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Masnaini Alimin; Jiyeong Mun; Hyunju Lee – Asia-Pacific Science Education, 2024
With the rapid advancement of science and technology, attention to the social responsibility of STEM professionals has grown. This study explored perceptions of social responsibility among STEM college students in South Korea, Malaysia, and Indonesia, where emphasis on STEM education is increasing. Participants included 606 students from South…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, STEM Education, Social Responsibility
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Teoh, Ai Ping; Tan, Yen Shi – International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, 2020
This study aims to understand factors that affect the behavioural intention of manufacturing engineers in Malaysia to use e-learning in the workplace. Two hundred usable online questionnaires were collected from respondents who were engineers in Malaysian manufacturing companies. The data were analyzed using SPSS and Smart PLS version 3.2.6.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Manufacturing Industry, Behavior, Intention
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Fook, Chan Yuen; Balaraman, Selvam – Asian Journal of University Education, 2016
The main purpose of this research is to verify the relevancy of knowledge and skills acquired by engineering graduates from university to automotive industry in Malaysia. Hence, this paper aims to identify to what extent the knowledge and skills acquired by the new engineers in the university have equipped them with job competency in the…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Foreign Countries, Motor Vehicles
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Khamis, Nor Kamaliana; Harun, Zambri; Tahir, Mohd Faizal Mat; Wahid, Zaliha; Sabri, Mohd Anas Mohd – International Education Studies, 2013
All engineering faculties in Malaysia are required to have at least three academics who have engineering competency for each program. Having an engineering competency means academics has obtained the compulsory endorsements from the Boards of Engineers, Malaysia, BEM. Upon approval, academics seeking such competency could carry the suffix Ir. to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering Education, Engineering, Technical Occupations
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Harun, Zambri; Khamis, Nor Kamaliana; Isa, Mohamad Dali; Hashim, Hashimah – International Education Studies, 2013
This paper discusses the roles of professional engineers (PEs) who are attached to the Institutions of Higher Learning (IHLs) and how their contributions are as important as their counterparts in the industry. This paper highlights the roles for PEs at IHLs based on a survey conducted at selected IHLs in Malaysia. Academician-professional…
Descriptors: Technical Occupations, Engineering, Role Perception, Higher Education
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Hooi, Lai Wan – Journal of European Industrial Training, 2010
Purpose: The aim of this paper is to gain insight into some of the types of training and development practices that are carried out in the chemical industry for technical workers. A salient focus of the study is to make a comparative analysis of four MNCs, which were selected based on equity ownership, to ascertain whether T&D practices are…
Descriptors: Technical Occupations, Chemistry, Industrial Training, Corporations
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Rasul, Mohamad Sattar; Rauf, Rose Amnah Abd; Mansor, Azlin Norhaini; Puvanasvaran, A. P. – International Education Studies, 2012
Research nationally and internationally found that technical graduates are lacking in employability skills. As employability skills are crucial in outcome-based education, the main goal of this research is to develop an Employability Skill Assessment Tool to help students and lecturers produce competent graduates in employability skills needed by…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Technical Education, Technical Occupations
1997
This document contains 39 papers and 13 poster presentations from a conference on technological education and national development. The following are among the papers included: "The Future of Technological Education and Vocational Education: UNESCO's (United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization's) Perspective" (Adnan…
Descriptors: Academic Education, Academic Standards, Case Studies, Change Strategies