How can complementary studies teach essential skills

Complementary studies can teach essential skills through the development of soft skills.

Complementary studies are required in order to ensure you have achieved the graduate attributes needed by the time you have completed your education. Many of the graduate attributes are strongly connected to soft skills, for example individual and teamwork, communication skills, the impact of engineering on society and the environment, ethics and equity, economics and project management, and life-long learning.

Common workplace skills include: communication, problem analysis & solving, organizational skills/project management, strategic thinking/planning, leadership, political skills, computer skills, giving & receiving feedback, empathy, self-awareness, diversity management, conflict resolution, simplify complex ideas, hard-working, adaptability, self-discipline, stress management, business sense, and interpersonal management/teamwork.

Some of these skills may be developed through your technical engineering courses, but not all of them will. The rest you can gain through the use of carefully chosen complementary studies..