Integration of Skills Development Across the Engineering Curriculum

Engineering curricula should have the ultimate goal of producing the engineer society needs, a professional with not only a competent knowledge base, but with the skills that will enable him/her take charge in the highly competitive world of today. Therefore, engineering curricula should balance knowledge transmission with skills’ development. This can be effectively achieved if engineering educators strategically plan the design of engineering programs accordingly. This paper suggests one way by which engineering educators can integrate the development of basic skills into the engineering curriculum.