Collection

2021 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

Authors

Kam Yuen Cheng; Rebecca Yang

teaches mainly the hard skills - constructionknowledge and technologies, which accounts for only one critical success factor – practicality.Most of skills those women graduated from the institutes and won the jobs in construction industryare in fact acquired from other periods or places in their lives before they studied their constructionqualification. This can explain why many top students still cannot find a construction job aftergraduation nor move up the career letter, and those who can seems to be “destined “to be able topursue their construction career even before their construction studies.This paper has highlighted a critical implication for transformation in tertiary education, unless theinstitutes can take a more active role to embed