Building Instructional Methodologies for Teaching Transversal Skills to Future Engineers

This paper is a presentation of an educational project aimed at developing methodologies and curricula for teaching transversal skills and competences to engineering students. The project included a prior survey to identify needs and requirements of companies regarding the transversal skills that should possess the young adults who are about to enter the working world. The analysis of the survey’s responses required tailored research approaches to reveal correlations between the collected information. The research findings eventually stood as a basis to development of a project’s key component, the support methodology for teaching transversal-skills to students. The methodology included description of the learning goals, of means and activities needed to achieve these goals, as well as of methods and tools to evaluate the learning experiences. The pilot experimentation of the training courses provided valuable feedbacks for improving the educational approach.