Soft Skill Education in the Positive Mindset Frame for the Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Graduates

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10.2991/ictvt-17.2017.67How to use a DOI?

Keywords

soft skill, frame, positive mindset, mindset quality performance

Abstract

The aim of this study are to know the description of soft skill quality and mindset quality of college students majoring mechanical engineering education department in engineering faculty of Yogyakarta State University in which the finding is used as a basic guideline, approach, and strategy in the teaching process as a means to apply soft skill and positive mindset towards the graduates. This study uses population-based research by involving 191 students as research subjects from the undergraduate and vocational program in the second semester, fourth semester, and the sixth semester focusing on: option drawing, fitting, and fabrication. In collecting the data the writers distribute questionnaires, while in analysing the data the writers use grade point average analysis towards each of soft skill quality and mindset performance. This study leads to the finding that grade point average for soft skill quality performance is 1.95 and grade point average for mindset quality performance is 2.8. Therefore, to sum up, the description of students' soft skill quality is still below average and the description of mindset quality is categorized moderate.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Thomas Sukardi
AU  - Mr. Subiyono
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Soft Skill Education in the Positive Mindset Frame for the Department of Mechanical Engineering Education Graduates
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Technology and Vocational Teachers (ICTVT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 394
SN  - 2352-5398
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