Soft Skills

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  • Relational and intercultural skills: communicating, cooperating, negotiating, lending and asking for help in work context
  • IT and telematics skills: digital tools for information and data handling, representation, analysis and communication in civil and environmental engineering

Lesson hours:

48

Practice hours:

-

Propaedeuticities:

None

Credits:

6

Types of examinations:

Project discussion

Teacher:

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Objectives:

The course aims to skill the student to:
  • develop ability of managing and dealing with highly dynamic work contexts, coping with complex situations and learning to work productively and creatively in a team, including through improved communication and criticality management skills.
  • develop ability to comprehend and adapt to different cultural situations and perspectives. They can involve being receptive to foreign languages and open to different ideas. Indeed, foreign students are from various cultural backgrounds and should get used to interact positively among them and with locals. Focus will be given, but not limited, to inclusion, diversity, gender balance, sustainability, work ethics.
  • handle data and information in suitable form for computer-aided analysis and graphical representation (using spreadsheets, databases, computer-aided drafting and object-oriented languages)
  • communicate effectively, in oral and written form, though digital tools (advanced word-processing, slideshows, videos).

Contents:

The educational activities related to “Communication skills” (4 CFU) will be delivered in connection with the project “Liberal Arts Services for Employability (SALPO)”, consisting of a series of meetings led by experts in various artistic fields, organized by the Student Active and Participatory Inclusion Services (SinAPSI):

 [0.5 CFU] Understanding and managing one’s emotions;

 [0.5 CFU] Self-knowledge and self-awareness;

 [0.5 CFU] Exploring and reflecting on one’s identity;

 [0.5 CFU] Interpersonal relationships;

 [0.5 CFU] Requirements by the job market;

 [0.5 CFU] Self-development;

 [0.5 CFU] Professional improvement;

 [0.5 CFU] Increase employability;

 [2.0 CFU] The educational activities related to “Digital skills” will include: use of spreadsheets: worksheet and cells, entering formulas, absolute and relative references, functions (temporal, logical, text, mathematical, statistical, informative, filters and sorting). Objective search. Filters and sorting, graphs, integration with other software (1 CFU) Matlab fundamentals: treatment of vectors and matrices, import and use of data files; creation of a script file. Function files, relational operators, logical operators, functions, conditional statements, loops. Structuring a code, approximation of derivatives (1 CFU).

Teaching materials:

Course notes provided by the teacher.