Engineering Students' Experiences of Transition from Study to Work

Autor/inn/en	Stiwne, Elinor Edvardsson; Jungert, Tomas
Titel	Engineering Students' Experiences of Transition from Study to Work
Quelle	In: Journal of Education and Work, 23 (2010) 5, S.417-437 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1363-9080
Schlagwörter	Employment Potential; Job Satisfaction; Engineering; Education Work Relationship; Followup Studies; Graduate Surveys; Interviews; Engineering Education; Student Experience; Skill Analysis; Competence; College Outcomes Assessment; Career Development; Educational Attitudes; Work Attitudes + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Arbeitsmarktbezogene Qualifikation; Beschäftigungsfähigkeit; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Maschinenbau; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Ingenieurausbildung; Studienerfahrung; Kompetenz; Berufsentwicklung; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Work attitude; Arbeitshaltung
Abstract	The focus in this paper is on how students experience their transition from their education to being employed as engineers in relation to the concept of employability. Four cohorts of students in a master's programme in engineering were monitored annually with a "follow-up" one year after graduation. Results show that there were differences in the way students talked about their curricular design, career plans, job search, becoming an employee and employable, and job satisfaction. Throughout the interviews certain turning points were identified, where the students had to make various decisions. Many students argued that generic skills and cultural values are best learned in extracurricular activities and in work contexts, and that doing a thesis project in a firm was the best learning experience. During this thesis process, students became conscious of their valuable employability skills, which in the job search process were a good thesis project, a diploma from the programme, self-efficacy, problem-solving skills and a broad knowledge base. On the job, the most valuable acquired key skills were considered to be mathematics and subject-specific knowledge, problem-solving skills, time management skills, learning skills, and an ability to manage stress and heavy workloads. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10