Professionalism for Engineers, Part 5

Aim

After completing the course, all six modules, a student shall be able to:

• Plan, prioritize, perform within the stipulated time, follow upp, and reflect on their own work
• Reflect on their own skills and approaches
• Reflect on their education and their own learning
• Structure and present information both orally and written
• Communicate with others in roles as a colleague, mentee, coach, and mentor
• Reflect on what leads to effective team work and personal effort in interaction with other
• Reflect on the engineer's professional role
• Analyse ethical issues in software development and in organisations

Content

The course covers four areas: personal effectiveness, personal development, social skills and the engineer's professional role. These areas will be addressed during the lectures, classes, and seminars. Each area consists of a number of elements as follows: Personal effectiveness:

• Personal management: planning, prioritization, monitoring, time-study
• Personal leadership: vision, goals, Johari window, the power of thoughts and feelings
• Coaching: own coach, coaching others, and encouragement
• Self awareness: bad and good habits, thoughts, feelings, behaviour, and initiative step model
• Self motivation: positive thinking, mental attitude, reward, and procrastination
• Presentation Skills: oral presentation techniques
• Mentoring: reflection, seek first to understand then to be understood
• Coaching: own coach, coaching others, and encouragement
• Team work: group processes and dynamics, team development, and changes
• Interpersonal leadership: dependencies, win/win perspective, dysfunctional teams, empathy, and creative collaboration
• The art of communication: constructive feedback, active listening, and the experience cube

Engineering: technical and interpersonal skills, values, overall perspective, and business sense

Ethics: essential ethics applicable to data ethics, integrity and developing company culture

Life career: I corporation, lifelong learning, continuous quality improvement, stress, and sleep Teaching and working methods The course consists of 6 modules for grades 1-3, 1-6 semesters, each with 1 ECTS credits and is based on lectures and active participation in dialogue seminars with preparatory tasks. The seminars will be held in groups with students from grades 1-3. In support of the preparatory work lectures will be given dealing with the course's four areas: personal effectiveness, personal development, social skills and the engineer's professional role. Examination UPG1Assignment1 creditsU, 3, 4, 5The course runs over three years and examined by each module. Examination by data presented both orally and in writing. Examination by also actively participation in mandatory dialogue seminars addressing specific tasks. Absence managed with a written analysis and reflection of the texts discussed. Grades for examination modules are decided in accordance with the assessment criteria presented at the start of the course. Grades Four-grade scale, LiU, U, 3, 4, 5 Other information About teaching and examination languageThe teaching language is presented in the Overview tab for each course. The examination language relates to the teaching language as follows: If teaching language is “Swedish”, the course as a whole could be given in Swedish, or partly in English. Examination language is Swedish, but parts of the examination can be in English.If teaching language is “English”, the course as a whole is taught in English. Examination language is English.If teaching language is “Swedish/English”, the course as a whole will be taught in English if students without prior knowledge of the Swedish language participate. Examination language is Swedish or English depending on teaching language.OtherThe course is conducted in such a way that there are equal opportunities with regard to sex, transgender identity or expression, ethnicity, religion or other belief, disability, sexual orientation and age.The planning and implementation of a course should correspond to the course syllabus. The course evaluation should therefore be conducted with the course syllabus as a starting point. The course is campus-based at the location specified for the course, unless otherwise stated under “Teaching and working methods”. Please note, in a campus-based course occasional remote sessions could be included. Department Institutionen för datavetenskap Course literature WebsitesLiterature will be listed on the course website.