MALAYSIA CIVIL ENGINEERING EDUCATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY: A PERSPECTIVE AND THE PROPOSAL FOR A NEW MODEL
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.11113/mjce.v33.17494Keywords:
Civil engineering education, EAC-BEM accreditation, Outcome-based education, Active learning, Deep learningAbstract
Recent events have inspired me to put on record the thoughts I have regarding civil engineering education. It revolves around the observations I made for the past two decades and how civil engineering education in Malaysia might need a new perspective and framework. The keyword for the new framework is commonality. In System and Process, commonality can be defined as "the common elements of a process that facilitate the definition of a family of processes through reuse". But I will use the term in the context of civil engineering education the way I perceived it. However, my writing is not based on exhaustive scientific data or survey but as mentioned, mainly derived from my observations, thus a hypothesis, at best. After I set the scene, I then propose and detail the new framework for civil engineering education which I believe suits the 21st-century aim of producing resilient, and holistic civil engineers.
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