Professionalism for Engineers, Part 4

Aim

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

• Plan, prioritize, perform within the stipulated time, follow up, 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

Personal development:

• 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

Social skills:

• 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

Engineer's professional role:

• 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