Introduction
Engineering education in Sri Lanka requires real-world exposure beyond the classrooms to explore exciting career opportunities on offer in Engineering and related industries. Currently, the country lacks a central facilitator focusing on engineering education with a futuristic vision, aimed at facilitating future scientists, engineers, technology professionals, problem solvers, and innovators within and outside the University systems.
Sri Lanka can benefit from such a central educational facility that focuses on streamlining engineering education, adapting global trends and requirements, providing a central discussion forum, facilitating social outreach, and encouraging content development and dissemination.
Initiatives such as investigating, sharing, and improving the know-how of successful teaching, learning, and assessment (TLA) practices across different undergraduate curricula, improving the industrial orientation of undergraduate degree programs (e.g., using outcome-based assessments), and adapting to dynamic and/or novel teaching and learning environments are important aspects of engineering education.
Participation of a wide spectrum of stakeholders, such as engineering academia, undergraduate/graduate students, engineering professionals, professional institutes, and interested government and other independent parties/personnel, is beneficial in advancing engineering education.