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- EditorialPublication . Nascimento, Maria M.; Alves, Gustavo R.; Sein-Echaluce, María Luisa(Excerpt) "There is nothing I believe more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind". (Bill Nye, science educator and former mechanical engineer). The OECD (2018) report on ‘Teaching for Global Competence in a Rapidly Changing World’ outlines the current challenge for education: To be effective participants in this increasingly complex, diverse, and interdependent global economy, students will need to be highly literate and able to analyze situations and solve novel problems in creative ways. They will need to be knowledgeable about issues of global significance in areas such as engineering, business, science, history, politics, and the environment. Students also will need to be comfortable in unfamiliar settings and willing to learn from others. We think ‘student’ could be replaced by ‘engineering student’ or even by ‘engineer’. In a similar vein, Quadrado (2018) explains: Engineering education is about facilitating the learning of scientific and technic knowledge, as well as learning the principles of the professional practice of engineering. Nowadays, such professional practice requires other skills to train a 21st century engineer, known as soft skills, such as teamwork, creativity, and ability to communicate, among others. (v) Then, beyond the examination of the economic, cultural, and social factors, which influence the education of engineers in different higher education institutions, Trilling and Fadel (2009) had already enumerated the twenty-first century skills as: (...).