Understanding of outcome-based education (OBE) implementation by civil engineering students in Malaysia

Author(s):  
Che Maznah Mat Isa ◽  
Hamidah Mohd Saman ◽  
Wardah Tahir ◽  
Janmaizatulriah Jani ◽  
Mazidah Mukri
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Mazlina Mohamad ◽  
Oh Chai Lian ◽  
Mohd Raizamzamani Md Zain ◽  
Balqis Md Yunus ◽  
Norbaya Hj. Sidek

Abstract : In ensuring the quality of the offered programs in Malaysia, it is crucial to comply with the long chain of Quality Management processes in obtaining and maintaining accreditation of undergraduate engineering programs. One of the processes is to continually and effectively measure the students’ attainment of program outcomes amid the implementation of Outcome-Based Education. This paper focuses on MyCOPO system, the evaluation of undergraduate bachelor degree engineering students’ attainment measurement system in the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam. A quantitative survey has been conducted to measure academic staff and students’ satisfaction level of MyCOPO implementation in the faculty. This survey has been conducted in line with the university strategy in promoting organisation operational excellence via MyCOPO system, where 47 and 227 respondents were recorded for academic staff and students, respectively. Two sets of questionnaires were designed to determine the impact of the system, the effectiveness on delivery and quality of the system and users’ happiness index. This system is found to be impactful in ease the work, increase the quality and provide satisfaction to related parties. The usage of MyCOPO system is effective and the average rating of happiness index for academic staff and students are 8.2 and 7.2 out of 10 for happiness index, respectively.   Keywords: Attainment measurement system, Civil engineering, outcome-based education, satisfaction.  


Author(s):  
Jörg Lange ◽  
Aaron von der Heyden ◽  
Ulrich Knaack ◽  
Evgenia Kanli

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmad Yasruddin Md Yasin ◽  
Wan Mohd Haniff Wan Mohd Shaupil ◽  
Affidah Mardziah Mukhtar ◽  
Noor Izma Ab Ghani ◽  
Farawaheeda Rashid

Author(s):  
Svetlana S. Andreeva

The work discusses the problem of teaching students of civil engineering departments English-language civil engineering discourse, in particular, communicative tactics of this type of discourse. We substantiate the need to form students’ skills in using the communicative tactics applied in civil engineering discourse in professional communication. We give an overview of com-municative tactics of written discourse used by the authors of English-language documentation in civil engineering professional field. The purpose of the study is to determine the level of students’ skills in using communicative tactics in a foreign language professional written speech. Theoretical and practical research showed that in a modern technical university, insufficient attention is paid to teaching students this component of professional discourse. At the same time, the level of students’ skills to use communicative tactics in professional communication is quite low, which led us to the conclusion that it is of paramount importance to include this component in the pro-gram of teaching a foreign language in a professional field. The results of the will serve as the ba-sis for the development of a methodic model of teaching civil engineering students the communic-ative tactics of professional civil engineering discourse.


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