Faculty of Engineering and Technology

(FET)

PWC 1010

WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION

Lack of Female Engineering Student in FET (MMU Malacca)

MadamSuhailaBinti Abdullah

(Lecturer of Workplace Communication)

EM 221

Name ID No. Job Title

Nor Farahtul Ain Harun 1111113423 Student

Yap Yoke Ping 1111113488 Student

Lim Pei Fen 1111113587 Student

Nur Habibah Zaihan 1111114447 Student

Pey Khe Shiang 1071114727 Student

Date of Submission: 16 December 2011

Abstract

There is indeed an increase in number of female students enrolling in

engineering field. However, the number of female engineering students is still

significantly low. This phenomenon occurs in FET MMU Malacca too.

The research aims to identify and discuss the reasons why female did not

prefer engineering courses in MMU. This research is based on a survey of 30

respondents among FBL and FIST students in MMU Malacca. Based on the research,

it shows that majority of the female students think that the main factor is the difficulty

of subjects of engineering course. Only a small portion of respondents think that

education process is the factor for female students not choosing engineering course.

In this research, we obtained all data and information through questionnaire,

observation and internet research. We also recommend several solutions to increase

the number of female student in FET. Parents and school teachers play an important

role in encouraging and increasing the interest of female students in science subjects.

Based on the research, it shows that majority of the female students think that

the main factor is the difficulty of subjects of engineering course. Only a small

portion of respondents think that education process is the factor for female students

not choosing engineering course.

AcknowledgementFirst and foremost, we would like to thank our lecturer, Madam Suhaila Binti

Abdullah for the valuable guidance and advice. This project would not have been

possible without her information and guidance. Furthermore, this project provided us

with lots of opportunity to understand the basic fundamentals of research and report

writing methods.

Besides, we would like to express our finest gratitude to our group members

for their cooperation and had put in enormous efforts throughout this project. Through

this project, cultivation of respecting one another of different races is virtue. Despite

learning to socialize and communicate with our group members, the key to respect

different races is the ace card and yet, we somehow manage to cooperate well with

one another without facing any problematic. In contrast, we are able to obtain the

results in a short period of time and we are satisfied with the output from the survey.

Last but not least, we would like to thank all our friends and amongst all the

respondents who had willingly helped us to fill in the questionnaire. Their

contribution is very much appreciated as well. Thank you.

Table of ContentsAbstract..................................................................................................................................... ii

Acknowledgement................................................................................................................... iii

List of Tables............................................................................................................................v

List of Figures...........................................................................................................................v

1.0 Introduction........................................................................................................................1

1.1 Background.....................................................................................................................1

1.2 Terms of Reference.........................................................................................................2

1.3 Purpose and Scope..........................................................................................................3

1.4 Methodology...................................................................................................................4

2.0 Findings..............................................................................................................................5

2.1 Section A: Demographic Information.............................................................................5

2.2 Section B and C..............................................................................................................6

Gender Issues....................................................................................................................6

Engineering Studies..........................................................................................................8

Social and Family Background.........................................................................................9

Education process...........................................................................................................10

Engineering Perception...................................................................................................12

2.3 Section D......................................................................................................................13

2.4 Summary of Findings....................................................................................................14

3.0 Conclusions......................................................................................................................15

3.1 Recommendations.....................................................................................................15

3.3 List of Reference...............................................................................................................16

3.3 Appendices.........................................................................................................................vi

List of TablesTable 1: The Table Show that the Task Assigned among group Members...................2Table 2: Summary of the Demographic Information of the questionnaire's respondent........................................................................................................................................5

List of FiguresFigure 1: The number of Respondents who plays dolls during their childhood............6Figure 2: Statistics of Student that feel lack of confidence while doing physics/mathematics......................................................................................................7Figure 3: No of students that perceived engineering course as challenging (blue bar) and who like Physics (red bar).......................................................................................8Figure 4: Family Support (blue bar) and Social Perception (red bar)............................9Figure 5: No of Students who agree and disagree that the duration of engineering degree completion is long............................................................................................10Figure 6: The choice of engineering courses in MMU Malacca Campus..................100Figure 7: Percentage of Students that Believe Engineers need a lot of time and effort......................................................................................................................................12Figure 8: Students Perception of Female Engineers....................................................12Figure 9: Summary of Factors affecting female students to not study engineering.....13

