Applied Mathematics cans Enhance Employability Skills Through PBL

AbstractAs a development country, Malaysia facing the challenge to develop their economic liked others. Economic changing from agriculture to manufacturing drastic change need people also adapt to that situation. Now days, changing become issues, such as changing of work life from agriculture to manufacturing, changing of technologies, changing of people thinking, etc. From previous studies found that major issues that majority graduate not enough employability skills. This is day by day issues and keep challenges all of Malaysian not only government also students and institutions. As previous study we found that PBL can be alternative to overcome this. Changing of delivery should be applied to applied subjects that taken by applied mathematics students to facing this problem. Applied mathematics students and subjects can be more attractive using PBL as alternative methodologies to facing now day and future issues. In this research, we study effectiveness of PBL as an alternative tool in enhancing employability skills among graduates. This study adopts a combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches. Data shall be collected using documents analysis. Students sample of the quasi-experimental study comprise manufacturing engineering undergraduates from several public institutions of higher learning in Malaysia. This result shows that student can be enhanced employability skills through PBL. Furthermore, student be more competitive and become more relevance with what industries need on employability skills. This is shown that applied mathematics with helping by PBL also valuable for become major function to catalyst employability skills