Need and Analysis of Soft Skills for Students of The Mechanical Engineering Department of Vocational High School

The preliminary of the research toward the soft skills of graduated students from vocational high school that took mechanical as their major are not optimal at work place. It could be proven and interaction that did by graduated students from mechanical engineering at work.. This research had purpose to know specific soft skill that need to be taught to mechanical engineering students at vocational school.. Dacum Approach was used in this research.The sample of this research was 50 industry practitioner who have specification in mechanical engineering,vocational school’s teachers who teach mechanical engineering and expert in soft skill field. Based on the analysis of the questionnaire that consist of 27 items, with the categories of items; very important, important, not important and very unimportant, it could be concluded that 67% sample said that soft skills very important, 31% important and 2 % not important. The result of this research could be used to be a reference for developing a soft skill learning models for mechanical engineering students at vocation school.