Students’ Feedback on Integrated Project after 5-Years Implementation in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Programme

Abstract

Integrated Project (IP) has become a synonym for students and lecturers in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering (JKKP), Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment (FKAB), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) since it was first introduced in the first semester of Session 2006/2007. Now it has already reached five years of implementation with three batches of JKKP graduates who has completely undergone the process of learning and teaching through IP in the department. Since its implementation, JKKP has distributed questionnaires to prospective graduates during annual Graduate Event which is held at the end of the second semester of each academic session to celebrate the fourth-year students that will be graduated. The findings of the questionnaire from the three groups of students are analyzed and compared to see the effectiveness of its implementation from the student perspective. The results obtained show that all the three batches of students have reflected that IP is very valuable to them in their learning process and suggested that this implementation need to be continued in the future. The agreement level from the three batches of student on each statement asked in the questionnaire about the benefits obtained through IP regarding to the application of basic knowledge, such as soft skills (lifelong learning, communication, identification of current issues), knowledge of software design is about 70 -90%.