Meeting the stakeholders expectations in engineering programs: a case study of Rivatex East Africa Limited

Abstract

Students’ learning outcomes show that graduates from university courses are lacking in important skills, such as communication, decision-making, problem solving, leadership, emotional intelligence, and social ethics as well as the ability to work with people from different backgrounds. Engineering graduates today need to work within multicultural and multinational workplace environments with adequate professional attributes or competencies. The missing links between engineering graduate attributes and employers’ expectations are elaborated in the paper. This paper discusses the position of Moi University graduates vis-à-vis the expected at the industry. The paper outlines what the consumers i.e. employers of graduates of engineering often complain of being given half baked products. It sought to establish the lacking skills in this graduates taking a case study of Rivatex factory and graduates of Moi University. What are the competences the industry require and to what extend the graduates posses them. It gives analysis of attributes as seen by the employer and draws conclusion and suggestions on requirements to be considered while training an engineer. The paper is significant as it seeks to establish the skills lacking in engineering graduates from the employer’s point of view. The findings of the study will contribute to a deeper understanding of the issue and possible avenues for their address.