Perception of Faculty Engineering and Built Environment's Students towards the Benefit of Industrial Training

Industrial training program is a prerequisite course for all undergraduate students in the Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment (FKAB), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). By having this training program, students are exposed to the responsibility of an engineer and engineering profession. This study was carried out to compare the students’ perception on the benefit of the Industrial Training program for the year 2010. A 5-point-Likert scale questionnaire based on students’ perception before and after industrial training were given to 318 trainee students in the faculty. All raw data were analysed using descriptive statistics and t-test measurement. The results show that there was a statistical different (p<0.05) between students’ perception before and after the industrial training. These results also proved that the industrial training program is merely beneficial to the students in terms of engineering education improvement and engineering profession.