Conference Session

Program Delivery Methods and Real World Concepts

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Keith Plemmons

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Management

the United States are considering changes to the curricula to ensure that their graduates are employable. Their ideas include adding courses that emphasize teamwork, including so-called soft skills such as management and leadership, and teaching technical skills that cannot be easily compartmentalized and outsourced.”The drivers motivating market changes within the engineering industry emphasize the need formore formalized project management related education and training, which is bolstered by thefact that for years engineering firms have been looking to hire “industry-ready” graduates7.Competency in Project ManagementTo use an example, the BOK in delineating the minimum competency required for each outcomedirectly