TITLE:
Approaches in Developing Undergraduate IT Engineering Curriculum for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Malaysia and Vietnam
AUTHORS:
Tran Thi Bich Lieu, Nguyen Huu Duc, Nancy Webster Gleason, Duong Trong Hai, Nguyen Duy Tam
KEYWORDS:
Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), Information Technology (IT), 4IR Engineering Competencies, 4IR Undergraduate IT Engineering Curriculum, Malaysian Higher Education, Vietnamese Higher Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.9 No.16,
December
14,
2018
ABSTRACT: Curricula have important effects on students’ professional skills. To prepare for the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), countries are recommended to implement new curricula to develop new competencies for the automation workforce. As Information technology (IT) lays the foundations for the core 4IR-relevant emerging technologies (big data, internet of things, artificial intelligence, etc.), countries have developed new IT engineering curricula to prepare engineers for the 4IR. By conducting a structured focused comparisonforbachelor IT curricula containing core 4IR modules of 57 Vietnamese and 35 Malaysian universities, this researchaims to find appropriate approaches in developing curricula to prepare 4IR competencies for IT engineering students for Malaysia, Vietnam and implications for other nations. The research found that, only new stand-alone curricula with a focus on 4IR competencies can prepare engineers for the 4IR.It then provides seven lessons for designing new 4IR engineering curriculum and for continuing studies on 4IR-ready curriculum.