Teacher and Student Soft Skills in Engineering Higher Education

This paper presents some methods the author and her team applied over the years, while teaching the basics of digital electronics to the students in the second year of a technical university in Romania. The highlights are on small actions and activities, embedded in the main hard skills course, that create not only students’ soft skills but also improve the ones of the educator. The validity and utility of the methods are demonstrated through the annual student evaluations and through their comments and appreciations regarding the curricula and the teaching process.