The Civil Engineering Department at Tishk International University organized a workshop regarding ‘Required Skills Embedded with the Learning Process’.The purpose of the workshop was to establish an effective civil engineering program to improve student employability rate, enhance students’ knowledge and equip them with the required skills and proficiency for a career in industrial or academic sectors. The workshop included the following sessions:
1st session:
- Required skills and training
- Industry based learning
- Curriculum with real-life experience
- State–of–the–art software training
- What are employability skills?
2nd session:
- Fundamental skills
- Personal management skills
- Teamwork skills
- Student’s performance radar
- Build students’ performance skills
- Actions to take
The workshop was presented by Dr. Jawdat Tashan, Ph.D., Peng Associate Professor, Dean of Academic Affairs, Metro College of Technology 789 Don Mills Rd #500, Toronto, Canada. The event was attended by 32 professors, lecturers, and research assistants of the Faculty of Engineering at TIU and Noble Institute. The workshop enabled the audience to further understand how the civil engineering academic program should equip students with the required knowledge and skills for a career in the industrial or academic sectors. It discussed how to make students more employable and prepare them to be able to provide immediate input and contribution to their future employer’s business. The workshop also covered the employability skills required in each student and how the university can help to build them.
About the Civil Engineering Department at TIU:
The Civil Engineering Department at Tishk International University is the first department in Iraq and KRI that has been awarded international accreditation by ZeVa Agency and is also the first department that has established the ACI TIU Student Chapter (American Concrete Institute Tishk International Student Chapter). For more information, please visit this webpage.
