Society needs sharp and bright engineers
to serve public Interests.
Therefore, WA-rated fresh graduates cannot be
“Industry ready on day one” – they can be only
“industry primed” – at the very best. It is industry’s
responsibility to train fresh engineering graduates
and the domestic “Professional Regulatory
Authority” (PRA – as defined in the ASEAN MRA
on Engineering Services; Malaysia’s PRA for
Engineering Services is the BEM) has the “duty
of care” in outreaching to industry to advise them
that they cannot just leave engineer training to
institutions of higher learning. Training is frankly
their job!
IHL educates and Industry trains. That’s the
natural “Order of Things”. Industry and IHL cooperation
and relationship is vital!
Graduate Engineer’s ‘In-career’ training
and Professional Development
The second stage of ‘in-career’ training and
professional development under supervision
or through mentoring, is to prepare graduateengineers
to appear before a peer-to-peer
certification process to prove they have the
requisite professional competencies to practice
engineering without further mentor supervision.
In other words, graduating to the stage as to
be capable for “independent practice” and
registration or licensing as a Professional Engineer
(PE by a domestic PRA). Life-long-learning for a PE
will keep “obsolescence at bay”. A PE is registered
or licensed to practise engineering and must
adopt continual professional development (CPD)
to be relevant.
Outcome-Based Education (OBE)
Approach
OBE is education, not training. An educated
person is one who is:
● Informed;
● Literate;
● Well read;
● Knowledgeable;
● Learned;
● Enlightened;
● Cultured.
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