Development of Undergraduate Soft Skills

Participating in SPARK will be an exciting and rewarding proposition for students at ENTC. Showing courage and leadership they will be expected to solve some of the most intractable challenges facing humanity. Working in teams over a period of a year they will explore the boundaries of their capabilities and at pace develop innovative solutions to resolve those challenges. They will sharpen their communications, presentation, social media influencing skills in presenting their valuable experience to an external audience.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has identified a number of soft skills required to effectively participate in modern commerce and industry. In participating in the program, the undergraduates will reinforce or acquire new skills that have been highlighted by the WEF.

In discussions with ENTC, the following skills will be reinforced by taking part in SPARK:

  • Analytical Thinking

  • Critical Thinking and analysis

  • Technology Use Monitoring and control

  • Resilience, Stress Tolerance and flexibility

  • Reasoning, Problem-solving and Ideation

The following skill will be developed new by taking part in SPARK:

  • Innovation

  • Complex Problem Solving

  • Creativity

  • Originality

  • Leadership and Social Influencing

The SPARK challenge will in some small way contribute to the development of a range of “soft skills” required of a modern day student with the certainty that they will be better prepared for the dynamics of modern day employment.