A Competency Model for Civil Engineering Students

Key competencies and employability skills are central to vocational education. In order to educate better qualified students, a competency model for construction major student was proposed. The post cluster of students will engage in after their graduation was first investigated. Then the professional knowledge and capability which current construction profession request are analyzed. Following that, four kinds of competencies, namely, reading, construction, calculation and management are summarized. Finally, the validity and reliability of the model are discussed. The competency under this model is combination of multi-aspect, multi-level and multi-field complex. It is a tree-like structure in term of construction, taking specific skills as its foundation, taking comprehensive capacity to deal with the real project as the key ability, and accomplishment that student will be qualified in their work after graduation as its aim. It is a netted structure in term of combination and each constitute ability is co-related.