A Study of Alumni Feedback on Outcome based Education in the Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

Today, life-long learning is a way of life and Malaysian universities took this opportunity by offering executive masters programs to engineering managers and industrial practitioners to prepare themselves for moving up to higher job ladder. This paper present findings from an alumni's survey conducted between July and August 2011 with respect to program relevancy, appropriateness of program objectives (POs) and program educational outcomes (PEOs). A set of self administered survey questionnaire was developed and sent to the alumni via postal mail and email. Their feedbacks would be used to update this program POs and PEOs to ensure their appropriateness and relevancy. Survey results show high overall values of alumni perception of POs (i.e. between 4.22- 4.29) and PEOs (i.e. between 4.24 - 4.54). In addition, the standard deviations for all POs and PEOs are less than 1.0, which shows common agreement of the perception of importance by the alumni.