TABLE OF CONTENTS

 Title Page
 Acknowledgement
 Abstract
 Chapter I. (The Problem and its Scope)
 Introduction
 Statement of the Problem
 Objectives
 Scope and Limitations of the Study
 Hypothesis
 Significance of the Study
 Theoretical/Conceptual Framework
 Definition of Terms
 Chapter II. (Review of Related Literature and Studies)
 Chapter III. ( Research Design and Methodology)
 Research Design
 Respondents
 Research Instrument and Locale
 Data Gathering Procedures
 Chapter IV. (Presentation, Analysis and Interpretation of the Data)
 Presentation
 Data Analysis
 Interpretation of the Data
 Chapter V. (Summary, Conclusion and Recommendation)
 Summary
 Result
 Conclusion
 Recommendation
 References
 Bibliography
 Appendices
 A. Questionnaire
 B. Cover Letter
 C. Answered Questionnaire
 Curriculum Vitae

A RESEARCH STUDY ON THE EMPLOYABILITY OF MECHANICAL

ENGINEERING GRADUATES IN EASTERN VISAYAS STATE
UNIVERSITY, ORMOC CITY-CAMPUS
 An Undergraduate Research Presented to

The Faculty of Engineering Department

Eastern Visayas State University

Ormoc City, Leyte

In Partial Fulfillment

Of The Requirements for the Degree

BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

BY:
William Dave H. Domasin
Marck Junnelle P. Mahusay
Jayve W. Pacabis

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We the researchers are very grateful to GOD ALMIGHTY for without his grace and

blessings, this study would not have been possible.

 We are expressing our deepest and warmest gratitude for the help and support to the

following person who is one way of another in making this research possible.

To our dearest Instructor, Mentor, Head and Guide Engr. Robert G. Navarro, thank

you sir for being a constant source of knowledge and inspiration for making this research

successful.

To our family, thank you for helping us not only for financial and moral support but

for helping us to survive all the stress and for us not to give up easily.

To our classmates and friends, thank you for the words of encouragement,

understanding, patience, and for pushing us farther than we thought we could go.

“Only as high as we reach we can grow, only as far as we seek can we go, only as

deep as we look can we see, only as much as we dream can we be”.

ABSTRACT
 This research study aims to determine the employability of mechanical engineering
graduate which also explores the importance of the curriculum and nature of employment and
work-related behavior to the job placement of the graduate respondents.

Findings showed that engineering graduates shows their knowledge and skills learned
from the important factors in the field of employment.

It was concluded that improvements are needed in the Eastern Visayas State

University in order to produce competent and productive graduates.

 CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

Globalized scenario of product design, production and manufacturing opened huge

employment opportunities in all the industrial sectors like automotive, aerospace, energy,

infrastructure, medical and others, more particularly to engineering professionals graduating out

from the Institution.

Under the scenario of large business and employment opportunities, industries also face

the challenges like globally competing market, usage of technologies into the products, getting

the products early to market. Hence, the expectations from the industries are that, the fresh

engineering graduates delivered by the Institutions to be employable, should be able to work on

actual assignments with least trainings or handholding’s on-the job. Employer’s expectations of

fresh hires available as job-ready, throws a lot of challenge on the educational system, more

particularly to the institutions and their existence. This results in significant percentage of

graduates left-out as unemployable, a concern for the society and even to the country.

Employability of engineering graduates is a global issue of varying percentage and a

concern for both developing and developed nations. Various nations across the globe are making

progress in addressing this issue have joined together in developing standards for accreditation

and facilitate reforms in engineering educational institutions by sharing the best practices

amongst them. This enhances the quality of engineering education and profession as a whole.
 AIM

This study aims for the enhancement and the increase of the employability rate by

obtaining several factors that helps improve employability of mechanical graduates IN EVSU-

OCC and to provide the adequate benefits for being a job ready employee.

OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

 To determine whether the application knowledge of theory into practice is a

factor in employability of mechanical engineering graduates.

 To determine whether being licensed or unlicensed varies in having a high salary

job.
 To identify the importance of Quality knowledge, application tools and the

factors significant to them towards practical application.

 To identify the importance of analytical and problem solving skills and the

factors influencing them as perceived by employer towards practical application.

