EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES ON COMPETENCIES OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES: A PRELIMINARY STUDY

Authors

  • Aini Najwa Azmi Department of Technical and Engineering Education, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor
  • Yusri Kamin Department of Technical and Engineering Education, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor
  • Muhammad Khair Noordin Department of Technical and Engineering Education, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor
  • Ahmad Nabil Md. Nasira Department of Technical and Engineering Education, School of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM Johor Bahru, Johor

Abstract

Based on previous reports, there are complaints from industries that our engineering graduates lack in non-technical skills. The engineers that are freshly entered the industry are not industry-ready due to lack of required non-technical skills. One of the reason is when they are still undergarduates, they receive minimum industry exposure during their industrial training. Furthermore, most of them have less industry experience and non-technical that is expected by today’s industry. Unfortunately, some students undergo industrial training to the industry which is not relevance to what they are studied before. This problem contributes to unemployment issue among engineering fresh graduates. This paper presents a study on sixteen engineering graduates from various public universities in Malaysia on effects of industrial training programme to them. A semi-structured interview was used to gain data from the respondents. The results reveal that 90% of respondents which underwent only 2.5 to 3 months of industrial training did not satisfy with the short duration of training. In addition, 43.75% of them claimed that the industries that they had been placed are not related to their courses.

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2019-05-08

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Azmi, A. N., Kamin, Y., Noordin, M. K., & Md. Nasira, A. N. (2019). EFFECTS OF INDUSTRIAL TRAINING PROGRAMMES ON COMPETENCIES OF ENGINEERING GRADUATES: A PRELIMINARY STUDY. Jurnal Kemanusiaan, 17(1-S). Retrieved from https://jurnalkemanusiaan.utm.my/index.php/kemanusiaan/article/view/317

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Vol 17, No 1-S (2019): SPECIAL ISSUE OF SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING, SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

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