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UiTM ranks among top 150 in QS World University Rankings by 2021 Subject

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Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) has been ranked among the top 150 in the Petroleum Engineering category in the QS World University Rankings by 2021 Subject  This achievement sees UiTM breaking into the top five Malaysian universities for the first time in this category.

UiTM through the Faculty of Chemical Engineering offers a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) Oil and Gas programme in 2008 specifically to accommodate the professional requirements of the upstream and midstream oil and gas activities. The expanded program scope allows more versatile and adaptable graduates to meet the oil and gas activities requirements.

In line with UiTM’s vision to produce professionals with world-class standards, the Faculty has extensively sought collaboration with industry partners to enrich student knowledge and equip them with the latest technologies for employability.

Recently, the programme has integrated several subsurfaces and surface software donated by Schlumberger (SLB), a leading oilfield services company. This software covers the subsurface and surface process in the oil and gas industry, including Petrel, Eclipse, Techlog, Pipesim, and Merak Peep.

Through the software, students are exposed to seamless learning experiences within the knowledge areas of production forecasts, reservoir optimisation, and other useful applications that assist them in developing a critical analysis of field and reservoir management.

The Society of Petroleum of Engineer UiTM Student Chapter (SPE-UiTM SC) has played a vital role in promoting the inclusion of our students into the world of petroleum engineers through collaboration with the wider SPE Student Chapter and Oil and Gas companies in Malaysia.

In Mac 2021, SPE-UiTM SC has organized SPE Student Chapter Malaysia Oil & Gas Convention (SMOGC2020), an international Oil & Gas Convention with other SPE Student Chapters in Malaysia from SPE UTM-SC, SPE UTP-SC, SPE UM-SC, SPE UCSI-SC, SPE HWUM-SC and SPE UITM-SC.

The theme of SMOGC2020 “Embracing Digital Transformation, Striving Toward Sustainability” aimed to expose young minds to green technology and digital transformation in the modern industry. 142 delegates from international and local students up to 4 countries – Poland, Scotland, Indonesia, and Malaysia participated in SMOGC2020. Besides, 37 school students from the Selangor district had joined the Young Engineers Day Competition, leading to a total of 179 participants.

SPEctrum – UiTM Webinar Series with Industry Player and International Professor is a monthly SPE-UiTMSC’s event opens to everyone and have been established since July 2020. This program aims to provide exposure and input on the latest development in the oil and gas industry to all participants.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the oil and gas industry, this might be a great opportunity for oil and gas player to redefine their purpose and sustainable strategies. More than 200 participants attended each webinar series, and due to this overwhelmed response, the webinar series will be continued in 2021.

In October 2020, UiTM has recently organized a NITUC (Japan) – UiTM (Malaysia) Student Leadership & Networking Seminar 2020 for 11 weeks in total. A total of 34 delegates joined this program where 17 inbounds were from NITUC, Japan and the other 17 outbound students were from UiTM, Malaysia.

This event served as a platform to connect students from two countries as it provides direct exposure for students to discuss and get to know Japanese culture while introducing UiTM and Malaysia to their counterpart.

UiTMLaw elevates the right of indigenous children through international research collaboration

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The Child Law Centre, Faculty of Law, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia (UiTMLaw), together with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University, will be collaborating in undertaking a research project for one year through the Strategic Research Partnership (SRP) Grant.

Led by Dr Nadzriah Ahmad, experienced researchers Associate Professor Dr Normawati Hashim and Associate Professor Dr Sheela Jayabalan from the Child Law Centre, UiTMLaw also team-up this international collaboration.

The research grant awarded will offer researchers from Malaysia and Thailand opportunities to examine the effectiveness of the legal framework in each other’s country to provide access to quality education to indigenous children.

The research findings and suggestions will be shared with the research collaborators from Chiang Mai Rajabhat University and vice versa to enable both universities to propose relevant recommendations to promote better access to quality education for indigenous children in both countries.

Additionally, through this research grant, the Child Law Centre, UiTMLaw, will also be able to undertake comparative analysis and help strengthen the industrial linkages between the two faculties and universities and have the opportunities to publish research papers in this area jointly.

It is the prevalent hope that with the awarding of this research grant, networking, publications, future research collaborations, intellectual discourses, and goodwill shall be established between the Child Law Centre, UiTMLaw and the community of Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Chiang Mai Rajabhat University.

UiTM receives grant for Digital Datapreneur Incubator Project

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Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia, Kelantan branch campus was recently awarded a grant valued at RM94,000 from the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education for the Digital Datapreneur Incubator Project.

The grant which was awarded on 23rd November 2020 will allow Dr Wan Fairos Wan Yaacob, the leader and her team members, Dr Syerina Azlin Md Nasir, Dr. Nurazleena Ismail, and Dr. Wan Marhaini Wan Omar to continue building on the digital datapreneur hub initiative. This project primarily aims to centralise the mobilisation of young entrepreneurs from public universities nationwide.

The Digital Datapreneur Incubator is aimed at equipping the growing number of participants with data-based analytical skills and encouraging the use of data analytics approach for innovating the decision-making phase. This is expected to add value to the entrepreneurs as skills in advanced technology will give them the competitive edge to not only run their businesses, but to also thrive in the fast-paced economic landscape of Industrial Revolution 4.0.

Apart from providing the platform for young entrepreneurs to polish their skills in data analytics, this project will reach the local community in Kelantan by providing hands-on experience in using a wide array of applications to do their business activities.

This programme has very far-reaching aims and hopes to facilitate the entrepreneurs involved through the identification of important business data which are pivotal for the decision-making process. Hence, this will enable them to make an informed selection of the target market, determine market segmentation, and better strategise the market placement.

The Digital Datapreuner Incubator is one of the 10 collaboration incubators under the Structured Entrepreneurial Incubator Programme (SEIP) which is an entrepreneurship programme at the Ministry of Higher Education. Universiti Malaysia Kelantan, as the key figure for SEIP has been working hand in hand with Malaysian higher educational institutions, government agencies, as well as the industry to bring this project together.

Overall, this initiative is observed to principally produce human capital who is knowledgeable, skilled and competitive to pursue the development of digital entrepreneurship in Malaysia.

The Digital Datapreneur Incubator project will contribute towards improving both data management and data analytical skills, and also ensure sustainability across various sectors in Malaysia such as engineering, technology and digital entrepreneurship. This project will play an important role in national development.