UNiMAP grads complete Digital Engineering training at Perodua and vendors, MYPerodua @ Facebook launched!

We just got back from Perodua’s sprawling base at Sungai Choh where 20 fresh grads from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNiMAP) have just completed a six-month Digital Engineering and Prototyping training programme. Twelve of them underwent training at Perodua R&D, two each at Sipro Plastic Industries and Ingress Technologies, and four others at Sapura Industrial. The three companies are Perodua vendors.
Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir was there to present the certificates to the trainees. Those who trained at Perodua have been given temporary positions at the company for a year.

This Digital Engineering and Prototyping (DEP) training programme was created by the Malaysian Automotive Institute (MAI), which is a non-profit organisation under MITI. MAI’s DEP programme offers students access to high end software and hands on training. The module includes CAD (computer aided design), CAM (manufacturing), CAE (engineering), CAPE (production engineering) and Product Lifecycle Management).
Encouraged by the success of this pilot batch, MAI has expanded the next intake to 35 students, to be selected based on CGPA scores and an interview with both MAI and industry execs. Next up, MAI will work with UiTM to introduce styling design as part of the programme, which will help produce 4,600 automotive designers in five years, in line with the target set by the government.

After the scroll presentation, Dato’ Mukhriz clicked “Like” on Perodua’s new Facebook page to launch it. The MYPerodua page with the catch phrase “Lagi Best” will feature a contest to drum up fan count. Called “The Perodua Auditions”, one basically needs to show how much they love Perodua in a video to win a RM10,000 grand prize and five iPad 2s. Head on to www.facebook.com/MYPerodua to find out more.

University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) has to be shown it functions...

Dr. Awang Adek Hussin with Chinese villager on Chinese New Year celebration in Bachok, Malaysia yesterday.

University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) has to be shown as a institution of public education which functions as education development catalyst Kelantan and in the development impact time will participate able to develop the surrounding residents economic status.

To achieve the objective, Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Dr. Awang Adek Hussin said, allocation between RM100 to RM200 million a year are needed for various educational needs in univerisiti on those involving various faculty and infrastructure provision entailment each year.

He said, big expenditure that needed require support that solid than Kelantan people ensure Barisan Nasional (BN) government mandated administer Kelantan in the future to get attention and central from state privilege.

"Without political power that strong and state continued to be administered by opposition certainly sail against for federal government cater to the need. People have to use wisdom politicking if want see changes and development pleasure happen," he said to reporters in friendly get together function with Tionghua society and Thai in conjunction with Tahun Bari celebration Chinese in Kampung Balai, near here, today.

Dr. Awang Adek who is also Umno Liaison Body and Deputy Chairman of Umno Kelantan said, until now federal government already approved allocation as much as RM130 million under first phase which contains a few main building for UMK's developments in Kampung Tangok about five kilometres from urban centres Bachok.

According to him, the IPTA building construction almost completely built and UMK student now is following lecture in temporary building in Pangkalan Chepa and it expected will be apply formally in July this year.

"We wants to see UMK continue to expand and expanded with various new faculties in the number of students, teaching staff and staff that many due to development will be giving economic impact to Kelantan state people particularly in Bachok.

"Local population will be ensured to get job opportunities in UMK at least as staff and they also have a chance carry out business and service needed by the university students. To date also, land price assessment in that area also on high level after UMK construction impact,"he said.

Dr. Awang Adek said, this development need to be aware of by Kelantan people and accept the fact that Pas government who rules Kelantan actually failed create new economic growth area to facilitate people find income.

"Past error in choosing government need repaired and need to evaluate back BN's seriousness that always defend people's fate and implement development in this state although previously are not supported by Kelantan people when are voting in past general elections. People need to making changes," he said.
University Malaysia Kelantan (UMK) has to be shown as a institution of public education which functions as education development catalyst Kelantan and in the development impact time will participate able to develop the surrounding residents economic status.

To achieve the objective, Deputy Finance Minister, Datuk Dr. Awang Adek Hussin said, allocation between RM100 to RM200 million a year are needed for various educational needs in univerisiti on those involving various faculty and infrastructure provision entailment each year.

He said, big expenditure that needed require support that solid than Kelantan people ensure Barisan Nasional (BN) government mandated administer Kelantan in the future to get attention and central from state privilege.

"Without political power that strong and state continued to be administered by opposition certainly sail against for federal government cater to the need. People have to use wisdom politicking if want see changes and development pleasure happen," he said to reporters in friendly get together function with Tionghua society and Thai in conjunction with Tahun Bari celebration Chinese in Kampung Balai, near here, today.

