Abstract: With the development of higher education, engineering education plays an important role in the cultivation of professional talents. However, the cultivation of technical abilities in traditional engineering education is difficult to meet the increasingly complex needs of the current engineering field. Strengthening the cultivation of non-technical abilities is very important. However, there are difficulties in evaluating non-technical capabilities at present, and there is a relative lack of quantitative evaluation standards and specific evaluation methods. Faced with this challenge, this article takes communication skills in non-technical abilities in engineering education as the research object. By analyzing domestic and foreign certification standards, consulting references, and combining expert interviews, questionnaire surveys, and other methods to extract communication skills indicators, an evaluation system consisting of 3 secondary indicators and 12 tertiary indicators is constructed. The combination of fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method and analytic hierarchy process is used to construct an evaluation model, and the entire evaluation process is demonstrated with an example of student communication ability evaluation. The aim is to provide quantitative reference for engineering education professional certification, non-technical ability cultivation and evaluation, and to help improve the quality of engineering education.

Key words: Non-technical ability, Communication skills, Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method, Analytic Hierarchy Process, Engineering education, Indicator system