The employment market now demands employees who are multi-skilled and personable – doctors who are good managers, accountants with people skills and engineers with business acumen.
Realising this, the engineering fraternity, headed by the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) started a five-year exercise to take stock of its place in the global market. Top on their agenda was to take a good, hard look at both the engineering education curriculum at universities as well as the profession as a whole – making a comparative study with foreign models (the United Kingdom, Germany, France, etc) and striving to implement the necessary changes and improvements.
