<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Technological development is changing the skills model for employees in industry 4.0. Technical and IT competencies remain crucial for an engineer, however employers are increasingly appreciating soft skills, especially those that facilitate teamwork and communication or co-creation of innovations with customers and external stakeholders.</p><p>The article presents good practices for developing soft skills in engineers in industry 4.0 within the project “Curriculum Development of Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Engineering for Thailand Sustainable Smart Industry - MSIE4”.</p></abstract>

Technological development is changing the skills model for employees in industry 4.0. Technical and IT competencies remain crucial for an engineer, however employers are increasingly appreciating soft skills, especially those that facilitate teamwork and communication or co-creation of innovations with customers and external stakeholders.The article presents good practices for developing soft skills in engineers in industry 4.0 within the project “Curriculum Development of Master’s Degree Program in Industrial Engineering for Thailand Sustainable Smart Industry - MSIE4”.

Soft Skills of Engineers in View of Industry 4.0 Challenges

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Technological development is changing the skills model for employees in industry 4.0. Technical and IT competencies remain crucial for an engineer, however...

Soft Skills of Engineers in View of Industry 4.0 Challenges

Publicado en línea: 27 oct 2020

Páginas: 107 - 116

Recibido: 28 jul 2020

Aceptado: 02 sept 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cqpi-2020-0013

Palabras clave
engineer competences, soft skills, Industry 4.0, Curriculum, education

© 2020 Dorota Jelonek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Soft Skills of Engineers in View of Industry 4.0 Challenges

Publicado en línea: 27 oct 2020

Páginas: 107 - 116

Recibido: 28 jul 2020

Aceptado: 02 sept 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/cqpi-2020-0013

Palabras claveengineer competences, soft skills, Industry 4.0, Curriculum, education

© 2020 Dorota Jelonek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
engineer competences, soft skills, Industry 4.0, Curriculum, education