Training Program for Electrical Engineers
Lukov, Evgeny (2025)
2025
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Training is an effective way to develop employees’ skills and competencies. Moreover, training is required not only to close skill gaps but also to maintain the current knowledge, allowing companies to compete effectively and adapt to new technologies.
This study was carried out in a large multinational company, where electrical engineers face different challenges with project delivery due to a lack of technical skills. Constant and regular training is required to improve technical skills in such cases, however, no systematic training program exists for electrical engineers in the company. The study objective was to create an outline of a training program, that allows its implementation in practice and supports the development of electrical engineers.
The study is based on an applied action research approach, conducted in four stages, and utilizes qualitative methods of data collection. In the first stage, the current state analysis was arranged by interviewing the relevant stakeholders and identifying the essential and current technical skills, as well as discussing skill gaps of electrical engineers. Focusing on the major skill gap and gathering valuable concepts and ideas from the literature allowed to form the conceptual framework of the training program design. Following the framework’s principles, the outline of the training program was first co-created with the targeted stakeholders and then validated by the decision-maker.
The outcome of the study is the outline of the training program for electrical engineers. The training program is focused on improving one of the core technical competencies related to knowledge of Medium Voltage systems.
This study was carried out in a large multinational company, where electrical engineers face different challenges with project delivery due to a lack of technical skills. Constant and regular training is required to improve technical skills in such cases, however, no systematic training program exists for electrical engineers in the company. The study objective was to create an outline of a training program, that allows its implementation in practice and supports the development of electrical engineers.
The study is based on an applied action research approach, conducted in four stages, and utilizes qualitative methods of data collection. In the first stage, the current state analysis was arranged by interviewing the relevant stakeholders and identifying the essential and current technical skills, as well as discussing skill gaps of electrical engineers. Focusing on the major skill gap and gathering valuable concepts and ideas from the literature allowed to form the conceptual framework of the training program design. Following the framework’s principles, the outline of the training program was first co-created with the targeted stakeholders and then validated by the decision-maker.
The outcome of the study is the outline of the training program for electrical engineers. The training program is focused on improving one of the core technical competencies related to knowledge of Medium Voltage systems.