Dr. Awang Adek who is also Umno Liaison Body and Deputy Chairman of Umno Kelantan said, until now federal government already approved allocation as much as RM130 million under first phase which contains a few main building for UMK's developments in Kampung Tangok about five kilometres from urban centres Bachok.

According to him, the IPTA building construction almost completely built and UMK student now is following lecture in temporary building in Pangkalan Chepa and it expected will be apply formally in July this year.

"We wants to see UMK continue to expand and expanded with various new faculties in the number of students, teaching staff and staff that many due to development will be giving economic impact to Kelantan state people particularly in Bachok.

"Local population will be ensured to get job opportunities in UMK at least as staff and they also have a chance carry out business and service needed by the university students. To date also, land price assessment in that area also on high level after UMK construction impact,"he said.

Dr. Awang Adek said, this development need to be aware of by Kelantan people and accept the fact that Pas government who rules Kelantan actually failed create new economic growth area to facilitate people find income.

"Past error in choosing government need repaired and need to evaluate back BN's seriousness that always defend people's fate and implement development in this state although previously are not supported by Kelantan people when are voting in past general elections. People need to making changes," he said.

http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8105160-university-malaysia-kelantan-umk-has-to-be-shown-it-functions

UMS Inks MoU With AEU To Offer ODL Programmes

KOTA KINABALU, July 19 (Bernama) -- Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) embarked on another academic milestone today with the inking of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Asia e University (AeU), which enables UMS to promote postgraduate Masters Programmes online and reach out to potential international students.

UMS vice-chancellor Brig Gen Prof Datuk Seri Kamaruzaman Ampon during the MoU signing ceremony today said besides increasing the intake of international students in UMS, the move was also consistent with the national agenda to promote Malaysia as an international education hub.

The signing was witnessed by State Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai. Kamaruzaman represented UMS and AeU was represented by its president, Prof Datuk Ansary Ahmed.

As initial collaboration between UMS and AeU, two programmes have been identified for the ODL, namely Master of Human Capital Management (School of Business and Economics) and Master in Education Management (School of Education and Social Development). However, it is only expected to be introduced in January next year.

AeU, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, is a flexible, international university set in Asia under the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD). Its establishment is an initiative of Malaysia as the prime mover for e-education, with the support of 31 ACD member countries.

-- BERNAMA

http://education.bernama.com/index.php?sid=news_content&id=602334

UiTM - Untangling Technology

he partnership between Norzaidi Mohd Daud, Ph.D, from the Faculty of Business Management and Intan Salwani Mohamed from the Faculty of Accountancy has led to the development of TECHPROVEDTMSystem, a new business information technology system that could prove to be the way forward for detecting user resistance to technology and other IT usage problems.

Today more than ever, the momentum for employing emerging technologies to ensure more efficient delivery systems is building throughout industry and government. No one wants to be left behind and huge investments are made to acquire new information technology systems to this end. These investments, however, involve a complex mixture of technological, managerial and policy related challenges. Such investments often fail to live up to expectations if these risks are not fully understood or addressed in the first place. When this happens, policy makers need to know what went wrong but few have the resources to accurately and continuously evaluate the problem.


The Business-Accountancy research duo has shown how to get around this problem by developing TECHPROVEDTMSystem, a system based on their research on IT implementation in the Malaysian port industry. The study involving 357 middle managers from the port authority, immigration, customs and marine departments, incorporated three levels of analysis. Specifically, they sought to identify the perception of the middle managers on the effects of IT usage, examine the relationships between variables such as technology characteristics, task characteristics, task-technology fit, perceived usefulness, perceived resistance, user resistance, user satisfaction and the level of impact of the said variables on performance.


http://pembangunan.uitm.edu.my/home/uitm-news-a-events.html

UNIMAS - SARAWAK CAN SERVE AS TECH LAB FOR IT RESEARCHERS

KUCHING: Sarawak can serve as a technological lab for IT researchers as it offers an insight into the digital divide between the urban and rural users.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak vice chancellor Professor Dr Khairuddin Abdul Hamid said it had carried a 12-year project called the e-Bario in the effort to bring technology into the rural highland comunity for the Orang Ulu tribe. The settlement is also the producer of the famous Bario rice.

"Technology makers only concentrate their products for the urban users, but there are many more that have no access to these modern technologies.

