Track: Engineering Management

Abstract

Currently Project Based learning (PBL) is widely applied in higher education institutions. However, little is known about its critical influence as per postgraduate students’ engagement, employability, tasks building and responses within the courses. This paper presents a case study which is built based on a qualitative mechanism to explore these focused issues gained by respondents in Master of Engineering Management course at Queensland university of Technology (QUT).To accomplish this, a questionnaire was prepared and designed comprising of two sections; the first part is about the demographical information of the respondents, while the second part includes five relevant questions about improvement of the master course and Enterprise resource planning unit administrated to 113 respondents. The qualitative analysis show that the dominant skills are management skills, communication skills, Software knowledge and related subject knowledge. Respondents show that the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) unit is organized well, lectures and tutorials are useful. Additionally, the BN87 course has an integrated comprehensive structure with all units implied. This paper may help lecturers and decision makers in their potential to redesign the relevant courses considering the views of the respondents and aligned with QUT long learning vision.