An industry oriented course development for the master of engineering

Background: With traditional teaching methodologies in educational environments, the Master of Engineering is a research degree requiring completion of coursework and a thesis. The courses based on the knowledge required for the discipline usually follow on from this. The problem with this traditional methodology of learning is that there is no close relationship with industry requirements. Industry oriented education is an approach to learning from an industry perspective. The industry oriented teaching and learning enables a Bachelor of Design graduate to entry this technology oriented Master of Design program. Purpose: The aim of the course development is to build the Master of Engineering student profile in the implementation of industry oriented teaching and learning as an alternative to the current method used of theoretical based. Design/Method: The course Design and Practice of Electric Vehicles was designed and delivered at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology. This short term course is completed in two weeks, with 9 hours of lecturing each week. The teaching plan breaks into 6 parts and each part has 3 hour lectures. The assessment results have been in a brief summary and it was analysed. Results: Since the course is an industry oriented and project based, the students from Electronic, Control and mechanical engineering can sit in a class to undertake the design and practice of Electric Vehicles where a multi-discipline research team is available. The assessment results showed that such an industry oriented course improved the industry specific outcomes of the learners. Conclusions: We proved that an industry oriented teaching can improve the industry specific outcomes of the learners in the Master of Engineering programme as we believe that students can build their industry oriented research background and multi-discipline research experience and skills within the Master of Engineering program.