A study on students interest and preparedness based on entry survey

Author

Ahmad, A. ; Apandi, N.I.A. ; Hashim, M.R. ; Sani, Z.M. ; Anuar, H. ; Khalil, S.N.

Author_Institution

Fac. of Electr. Eng., Univ. Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), Durian Tunggal, Malaysia

fYear

2012

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTeM produces students in Bachelor Degree of Electrical Engineering and Mechatronics Engineering. The curriculum of the program was developed based on the Programes Outcomes (PO) set by the faculty committee. Entry survey is a form of survey that was conducted to students that just after their admission into the faculty. The purpose of this survey is to find out the student´s interest and preparedness to learn electrical and mechatronics engineering educations. All of the items in the survey were developed based on POs set by the faculty. A sample of 131 students participated in this survey and the results were analyzed using mean score analysis. Result from the study shows that students admitted to this faculty were prepared enough to study engineering education, hence faculty POs set would be able to produce a competent engineers.

Keywords

educational courses; electrical engineering education; mechatronics; Bachelor degree of electrical engineering; PO; UTeM; electrical engineering educations; entry survey; faculty committee; faculty of electrical engineering; mean score analysis; mechatronics engineering educations; program outcomes; student interest; Accreditation; Educational institutions; Electrical engineering; Engineering education; Mechatronics; Reliability; Entry Survey; interest; mean score analysis; preparedness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Statistics in Science, Business, and Engineering (ICSSBE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Langkawi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1581-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSSBE.2012.6396530

Filename

6396530