Trend of engineering education research among ASEAN engineering faculty members

Abstract

There is a wide range of understanding of engineering education research among engineering educators worldwide. Some engineering educators perceive that as long as they are involved in designing and then assessing engineering programs or teaching and learning, they are conducting engineering education research. However, under the Rigorous Research in Engineering Education (RREE), research in engineering education must be scientific, and at least follow the principles of scientific research in any discipline. In the context of ASEAN countries that are emerging in the scientific community, it is important to investigate the trend and understand the involvement of the engineering education community in engineering education research. Therefore, this research investigates to understand the trend of engineering education research through publications by authors from ASEAN countries. The publications in Web of Science Core Collections were included in this research as these are the rigorous and scientific publications in this field. This research employed a systematic literature review by scoping engineering education research publications from the Web of Science Core Collections that have been written by ASEAN countries' affiliated authors within the last five years. From the eight journals, twenty-eight papers fulfilled the criteria of this research. Most of the papers were published in the International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education. Only five ASEAN countries have published in these journals recently, Malaysia topped the list with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) as the leading university. Most of the topics published are related to the sharing of teaching and learning. From 2,419 papers published in those eight engineering education research journals, only twenty-eight papers were written by authors from the ASEAN countries. The trend of engineering education research in ASEAN centers around sharing best practices in teaching and learning using technology and project-based learning.

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