The Twenty-First Century Engineering Education: KMUTT Imagineering Program

Abstract

For more than 50 years, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi (KMUTT) has been supplying the industries of Thailand with “hands-on” engineers, a trademark of KMUTT engineers, for both well-developed and developing industries ranging from large to small enterprises. Our engineering program is designed to create a theoretical engineer with many hours of hands-on experiences in practicing. To provide a basic foundation for technical design and implementation, the program has also been designed to focus more on detailed, deterministic, and analytical skill development. However, in the twenty-first century, the reality of “change” is a given. The world now is uncertain, very diverse, and complex due to the extremely high pace of information exchange and the advance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Engineering graduates are expected to offer much more than technical knowledge (Dunderstadt 2008; Vest 2010).