Teaching Soft Skills for Undergraduate Engineering Students in Indian Classroom – A Study

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Dr. Devimeenakshi K.

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The aim of this paper is to highlight the necessity of training Soft Skills to graduates in order to frame their professional career for future prospects. In addition, even the management of the Indian institution supported to develop the language skills of university students.  The researcher’s focus is on undergraduate engineering students who learnt Soft skills for vital needs.  Defining Soft Skills, “Communicating, conflict management, human relations, making presentations, negotiating, team building, and other such ability, defined in terms of expected outcomes and not as a specific method or technique such as statistical analysis.”  The teacher’s problem is to teach the students through her/his analysis that how to train, how to collect material, what should be taught, what the purpose to teach is, why Soft Skills has become essential in higher educational institutions, why to introduce Soft skills in the syllabus, and what is the need to inculcate and improve Soft Skills in young minds.  The prescribed syllabus plays dynamic role in terms of teaching-learning process for qualified students.  The learners in due course realised the value of the course, and paid attention to the subject like their core subjects.  The eventual objective of every student is to settle in life either through job or higher studies, whatever aspect may be, the candidate has to clear the entrance/competitive exam to take up a job or to go for higher studies.  Hence, no choices, he/she has to master Soft Skills to develop professional career.  Thus, Indian educational institutions show interest in introducing Soft Skills or including Soft skills in regular curriculum.

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