Making

Inventing and creating artifacts that have never before been in existence: Conceiving (understanding needs and technology, and creating concept), designing, implementing, and operating products and systems that deliver value.

Discovering

Advancing the knowledge of our society and world by exploring, identifying, and generating new knowledge, often by conducting research that leads to new fundamental discoveries and technologies.

Interpersonal skills

Engaging with and understanding other people: communicating, listening, emotional intelligence, working in and leading teams, collaboration and networking, advocacy and leading change.

Personal skills / attitudes

Initiative, judgment, and decision making; responsibility and urgency; flexibility and self-confidence; acting ethically and with integrity; social responsibility; dedication to lifelong learning.

Creative thinking

Forming something new and valuable by focusing thought and incubating new ideas, illuminating and articulating them in conscious awareness, and verifying them.

Systems thinking

Predicting the emergence of a whole by examining inter-related entities in context in the face of complexity and ambiguity; for both homogeneous systems and systems that integrate multiple technologies.

Critical / metacognitive thinking

Predicting the emergence of a whole by examining inter-related entities in context in the face of complexity and ambiguity; for both homogeneous systems and systems that integrate multiple technologies.

Analytical thinking

Working systematically and logically to break down facts and resolve problems; identifying causation and anticipating results by applying theory, modeling, and mathematical analysis.

Computational thinking

Using computation to understand physical, biological, and social systems by applying the fundamental constructs of computer programming (abstractions, modularity, recursion), data structures, and algorithms.

Experimental

Conducting experiments to obtain data: selecting measurements, determining procedures to validate data, formulating and testing hypotheses.

Humanistic

Developing a broad understanding of society and its traditions and institutions: knowledge of human cultures, human systems of thought, modes of expression in the arts, and the social, political, and economic frameworks of society.