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Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates

From the pass until now, the industry was affected by technological change and innovation. These paradigms are called industrial revolutions. These revolutions were caused by mechanization (1st industrial revolution), use of electrical energy (2nd industrial revolution) and electronics and automatio...

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Main Authors: Azmi, Aini Najwa, Kamin, Yusri, Noordin, Muhammad Khair, Md. Nasir, Ahmad Nabil
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Published: Science Publishing Corporation Inc. 2018
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L Education (General)
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86460/
https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/22593
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spelling my.utm.864602020-09-08T13:18:46Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86460/ Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates Azmi, Aini Najwa Kamin, Yusri Noordin, Muhammad Khair Md. Nasir, Ahmad Nabil L Education (General) From the pass until now, the industry was affected by technological change and innovation. These paradigms are called industrial revolutions. These revolutions were caused by mechanization (1st industrial revolution), use of electrical energy (2nd industrial revolution) and electronics and automation (3rd industrial revolution). All these industrial revolutions did influence only the production itself, but also the labour market and the educational system as well. Currently, due to the development of digitalization and robotics, we are facing the next industrial revolution, known as the Industry Revolution 4.0. The emerging technologies have huge effect on the education of people. Only qualified and highly educated employees will be able to control these technologies. The skills needed by employers' in the Industry 4.0 have change due to the changes of the technologies. In this paper, we present the non-technical skills those are demanded by employers' in Industry 4.0 based on recent studies by doing metaanalysis technique. In addition, interviews with five employers have been done to clarify the metaanalysis results. Based on the results, the non-technical skills which are demanded by employers are communication skills especially in English, teamwork skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, entrepreneur skills and computer skills. Universities should be exposed their students with much more of interdisciplinary teaching, research, innovation and valuable industrial training to meet current demands of industries. Science Publishing Corporation Inc. 2018 Article PeerReviewed Azmi, Aini Najwa and Kamin, Yusri and Noordin, Muhammad Khair and Md. Nasir, Ahmad Nabil (2018) Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates. International Journal of Engineering and Technology(UAE), 7 (4.28). pp. 267-272. ISSN 2227-524X https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/22593
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topic L Education (General)
spellingShingle L Education (General)
Azmi, Aini Najwa
Kamin, Yusri
Noordin, Muhammad Khair
Md. Nasir, Ahmad Nabil
Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
description From the pass until now, the industry was affected by technological change and innovation. These paradigms are called industrial revolutions. These revolutions were caused by mechanization (1st industrial revolution), use of electrical energy (2nd industrial revolution) and electronics and automation (3rd industrial revolution). All these industrial revolutions did influence only the production itself, but also the labour market and the educational system as well. Currently, due to the development of digitalization and robotics, we are facing the next industrial revolution, known as the Industry Revolution 4.0. The emerging technologies have huge effect on the education of people. Only qualified and highly educated employees will be able to control these technologies. The skills needed by employers' in the Industry 4.0 have change due to the changes of the technologies. In this paper, we present the non-technical skills those are demanded by employers' in Industry 4.0 based on recent studies by doing metaanalysis technique. In addition, interviews with five employers have been done to clarify the metaanalysis results. Based on the results, the non-technical skills which are demanded by employers are communication skills especially in English, teamwork skills, critical thinking and problem-solving skills, entrepreneur skills and computer skills. Universities should be exposed their students with much more of interdisciplinary teaching, research, innovation and valuable industrial training to meet current demands of industries.
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author Azmi, Aini Najwa
Kamin, Yusri
Noordin, Muhammad Khair
Md. Nasir, Ahmad Nabil
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Kamin, Yusri
Noordin, Muhammad Khair
Md. Nasir, Ahmad Nabil
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title Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
title_short Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
title_full Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
title_fullStr Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
title_full_unstemmed Towards industrial revolution 4.0: Employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
title_sort towards industrial revolution 4.0: employers' expectations on fresh engineering graduates
publisher Science Publishing Corporation Inc.
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/86460/
https://www.sciencepubco.com/index.php/ijet/article/view/22593
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