Abstract:

Technological advancement has created a new landscape for how business functions and is reshaping job profiles prompting companies to revisit their human capacity building. This chain effect ripples back and urges all academic institutes, especially in engineering schools, to not only keep their curricula up-to-date but also equip their instructors with various teaching and learning methods as well as addressing the needs of prospective students and companies, influenced by the progress of technology. Presented in this paper is a strategic design for the development of the Industrial Engineering curriculum to support the sustainable smart industry. Blue ocean strategy was applied in this curriculum development. Fifteen factors were identified to cover six categories: pedagogy, competence, industry needs to attain Industry 4.0, student needs, team's insight, and learning experiences. A new strategy was formed. This new curriculum will strategically focus on strengthening both technical and transversal competences, thematic learning to ease student understanding, and flexibility in learning to support the equal opportunity of learning. "Personalize your competence-based active thematic learning experience to support sustainable smart industry" is the tag line of the new curriculum.

Keywords:

Blue ocean strategy, Curriculum development, Industry 4.0, Industrial Engineering.