Month: September 2020

“Social Impact: A Myth Or A Possible Reality”

 

In ICoN, our mission is :

  1. To become the focal centre for university, industry and community engagement.
  2. To ensure that engagement is in line with our vision and mission.
  3. And, To strengthen and grow partnership locally and internationally.

And this brings us to today’s Professional Talk Series – the Webinar edition, entitled: Social Impact, Myth or a possible reality.

Our first panelist is Dr Ahmad Johari Mohamad.

Serving UMP since 2001, Dr Jo is among the pioneer members of UMP, which by the way back then known as KUKTEM. Dr Jo obtained his PhD in University of Warwick, United Kingdom back in 2019. Today, Dr Jo is the Dean of Student Development & Alumni Affairs in Universiti Malaysia Pahang. Under this portfolio, Dr Jo leads numerous social based activities with the students.

The second penalist is En Abdul Halim Khudri

En Halim is OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY HEALTH EXECUTIVES in Malaysian Pharmasutical Industries Penanag. En Halin is an active member of HIMPUNAN LEPASAN INSTITUSI PENDIDIKAN MALAYSIA (HALUAN). Throughout his involvement, En Halim has engaged with community from MALEUBOH, ACHEH, SYRIA, MYANMAR, PIDIE JAYA, ACHEH

Our third panelist for today is Dr Yasmin Rasyid

Dr Yasmin is a Sustainability and Social Entrepreneurship Professional Biologist by profession, environmentalist by passion, Dr Yasmin has 20 years of experience and knowledge in environmental management, community development, strategic partnerships for sustainability and social responsibility in Malaysia Dr Yasmin founded Eco Night back in 2005, in which she Volunteer in time and energy to support the growth of EcoKnights through Facilitating and engaging multi-stakeholders from donors, government agencies.

 

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Covid 19 – Implications to Logistic The Industries

September 8th, 2020

Not only has the Covid-19 changes the life we lived today, it has also impacted the global manufacturing systems. China, being the epicentre of this pandemic, had as well been affected negatively especially in the context of global commodities and agricultural products.

Due to the extreme measure – the lockdown – taken to stall the spread of the virus, disruptions to manufacturing in China rippled through global supply chains. This relays to the logistics sector, with backlogged cargos at ports, restrictions in travelling, shortages in man powers – truck drives, port workers, and the cancellation of ocean carriers.

This is far beyond China’s internal logistic issues as major industries around the world, including automotive, electronics, medical equipment and supplies, as well as consumer goods, were affected.

Although manufacturing picked back up by end-February, a return to full production capacity is unlikely in the short term because of the spread of the pandemic to China’s trading partners. The long-haul trucking sector illustrates the effects of the lockdown on Chinese logistics.

Malaysia like any other countries around the world is not spared from being affected by the pandemic since the MCO, back in March 2020. We are delighted to have PKT Logistics via its CEO, Dato Micheal Teo to enlighten with this one ultimate question – could Malaysian logistic sector bounced back to its regular pace? – which I believe is currently in every mind.

Product Development & Market Survey – Ninja 2020

Knowledge in marketing and entrepreneurship is crucial to academicians that are aspired to engage in consultation / product development (R&D).

An interesting presentation on the topic, that exposes these young school children to these entrepreneurial education. Not only is the skill lingers about achieving certain numbers/target, but as well the ability to ‘sniff’ opportunities in business.

 

Webinar by MGCC on Fraud in Volatile Times

Sept 3rd, 2020

Attended an interesting presentation by speakers from Deloitte.

Covid 19 impacted us many ways and one of them is being vulnerable towards the dwindling economy ecosystem. Yesterday’s webinar, hosted by MGCC was indeed comprehensive. The speakers outlined the impacts of current pandemic towards the global economy ecosystem and the vulnerability that it caused especially in the aspect of fraudulent activities. The best response mechanism towards these fraud mitigation were elaborated towards the end of the presentation.

 

UMP STEM Lab – Course Professional Development CPD Center

Since its establishment in 2016, UMP STEM Lab has served as a community center that supports innovation and STEM outreach programs to not only school children but also school teachers.

We started off by having computer programming and electronic system classes, basically serving as a platform to encourage more electronics based project/innovation among school children. Back then, the participation were mainly to prepare school children and teachers for exhibitions and competitions such as Young Innovators Challenge, Citrex. The classes later evolved by embedding the curriculum of robotics and intermediate programming involving micro controllers and micro computers.

Beginning 2017, MDeC has recognized UMP STEM Lab as one of its Center of Professional Development (CPD). Since then, we have been offering courses such as computational thinking, Arduino programming, web design, game design and database. Back in 2019, we received a fund from the Ministry of Education (MoE) to handle classes on Python Programming and Internet of Things.

Apart from CPD courses that are tailored to suit MoE’s curriculum, STEM Lab also offered digital making classes, with the ultimate motivation – to expose the teachers and young school children to the fascinating world of engineering 🙂 .

To date, more than 190 teachers were trained in the lab.