Track: Engineering Education

Abstract

This paper describes an integrated alignment model towards Industry 4.0 for undergraduate engineering education. This integrated alignment model nurtures synergy among engineering education activities such as applied learning, applied research, and continuous education training (CET) programs to share a common Industry 4.0 vision. The stakeholders of this model include students, faculty, industry partners, and recipients of CET programs. This model applies Singapore Smart Industry Readiness Index (SIRI) as a guideline to align the various engineering activities. It advocates effective collaborations with industry partners, thus improve the quality of applied learning and applied research. Meanwhile, industry partners can benefit from receiving the state-of-the-art concepts and knowledge of Industry 4.0. The proposed integrated model provides practical guidelines to align the undergraduate engineering education towards Industry 4.0 vision. The case study presented in this paper shows that multifaceted results can be obtained from applying this model.