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Strategic development of personal and interpersonal skills
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Humans and Technology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7108-6356
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Social Sciences, Technology and Arts, Humans and Technology.
2021 (English)In: DS 110: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2021), VIA Design, VIA University in Herning, Denmark. 9th -10th September 2021: Continuity and Adaptability in Design and Engineering Education / [ed] Hilary Grierson; Erik Bohemia; Lyndon Buck, The Design Society, 2021, article id 1168Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Personal and interpersonal skills are an essential part of design engineers’ knowledge and skills, which students rarely feel they work with in a structured way during their education. To improve soft skills, the ideas on developing students’ personal and interpersonal skills were implemented in design- implement experience, a 15 ECTS third-year capstone project for bachelor students. Parallel to the design project, students had to identify personal or interpersonal skills that they wanted to develop during the course. Personal development was done in several stages: Identification of personal development areas (PDA), discussion of PDA in group meetings, creating a development plan, personal coach meetings, status update and a final reflection 

The results of this paper are based on teachers notes, written documentation and course evaluations. In the analysis, development areas were categorised using the CDIO Syllabus 2.0, where 59% was classified as Personal skills and 40% related to Interpersonal skills. The perseverance subset was the most common one identified. Other areas included lack of self-confidence, conflict mediation, creating a constructive dialogue between team members and time and resource management. Using this approach for three years and analysing the implementation, we can conclude that it has improved students’ personal and interpersonal skills. The results also highlight that students like to be challenged to change their professional conduct. 

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
The Design Society, 2021. article id 1168
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E&PDE ; DS 110
Keywords [en]
CDIO, soft skills, integrated learning, personal development
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Pedagogy Design
Research subject
Product Innovation; Industrial Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-87040DOI: 10.35199/EPDE.2021.39Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85121758084OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-87040DiVA, id: diva2:1593162
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23rd International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education (E&PDE 2021), Herning, Denmark, September 9-10, 2021
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ISBN för värdpublikation: 978-1-912254-14-9

Available from: 2021-09-10 Created: 2021-09-10 Last updated: 2023-09-05Bibliographically approved

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