Engineering soft skills vs. Engineering entrepreneurial skills

• Autores: Ruholla Jafari Marandi, Brian K. Smith, Reuben F. Burch V, Sara C. Vick
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 35, no. 4, 2019, págs. 988-998
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Soft skills, like communication and teamwork, are vitally important for an engineer’s success in the workplace. Despite this, thereis a perceived shortage of soft skills among engineers, particularly engineers of the youngest generational cohorts, the Millennials.This paper aims to evaluate the overlap between soft skills and the more concrete and the more enthusing category, entrepreneurialskills. An exploration of the literature reveals commonalities between soft and entrepreneurial skills and highlights the effects of theterminology differences on different generational cohorts. The paper concludes with five literature-supported assumptions about thecurrent state of soft skills in engineering and how improvements can be made by rebranding soft skills as entrepreneurial skills.