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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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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.

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This report presents an analysis of teaching and learning methods being applied currently in Thailand and European partners’ countries, being part of the WP1 progress reports. The process of analysis was based on data collected in two different ways. First the project’s team collected data from 23 best practices of Industrial Engineering (IE) or related master programs, being 13 from Thai programs and 10 from European programs. Additionally, the project’s team collected the perceptions on most used and most effective teaching and learning methods, from Thai and European teachers participating in the project.

Results from the questionnaire show that among European and Thai teachers, lecture is still the most used teaching and learning approach. Additionally, among Thai teachers may exist a belief that teacher-centered approaches are more effective for teaching learning. The analysis of the best practices shows that in the European selected programs is much more common to develop Project-Based Learning based on interdisciplinary problems, interacting with industrial partners.

The full report is available here.