1.0 Introduction

1.1 BackgroundEngineering is a profession in which knowledge of the mathematical and natural sciences gained by study, experience, and practice is applied with judgment to develop ways to utilize economically the materials and forces of nature for the benefit of mankind. There are many types of engineering courses in local and private universities. The famous engineering courses in MMU Malacca are Mechanical, Robotics and Telecommunications. Engineering field is an evolving field and in constant need of new engineers, be it a male or female.

However, most of the female students prefer to pursue their studies to higher education in many other courses except engineering course. Based on the most recent official data from the higher education statistics agency, that covers the percentage of students in different area of education in year 2009/10. It shows that 39% of math’s students in higher education are women and 63% of those studying biological sciences are women too. The proportion studying engineering and technology is 15 %(Higher Education Statistics Agency, 2009/10). In their perception, engineers work under a calorific environment such an example in an industry. Some of them cannot distinguish between technician and engineer. Not only students, most of their family members also have wrong perception about engineer and do not support female to enrol in this field.

Moreover, the engineering courses offered by FET, MMU Malacca are what most people perceived as a male course. Apart from that, female engineer also having some difficulties in getting job nowadays. The consequences will indirectly results in female engineers goes jobless, unemployed and most of them turn down this field. Besides, some of them give up in pursuing their dream of becoming an engineer because of some other problems such as the overrated fees for engineering course compared to other courses. Since, the numbers of female engineers are essential in ensuring the versatility of engineering fields, it is our responsibilities to study the reason why there is lack of female student enrolling in engineering courses and suggest a few ways to overcome the problem.

1.2 Terms of ReferenceThe main purpose of this report is to discuss the reasons why female did not

prefer engineering courses in Multimedia University (MMU) Malacca. Another

purpose is also to recommend several solutions to increase the number of female

student in FET. We will concentrate doing research to identify the reasons why

female students did not prefer engineering in their life. The report is requested on 5

November 2011 by Madam SuhailaBinti Abdullah. She is a lecturer and works in a

department of Institute of International languages MMU at Multimedia University

Malacca. The submitted date of the report is on week 9 or before 16 December 2011.

Table 1: Task The Table Show that the Task Assigned among group Members

Name ID No. Task

Nor Farahtul Ain Harun

1111113423Purpose and Scope, Conclusions, Finding: Section A (Demographic

Information) and Section D

Yap Yoke Ping 1111113488Table of Contents, List of Tables and Figures, List of Reference, Finding:

Section B and C (Gender Issues)

Lim Pei Fen 1111113587Abstract, Acknowledgement, Finding:

Section B (Education and Process)

Nur Habibah Zaihan 1111114447

Background, Term of References, Finding: Section B and C (Engineering

Perception), Section C (Engineering Studies)

Pey Khe Shiang 1071114727Methods, Recommendation, Finding:

Section C ( Social and Family Background)

1.3 Purpose and Scope

After registering in Multimedia University (Malacca Campus) as an engineering

student, we observed that the number of female engineering students is very few

compared to male students in the same faculty. There are a very large and distinctive

gap between these two gender groups in engineering faculty compared to other faculty

in Multimedia University (Malacca Campus), in which have attract our attention to

the main issue behind this scenario. So, we decided to conduct a research where these

objectives are fulfilled:

1. To identify and discuss the reasons why female did not prefer engineering courses in MMU Malacca.

2. To determine whether the gender issues have any effects on the students choice to not pursue their studies in engineering courses

3. To study whether social and family background played any role in affecting students decision on courses they decided to pursue in be it engineering courses or other.

4. To determine whether they have wrong perception on the nature of engineering fields in both study-wise and also career-wise.

5. To recommend several solutions to increase the number of female student in FET

The scope of this study is focused on the FBL and FIST’s female students in

Multimedia University Malacca, since they were the target respondents as we

specifically wanted respondent which are not an engineering student. After the

questionnaire of the survey form had been set and complete, the survey form is given

out to the respondents. A period of one week was the duration that had been agreed

earlier for the administering the questionnaires.

