Soft Skills for the Engineering Students
Soft Skills for the Engineering Students

Summary/Abstract: The educational focus in most technical universities of the world is still on developing the hard/ technical skills. However, their educational programs have started to include the training of the soft skills that appears to be essential for the multi- sided development of the future specialists. Soft skills have also become a priority within the well- known “courses in communication” that are being taught in the Romanian technical universities. The components that have received special attention and hence, comprehensive elaboration, are mainly those skills aimed at the technical/ business/ oral and written communication including presentations, meetings, reports, short documents etc. Some other components have been constantly neglected, viz. those dealing with the student’s personal development as an individual, his/her self-awareness, intuition, creativity etc. Unfortunately, these abilities are more difficult to teach because they pertain to the deep psychological aspects that, by definition, are neither directly tangible nor teachable through the conventional teaching instruments. The paper suggests some possible tasks, consisting in slides and short movies that might trigger in students emotions/ ideas conducive to the awakening of some latent aspects of self-knowledge.

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