A whole new ball-game : generic skills in an engineering school - are they taught, or merely caught?

This paper explores the self-reported changes in the perceptions of 13 engineering students over a semester-long course, Communication, Technology and Science, (CTS) in their degree program. The CTS curriculum builds awareness of students need for a broad range of lifelong learning abilities through generic skill development in a professional engineering context, and includes opportunities for students to develop such skills.