The Office for Experiential Learning seeks to assist students in gaining essential skills by facilitating the following:
Connecting students with on-campus and off-campus workshops, meetings, and seminars
Organizing and promoting workshops and seminars with on-campus experts, alumni, industry partners, and professionals
Creating a clearing house of curricular materials directly for students and/or for departments to incorporate into classes
What are Essential Skills?
Essential skills are made up of interpersonal skills and character traits that contribute to a person’s ability to do their job successfully and effectively and to build positive work relationships with others. To be successful and happy in their career, engineers need to develop essential skills in parallel with technical skills. Like technical skills, essential skills can be learned and improved on.
Here are categories of essentials skills that are integral to success in the workplace:
Communication
- Teamwork
- Writing
- Public Speaking
- Presentations & Proposals
- Non-Verbal Communication
- Negotiation
- Giving/Receiving Feedback
Organization
- Time Management
- Prioritizing Projects & Tasks
- Strategic Planning
- Leadership
- Lifelong Learning
- Attention to Detail
Emotional Intelligence
- Adaptability
- Customer Service
- Empathy
- Stress Management
- Ethics
- Psychological Safety
- Creativity
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