"There is a vast potentials in developing new technologies for the rural folks," said Khairuddin said yesterday at the 7th International Conference of IT in Asia (Cita) which started yesterday.

The conference sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and is collocated with the International Workshop on Internalisation of Products and Systems (IWIP 2011).

The three-day event saw 100 international participants including Google's User Experience Research Manager Dr Patrick Larvie who will be presenting his paper on Thursday.

Unimas's computer science and information technology dean Professor Dr K Narayanan said there were many challenges in carrying out the project including dealing with the reservation from the Bario community.

"When we first started, there were many objections to it, but once they realise and start looking at the bigger picture, they began to accept that it can help in their daily lives.

"With mobile phones coming into the picture, it is now a challenge to bridge that gap to the people there," said Narayanan. He said Unimas is looking at using the e-Bario program to help the farmers in their harvest especially in data collection.

"With rising demand for Bario rice, we want to help the farmers in bringing technology to them in the near future. This is part of the plan that we have for them," said Narayanan.


http://www.unimas.my/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=418:sarawak-can-serve-as-tech-lab-for-it-researchers&catid=49:headlines&Itemid=355

UMS to increase intake of foreign students

by Murib Morpi. Posted on July 20, 2011, Wednesday

KOTA KINABALU: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) has sealed a partnership with Asia e-University (AeU) to further expand its online distance learning (ODL) programmes.

The university inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the new partner yesterday, aiming to increase the intake of its international students by better promoting its Postgraduate Master Programmes through AeU.

Under the agreement, two ODL programmes, namely the Master of Human Capital Management (School of Business and Economics) and Master in Education Management (School of Education and Social Development), will be offered starting January next year.

UMS vice-chancellor Brigadier General Professor Datuk Seri Kamaruzaman Ampon said the MoU paved the way for further collaboration with AeU, especially in promoting ODL programmes to foreign countries.

He added UMS was looking towards offering more programmes from its other schools through AeU in the near future.

“The significance of this MoU would be to encourage the expansion of our online distance learning programme globally in the industry of higher education, with AeU as a gateway university to develop and expand ODL programmes, thus generating impact towards our national economy,” he said.

Kamaruzaman said besides increasing the intake of international students in UMS, the move was also consistent with the national agenda to promote Malaysia as the regional international hub.

“This would be reachable with the MoU with AeU today, where AeU will assist us in promoting the ODL programmes through online portal as well as providing the technical training and expertise in handling the online lectures and learning activities to our academic staff who are involved directly in the ODL programmes,” he added.

AeU is a flexible, international university set up in Asia under the Asia Cooperation Dialogue (ACD). Its establishment is an initiative of Malaysia as the prime mover for e-education, with the support of 31 ACD member countries.

Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, AeU collaborates with higher learning institutions and training centres in the 31 ACD member countries to offer academic and professional training programmes focusing on affordability, accessibility, and quality.

The institution has been commissioned by the government to collaborate with higher learning institutions in Malaysia to promote Online Distance Learning (ODL) and under this initiative, every higher learning institution is required to identify and develop two ODL programmes by end of 2011.

The signing was witnessed by State Resource Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai, where Kamaruzaman represented UMS and AeU was represented by its president, Professor Datuk Ansary Ahmed.

Ansary said Malaysia is currently ranked the 10th most popular destination for foreign students in the world, and promoting ODL programmes is another effort to climb up the rank besides increasing the number of foreign students coming and studying in the country.

He said among the regions the country has targeted to reach out to are Asean, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries, the Indian sub-continent and Africa.

“Malaysia has a target of reaching 110,000 online students by 2020; we have a big task, this will not be successful if we as institutions and academicians cannot work together,” Ansary added.

UMS is the seventh public higher learning institution (IPTA) which AeU has ventured with in providing Malaysian education online.

Commenting on the signing of the MoU, Dr Yee said it was in line with the country’s effort to better equip itself to meet the challenge in creating proper human resource development through education.

http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/07/20/ums-to-increase-intake-of-foreign-students/

UTHM entrusted by the World Bank to develop vocational training programme in Jordan

The University’s expertise in Technical and Vocational Education (PTV) has won international bid and been given the mandate by the World Bank in vocational training development project in Jordan recently.

In the competitive bidding that involved bidders all over the world, UTHM, through its subsidiary, UTHM Holdings Sdn. Bhd., was given the responsibility to develop governing system and vocational training model for Jordan via Vocational Training Corporation (VTC) which is under the Ministry of Labour, Jordan.

