Developing Soft Skills in Engineering Students with COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Limitations of Digital Classes

4 Pages Posted: 7 Feb 2022

Date Written: February 4, 2022

Abstract

Developing soft skills of engineering students has always been sought after in all academic institutions, for their best placements and to sustain in big organisations with best professional skills it is always a bench-mark set by all engineering institutes. The inclusion of rigorous training sessions and teaching made this quite an achievable target but COVID-19 pandemic brought a situation where day-to-day life was challenged and the world had faced crises which were not seen in 100 years. On one hand, it was difficult to understand and predict how things will develop and suddenly we no longer had control over our lives. In such a situation, to continue higher education, promote students, conduct practical classes and justify evaluation was a big challenge for engineering colleges and institutes as all these learning centres were closed. An immediate and effective response to this crisis was digital or online learning. This paper aims to enlist ways of developing soft skills of engineering graduates above and beyond all the COVID-19 challenges and limitations of online classes with the intentions of making engineering graduates industry-ready and viable to work in reputed firms.

Keywords: soft skills, challenges, limitations, digital classes, COVID-19, engineering students

Suggested Citation

Shradhanjali, Shradhanjali, Developing Soft Skills in Engineering Students with COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Limitations of Digital Classes (February 4, 2022). Proceedings of the International Conference on Best Innovative Teaching Strategies (ICON-BITS 2021), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4026804 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4026804

Shradhanjali Shradhanjali (Contact Author)

Amity University, Rajasthan ( email )

Jaipur
Kalawar
Rajasthan, Rajasthan 303002
India

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