Key Attributes and Skills for Curriculum Improvement for Undergraduate Construction Management Programs

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العنوان: Key Attributes and Skills for Curriculum Improvement for Undergraduate Construction Management Programs
المؤلفون: Rizwan U. Farooqui, Muhammad Saqib Student, Syed M. Ahmed, Catherine Yaris Candidate
المصدر: International Journal of Construction Education and Research. 10:240-254
بيانات النشر: Informa UK Limited, 2014.
سنة النشر: 2014
مصطلحات موضوعية: Construction management, Strategic planning, Engineering, Knowledge management, business.industry, Building and Construction, Education, Skills management, Engineering management, Order (exchange), Workforce, ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION, Key (cryptography), business, Set (psychology), Curriculum
الوصف: Construction is a dynamic industry that requires continuous focus on academic curriculum to meet the current workforce demands. Educational institutions that are responsible for developing undergraduate students require a strategic plan to adequately prepare future construction managers to be able to better manage the ever-increasing complexity of the construction industry. This paper investigates the most important skills that today’s construction industry requires from graduating construction management students. This research examines a skill set determined by an initial preliminary survey. This skill set was then addressed through structured surveys sent to various industry stakeholders in order to identify the key skills desired by the industry from today’s graduating construction management students. The significance of the study is it identifies the key knowledge areas; personal and professional attributes; skills; and expertise that academic curriculums in construction management programs need to ...
تدمد: 1550-3984
1557-8771
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::a1256599c0de5c96d7367435a2e717da
https://doi.org/10.1080/15578771.2014.900833
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