A Consultancy Services Contract Signing Ceremony was held at the VTC Headquarters
located in the capital city of Amman, on May 8, 2011 and witnessed by the Ambassador of Malaysia in Jordan, Dato Abdul Malek Abdul Aziz.

In the event, Jordan was represented by its Minister of Labour, Dr. Mahmoud Al-Kafawin and Majed Al-Habashneh as Managing Director of VTC, while UTHM was represented by Vice-Chancellor Professor Dato 'Dr. Mohd Noh Dalimin and Project Director, Professor Dr. Wahid Razzaly.

In the ceremony which was attended by about 200 representatives from industries, skill training centres and officials from the Ministry of Labour, Jordan, the Ambassador of Malaysia in Jordan in his speech expressed his sense of pride by the selection of UTHM in developing this international project. He said that Malaysia is proud to be represented by UTHM who has won the international competitive bid in getting the project. He believed that with all the experts involved in the project, UTHM will be able to carry out the mission successfully.

Meanwhile, Professor Dato Dr Mohd Noh Dalimin in his speech mentioned that this project should not be seen as a mere collaboration between two agencies but it symbolizes a strong relationship between two progressive Islamic countries, Jordan and Malaysia. He expressed his hope that this collaboration will strengthen the bond of the two countries in other fields especially those in education and technical skills training, which are the niche areas of UTHM.

UTHM, at present, is the pioneer in technical and vocational education field in Malaysia and is the only institution of higher learning in the country chosen as the International Center for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (Unesco, Unevoc)

To implement the 30-month project sponsored by the World Bank, a group of experts led by Professor Dr Wahid Razzaly, who is the Dean of Faculty of Technical Education UTHM will also get the cooperation from other international expert peers such as Dr Dennis Harper and Steven McKee of the United States of America, Dr Jose Lacson from the Philiphine, and several others from different countries. Internal experts include Prof. Dato Dr. Mohd Noh Dalimin, Prof. Dr.Jailani Md. Yunos, Prof. Dr. Noraini Kaprawi dan Dr. Razali Hassan

During his tour to Jordan, Professor Dato Dr Mohd Noh also visited the University of Jordan which is the outstanding and the oldest university in the country, and held discussions with its President, Professor Dr Adel Tweissi.

UTHM delegation also visited the AlBalqa Applied University (BAU), a university with the most number of students in Jordan. During the visit, a Joint Declaration was signed by UTHM Vice Chancellor and BAU President, Profesor Dr. Ekhleif Y Tarawneh. The agreement includes, among others, aspects regarding researcher exchange, administration and student, collaborative research project implementation, collaborative seminar and publication by both universities.

http://www.uthm.edu.my/v2/content/view/794/229/lang,en/

UM - Majority of IT professionals want to upgrade skills to progress careers - but 41% want to leave IT

Jenny Williams
Tuesday 09 August 2011 17:26

The majority of IT professionals believe upgrading skills and qualifications is important to progressing their careers, according to research.

A survey of 2,200 UK IT professionals by recruitment consultancy Kelly Services showed 91% believe upgrading skills and qualifications is "extremely important" or "important" to career progression. But the survey also suggested almost half (41%) of respondents expect to switch careers out of IT in the next five years.

"As individuals take greater control of their careers in IT, there is a likelihood of employees moving in and out of the workforce for both professional and lifestyle reasons," said Dominic Graham, head of professional and technical services at Kelly Services.

The survey showed two-thirds of IT professionals (63%) aspire to a senior position. However, reasons given for avoiding executive roles included work-life balance (40%), concern about pressure and stress (28%), inadequate skills (10%) and lack of ambition (8%).

Separate research by recruitment firm Badenoch & Clark said that demand for C#, .Net and Java skills remains high as companies seek to upgrade existing systems. The report said companies are also migrating to Microsoft Exchange 2010 and Sharepoint.


"Employers require more third-line technical support as a result of the increase in companies migrating to Exchange 2010 and making use of Sharepoint," said Matt Gascoigne, operations director of IT at Badenoch & Clark.

"Upgrades to existing systems and new implementations are keeping IT recruitment activity bubbling away with only a small reduction in the number of permanent vacancies month on month".

Badenoch & Clark's research showed testing roles are also increasing.

"As employers move to an automated test environment more and more development projects are moving to the delivery stage. There are more vacancies for testing roles at all levels as a result," said Gascoigne.

