaviour, thoughts and emotions were the specific leadership attributes that were found to differ for different organisations. These specific leadership attributes needed to fit with the character and dynamics of the organisation. Since leadership development was found to be a holistic character development over time leadership courses are recommended for all scholars and students, with a strong emphasis on self-development. A grounded theory approach to this holistic exploration of leadership development serves the community well, by promoting the emergence of grounded theories which are free from practical impossibilities.

scholarly journals Desarrollo de competencias en educadores físicos en formación a través de la inclusión de programas de educación aventura en México (Development of competencies in physical education teachers in training through the inclusion of adventure education progr

Retos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 126-135
Author(s):  
Ramón Alfonso González-Rivas ◽  
María Del Carmen Zueck Enríquez ◽  
Antonio Baena-Extremera ◽  
Rigoberto Marín Uribe ◽  
Ma. Concepción Soto Valenzuela ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Adventure Education ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Professional Competencies ◽  
Physical Education Teachers ◽  
Outdoor Activities ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Competencias Profesionales

  El objetivo de este estudio fue identificar las competencias profesionales desarrolladas por profesores de educación física en formación, durante la aplicación de actividades en el medio natural. Método, un estudio de caso con nueve estudiantes de licenciatura en educación física, solo dos de ellos con experiencias previas en actividades en el medio natural. Se empleó una secuencia didáctica basada en la metodología de Educación de Aventura. La recolección de datos se llevó a cabo por medio de videograbación, el análisis se realizó utilizando elementos de la teoría fundamentada a través del software Atlas Ti. Los resultados revelaron cuatro competencias profesionales favorecidas durante la aplicación de la secuencia didáctica: 1) trabajo en equipo y liderazgo, 2) dominio conceptual de Educación Aventura, 3) dominio técnico de actividades lúdicas en el medio natural, y 4) pedagogía y didáctica de la Educación Física en actividades al aire libre; adicionalmente se encontró que durante las actividades los hombres fueron más participativos que las mujeres. Se logró identificar competencias que no estaban consideradas en la planeación académica docente, llevando a concluir que los programas de Educación Aventura pueden fortalecer la formación de los estudiantes de educación física. Abstract: The purpose of this study was to identify the professional competencies developed by physical education teachers in training, during the application of outdoor activities. Method, a case study, participated were nine undergraduate students in physical education, two of them had previous experiences in outdoor activities. A didactic sequence based on the Adventure Education methodology was used. Data was collected by video recording, and the analysis of the data obtained was processed by the elements of grounded theory through the Atlas Ti software. The results showed four professional competencies favored during the application of the didactic sequence: 1) teamwork and leadership, 2) conceptual domain of Adventure Education, 3) technical domain of recreational outdoor activities, and 4) pedagogy and didactics of the physical education in outdoor activities; additionally, it was found that males participated more than females during the activities. It was also possible to identify competencies that were not considered in the academic planning of teachers, leading to the conclusion that Adventure Education programs can strengthen the training of physical education students.

An Input–Process–Output Model of Pilot Core Competencies

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heikki Mansikka ◽  
Don Harris ◽  
Kai Virtanen
Keyword(s):  
Path Analysis ◽  
Team Performance ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Core Competency ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Input Process ◽  
The Core ◽  
Performance Framework ◽  
Process Output

Abstract. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between the flight-related core competencies for professional airline pilots and to structuralize them as components in a team performance framework. To achieve this, the core competency scores from a total of 2,560 OPC (Operator Proficiency Check) missions were analyzed. A principal component analysis (PCA) of pilots’ performance scores across the different competencies was conducted. Four principal components were extracted and a path analysis model was constructed on the basis of these factors. The path analysis utilizing the core competencies extracted adopted an input–process–output’ (IPO) model of team performance related directly to the activities on the flight deck. The results of the PCA and the path analysis strongly supported the proposed IPO model.

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