Abstract:
The importance of soft skills in the professional work of an engineer is becoming increasingly important, even more so since the emergence of Covid-19 boosted the digitiz...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
The importance of soft skills in the professional work of an engineer is becoming increasingly important, even more so since the emergence of Covid-19 boosted the digitization of all professional sectors. In order for future engineers to acquire this type of skills, it is necessary for engineering professors to have an optimal level of technical and transversal skills. This article analyzes the assessment made by a group of engineering professors about their degree of development of soft skills and describes gender gaps in these assessments. Based on a self-created survey to evaluate different families of soft skills relevant to engineering education, a sample of 284 Latin American engineering professors reported: 1) high evaluations of their soft skills and 2) the existence of gender gaps in the families of work behavior and social skills in favor of females. This gap is especially wide among participants younger than 45 and older than 65 in the social skills family. In addition, females also rate their work motivation skills higher, except in the 55–64 age range.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Education ( Volume: 66, Issue: 3, June 2023)
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- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Gender Gap ,
- Soft Skills ,
- Professor Of Engineering ,
- Age Range ,
- Social Skills ,
- Development Of Skills ,
- Motor Skills ,
- Work Behavior ,
- Work Motivation ,
- Existence Of Gap ,
- Personality ,
- Higher Education ,
- Years Of Experience ,
- Teaching Experience ,
- Communication Skills ,
- Body Of Knowledge ,
- Field Of Engineering ,
- Exploratory Factor Analysis ,
- Bartlett’s Test ,
- Skill Acquisition ,
- Digital Competence ,
- Skill Categories ,
- Self-assessment Skills ,
- Domains Of Skills ,
- Female Professors
- Author Keywords
Keywords assist with retrieval of results and provide a means to discovering other relevant content. Learn more.
- IEEE Keywords
- Index Terms
- Gender Gap ,
- Soft Skills ,
- Professor Of Engineering ,
- Age Range ,
- Social Skills ,
- Development Of Skills ,
- Motor Skills ,
- Work Behavior ,
- Work Motivation ,
- Existence Of Gap ,
- Personality ,
- Higher Education ,
- Years Of Experience ,
- Teaching Experience ,
- Communication Skills ,
- Body Of Knowledge ,
- Field Of Engineering ,
- Exploratory Factor Analysis ,
- Bartlett’s Test ,
- Skill Acquisition ,
- Digital Competence ,
- Skill Categories ,
- Self-assessment Skills ,
- Domains Of Skills ,
- Female Professors
- Author Keywords