 To test and quantify whether this gap in application of theory into practice is

carried forward to the profession.

 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

We all know that mechanical engineering is one of the in demand courses nowadays. It

is a diverse course that needs to analyze and derives its breadth from the need to design and

manufactured everything from small individual parts and devices to a large system. One of the

biggest roles of studying mechanical engineering is to strive more and accept all the challenges

in order to acquire particular skills and knowledge. Mechanical engineering is the broadest and

most diverse of all the engineering disciplines.

Employability of graduate students in mechanical engineering in Greece, especially

during the current crisis period is a main issue. According to employers in the construction

industry, employability is associated with three requirements: a good degree, various

technological and manufacturing skills and a set of personal attributes. However, there is a

concern that traditional education does not provide graduates with the standard employability

skills required by the industry. The gap between the education in Greek technological institutes

and industrial activity is expected to be bridged via a practical exercise during the last semester

of the graduate programmed. However the effectiveness of practical exercise has not been wide

investigated yet. The purpose of this article is to provide empirical evidence on the benefits and

barriers of practical exercise from student’s perspective. Additionally, the present study aims to

explore how the practical exercises in local industry, which are combined on occasion with

thesis research, may contribute in increasing the skills and employability of the mechanical

engineering students. The case study under investigation involves students of the mechanical

engineering department of the technological educational institute of western Greece. The study
is based on the feedback from the years 2010-2014. During this period, students have been

exhorted by teachers to be exposed to heavy industrial environments during their practice

exercise. The process of skills, development and progress has been investigated and recorded by

supervisors after frequent industrial visits and interviews.

The mechanism behind each student’s personal improvement has been found to be

associated with the gain of skills and knowledge on production processes as well as actions

planning and problem solving during manufacturing in real time. Through the analysis to learn

more, to apply theoretical and practical knowledge to solve real engineering problems to

develop effective interpersonal skills and to manage personal commitments. The increase of

student’s employability after working in production oriented companies is demonstrated by

providing statistical data related to post graduate unemployment periods.

 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The improvement of the employability is also the improvement of its institution. The

conveyance of knowledge to application and standardized implementations may be a huge asset

in employability of mechanical engineering graduates. The data gathered will be unusually good

for improving employability around the globe simply by means of analyzing the information

that is being gathered.

Lower percentage of the employability of engineering graduates in India, is a complex

problem and comes from various sources, like students admitted with varying curriculum of

boards of studies, varying qualifying marks in the admission process, varying culture and

languages from urban and rural parts of India, varying institutional infrastructures etc.,

Unfortunately most of the engineering educational institutions have controls only on few of

these factors to address at their level, as rest of them are to be addressed by regulatory bodies,

affiliated universities, government etc.,

Under the above context, this study revolves around, identifying the factors as perceived

by the employers, which make significant impact on employability, implementable at the

institutional level and their interrelationship. The study is focused to mechanical engineering

domain and under graduate engineering students.

This study will not only improve employability but also the improvement of lives of

many, opportunity comes with great ideals and attributes in the domain of industries.

Article Source: http://www.ieagreements.org

THEORITICAL/CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK
 DEFINITION OF TERMS

Employability - the capability of ones is employed.

Institution - an established organization. A custom, practice, or law that is accepted and used by

many people.

Theory to Practice - the application of gained knowledge to practice.

Factors - the consideration or including in making a judgments or calculations.

Data - facts or information used usually to calculate, analyze or plan something.

Complex Issue - is an issue that are connected in complicated ways.

Globalized Scenario - an event or a description of what could possibly happen throughout

affecting the globe.

Job Ready - fully equipped graduates with adequate knowledge for application.

Implementation - to make a plan or rule active or effective.

 CHAPTER II.

Review of Related Literature and Studies

Literature survey deals with employability of mechanical engineering graduates in India,

gap reported in literatures made by other researchers, national bodies understand etc. has been

proposed to be present in this chapter along with research gap identified.

