Required skill:

Understanding of essential facts, concepts, principles and theories relevant to their chosen specialist engineering discipline(s), and knowledge and understanding of the constraints within which their engineering judgement will have to be exercised.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

A sound grasp of science, mathematics and the technological base relevant to their discipline. It is desirable that all students have some knowledge and understanding of business and management techniques; these should be integrated into their engineering studies.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills Generic competencies
Teamwork/working with others
Personal capabilities
Leadership		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Organisational understanding, commercial awareness, financial awareness		 Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Graduating engineering students must also have an understanding of their professional and ethical responsibilities, the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context, and an awareness of relevant contemporary issues.

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Lifelong learning and development, personal development, organisational sensitivity		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise, image

Required skill:

Engineers need to be creative and innovative in solving problems, and in designing systems, components and processes. They must be able to apply the appropriate tools from mathematics, science and technology, coupling these with know-how drawn from professional experience

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Creativity, initiative		 Technical ability
Technical ability, technical knowledge
Business awareness Practical elements
Professional expertise

Required skill:

Solve engineering problems, often on the basis of limited and possibly contradictory information

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Creativity, initiative, achievement orientation, adaptability/flexibility		 Technical ability
Business awareness Practical elements

Required skill:

Analyse and interpret data and, when necessary, design experiments to gain new data; design a system, component or process to meet a need;

Required competencies:

Cognitive skills
Analysis, judgement, attention to detail		 Generic competencies
Personal capabilities
Decisiveness		 Technical ability
Business awareness
Process operation		 Practical elements

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