on April 14th, 2022

Soft skills are important to engineers. Advice from an EIT lecturer

Johann van den Bergh grew up on a farm in South Africa, and thanks to his dad that was always tinkering in the garage a career in engineering just made sense. We spoke to Johann about how he realized the importance of soft skills for engineers.

It was a long haul going from student to now PhD. He defended his thesis this year.

Johann, one of EIT's newest lecturers, is also helming a lot of academic operations in South Africa (you might see his name pop up during webinars and seminars as well).

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EITJohann van den Bergh grew up on a farm in South Africa, and thanks to his dad that was always tinkering in the garage a career in engineering just made sense. We spoke to Johann about how he realized the importance of soft skills for engineers.
It was a long haul going from student to now PhD. He defended his thesis this year.
Johann, one of EIT's newest lecturers, is also helming a lot of academic operations in South Africa (you might see his name pop up during webinars and seminars as well).
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