Knowledge, skills and attitudes of civil engineers in Indonesia

Civil engineer plays an important role in construction industry because they have been entrusted to create sustainable world and to enhance the quality of life. In order to play their role successfully, civil engineer needs to possess many and varied knowledge and skills, as well as supported by embracing attitudes. This study is aimed to explore the importance and achievement of attributes of civil engineers based on profile of the 2025 civil engineer that has been launched by American Society of Civil Engineering (ASCE). The attributes consist of 21 points those are organized into the categories of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. The research was conducted by asking respondents to fill out a questionnaire to assess the importance and performance of each attribute. The data has been collected from 100 practitioners who work in various construction companies in Indonesia. Descriptive Statistic, Importance Performance Analysis (IPA) and correlation analysis have been implemented to analyze the data. The study found communication is considered as the most important attribute and in a highest performance. Thoroughly the Spearman Rank Correlation analysis shows the level of importance and performance have a strong and positive correlation. However, the importance and performance level of knowledge about sustainability only in the rank of 16 and 18. This result shows that in Indonesia knowledge about sustainability has not been considered important.