Benefits of industrial training to engineering students

This paper discusses the perception of engineering students from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia on Industrial Training program. Their opinion on benefits and disadvantages of the program is studied. A total of 385 students were chosen from 5 different departments. They were asked various questions related to 'attitude', 'communication' and 'work attitude' before and after undergoing industrial training, and advantages of industrial training on improving their job prospect, qualification and career guidance. In general, before undergoing industrial training, the students feel they are lack in 'communication' skills as it shows only 45% of satisfactory level. For 'work attitude' and 'attitude', the satisfactory level reached 56% and 70% respectively. However, after undergoing industrial training, the percentages increased to 83%, 92% and 97% respectively. The students also agreed that the industrial training is beneficial giving satisfactory levels of 88% for job prospect, 88% for qualification and 94% on job guidance.