Future-Ready Skills
Building the skills you need for work, life and lifelong learning.
ESSENTIAL SKILLS
AND CORE CAPABILITIES
Today’s employers are looking for more than just technical skills from their workforce. Addressing rising expectations for higher-order leadership, critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills will ensure SAIT learners are prepared to thrive in increasingly multifaceted jobs and workplaces.
Near-term goals in this area include:
- Embed the SAIT Capability Framework in the curriculum of all programs and products.
- Broaden opportunities for professional skills training and practice.
- Incorporate intercultural competencies and concepts of sustainable development into academic programming.
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
INTEGRATION
Artificial intelligence (AI) and other disruptive technologies are poised to change every industry, job and organization. SAIT is responsible for ensuring our learners and graduates are prepared for this new reality. Every academic program and department at SAIT must embrace AI in curriculum and business processes to deliver on this responsibility.
Near-term goals in this area include:
- Educate both employees and learners to ensure responsible and effective use of AI as a tool, examining:
- ethics and the implications of appropriate/inappropriate use
- critical thinking, the retention of problem-solving skills and the ability to discern quality
- curiosity and fostering a mindset that recognizes the limitations of AI as well as the value of human creativity and subject-matter expertise in generating novel solutions
- Define and resource a roadmap to deploy industry relevant AI tools across all schools and programs and to integrate AI tools within our business processes in line with best practices for post-secondary institutions.
SAIT water program adds to career skills and campus conservation efforts
Why study water? For Juan Zuleta, a second-year Integrated Water Management student #HereAtSAIT, the overarching answer is simple.
Why study water? For Juan Zuleta, a second-year Integrated Water Management student #HereAtSAIT, the overarching answer is simple.
“Water is life. It’s maybe a cliché phrase, but this is water we’re talking about. It’s real, it’s powerful.”
It certainly had the power to bring Zuleta from Colombia to Calgary and to SAIT’s MacPhail School of Energy two years ago.
An electromechanical engineer and project manager, he paused a 10-year career working all over South America, from Ecuador to Chile to Peru, and is now gaining specialized knowledge in the growing field of water management.
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LEARNING
Solving complex problems increasingly requires people to work across disciplines. We recognize the importance of interdisciplinary learning opportunities in fostering a mindset where collaboration and combined thinking creates new knowledge, ideas and approaches to problem solving.
Near-term goals in this area include:
- Leverage common course programming between schools to facilitate connections between learners in different disciplines.
- Develop common capstones and work-integrated learning experiences involving learners from multiple programs to help develop a broader understanding of how to collaborate and communicate across skills and perspectives.
- Encourage interdisciplinary faculty collaboration in scholarly activity and projects to share best practices, develop relationships, and advance teaching and learning practice.
ENTREPRENURIAL
MINDSET
As the regional economy diversifies, more new businesses are being established. The development of entrepreneurship skills and business acumen is critical for learners across every discipline in order to support greater innovation and productivity in our economy.
Near-term goals in this area include:
- Establish a business start-up incubator through which learners and researchers can access support and mentorship for developing their business ideas.
- Provide access to supplemental business skills training for non-business learners and researchers to develop a better understanding of the business context of their work.
- Create opportunities to develop business acumen and entrepreneurship skills for all learners at SAIT through work-integrated learning, mentorship, business competitions and more.
SAIT Interactive Design students soar at business innovation bootcamp in Portugal
Whether it’s the adrenaline rush of catching a flight, spontaneous day trips or the little moments bonding with classmates, a study trip abroad unlocks unforgettable adventures.
Whether it’s the adrenaline rush of catching a flight, spontaneous day trips or the little moments bonding with classmates, a study trip abroad unlocks unforgettable adventures.
Last summer, 10 SAIT Interactive Design students took off to Porto, Portugal, mixing business with pleasure at a three-week innovation bootcamp put on by the European Innovation Academy (EIA).
SAIT students stood out from the crowd of almost 450 bootcamp participants, applying their design and software skills to build viable businesses as solutions to real-world problems. Of the 10 teams with SAIT students, two made the top 10 for pitch presentations, three were nominated for a $3,000 scholarship and two others were nominated for a $25,000 scholarship.
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BOLD FUTURES
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SAIT is located on the traditional territories of the Niitsitapi (Blackfoot) and the people of Treaty 7 which includes the Siksika, the Piikani, the Kainai, the Tsuut’ina and the Îyârhe Nakoda of Bearspaw, Chiniki and Goodstoney.
We are situated in an area the Blackfoot tribes traditionally called Moh’kinsstis, where the Bow River meets the Elbow River. We now call it the city of Calgary, which is also home to the Métis Nation of Alberta.