1.4 Methodology

All the data essentials for this research paper are collected by using the following

method:

1) Questionnaire

In order to complete our research, we have collected the data and design a sample size

of questionnaire to let student to fill in. There are 60 students from FBL and FIST in

Multimedia University, Malacca. A questionnaire can be defined as a set of questions

that is reformulated written to which respondents’ records their answers. We design

this set of questionnaire by dividing into 2 parts, which are Close-ended questionnaire

and Likert Scale questionnaire. After finalizing the questionnaire, we distributed it to

6 of our members by each person 10 set of questionnaire. While the respondents are

completing the questionnaire, we wait or them and as soon as they have completed the

questionnaires we retrieved it back from them and also thanking them for their

cooperation. Finally, all data obtained from the questionnaire survey are collected and

analyzed. Frequency counts and percentages of the data were computed and tabulated.

2) Internet Research

Throughout the process of completing the research report, articles from internet

research helps in guiding the structure of this report. Besides that we also take

example from previous report which were quite similar to this research topic which

were obtained from the website with title - Girl days: EVALUATING ENGINERING

PERCEPTION to guide us to finish our research. (Cerezo, Villarroya, Molina, &

Baldassari, 2009)

2.0 Findings

2.1 Section A: Demographic InformationVariables   All Respondents

    Frequency PercentageGender Male 0 0%  Female 30 100%       Age 20 and below 15 50%  21-26 15 50%       

FacultyFaculty of Business and Law (FBL) 22 73%

 Faculty of Information Science and Technology (FIST) 8 27%

       Education Level Beta 18 60%  Gamma 7 23%  Delta 4 13%  Epsilon 1 3%

Engineering courses in Multimedia University (Malacca Campus) have a very low count of female students. At first, the researchers believe that this id due to the societal perception on the nature of engineering courses; hard and more suitable to male students. But is that the only reason or maybe there are some other factors that influence the mind set of female student to inhibit themselves from choosing engineering subjects as to continue their study in tertiary level?

Apart from the results that we acquired from the survey, we can see that 50% of the participants consists from underage group ranging below 20 years old and can also be classified as the green leaf and had only started in tertiary level from secondary level education. Meanwhile, another half will be from an elderly age group between 20 -26 years old in which they can be classified as the more mature age group since they have more experience in the courses they are taking or the nature of other courses. Apparently, we may conclude that the age gap between 2 different categories is the same proportion with one another.

Table 2: Summary of the Demographic Information of the questionnaire's respondent

2.2 Section B and C

Gender Issues

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Figure 1: The number of Respondents who plays dolls during their childhood.

We found that most of the respondents (77%) play dolls instead of Legos. Dolls and colouring books are artistic toys but Legos, racing cars and simple machines are tinkering toys. A plain research has been conducted on the sociological difference in raising young girls and boys. As we know, boys usually tends to learn mathematics from younger age and parents tends to get them revved for math lessons right from the start, while on the upper hand girls don’t practice this from childhood. This eventually unmotivated them, reflecting themselves they are not capable enough or lack of self-assurance within their abilities compared to boys.

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Figure 2: Statistics of Student that feel lack of confidence while doing physics/mathematics

Figure 2 shows the feedback from the students of FBL and FIST regarding whether they lack of confidence while doing physics or mathematics. Majority of the respondents (14 students) chose the option “Agree” while least of the respondents chosen “strongly disagree”, which consists of only 1 respondent. On the other hand, the option “neutral” placed second highest with 6 respondents choosing it, followed by the data “Strongly Agree” and “Disagree”, which obtained 5 and 4respectively.

Engineering Studies

Figure 3 shows the respondents of Female student regarding their perception towards Engineering Studies. The highest response for statement: Engineering Course is Challenging are “Agree” with 18 students while the lowest response is “Strongly Disagree” with 2 student of respondent. The second highest vote is “Strongly Agree” with 6 students of respondents followed by 4 students of respondents which are “Neutral”. This shows that the female students saw engineering courses as challenging due to their perception of mathematics and science as two mostdifficultsubject. They also thought that lab sessionswere so difficult.

