Conference Session

IFEES: The Globalization of Engineering Education

Collection

2008 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lueny Morell, Hewlett-Packard; Claudio Borri, Universita' di Firenze; Sarah Rajala, Mississippi State University; Bruno Laporte, World Bank; Maria M. Larrondo Petrie; Seeram Ramakrishna, National University of Singapore; Xavier Fouger, Dassault Systemes; Jose Carlos Quadrado; Adriana Garboan, Politechnica University of Bucharest; Duncan Fraser, University of Cape Town; Hans Hoyer, American Society for Engineering Education

Tagged Divisions

ASEE Global Programs

importantly, performance in the marketplace is driven by the quality, skills, and flexibilityof labor and management. In addition to traditional “hard” skills and ICT competencies, theknowledge based economies require a new set of “soft” skills, such as spirit of enquiry,adaptability, problem solving, communications skills, self learning, and knowledge discovery,cultural sensitivity, social empathy, and motivation for work. Countries need to developteaching and learning environments that nurture inquiry, adaptability, problem-solving, andcommunication skills. But mastery of these skills is quite low in many countries.The talent shortage is expected to get far more severe in the coming decade. About 80 percent ofthe fastest-growing jobs of the future