Current status of Engineering Education in Malaysia

2015 AEESEAP Country Reports
MALAYSIA
Current status of
Engineering Education in Malaysia
Ng Siew Cheok, PhD
Faculty of Engineering
20 August 2015
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 PART 1:
 PART 2:
Improvement in Universiti Malaya
- Brief Overview
- EAC Task Force
- Curriculum Review
EAC updates
Accreditation decisions
Universities offering Engineering Programme
Accredited Engineering disciplines
 12 slides (including graphics)
FACULTY OF ENGINEERING
Number of academic staff: 165 (59.5% international)
Number of admin and technical staff: 141
No. of Undergraduate programs: 11
No. of Postgraduate programs: 10
Undergraduates: 1349 (4.67% international)
Postgraduates: 1075 (40.5% international)
Industrial PhD: 13
ISI papers 2014: 64 (as at 9 Feb 2015)
Patents filed (2011 - 2014): 175 (as at Dis 2014)
QS Ranking (2014): 151
Largest recipient of special research grant from
MOHE: High Impact Research worth > RM131mil for
5 years
151th
World Ranking (QS)
156th
167th
167th
180th
207th
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
research
superstars
cutting edge
facilities
high impact
publications
QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS – ENGINEERING -2016 –
[QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS – 2016 – TOP 100]
ENGINEERING - 83
ENGINEERING - ELECTRICAL (2015; 51-100, 2014 ; 51-100, 2013; 51-100)
ENGINEERING – CHEMICAL (2015;51-100, 2014 ; 51-100, 2013; 51-100)
ENGINEERING – MECHANICAL (2015; 51-100, 2014 ; 51-100, 2013; 100-150)
ENGINEERING – CIVIL (2015; 101-150, 2014 ; 101-150, 2013; 151-200)
TOP 50
EAC Task Force
• Implementation of OBE and preparation of
EAC is usually done by the department
independently of one another. Problem of
disparity across the department.
Implementation dependent on the person
involved.
• The EAC task force will be at the faculty level
and ensure the continuity of the OBE
implementation.
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EAC TASK FORCE
Advisory Panel
Faculty Management + External Expert
Policies/Monitoring/Resources
Programme
Coordinators
Implement/Monitor/Report
Resource Persons
Academic staff from the faculty
Plan/Implement/monitor/
assess/CQI
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Advisory Panel
• Membership
– Faculty Management:
• Dean and Deputy Deans
• All Head of Department
– Senior Professors
– External Expert: Experience in accreditation processes.
• TOR
– Decide on the policies
– Monitor the overall implementation
– Allocate the resources
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Programme Coordinators
• Membership
– Programme coordinators for all the undergraduate
programmes. (12)
• TOR
– Implementation of policies.
– Report to the advisory panel.
– Give feedback to the resource person.
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Resource Person
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Membership
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TOR
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Headed by the deputy dean
Junior as well as senior academic staff from all the department.
Cover 33 different aspects (each aspects have one to two champions)
Plan the related policies.
Brief the coordinator on how to implement
Monitor the implementation
Assess and continuously improve the policy.
The different aspects
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Programme outcomes : 12
Feedback: 5(IAP and External Examiner, Alumni, Stakeholder, Professional body)
Teaching and learning: 7(Integrated design, coursework, industrial training, FYP, facilities, Complex
and open ended)
Supporting concepts: 4 (Sustainability, Safety health, economy and finance, entrepreneurship)
Others: 5 (softskills, psychomotor, affective, student activities, industrial activities)
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Curriculum review
• Introduce more design courses
– Faculty based Integrated design project in year 2
and 3.
• Involve students from different engineering disciplines.
– Department capstone design projects in year 3 or
4.
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EAC guideline for recommendation
of accreditation decisions
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LIST OF UNIVERSITIES OFFERING
ENGINEERING PROGRAMES
No. Programme
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
3
5
5
8
8
8
9
11
12
12
13
17
18
21
34
184
IHL (Public)
No.
Programme
UiTM, Penang
UMS
UNIMAS
UIAM
UPM
UTHM
UKM
USM, Penang
UM
UPNM (ATMA)
UMP (KUKTEM)
UTEM (KUTKM)
UiTM, S A
UNiMAP (KUKUM)
UTM
TOTAL
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
1
1
1
1
2
2
3
3
3
4
4
4
4
4
5
5
6
6
6
7
8
9
10
99
IHL (Private)
AIMST University
KDU, Penang Campus
SEGI UC
TATI/UTM
KBU
KOLEJ UNITI
INTI University
IUKL/KLIUC/IKRAM-UPM
TAYLOR's University
APU (UCTI)
MONASH
PRIME/UPM
UNITEN
UTAR, Perak
UNISEL
UTP
CURTIN
MMU, Melaka
SWINBURNE
UCSI University
MMU, Cyberjaya
UTAR, KL
UNiM
TOTAL
No
LIST OF DISCIPLINE OF ACCREDITED
ENGINEERING PROGRAMES.
Discipline
Total
No
Discipline
1
Electronic
2
Total
84
13
Marine
3
Mechanical
45
14
Environmental
3
3
Civil
33
15
Aerospace
3
4
Chemical
31
16
Polymer
2
5
Electrical
27
17
Biological& Agricultural
2
6
Manufacturing
14
18
Mineral Resources
1
7
Mechatronic
11
19
Microelectronic
1
8
Petroleum
4
20
Metallurgical
1
9
Material
4
21
Industrial
1
10
Computer
4
22
Food & Process
1
11
Biomedical
4
23
Communication
1
12
Telecommunication
3
Grand Total
283
LIST OF DISCIPLINE OF ENGINEERING PROGRAME ACCREDITED 2014
Thank You
TERIMA KASIH
Special thanks to
Association for Engineering Education in Southeast Asia, East Asia and the Pacific (AEESEAP)
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