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Professional Competencies – the soft skills to give Systems Engineers a hard edge
Author(s) -
Beasley Richard,
Gelosh Don S.,
Pickard Andrew C.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2019.00605.x
Subject(s) - soft skills , relevance (law) , inclusion (mineral) , engineering ethics , engineering , computer science , engineering management , knowledge management , medical education , psychology , medicine , political science , law , social psychology
The publication of the new INCOSE Systems Engineering Competency Framework is notable for many reasons, not least the inclusion of Professional Competencies which is the focus of this paper. This paper reviews the general importance of the professional competencies (also known as “soft skills”), and the specific relevance of the individual competencies that have been included in the INCOSE framework. This provides a review and discussion of the importance of the Professional Competencies to enable those that do Systems Engineering to be successful. Systems Engineering is both done by people and integrates people: to do that the soft skills or Professional Competencies are essential.