Another statement: I really like everything that involves Physics, there were2 students who “Disagree” and this was the highest response. It was then followed by 7 students of who “Strongly disagree”. The lowest respondent is “Strongly Agree” with 2 student of respondent. While another 5 students of respondent is “Agree” with it and 3 students of respondents is “Neutral”. This clearly shows most of the female student’s aversion towards Physics subject as it implies both theory and also putting the theory into practice.

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Figure 3: No of students that perceived engineering course as challenging (blue bar) and who like Physics (red bar)

Social and Family Background

This bar chart displays information about the effect of family background and support to lacking female students in engineering courses. From the bar chart (Figure 4), one of the most significant results of this study (refer to the blue bar)shows that the family support in the pursuit of an engineering career has a huge impact on interest groups. We found out that there are 23 persons strongly agree and agree that lack of support and encourage from family will affects the female students to not study engineering. Instead, we can seem that there are 19 persons out of 30 persons thatdisagree with the statement of females are not suitable for engineering-related field, which shows that they do think that engineering could be suitable for female yet they did not choose engineering. They feel that social perception not the main reasons that cause girl choose to study engineering. Besides there are 5 persons choose neutral for both reasons.

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Figure 4: Family Support (blue bar) and Social Perception (red bar)

Education process

Figure 5: No of Students who agree and disagree that the duration of engineering degree completion is long.

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Figure 6: The choice of engineering courses in MMU Malacca Campus

The degree engineering courses in MMU take 4 years to complete. On the other hand, most of the FBL and FIST students only need 3 years to complete their degree. Based on the finding below (Figure 5), 83.33% of the respondents feel that the time taken to complete engineering course is high. Only a small portion of the respondents, which is 16.67%, disagree with this statement. Hence, for female students, the time taken to complete the course is an important factor of not choosing engineering course.

The fees of engineering course are the highest among all other courses in MMU. Based on the information that we gather from questionnaire, 80% of the respondents agree that the fees of engineering courses are high. This is one of the reasons for female students to choose other course instead of engineering course.

MMU Malacca currently offer 3 types of engineering course, which are engineering mechanical, engineering electronics majoring in telecommunications, engineering electronics majoring in robotics and automation. Some of the female students do not take engineering course because MMU Malacca does not offer the course that they are interested in. Based on the finding below (Figure 6), 56.67% of the respondents agree that there are only few choices of engineering course in MMU. Some of the courses that they prefer are chemical engineering, biochemical engineering and civil engineering. Another 43.33% of the respondents think that the choice of engineering course in MMU is sufficient.

Engineering Perception

Based on the information we have gathered from figure 1, 77% of female students from FBL and FIST think that engineering field is so competitive. Although, there are 23% female student perception towards engineering is positive, there is still a big differences between the group of people who sees engineering field positively and also the one who think of it negatively. Besides that, almost all female students from FBL and FIST think that engineer need to take a lot of time and effort, thusmost female students have a wrong perception on what engineering field is all about causing them to not choose engineering as their major.

Apart from that, they also thought that female engineers will be very busy all the time and will not have time at all for their families. 68% of the female students’respondent agree with the statement. While 32% of female student from FBL and FIST student disagree about it.

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Figure 7: Percentage of Students that Believe Engineers need a lot of time and effort

Figure 8: Students Perception of Female Engineers.

2.3 Section D

Social Back-

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Gender Issues

Education Process

Engineering Perception

Engineering Studies

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Figure 9: Summary of Factors affecting female students to not study engineering

In the last part of the questionnaires, we asked the participants to rank all the 5 main factors on why female do not prefer engineering courses and we found that 30% of the participants believe that the difficulty level of the subjects offered in the engineering course (engineering studies) are the main reason why they don’t choose engineering courses, since both Physics and Calculus Mathematic are the compulsory subjects in any engineering courses especially those offered in MMU Melaka. Since both subjects does not really warmed up to most female students, they choose to avoid taking subjects that requires them to pass in these two subjects which are deemed as the killer subjects.

