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Important Soft Skills for Engineers to Succeed in a Working Environment

Despite research conducted on the importance of soft skills development and mentoring in cooperative education, there is no study that provides a method which assesses mentorship in developing soft skills effectively. This study will assess the perceptions of students in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology regarding important soft skills needed to succeed in a working environment. Conducted as part of a tool development study to measure soft skills development in cooperative education settings, this study will use a Q-method selection and Kantrowitz’s Soft Skills Performance Measurement (SSPM) [4] to serve as a guideline for the soft skills activities needed. Participants are asked to group similar items and name the group. The result will be used to develop soft skills performance measurement tools in an engineering cooperative education setting, together with the mentoring function scale by Noe [12]. Keywords—Cooperative Education, Soft Skills, Working Environment, Q-method, Q-Sort, PQMethod

David A. Koonce | Dyah Ariningtyas | Dyah Ariningtyas

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