Developments on the delivery of Non-technical modules to Engineering Materials & Bio-engineering students

Like everything else in life, in business we have to deal with people. A successful manager will have to ‘Plan, Organize, Lead and Control’. Each of these four aspects of management requests dealing with people. In the practice of management it will always be ‘You’ and ‘Them’. To be a successful entrepreneur one requires a number of skills but success will not be forthcoming without ‘networking’. Successful networking needs communication skills. Teaching management to engineering students requires the development of their ‘soft’ skills. They need to be made aware of not only who they are as persons, what makes them tick and what their moral stand point is but also how to interact and communicate with others.This paper will give you a flavour of a module created to impart these kinds of skills to students of Engineering Materials and Bio-Engineers.