Undergraduate Student's Perception towards Engineering Program at UKM

This paper identifies Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia undergraduate student's perception towards engineering programs offered at the university. The main objectives of this work are to identify and compare the student's perception towards engineering program according to their cohort and to correlate the pattern with the different learning experience they undergo. By using Rasch analysis, the results shows that the student's perceptions towards engineering program at UKM have similar trend for each group. Majority of the first, third and fourth year students agree that engineering program at UKM is the most popular in the country. However, all groups do not agree that UKM is a prestige university which also offers high quality programs for other fields. It is interesting that all groups indicated their readiness to further postgraduate studies in engineering field at UKM. The first and fourth year students are still not prepared to become an engineer after graduation while the second and third year students are still trying hard to possess the required knowledge and skill in engineering. Based on the results, it is found that the duration of learning experiences does not influence the student's perception towards engineering program at UKM.