We also found that, only 7% of the participant agree that the education process of most engineering courses; which include the fees and long duration of studying, were the main reason why they shied away from engineering courses which also implies that, fees of the courses and its duration of study doesn’t really matter to most students and it did not have obvious impact on the female students decision of pursuing their study in other courses which is not engineering courses.

2.4 Summary of Findings

1. 77 % of the respondents play dolls during their childhood compared to other 23 % who did not play dolls during their childhood.

2. The biggest numbers of respondents agree that they lack of confidence while doing physics/mathematics which are 14 out of 30 while only 1 out of 30 person strongly disagree with the statement.

3. 24 respondents out of 30 respondents agrees that engineering course is challenging and also 19 out of 30 respondents disagree to the statement of liking everything that involves physics.

4. 23 respondents out of 30 strongly agree and agree that lack of support and encouragement from family will affects the female students to not study engineering courses, and 19 out of 30 respondents disagree that females are not suitable for engineering-related field.

5. 25 out of 30 respondents agree that the engineering courses take a long time to be completed.

6. 56.67 % of the respondents agree that there are only few choices of engineering courses in MMU Melaka while another 43.33 % thought that the choice of engineering courses in MMU Melaka is already sufficient.

7. Most of the respondents; 77%, think that engineering field is so competitive, with only 23% of the respondents disagree.

8. 68% of the respondents believe that female engineers will be very busy all the time and have almost no time at all for their families.

9. The biggest percentage of respondents of 30% agree that the difficulty of engineering studies are the reason why the don’t pursue their studies in engineering courses, while the least percentage of respondents of only 7% believes that the education process which include the fee and duration of engineering courses as the main reason while female students did not pursue their study in engineering courses.

3.0 Conclusions

From our findings, we gathered that there are many factors affecting female’s aversion towards engineering courses and it affects different personality in different degree. Here in Malaysia, female choose engineering as their major less frequently than male. Therefore, there is a general need to understands the factors that determine this younger age female group interests and goals. This paper presents a step in this direction, a study based on a questionnaire administered among non-engineering female students in MMU Melaka, to see how they responds towards engineering courses in specific and engineering field in general. The main conclusions of the study are:

3) Mathematics and Physics are deemed as the most difficult subject by majority of the female students that they think they just could not comprehend. Thus, the improvement of female’s interest in Physics and Mathematics subject during primary and secondary level education is an important task to accomplish.

4) Gender and Social perception in engineering fields are also the reason influencing female students to consider pursuing engineering studies, as they thought the engineering field is very competitive and an engineer’s take a lot of time and effort

5) Lack of support from family also gives an impact towards female student’s decision to continue their study as most of the female respondents agree that family support and encouragement is what drives the female students to pursue engineering courses.

3.1 Recommendations

Parents should emphasize Science and Mathematics in home. If their children always apply the Science and Mathematics during their daily life, they will feel interest in engineering. There are many studies show that students begin to lose interest in science, technology, engineering, and math from secondary school, especially true for girls. Teaching children about science and mathematics in primary or secondary level is critical to not only improving subject matter competency but also sparking and maintaining girls’ interest in the field.

Furthermore, education department also need to encourage school or university authorities operatethe inclusion of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Subjects and Activities in Co-curricular Programs. They can incorporate these subjects and activities in extra-curricular activities to enable students to explore the field in a supportive atmosphere and enhances student interest in these careers. Research suggests that information about the usefulness of engineering to everyday human concerns and hands-on experiences with science, math, and technology may help girls develop an interest in these fields.Organizing some function about the important role of engineering in our daily life to students who just finished their SPM

examination will be a great thing to do as we are exposing the true nature of engineering field so that they will feel interested to take engineering courses.

It is also recommended that Multimedia University (Melaka) to broaden its choice of courses to include several engineering division such as chemical engineering. This would help more female students considering to be a part of engineering faculty.

3.3 List of Reference

Cerezo, E., Villarroya, M., Molina, P., & Baldassari, S. (2009). GIRLS' DAY : EVALUATING ENGINEERING PERCEPTION. SPAIN.

