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MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues

The Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodology had been widely applied and accepted in businesses, industries and manufacturing sectors. However, there is a limitation of resources available on discussing the way of MCDM may applied in engineering education decision problems within university...

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Main Authors: Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi, Shy, Ching Tan, Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Published: 2018
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L Education (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81826/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60937-9_16
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spelling my.utm.818262019-09-29T08:13:28Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81826/ MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi Shy, Ching Tan Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah L Education (General) The Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodology had been widely applied and accepted in businesses, industries and manufacturing sectors. However, there is a limitation of resources available on discussing the way of MCDM may applied in engineering education decision problems within university setting. The current economic crisis as well as the changes in the way Ministry of Higher Education providing funding to higher education institution had created a major shift in emphasis. Both public and private higher education institutions are facing increasing cost and declining revenue streams. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature which focused in seven majors engineering education decision problems: resources allocation, performance measurement, budgeting, scheduling, planning, obtaining resources, and evaluation. The paper carried out review of articles in international scientific journals and well known international conferences related to MCDM applications published within 2000 and 2016 inclusive. Related articles are reviewed and analyzed for the types of decision problems that were paid most attention to, MCDM approaches adopted, and inadequacies of those approaches. Some improvements and possible future works are recommended based on those inadequacies. The reviewed result will create an interest to university management as it is presented in an effective way to academic process improvement, resources allocation and achieving greater satisfaction among students. 2018 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi and Shy, Ching Tan and Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah (2018) MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues. In: World Engineering Education Forum and Global Engineering Deans Council, WEEF and GEDC 2016, 6 November 2016 through 10 November 2016, Seoul, South Korea. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60937-9_16
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topic L Education (General)
spellingShingle L Education (General)
Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi
Shy, Ching Tan
Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues
description The Multi-Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) methodology had been widely applied and accepted in businesses, industries and manufacturing sectors. However, there is a limitation of resources available on discussing the way of MCDM may applied in engineering education decision problems within university setting. The current economic crisis as well as the changes in the way Ministry of Higher Education providing funding to higher education institution had created a major shift in emphasis. Both public and private higher education institutions are facing increasing cost and declining revenue streams. The purpose of this paper is to review the literature which focused in seven majors engineering education decision problems: resources allocation, performance measurement, budgeting, scheduling, planning, obtaining resources, and evaluation. The paper carried out review of articles in international scientific journals and well known international conferences related to MCDM applications published within 2000 and 2016 inclusive. Related articles are reviewed and analyzed for the types of decision problems that were paid most attention to, MCDM approaches adopted, and inadequacies of those approaches. Some improvements and possible future works are recommended based on those inadequacies. The reviewed result will create an interest to university management as it is presented in an effective way to academic process improvement, resources allocation and achieving greater satisfaction among students.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi
Shy, Ching Tan
Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
author_facet Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi
Shy, Ching Tan
Mohd. Yusof, Khairiyah
author_sort Syed Hassan, Syed Ahmad Helmi
title MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues
title_short MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues
title_full MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues
title_fullStr MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues
title_full_unstemmed MCDM for engineering education: literature review and research issues
title_sort mcdm for engineering education: literature review and research issues
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/81826/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60937-9_16
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