Malaysia Civil Engineering Education in the 21st Century: a Perspective and the Proposal for a New Model

Recent events have inspired me to put on record the thoughts I have regarding civil engineering education. It revolves around the observations I made for the past two decades and how civil engineering education in Malaysia might need a new perspective and framework. The keyword for the new framework is commonality. In System and Process, commonality can be defined as "the common elements of a process that facilitate the definition of a family of processes through reuse". But I will use the term in the context of civil engineering education the way I perceived it. However, my writing is not based on exhaustive scientific data or survey but as mentioned, mainly derived from my observations, thus a hypothesis, at best. After I set the scene, I then propose and detail the new framework for civil engineering education which I believe suits the 21st-century aim of producing resilient, and holistic civil engineers.