Abstract—Despite the vast research conducted on the importance of soft skills development and mentoring in cooperative education, there is no study that provides a method that assesses mentorship in developing soft skills effectively, especially in cooperative education.  This study will assess the perceptions of students in the Russ College of Engineering and Technology regarding important soft skills needed to succeed in a working environment. This study is conducted as part of a tool development study to measure soft skills development in cooperative education settings. This study will use Q-method with Kantrowitz’s Soft Skills Performance Measurement (SSPM) that serves as a guideline for the soft skills activities needed. Participants are asked to group similar items and name the group. The result will be used to develop soft skills performance measurement tools in an engineering cooperative education setting, together with the mentoring function scale by Noe.