The reform in the Engineering that stresses on professionalism had brought the necessity to adopt outcome based education (OBE) in engineering education. It is an approach of education that clearly identifies its intended final product – students’ competencies by determining the final curriculum outcome - a head of planning the framework of the curriculum. The explicit outcome is used to plan the curriculum, monitor its implementation, evaluate it and assess student’s achievement. This paper is a review of the origin, benefits, drawbacks, and steps to implement outcome-based education. It is an attempt to provide a comprehensive coverage of a very popular current trend in engineering education
Outcome-based education, Engineering education trends, curriculum planning.
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