Almasri, A., & Oppong-Anane, A. B., & Hulcher, C., & Hamrick, T. R., & Zhang, X., & Santiago, L. (2024, July), Full Paper: The Professional and Technical skills that engineering students find most important for success in their major  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts. 10.18260/1-2--48605

\bibitem{asee_peer_48605}
  Almasri, A., \& Oppong-Anane, A. B., \& Hulcher, C., \& Hamrick, T. R., \& Zhang, X., \& Santiago, L. (2024, July), \emph{Full Paper: The Professional and Technical skills that engineering students find most important for success in their major}
  Paper presented at 15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts.
  10.18260/1-2--48605

Atheer Almasri, Akua B. Oppong-Anane, Carter Hulcher, Todd R Hamrick, Xinyu Zhang, and Lizzie Santiago.  "Full Paper: The Professional and Technical skills that engineering students find most important for success in their major".  15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2024.  https://peer.asee.org/48605 Internet.  15 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_48605}
  Atheer Almasri, Akua B. Oppong-Anane, Carter Hulcher, Todd R Hamrick, Xinyu Zhang, and Lizzie Santiago.
  "Full Paper: The Professional and Technical skills that engineering students find most important for success in their major".
  \emph{15th Annual First-Year Engineering Experience Conference (FYEE), Boston, Massachusetts, 2024, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2024.
  https://peer.asee.org/48605 Internet.  15 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - The purpose of this study is to identify soft and technical skills perceived as important by engineering and computing sciences students. Soft skills are interpersonal skills that support the relationship between people and complement the technical skills. Soft skills are essential to achieve organizational development and effectiveness. Technical skills are specific expertise and knowledge needed to accomplish certain tasks or to solve certain problems. 

Specifically, this study was guided by the research questions, what are the technical and non-technical skills required by students to succeed in their engineering or computing sciences courses?, and how do those relevant skills differ by engineering major of study? 
This project was conducted in an R1, land-grant, public institution in the Mid-Atlantic Region. One-hundred fifty three (153) engineering students completed a survey that was made available via weekly newsletter, flyers, and email. Participants were undergraduate students enrolled in a variety of engineering majors offered at the institution, including Mechanical and Civil Engineering. The survey contained likert-scale and open-ended questions. The study was acknowledged by the Institutional Review Board.

All students surveyed in this study valued time management and teamwork. The top technical skills valued by students were computer programming and math problem solving skills. Differences based on major of interest were observed in terms of which soft and technical skills considered as important by students. This study will be used to define which soft and technical skills must be emphasized in first year engineering courses to support student success in upper level courses. These essential skills will be discussed in this paper. 

AU  - Atheer Almasri
AU  - Akua B. Oppong-Anane
AU  - Carter Hulcher
AU  - Todd R Hamrick
AU  - Xinyu Zhang
AU  - Lizzie Santiago
CY  - Boston, Massachusetts
DA  - 2024/07/28
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Full Paper: The Professional and Technical skills that engineering students find most important for success in their major
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