Improving Student Confidence and Ability To Cope Under Stress Through Project Based Learning

The current trend in the construction industry is to build better, faster, and more cost-effectively. Accomplishing this requires the job to be fast-tracked through a team-based approach, such as design-build. This trend requires managers to solve tasks with various team members. These demands exacerbate the need for construction project managers to have “soft skills, ” such as communication and conflict resolution, in addition to “hard skills ” such as means and methods of construction. This paper analyzes the impact of project based learning on the soft skills in general, and on the student‟s confidence and stress coping ability in specific