Didactic strategies to strengthen soft skills in the graduate profile of the Industrial Maintenance engineer

Abstract

Currently, organizations give greater importance to soft skills as part of the profile of those who integrate into their organizations and not only that they have the necessary technical knowledge to develop their jobs. The program of the Industrial Maintenance career is made up of technical, training and administrative subjects, but the latter two are not recognized as important by the enrollment of students. The graduates of the engineering in Industrial Maintenance have a recognized level of hard skills according to what the industry requires, by comments of the same students at the time of entering the labor field, they realize how necessary it represents to have an effective and efficient performance in companies integrated not only with technical knowledge but also with soft skills. The objective of this research isto propose and implement didactic strategies to strengthen soft skills in the graduate profile of the Industrial Maintenance Engineer. It consists of a bibliographic and / or documentary and field research through interviews and surveys to teachers, students and graduates to determine the importance of soft skills in the graduation profile of engineering students in Industrial Maintenance of the Technological University.