Soft Skills in Teaching and Learning

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  • Priyavrat Thareja Head, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, 160012 India

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CEI model, Microsoft class room, peer 2 peer interaction, alignment to learning and culture

Resumé

One of the initiators of poor development of soft skills in the engineering student is a class room, where about 10% of students attribute good teaching skills as indifferent stance of teachers. The result: our class rooms have progressed, spearheading with merely the hard component of engineering education, while neglecting the Soft ones. The absence of soft part of education costs the budding leaders dearly, and they loose ground favouring higher positions to their counterparts- the management professionals. Since the engineers have a vital role to play in societal development, imparting them a holistic, value based, education will go a long way in building organisational (country’s) strengths @ low cost and high productivity. The present paper attempts to bring out the paradox in a class room for its logistical importance in developing soft skills and lists the various competencies considered worthwhile for their development. The engineer’s functions have been accentuated for requirements of soft skills, and based upon the requisites a three legged model CEI (Communication, Exploration and Integration) is being proposed to facilitate holistic understanding of the skills and the development thereof.

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  • Priyavrat Thareja, Head, Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, 160012 India
    Heads Materials and Metallurgical Engineering department,PEC University of Technology. Member Editorial board, Indian Foundry Journal. Was meber Ed board, Powder Metallurgy, Quality International Journal from 1987 to 1993.Has innovated in Technical poetry, and authored elucidating Materials and Metallurgical Engineering processes and concepts. a certified, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. An IRCA approved Lead Tutor and certified Auditor and in both QMS and EMS, he has promoted Value Auditing, and helped several industries in improving competence (through a tool ‘COMpro’. He was a part of special group of TC 176- which developed ANSI/ASQ/ISO 9001:20xx Education Management Standard presently under publication at Geneva. He is a TS 16949 Tier II supplier provisional auditor etc. He heads Materials and Metallurgical Engineering at PEC University of Technology, and also a Principal Programme Coordinator of the Total Quality Engineering and Management cell.

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2013-04-23

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Årg. 3 Nr. 1 (2013)

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