The Training Need Assessment on DACUM method and educational standard of ISO 10015

The aim of this study assesses training needs based on DACUM method and educational standard of ISO 10015. The study population that consist of all engineers of Petrochemical Industries Design and Engineering Company project were studied on 103 persons by Census and purposeful way. The research tools consisted of two questionnaires. The first questionnaire based on the standard requirements of  ISO 10015 and the second questionnaire based on DACUM method and opinion of project expert engineers, qualifications and competencies in three dimensions like knowledge, attitude and skills are developed and collected after the validity and reliability. This study as functional goal and combined method include both section,qualitative and quantitative. The results show that between current and desirable situation of training needs assessment that it based on ISO 10015 from the perspective of project engineers there is a significant difference and documenting and determining the required standards to identify required competencies for each job has the highest priority. Also the results show that by Dacum method, engineers of design and petrochemical engineering company project have six main task and thirty sub-task. Review the training needs of engineers in three dimensions as knowledge, skills and attitude, according to DACUM method shows that there are significant differences between the current and desired situation and also the findings showed that in the knowledge dimention, understanding and knowledge management component and in the skills dimention, mastering principles and techniques of negotiation component, in the attitude dimention, flexibility component has the highest priority, which will be considered as the most important educational needs of project’s engineers.