It is essential that the engineering graduate receives relevant training in engineering practice as well as in engineering administration and management. Also, to match the nature of continuing technological industrial development and the consequent blurring of any clear distinction between the engineering disciplines, it is expected that the training should include multi-disciplinary elements. In this way, the experiences of the graduates are widened so that they can better meet the technological challenges that lie ahead.
The training should be in three parts:
Common Core
The objectives that all disciplines should meet. For example: the development of personal qualities, such as innovative thinking, negotiation skills, time management and leadership skills.
Core
The objectives that all trainees in a discipline must meet. For example: aviation legistration for Aircraft Engineers, generation and transmission of electricity for Electrical Engineers, slope stability design for Structural Engineers.
Specific
The objectives set by the company/organisation that graduates must meet.