Abstract Background Under Washington Accord or ABET accreditation requirements, faculty
must envision, collectively articulate, and prioritize the competencies that students should …

Background ABET‐accredited engineering programs must help students develop specific
outcomes (ie, competencies). Faculty must determine the relative emphasis among the …

The objectives of this paper are to structure and discuss the main soft skills that have an
impact on the employability in the Engineering field, aiming to fill the gap between education …

In this article we point to the ways in which engineering and communication disciplines can
work together to ensure the ABET criterion that encompasses effective communication is …

This paper summarizes the research design, sampling plan, and instrument development for
the Engineering Change (EC) Project, a three-year research activity that examines the …

Background Creativity is increasingly recognized as an important skill for success in the field
of engineering, but most traditional, post‐secondary engineering education programs do not …

This article presents findings from an empirical study investigating the transfer of rhetorical
knowledge, defined as audience awareness, sense of purpose, organization, use of visuals …

Executive functioning (EF) is a set of high-level cognitive skills, including planning,
organizing, prioritizing, logical and contextual thinking, understanding, working memory, and …

This chapter reviews both literature and theory related to the identification and articulation of
graduate attributes and competencies that are relevant to engineering education. Such …

Designing a curriculum is a multifaceted challenge that includes questions about learning
goals, such as Which competencies are important for professional practice? and What …