The unmet expectations of the industry arise from many factors such as lack of

theoretical knowledge relevant to the current day needs of the industry, lack of analytical ability

to analyze risks, lack of communication ability to convey the thoughts and ideas, lack of

knowledge and its impact on quality and cost, cultural differences due to the presence of multi-

national companies in India and consequent higher expectations in a globally competitive

market. Each of the above factors contributes to the employability of engineering graduates in its

own way. Some of the above mentioned factors might be common across all the branches

engineering. The issues arising out of domain skills and their interactions have to be studied

with the inputs from the respondent who are knowledgeable on mechanical engineering domains

needs for the job roles and across regions of India.

As observed earlier, problem of lower employability of engineering graduates is a

complex issue under the influence of many factors on which institutions have less or no controls.
An attempt has been made through this research study to bring the factional information to the

extent possible, by capturing the voice of customs (VoC) who are employers representatives

involved in hiring process, knowledgeable on mechanical engineering.

Literatures towards employability, but found to have a short in capturing the voices

of domain experts in the given field of engineering, as most of the respondents were human

resource professionals. Employability issue’s in higher education, education is appeared to be

an issue across institutions and global poles with varying percentages, not specific to India.

Employability and quality in higher education, though the employability is measured as the

output quality of higher education, but it has been observed that literatures have not brought

out the constraints or limitations of the institutions like variations in student inputs to higher

educational institutions and practical knowledge gap carried over.

 CHAPTER III.

METHODOLOGY

The exploratory research of this study was conducted in multi stages, for identifying

important factor that affect the employability of mechanical engineering graduates.

Respondents are the employers’ representatives, involved in hiring process of fresh

engineering graduates and are experts in mechanical engineering domain and its needs in

employment.

A. Research design:

This employability study used the descriptive research design wherein according to

shuttle worth; it is a scientific method which involves observing and describing the behaviour

of a subject without influencing it in any way. The subject is being observed in a completely

natural and unchanged natural environment. Descriptive research is often used as a pre-cursor

to quantitative research designs, the general overview giving some valuable pointers as to

what variables are worth testing quantitatively. Quantitative experiments are often expensive

and time consuming so it is often good sense to get an idea of what hypothesis are worth

testing.
B. Research Instrument and Locale:

The research was done by the group at home, each having their own selected chapters

with the aid of a laptop, desk, dictionary and an internet connection. Most of the data and

information gathered from the internet at the internet cafe most likely of the review related

literatures and study and background of the study. Data from various source in the internet are

also being utilize for the output of this project.

C. Data Gathering Procedures:

All the chapters are being shared to each members of the group, each have their own

portion. Each member performs independently for their own portion that allows us to come

up with a good data and output. The gathered data where consummated by the group for its

final documentation and fabrication.

 Chapter V.

SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS

Engineering graduates are gainfully employed locally and enjoying the benefits of

regular status and handling professional, technical or supervisory positions where they find

their present jobs within 1 to 6 months. Relevance of the engineering program to graduates’

present work assignment is one of the common reasons in accepting and staying on the job

followed by career challenge and related to special skill. Communication skill is the most

common useful ability of the engineering graduates in their job placement followed by

critical thinking skill and problem solving skill while leadership, hard work and professional

integrity are the work-related values identified with very much contribution in meeting the

demands of the present employment of the mechanical engineering graduates.

The employability of graduates must be ensure by the data shown on the theoretical

framework. Every student must gain all essence as a basic ground for one to be employed.

We concluded that employability does not matter if one is licensed or not, male or female or

married or single. On our survey, all have their jobs although not all got their license, this

gives a fact that being licensed doesn’t gives a very big impact on employment each one can

attain their future jobs and become successful. We also concluded that in order that the

employability rate will increase, students should be willing to study and strive for success.

Everyone can attain something high by a long and steady process

 RECOMMENDATION

It is recommended that that the mechanical engineering students may be given

curricular activities focusing on the enhancement of oral communication skill and working

with multidisciplinary teams. The university may strengthen their linkages with engineering

and manufacturing firms that will serve as the training ground of students for their internship

and as potential future work environment. Ensure that the graduates possessed the student

outcomes of the engineering program through appropriate assessment tools in the specific

period as deemed necessary. Seminars may be conducted by the college of engineering

focusing on the total quality management or any quality assurance mechanism as common

area of concern for all institutions and industries. Conducting research collaboration with the

industries through engineering graduates or alumni to strengthen partnership with the

employers.
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