The Impacts Of Industrial Training Program Towards Enhancing The Performance Of Undergraduate Students

Nurfah Nabilah , Mohd Fadzil (2013) The Impacts Of Industrial Training Program Towards Enhancing The Performance Of Undergraduate Students. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka. (Submitted)

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Abstract

In today’s competitive world, it has become much important for the student to develop their key competencies and practical skills, encouraging them to apply skills and knowledge acquired through study in a real-life environment. That is why industrial training have been an important strategy to expose students to real work-life situation and to equip them with the necessary skills so that they would be job ready when they graduate. Besides that, industrial training also provide a valuable contribution to organizations and many organizations are beginning to recognize the value of internship programs. Hence, the main idea of this research is to identify the impacts of the industrial training program towards enhancing the performance of the undergraduate students. In this research, the first batch of the undergraduates of Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), was selected as the respondents as they have been undergone their industrial training during in their third year (semester 6). The result showed that the impacts of industrial training program significantly contributed towards enhancing the performance of the undergraduate students. As a conclusion, industrial training program provide benefits that enhance the performance of the undergraduate students. It was determined that internships plays a strong role in preparing the undergraduate students towards the workforce. Conclusion and recommendations of the study were also discussed based on the analysis. Keywords: Industrial training program, Internship program, Benefits, Impacts, Performance.

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