E-STEM Preparing and developing skills for better employability for STEM and engineering graduates
TitleE-STEM Preparing and developing skills for better employability for STEM and engineering graduates
Acronym
E-STEM
Complete Call for Papers
Overview
Increased demands from industry on specialists in engineering and in general on STEM jobs in Europe and all over the world need a more diverse skills profile comprising both hard skills, core transversal competences like digital skills and soft skills. Preparing engineering and STEM candidates with non-technical skills, including skills such as critical thinking, idea generation and interdisciplinary ways of working, seems particularly important and necessary task.
Regardless of the domain of soft skills in any workplace. Education engineering is no stranger to this fact.
However, despite the growing interest in incorporating soft skills in engineering studies curricula, there is no common agreement in many aspects. For example, it is not clear which soft skills should be selected, how they should be taught, or how they should be assessed.
On the other hand, there are also differences depending on the university institution involved or the geographic area. At present, the recent push towards digital transformation that society now requires has increased the number of frameworks and lists of soft skills.
Another characteristic of these skills is that they need to be acquired in an active way, which has become a challenge that has given rise to multiple pedagogical approaches.
Increased demands from industry on specialists in engineering and in general on STEM jobs in Europe and all over the world need a more diverse skills profile comprising both hard skills, core transversal competences like digital skills and soft skills. Preparing engineering and STEM candidates with non-technical skills, including skills such as critical thinking, idea generation and interdisciplinary ways of working, seems particularly important and necessary task.
Topics
This special session focuses on different training approaches and traditions, different work cultures and international perspectives to soft skills and transversal skills teaching. We invite submissions for papers, panels and discussions, which address the following themes:
- STEM employability skills like defined in your country
- Soft skills and transversal skills trained at different level of education
- Undergraduates or graduates training in soft and transversals competencies
- Exploring needs for non-technical skills for better employment
- Industry’s demands for soft and transversal skills
- Investigating employment opportunities for STEM candidates with no previous industry employment
- Engaging NEETs (Neither in Employment nor in Education or Training) for STEM education
- Co-chair, Edmundo Tovar, UPM, Spain, Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
- Co-Chair, Anna Freissel, EAEEIE, Denmark, Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
- Laura Grinde, UTCLUJ, Romania
- Rolf Aslaksrud Kristiansen, EUROMASC, Norway
- Laura Grindei, UTCLUJ, Romania,
- Dante Augusto Couto Barone, UFRGS, Brazil
- Dorian Cojocaru, UCV, Romania
- Patricia Olga Caratozzolo Martelliti, TEC, Mexico
- David Navarro Durán, TEC, Mexico
- Marko Hölbl, UM, Slovenia
- Jaromír Hrad, CVUT, Czech
- Bernardo Tabuenca, UPM, Spain
- Juan José Morillas, UPM, Spain
- Deadline for complete paper submissions: June 30, 2021 using
https://www.conftool.org/weefgedc2021/ - Notification of paper acceptance: September 10, 2021
- Submissions final camera-ready papers: September 20, 2021
- Online authors and early registration deadline September 20, 2021
- Conference: November 15-18, 2021
