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Higher Education

A scoping review of professional skills development in engineering education from 1980–2020

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Article: 2309738 | Received 03 Nov 2023, Accepted 19 Jan 2024, Published online: 14 Feb 2024

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Table 1. Agreed coding schedule used for analysing the data sources.

Table 2. Summaries of the studies that were selected for the review (in accordance with inclusion criteria mentioned and other defining features where +denotes conference paper).

Figure 1. Schematic to identify papers included for scoping review, as adapted from PRISMA guidelines (McKenzie et al. 2020). *Exact wordsFootnote3: communication (37), teamwork (16), leadership (31), problem solving (23), project management (19), entrepreneurship (46). **using citations from papers and references of papers to locate other papers. Includes a search in conference proceedings (e.g., ASEE and IEEE).

Figure 1. Schematic to identify papers included for scoping review, as adapted from PRISMA guidelines (McKenzie et al. 2020). *Exact wordsFootnote3: communication (37), teamwork (16), leadership (31), problem solving (23), project management (19), entrepreneurship (46). **using citations from papers and references of papers to locate other papers. Includes a search in conference proceedings (e.g., ASEE and IEEE).

Table 3. A synopsis of the papers and summary of skills development presented as a broad chronological narrative.

Figure 2. Graph depicting frequency of skills mentioned in each citation in the review.

Figure 2. Graph depicting frequency of skills mentioned in each citation in the review.

Figure 3. Graph highlighting the most prominent strategies that have been employed to develop skills within the 40-year time period.

Figure 3. Graph highlighting the most prominent strategies that have been employed to develop skills within the 40-year time period.

Figure 4. Graph showing the number of papers and the number of representative countries according to decade.

Figure 4. Graph showing the number of papers and the number of representative countries according to decade.

Figure 5. A mapping of aspects related to assessment of skills identified in the scoping review.

Figure 5. A mapping of aspects related to assessment of skills identified in the scoping review.