Improving Soft Skills and Motivation with Gamification in Engineering Education

Examining preferred actions within gamification can bring us closer to incorporating games that meet student needs into lectures, strengthening students' motivation and more active acquisition of knowledge. Engineering training needs to be renewed due to the changing industrial needs of the 21st century, as the proportion and importance of tasks requiring non-cognitive skills has increased significantly. We designed pilot courses with the goal of developing skills that strengthen students' intrinsic motivation that seemed lost in online education during the pandemic. Our hypothesis was that this new type of course using gamification methods will be more successful in developing soft skills and better motivate students in the online learning period. Exploring and developing individual skills helps to turn new information provided by the curriculum into usable knowledge. Our goal was to develop the individual personality in many ways, to get to know and work with individuals of different character, in addition to individual differentiation.