Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students

Name: Teaching Transversal Skills for Engineering Students
Brand: EPFL Press
SKU: 9782832322895
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 978-2-83232-289-5

A practical playbook of activities with tangibles

by Siara Isaac (author), Joelyn de Lima (author)

november 2024

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How can we better prepare engineering students to work together on dynamic, complex problems? Transversal skills are essential to maximising the potential of technical expertise, particularly when working across disciplines, cultures, and contexts.

This book provides a practical approach for developing students’ transversal skills based on the 3T PLAY Trident framework and evidence-informed experiential learning approaches. Designed to enable higher education instructors to improve how transversal skills are taught, this book provides:

Graphical activity outlines with timing, mode, and materials
Downloadable handouts and slides
Review of why transversal skills should be explicitly taught, which skills are under-addressed, and conditions that support students to develop skills
Evidence-informed conceptual summaries and practice based tips
A backward design structure to create new activities to teach transversal skills

To learn more about how this book is useful for you, visit the Reviews tab to read feedback from educators in 6 different countries.

These resources were created as part of the 3T PLAY project at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), supported by funding from the LEGO Foundation.

Content

BOOK ABSTRACT
THE 3T PLAY PROJECT
3T PLAY FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS – Chapter 1: How to develop engineering students' transversal skills
3T PLAY ACTIVITY GUIDES FOR TEACHING TRANSVERSAL SKILLS – Chapter 2: How to support students to develop skills that improve collaboration, including retrospective discussions – Chapter 3 : How to support students’ skills for giving each other constructive feedback, especially when it is difficult to hear – Chapter 4: How to support students to develop skills that promote sustainability – Chapter 5: How to support students to develop coaching and peer teaching skills – Chapter 6: How to support students to develop risk assessment and planning skills, especially for team projects – Chapter 7: How to support students to develop skills for cultivating psychological safety in their teams
DEVELOPING ACTIVITIES WITH THE 3T PLAY FRAMEWORK – Chapter 8: How teachers can use the 3T PLAY trident framework to design activities that develop transversal skills