Higher Education Statistics Agency. (2009/10). Retrieved 23 November, 2011, from http://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1897/239/: http://www.hesa.ac.uk/content/view/1897/239/

Improve Girls' and Womens' Oppurtunities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. (n.d.). Retrieved 14 NOVEMBER, 2011, from http://www.aauw.org/: http://www.aauw.org/learn/research/upload/STEMrecommendations.pdf

Twenty Reasons Why Girls Dont Like Mathematics. (29 MARCH, 2010). Retrieved 14 NOVEMBER, 2011, from http://www.healthcarecolleges.net/: http://www.healthcarecolleges.net/blog/twenty-reasons-why-girls-dont-like-math/

3.3 Appendices

This questionnaire is study about the “Lack of female engineering student in FET (MMU Malacca)”.

Thanks for your time for reading and answering our questionnaire. We do really appreciate it. All information collected from the participants will be handled in strict confidentiality.

Section A: Demographic Information

Please tick (√) at the preferred choice.

Age: 18-20 years 21-23years 24-26years 27-29yearsNationality: Malaysian Others: ___________Faculty: FBL FISTEducation Level: Beta Gamma Delta Epsilon

Section B

Gender Issues1. Do you play dolls during your childhood? O Yes O No2. Do you like to deal with IT products? O Yes O No3. Do you like to solve the problems that involved thinking processes? O Yes O No4. Do you realize the mathematic/physics skills applicable in your daily lives? O Yes O No

Education Process5. The fees of engineering courses are high. O Yes O No6. The time to complete engineering course is long. O Yes O No7. Only few choices of engineering course in MMU. If yes, which course do you prefer? O Chemical engineering

O Biochemical engineering O Civil engineering

O Others:________________

O Yes O No

8. Engineering courses difficult to pass. O Yes O No

The Objectives of this questionnaire are:

1. To identify and discuss the reasons why female did not prefer engineering courses in MMU Malacca.

2. To recommend several solutions to increase the number of female student in FET.

Engineering Perception9. Do you feel engineer need to take a lot of time and effort? O Yes O No10. Do you think work in engineering field is competitive? O Yes O No11. Are your parents skeptical about your mathematics homework? O Yes O No12. Engineers line of work entails hard work. O Yes O No

Section CThe following statements measure your perception towards engineering courses as a whole. There is no right or wrong answer. Please rank the agreement using the following indicator and circle the number to represent the degree of your response.

Strongly Agree

Agree Neutral DisagreeStrongly Disagree

Gender Issue

I feel lack of confidence while doing physics/mathematics.

1 2 3 4 5

I like to travel all around the world. 1 2 3 4 5

I like to spend more time with my family.

1 2 3 4 5

Engineering StudiesMath and science subjects are difficult

1 2 3 4 5

Lab session is difficult 1 2 3 4 5

Study statistics are much more easier than theory and application

1 2 3 4 5

Engineering course is challenging 1 2 3 4 5

I really like everything that involves physics

1 2 3 4 5

I prefer statistical mathematics compared to calculus mathematics

1 2 3 4 5

I loved engineering drawing 1 2 3 4 5

Engineering Perception

I think engineers only work in a factory

1 2 3 4 5

I think engineering related job are monotonous

1 2 3 4 5

Female engineers will be very busy and will not have time for their families

1 2 3 4 5

Social Background

I think social and family 1 2 3 4 5

background is reason forgirls do not study engineering.

I think family income is drivers for girl do not study engineering. Academics in engineering is more expensive than management.

1 2 3 4 5

I think some of the girl do not study engineering owing to their parent are work as engineering. They feel boring and no freedom.

1 2 3 4 5

I think support and encouragement of family also is drivers for girl do not study engineering.

1 2 3 4 5

I think social perception about girl not suitable study in engineering also one of the reasons that cause girl do not study engineering.

1 2 3 4 5

Section DPlease rank the following statement from 1 to 5 according to what you think the best reason why girls don’t usually choose engineering courses especially in MMU Melaka.

My family does not encourage me to take engineering courses

Engineering courses are more suitable for men academic-wise and also career-wise

Engineering courses offered in MMU Melaka are not interesting

Engineer leads a boring life and only works with machine

Physics and Mathematics (Calculus) is killer subject that I would rather avoid from taking.

Thank You very much for your time and cooperation.