KEYWORDS: course outcomes, fundamental course, outcome based education, fundamental concept.
ABSTRACT: Students' understanding in a fundamental course is important as it is a prior requirement before they can actually proceed to advance and specific courses in the degree programme. Without strong basic understanding, the students' ability to excel in their future studies may affect and indirectly chances of employability may also reduce. This paper describes the assessment and evaluation method used to measure the students' performance in the fundamental course of civil and structural engineering degree programme at Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). The fundamental course of Static and Dynamics (KH 1044) was offered as a compulsory course for first year students in the department. The students' achievement is presented in terms of Course Outcomes (CO) and Programme Outcomes (PO) as aligned according to the Outcome Based Education (OBE). Based on this assessment, the results of the overall achievement of average percentage of COs for the course were above 50% except for CO5. These findings also proved that students' understanding in the fundamental course were acceptable and they managed to use the fundamental concept in solving any specific course of civil and structural engineering problem. However there are some aspects in teaching and learning process that can be improved and suggested from these findings.
