Why should it be assumed, therefore, that shaping children's minds, facilitating their learning development and acquisition of values and of personal and social skills, their identity formation and their academic development, are pursuits for which no particular training and competences are required?
A variety of competences are required, including (a) deep competences in many fields (electrical and mechanical engineering, but also engineering physics and civil engineering); (b) integrative competences within engineering (e.g., mechanical and electrical engineering) and between engineering and non-engineering fields (e.g., meteorology and logistics).
Serviceability response as well as ultimate limit conditions are quite complex to predict; high engineering competences are required to guarantee significant load carrying capacities with structural systems of extremely limited weight, and, as a consequence, of very modest costs to be competitive on the market.
Finally, a variety of PNs' competences are required for effective lifestyle counselling.
Within this complex professional setting, ethical competences are required to handle all aspects of actions in clinical practice.
Regardless of the environment, culture or medical education conditions, a set of core competences are required for medical practice worldwide [ 1- 5].
Such a framework is implicit in the ASBH Clinical Ethics Task Force's Education Guide [ 1], which also recognizes that more specialized knowledge and competences are required for dealing with the different challenges that arise in diverse clinical settings and institutions.
Additional competence is required for graduate work in certain branches.
Of course, when competence is required, Mr. Zaccagnino pulls that off too.
