Students exit survey analysis for Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Programs at Universiti Malaysia Pahang

Abstract

Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) is a key to the globalization of engineering education and ongoing effort to improve products, services or processes. These efforts can seek “incremental” improvement over time or “breakthrough” improvement all at once. This paper explores the assessment of exit surveys to assess the graduate students of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering (FKM), Universiti Malaysia Pahang. The exit survey covered the student’s impressions towards teaching and learning, skills and knowledge related to Program Outcomes (PO’s), student ratings for lecturer’s contributions, students opinions towards academic resources and overall graduate preparation by FKM. The outcome of assessment processes and how it can be facilitate to improve the mechanical engineering program was also investigated. The survey was conducted during last academic semester (first semester of the year 2008/2009). It is observed that all program outcomes have at least 70% student rating towards skills and knowledge preparation related to the program outcomes. This is confirmed outcome based education strategies when the entire curriculum should be mapping to the program outcomes. Based on this survey, approximately more that 76.8% of the respondents agreed that the mechanical engineering programs are suitable and recommended to a new student in the future.