Course Outline

Our advanced communications training program for engineers consists of the following categories:

1. Background on understanding evolving skills ‘gaps’ in engineering
2. Making people communicate effectively across the world
3. Self-directed Technology-based learning for engineers.
4. Facilitating effective inter-personal communications
5. Facilitating teamwork on a single virtual platform or workspace
6. Integrating workflow processes
7. Coordinating the latest engineering changes and updates

Workshop 1.1: Understanding Evolving knowledge and skills "Gaps" in Engineering
Workshop Objectives

Estimated Duration: 1 hour

General Goal(s): Learners will understand:
How the engineering profession is evolving in the 21st Century
What implications this holds for Professional Development in the coming years
Why understanding skills ‘Gaps’ in a rapidly changing workplace is important

Workshop 1.1: Understanding Evolving knowledge and skills "Gaps" in Engineering
BACKGROUND WORKSHOPS

 

The Engineering Profession in the 21st Century

At present there is one certainty about engineering – that in the coming years engineering will continually evolve and change because everything else will also change. The rapid growth of technology will result in rapid product obsolescence. This means that the need for engineers to perform narrowly defined the tasks that occupied most of them over much of the last hundred years will rapidly decrease. Driven by growth of nontraditional job markets for engineers, those who choose not to adapt and change to shifting markets and new technologies will not survive.

Workshop 1.1: Understanding Evolving knowledge and skills "Gaps" in Engineering
Videos

 

• Background Workshop- Part I
• Background Workshop- Part II
• Background Workshop- Part III