OUTCOME 1.5 GAP BETWEEN THE NEEDS AND GRADUATES’ COMPETENCES
This report presents the gap analysis between the industry and students’ needs and graduates’ competences, and a comparison between industry needs of Thai and European selected companies.
The results of the comparison between industry needs of Thai and European selected companies show that, in general, Thai companies have a higher need of development of technologies and systems to support Industry 4.0 than the European surveyed companies do.
The gap analysis was based on a triangular analysis data source between industry needs, students’ needs and curricula current situation. Roles of MSIE graduates were identified for applications derived from the applications of Big Data, Sensors, and Mobile systems on production, product development and IT. Their expected competence levels based on Bloom’s taxonomy were identified. For the gap analysis, the project’s team added an analysis of the current situation related to the development of this level of competences.
The professional role of Engineers need not only technical competences but also transversal competencies. Both companies and students identified the development of transversal competences as being highly important but the analysis of curricula showed barely existent references to the development of transversal competences in current master programs.
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Outcome 1.4 Analysis of needs of industry and students
This report presents a perspective on the needs of companies and students towards Industry 4.0 development. 72 companies from Thailand (50) and EU (22) and 450 industrial engineering master students from Thailand (232) and Europe (218) participated in surveys. The main results show that, for Industrial Engineering, there should be considered three main technologies needed by industries: Big Data, Sensor and Mobile Devices. Each of these technologies was crossed with the main domains of applications needed by industries: Product Development, Production Technology, and IT-based Integrated Systems. The area considered more important to be developed in the curriculum is Big Data applied to production technology/systems, immediately followed by product development. Moreover, the results of data analysis of the questionnaires also show the high importance of transversal competences, both for industry and for students, being possible to identify the three most important as Adaptability and ability to change, Teamwork and Communication skills.