This study aims to examine the level of employer satisfaction towards industrial training students of the UiTM Pahang Civil Engineering Diploma Program and identify employer satisfaction factors for industrial training students from aspects of knowledge, personality, generic skills, and soft skills. This study is focused on semester four students undergoing industrial training. This study was conducted on 158 respondents from various organizations. Using the important relative index (RII), the level of important factors was ranked through the value of the index. Findings show the highest employer satisfaction is towards the student mastering their knowledge, adhering to the working hours, improving their skills and knowledge, and communicating well with co-workers. Besides, it also shows a good correlation between knowledge and personality among industrial training students. This study found that industrial training students of the Civil Engineering Diploma Program had a good level of control over all four domains. Overall findings showed that employers are satisfied with the industrial training students of the UiTM Pahang Civil Engineering Diploma Program. This study is important to measure the effectiveness of the industrial training syllabus in terms of achieving the program outcomes addressed in the syllabus

Student-centered learning (SCL) is one of the teaching methods commonly used nowadays as it encourages the active participation and engagement of students in the classroom, especially for the engineering theoretical subject. This study is aimed to examine the factors of students’ involvement and participation towards the SCL Teaching Method in terms of the activities, benefits, problems, and limitations of student involvement. The quantitative data are obtained from the responses of students that enroll in an engineering theoretical subject in the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) Pahang Civil Engineering Diploma Program. These questionnaires were being classified into five major factors that are the formation of group studies for SCL activities, activities conducted for SCL teaching method, benefits that they gain from SCL method, problems that they encounter during SCL, and suggestions for student improvement towards the activity SCL session. The collected data were analyzed quantitatively by using the percentage and mean method in SPSS computer software. The Relative Importance Index (RII) system was used to quantify the relative importance of involvement factors. This study revealed three main factors affecting the participation and engagement of students in the classroom. This study has an important contribution to help academicians to improve and enhance their teaching method to achieve the objective of the SCL method in the future.

Subgrade soil is important for design purpose of both flexible and rigid pavement structures; flexible and rigid. The quality of flexible and rigid pavement structures is correlated on the strength and stabilization of subgrade layers. The main function of subgrade is to act as a foundation for pavement layers and supporting the load which is transmitted from the overlying layers. The marine soil is a problematic soil which low in strength and do not suitable for road embankment for highway construction. Therefore, the soil strength can be improved by adding stabilizer or admixture to increase its strength. Soil stabilization change its physical and mechanical properties from its original soil. Thus, the physical properties of marine stabilized with cockle shell powder were determined and the potential of Cockle Shell Powder (CSP) as soil stabilizer based on percentage added in CBR test was investigated. Based on previous research, the performance of soil mixed with CSP in the proportion of constant 2.5%, 5%, 7.5% and 10% was examined with CSP properties and California Bearing Ratio (CBR) tests. The results obtained indicates an increment in specific gravity and decreasing in the plastic index (PI) with the addition of 2.5% of CSP. The CBR and PI show a good correlation and thus inclusion of CSP in marine soil could be used as alternative material for subgrade layer in increasing soil strength.