Relevance of technical skills required of two-year electronics program graduates: Students' and teachers' viewpoints

Aharon Gero, Shai Mano-Israeli

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Abstract

Technical skills play a major role in engineering and technology education. Whereas the literature deals with the technical qualifications required of engineering graduates, the research focusing on two-year technology program graduates is limited. Therefore, the study described here investigated the relevance assigned by Israeli students and teachers to the technical skills required of two-year electronics program graduates. Forty-four electronics students and thirteen electronics teachers from a two-year college participated in this mixed-method study. The findings indicate that the relevance assigned by the teachers to technical skills was significantly higher than the relevance assigned by their students. This result could be explained by the current curriculum not putting sufficient emphasis on providing relevant technical qualifications.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2019 - Proceedings
EditorsPlamen Z. Zahariev
ISBN (Electronic)9781728132228
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2019
Event29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2019 - Ruse, Bulgaria
Duration: 4 Sep 20196 Sep 2019

Publication series

Name29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2019 - Proceedings

Conference

Conference29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2019
Country/TerritoryBulgaria
CityRuse
Period4/09/196/09/19

Keywords

  • Students' viewpoints
  • Teachers' viewpoints
  • Technical skills
  • Two-year electronics program

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Education
  • Information Systems

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