Developing a model of professional competencies of engineers for industrial modern organizations

The present study industrial modern organizations industrial organizations. The research method was applied in terms of purpose and a little descriptive-analytical in terms of data collection. The statistical population of the study includes; 1) Expert faculty members in engineering and active in the field of industry, 2) Managers and experts working in industrial organizations with experience of 5 years or more and have an engineering degree from 46 universities and 4 top industrial organizations to 467 people. Using Cochran's sampling formula, a sample size of 216 people was selected by stratified random sampling. In order to identify the professional competencies of engineers to enter industrial organizations, the background of the researches and the onet site have been examined, then the qualifications of extraction and based on it into two general categories; General and specialized were classified. In order to collect data, a 42-item researcher-made questionnaire was used and the Cronbach's alpha coefficient for all underlying indices was 82.3. To evaluate the validity of the questionnaire, the opinions of relevant experts as well as the validity of the structure were used. The results showed that: 1- The required professional competencies include; General competencies (personality competence, planning, cognitive competence) and specialized competencies (systematic, applied, professional ethics and strategic. 2- The general model of the research was fitted by using confirmatory factor analysis. 3. All indicators were significantly related to their underlying factor and the measurement model was desirable during the evaluation of minor indicators.