The Views of Newly Graduate Engineers' Regarding To The Undergraduate Education Received and Perceptions of Professional Competence


KAYGISIZ ERTUĞ Z., Goksel E.

ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITESI IIBF DERGISI-ESKISEHIR OSMANGAZI UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, cilt.14, sa.2, ss.347-364, 2019 (ESCI) identifier

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Modern Economy and businesses have been forced to improve their technology and produce new products, depending on use of scientific method in manufacture, change of consumption habits and rise of manufacture multiplicity including change of customer options. This situation has increased qualified person demand, which is an important factor in fulfilment of this need. The intent of this study is to evaluate the education given during the middle and upper education period with the perspective of graduated engineers. The target population is consist of engineers who work in Eskisehir in 2017. Questionnaires could applied to 142 engineers. The reliability of the questionnaire was determined as %83. It is detected that the graduated engineers have difficulty in the work place with the given education during the period of upper education when they first begin any work. Additionally, in a period of time they were forced to get help from another workers and believe that they need additional education in order to work in the better position they desired.