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Conference Paper

Abstract

Engineering higher education institutes need to integrate new skills and competences into their practice and curricula to accelerate the sustainability transition.

This paper introduces the interdisciplinary upskilling of engineering students enrolled in engineering programs at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and which has been provided by the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences (GTK) since 1998. The BME GTK delivers an educational experience that fits into the environment defined by the engineering faculties at BME. The BME GTK has experience of more than a quarter of a century in engineering education related to socio-economic and management upskilling. This experience may contribute to the common knowledge of engineering education development solutions in the area of sustainability transition.

This study focuses on assessing the socio-economic and management related courses of engineering students at BME provided by the nine departments of the GTK. The analyses examine the non-engineering skills of BME engineering students over the past ten years. The sample includes all the compulsory and elective courses available for engineering students. Based on the assessment results, the most significant management and socio-economic courses, and the related nonengineering interdisciplinary skills, both in bachelor and master levels, between 2012 and 2022 can be identified. The analyses allows the monitoring of management education's role in an engineering environment in the last decade. Furthermore, considering sustainability challenges, it provides an excellent basis for strategic decisions on future educational development.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/GESF-6226

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