In the public sector, NHS trusts are seeking Cerner and RiO experts to complete major projects, such as patient administration system upgrades and implementations.

http://www.computerweekly.com

Contribution by UKM to Government’s MyBrain15 programme

MONDAY, 18 APRIL 2011 00:00
By Abdul Ghani Nasir

BANGI, 18 April, 2011 – Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) hopes to produce at least 5,000 PhD holders by 2015 as part of its contribution towards fulfilling the government’s MyBrain15 programme which aimed at producing 60,000 PhDs by 2020.

In line with this, UKM has mapped out various strategies including offering five fellowship programmes, reforming some of its faculties and setting up off-shore centres for postgraduate studies.

Director of the Centre for Graduate Management, Prof Dr Aini Hussain said the MyBrain15 programme is one of the critical agenda of the government to achieve Vision 2020.

As part of that agenda the government had drawn up its various transformation plans including the Economic Transformation Plan (ETP). Through ETP a new economic model with emphasis on innovation is targetted.

Under the MyBrain15 project the Ministry of Higher Education is offerring the MyPhd, MyMaster, PhD Industry and Academic Training Scheme IPTA (SLAI) programme.

It is part of part of the nation’s critical agenda which aims at producing a group of high knowledge work force who will act as catalysts to spur research and innovation.

“In line with this, UKM has targeted to have 15,000 registered post graduates by 2015,” she said.

Prof Aini said as part of its plan to contribute to the government’s effort, UKM is offering five fellowship programmes made up of the UKM Fellowship, UKM Premier Fellowship, Research University Fellowship, Research Grant Fellowship and the OUP (Research University Operations) Fellowship. A total of RM5 million has been allotted for the fellowships this year.


“The UKM Premier Fellowship was accepted by the University’s Senate recently and will be advertised very soon for the 2011/2012 intake, she said.

For the fellowship schemes, all full-time students can apply and it covers all fields of study with emphasis given to the eight research niche of UKM.

Prof Aini said UKM will be also be transforming a few faculties which will focus on post graduates programmes.

“The Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International Affairs) and the Centre for Graduate Management have identified three faculties that will be transformed. They are the Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Education and Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment.

“The faculties needed to have a registration target of 70% post graduates against 30% first degree students. The undergraduates will become feeders for their post graduate programmes.

“The other faculties must set a target ratio of 50%:50% graduate and undergraduate students by 2015. To date UKM have 14 institutes and the Graduate School of Business (GSB) that only cater for post graduate studies.

On the formation of the off-shore studies centres, she said the programme comes as part of the university’s Education Co-operation Agreement (ECA).

UKM has thus far succeeded in forging a few education co-operation with universities in Indonesia involving the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Science and Technology and the Faculty of Economics and Management.

The Faculty of Law has recently signed a co-operation agreement with Hunan University of China.

UKM currently have 3,160 PhD students and she believes that the plans were realistic and achievable.

For the MyPhD and MyMaster programme the terms and condition set by the Ministry of Higher Eduction applies. Candidates targeted are unemployed graduates without permanent incomes, staff from the private sector as well as lecturers from the Private Institutions of Higher Learning.

http://www.ukm.my/news/index.php/en/typography/679-contribution-by-ukm-to-governments-mybrain15-programme.html

UIA - International Meetings Statistics Report for the Year 2010 released

The Union of International Associations has just release its International Meetings Statistics Report for the Year 2010
For the past 62 years, the UIA has undertaken, for the benefit of its members, statistical studies on the preceding year's international meetings. As in previous years, the report is also available for sale to the public following a period of three months' exclusive use by UIA Association Members. The full report will be available from September 15th 2011.
The statistics are based on information systematically collected by the UIA Congress Department and selected according to strict criteria maintained over the years, thus enabling meaningful comparison from year to year.

http://www.uia.be/uia-news/international-meetings-statistics-report-year-2010-released

PELAJAR UMT MENANG 9 PINGAT DI NATIONAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION

UMT telah menyertai National Research and
Innovation Competition 2010 pada 25-28 Mei 2010 bertempat di Universiti
Sains Malaysia.Bertemakan ‘Continuous Innovation for Tomorrow’s
Sustainability’, UMT telah menghantar 14 penyertaan/projek dalam 5
kategori utama yang dipertandingkan.

Majlis Penutup dan Penyampaian Hadiah NRIC 2010 menjadi lebih menarik
apabila pelajar UMT berjaya membawa pulang 6 pingat perak dan 3 pingat
gangsa seterusnya menjadi universiti tertinggi dalam pungutan
pingat.

http://www.uImt.edu.my/v8/english/news_view.php?Edit=514

Pahang, UMP set up centre in biodiversity and biotechnology

roslina@thestar.com.my
KUANTAN: The Pahang government and Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP) have jointly set up a research and excellence centre in biodiversity and biotechnology in a move to optimise and boost its market potentials.

