Education Sciences | |
Virtual Placements to Develop Employability Skills for Civil and Environmental Engineering Students | |
Parneet Paul1  | |
[1]Water Sustainability Research Centre, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Civil Engineering, Brunel University London, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK | |
[2] E-Mail | |
关键词: virtual; placement; employability; skills; undergraduate; | |
DOI : 10.3390/educsci5020047 | |
来源: mdpi | |
【 摘 要 】
This project work addresses the crucial need to encourage undergraduate civil and environmental engineering students to gain employment skills and training right from the start of their studies so that their overall employability increases; their confidence level in networking with industry and within the workplace increases; and so that they are successfully able to obtain employment after finishing their studies. This initiative is a stepping-stone employability exercise which focuses specifically on first year students to help them engage with industry right from the start of their course. It is proposed that they would gain some realistic work experience both individually and as part of group within a virtual work environment using an action learning approach. The virtual environment used was based on
【 授权许可】
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