1. Engineering
Education for the
Future Engineers
Riza Atiq Rahmat
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
(The National University of Malaysia)

2. Introduction
 The world is flat
• A small Malaysia company can compete with a giant American
company through collaboration and leveraging.
• A small company in Indonesia can compete with a giant
company in Malaysia
 Berlin Wall had crumbled … walls at national borders are
crumbling too.
• Relocation of manufacturing activities to China and Viet Nam
• Malaysian Companies outsource their manufacturing to other
countries
• Investment can go anywhere with one touch screen or a mouse
click

3. Changes Surrounding Universities
in Malaysia
• The economic and job market are constantly changing
at a very fast rate
• Manufacturing and other economic activities are
rapidly shifting to China and India
• Internet facilities are changing students’ learning habit
• The students are digital native
• Universities are expected to commercialise its research
products
• Changing of Malaysian economic base from agriculture
>> manufacturing, to high–tech >> knowledge-based
>> entrepreneur-Innovation based in a very short time

4. Digital Native

5. Globalization Impact
• Multinational companies free to relocate their
activities to a more profitable country.
• Large fund can be brought in and out with a mouse
click or a touch screen.
• Local companies outsource their activities to
companies anywhere on earth.
• Foreign companies free to market their products in
Malaysia
• Local companies free to export their product to
international market

6. Grose per Capita Income (thosands US$)

7. New Economic Model: Goal & Characteristic
Characteristic s of
High Income.
Per Capita Income USD
Malaysia in 2020
15,000 – 20,000
• Market Led
• Well-Governed
Rakyat
quality • Regionally integrated
of life
Inclusiveness
Enables all • Entrepreneurial
Sustainability
communities to fully Meets present needs
benefit from the without compromising • Innovative
wealth of the country future generation

8. Graduate attributes 
Program Outcomes
• Complex problem solver
• Knowledge producing graduate
• Share, remix and capitalise on new ideas
• Embrace change rather than fighting change
• Innovative-Entrepreneurial
• Global
• Leverage and collaboration
• Strong ethic

9. IHL Vision
Constructive alignment
IHL Mission
IHL Educational
Objective
Stake Holders
Program Objective
Program Outcomes
Educational Block 1 Educational Block 2 ‘n’ Co-curiculum
Course 1 Course n1 Co-Curiculum 1
Course 2 Course n2 Co-Curiculum 2
Course 3 Course n3 Co-Curikulum 3
Course ‘n’ Course ‘nn’ Co-curikulum ‘n’
Total Student Learning Experience

10. Delivery
Outcomes Delivery
• Complex problem solver • Complicated project
• Knowledge producing graduate
• Research Project
• Share, remix and capitalise on
new ideas • Multi-disciplinary Problem
• Embrace change rather than Based Learning
fighting change • Case Study
• Innovative-Entrepreneurial
• Project based with global
• Global
collaboration
• Leverage and collaboration
• Strong ethic • Strong liberal education

11. Liberal Education
(University and some of faculty courses)
• For character building
• written and oral communication
• Inquiry
We need
innovative
• critical and creative thinking
pedagogical
• quantitative literacy
skills to
• information literacy
deliver the
• Teamwork
courses
• integration of learning
• Narative skill

12. Assessment
Lecturer Intended Teaching
Perpective Objective Learning Activities Evaluation
Outcomes
Student Learning Intended
Perspective Evaluation Activities Learning
Outcomes
(Biggs 2010)
We need a good and comprehensive assessment
plan to ensure all learning outcomes are achieved
by all students

13. Outcomes Delivery Assessment
Complex problem solver Complicated project Project Report, portfolio
Knowledge producing Research Project Project report, portfolio,
graduate presentation
Share, remix and capitalise Multi-disciplinary Problem
on new ideas Based Learning
Authentic assessment
Embrace change rather Case study
than fighting change
Innovative-Entrepreneurial Case study, simulation,
serious game
Global Multi national project
based learning
Leverage and collaboration PBL, case study
Strong ethic PBL, simulation, serious
game through liberal
studies

14. Changing Curriculum
Now Gradually change to…..
Limited student centred Student centred
Prescription/rigid outcomes based Beyond Learning Outcome (unexpected)
Limited stake holders involvement Active stake holders involvement
Individual Teaching Collaborative teaching
Timetabled Immersive collaborative environment
Course based Project based
Tested (eg. Examination) Exhibit (more authentic)
Top down Bottom up (student initiative)
Expertise led Experience led
Local Global

15. Requirement
• Lecturer quality and professional certificate
• Digital learning environment
• Student Total Learning Experience
environment

16. Paradigm shift:
• From teacher centered to
student centered,
• From teaching to facilitating,
• From lecturer to learning
experience designer

17. Student Total Learning
Experience
Residential
Knowledge, skills space
and attitude Faculty
space
Cultural
space
Library Innovative
space entrepreneurship
space
Co-
curriculum
Community space
space
Industrial
Internationalisation
space
space
Time

18. The whole campus becomes
learning space – broad band
WIFI

19. Collaborative learning
Project based
Eagerness to learn from each other

20. More project based learning,
More presentation

21. Project based
Competition based
Serious Game

22. Classroom without wall
(three walls principle)

23. TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED
LEARNING
• Game and simulation (provide meaningful
learning as it provides many dimensions of
the real world)
• Mobile learning (learning anywhere, any
time, any place)
• Flip class (on-line lecture at home and
problem solving in the classroom)

24. Entrepreneurship Course
Simulation and Competition
Based learning
(First Year)

25. Second year

26. Pitching and selling their own product
(Final year)

27. LIFE LONG LEARNING
(from cradle to grave)
• Today, frontier knowledge may become
obsolete within 5 years due to intensification
of research and wide spread sharing of
knowledge trough the internet.
• Short courses with credits which can be
accumulated to earn post graduate degree.

28. Living laboratories
A traditional laboratory usually is isolated
from society and industrial community.
Often, researchers are immersed in their
research without contact with the real
world. As a result, most research products
do not immediately benefit the society

29. Living laboratories

30. Langkawi Geopark

32. Bangi Urban Transport Management System

33. Bangi Traransport Management Centre

34. Conclusion
Now Gradually change to…..
Limited student centred Student centred
Prescription/rigid outcomes based Beyond Learning Outcome (unexpected)
Limited stake holders involvement Active stake holders involvement
Individual teaching Collaborative teaching
Course based Project based
Timetabled Immersive collaborative environment
Tested (eg. Examination) Exhibit (more authentic)
Top down Bottom up (student initiative)
Expertise led Experience led
Local Global

35. NATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Icon for National Identity
& Nation Building in the
class of leading
universities of
the world
Terimakasih
Thank you