The project would also meet the demand for experts in research, development and commercialisation activities (R&D&C).

The centre was officially opened by Sultan of Pahang Sultan Ahmad Shah in conjunction with the launching of a mini Malaysian Agriculture, Horticulture and Agrotourism (MAHA) show at an agriculture park in Indera Mahkota near here recently.

UMP vice chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Daing Nasir Ibrahim said the university was already acting as an adviser to the state’s Science, Technology and Information Technology committee in developing biodiversity and biotechnology for commercial purposes.

“The centre will provide training, services, consultation and expertise of UMP’s researchers for entrepreneurs in the two fields.

“The efforts are expected to help realise the state’s biodiversity-biotechnology strategic plan to sustainably reap benefits from the natural wealth and resources and boost economic activities,’’ he added.

Daing said UMP would also develop related R&D&C projects aimed at creating products with higher added values.

Among the functions of the centre, which covers an area of 700 square metres, included identifying species with commercial values, conducting tests to validate potential chemicals derived from plants, developing pro­cesses to extract essence as well as analysing microbes in water and soil.

The centre would also act as a reference centre for the public and students to get information and be exposed to biodiversity through activities carried out in the park.

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2011/6/16/southneast/8894098&sec=southneast

UTM STRENGTHENS COLLABORATION WITH SRI INTERNATIONAL – COMMERCIALISATION READINESS PROGRAM TO GENERATE MORE QUALITY RESEARCH PRODUCTS

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:17

Wednesday, 20 April 2011 00:17

UTM Vice-Chancellor Professor Dato Dr Zaini Ujang (two from left) and
Stephen J. Ciesinki, Vice President, Corporate Strategic Programs, SRI.



KUALA LUMPUR, 19 April. – UNIVERSITI Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and SRI International (founded as Stanford Research Institute)), Menlo Park, California will benefit from an intelligent collaboration to improve the commercialisation strategies for UTM’s most promising research products.
The two institutions today signed a memorandum of agreement in Impiana Hotel, KLCC to further investigate the collaboration initiatives that relate to professional activities, particularly in the area of innovation strategies and processes.
UTM has identified the need to commercialise more of its research products to the local and international market aligned with the university’s goal to achieve better Research University (RU) purpose. An effort on polishing its research output has been the best step to benefit the RU fund distributed by the government.
The recent series of Commercialisation Readiness Workshops nurtures UTM’s researchers focus to generate more valuable Intellectual Property and prepare them for commercialisation. This effort includes several processes such as exposing UTM’s researchers and staff to SRI’s 5 Disciplines of Innovation (5DOI) program, a set of innovation best practices for developing accountable and sustainable business models, determining go‐to-market plans, building sound business plans, and delivering value to customers.
By engaging with SRI since 2010, UTM personnel have participated in various executive briefings and programs for researchers and staff, starting with the first twenty‐seven (27) UTM researchers and staff who were trained in the SRI 5 Disciplines of Innovation program (5DOI), partially through AKEPT sponsorship.
Several research teams were trained to pitch their value propositions in extended “venture capital‐like” sessions. These sessions have benefitted many UTM research teams, officials and staff. In addition, by forming this partnership, several UTM products have been advanced from research and development phases to commercialisation strategies.
At the end of this program, UTM hopes to generate sustainable and innovative technologies that are commercialized successfully and to continue to improve its remarkable research and development capabilities.

http://www.utm.my/news/news/393-utm-and-sri-international-collaborate-to-commercialise-research-products-.html

UPNM First Local Varsity To Offer It Security Programme

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 (Bernama) -- Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) chalked a new milestone by becoming the first local public university to offer Information Technology Security (IT Security) certification for its computer science undergraduates.

The programme is offered in collaboration with International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), a leading IT Security certification provider.

UPNM Vice-Chancellor Datuk Zulkifli Zainal Abidin said the programme was in line with the government's call to produce local professionals able to handle crimes in information technology (IT).

"Security experts in IT are very important to the nation now, mainly to stop cyber crimes through computer chains that can be a threat to the security of the nation," he told reporters after signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with EC-Council at the university here, on Thursday.

EC-Council was represented by its president, Sanjay Bavisi.

-- BERNAMA

http://education.bernama.com/index.php?sid=news_content&id=437926