November 25th – 26th, 2020
This course aims to introduce Google Classroom as a Learning Management Systems (LMS). The content covered throughout the 2 days program are as below:-
Creating Interactive Content for Online Learning
My philosophy in engaging students to the class has always involve 3 aspects; the trainer/lecturer, the students and the content. With education being affected to the new norm, thanks to covid-19, the content of a class/lecture is where I spent the most of my time as to assure attention span of students is maintained throughout the online session. There are still plenty to be done, but it is surely something that is I’ve always looked forward into.
In this sharing session, Dr. Ahmad Salahuddin Mohd Harithuddin, a Senior Lecturer from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) creatively deliver useful tips and techniques as well as resources to create engaging session. Here are some of the snapshots of the session.
UMP STEM Lab Online Class – Microsoft Excel Session 2
November 23 -24th, 2020
Microsoft Online Class on Excel – An essential software for most of us :).
Day 1
Day 2
Malaysia’s Labour Market Outlook in the Time of COVID-19
An interesting Online Webinar by EuroCham on ‘Malaysia’s Labour Market Outlook in the Time of COVID-19 Confirmation’.
C0vid-19 affected Malaysia in many ways, in many unexpected ways. One of them is the labour market.
Community Development via Social Enterprise Initiative
An interesting sharing session by Kapten Imad, from UMP, on initiative by Magic to cultivate and nurture social enterprising among the communities in Malaysia.
ICoN UMP looks forward to this initiative especially in uplifting the communities in the East Coast of Malaysia.
UMP STEM Lab Online Class – Arduino Programming Session 1
November 23 – 24th
Arduino Programming via TinkerCAD is an online class organised by UMP STEM LAB.
The main focus of this class is to give an overview, basic introduction to the physical computing – digital making skills – on the Arduino Microcontroller platform. TinkerCAD offers an alternative that enables students to program and visualize the microcontroller (hardware) responses.
Day 1
Day 2
SBEE Electronic Systems Design
November 11th, 2020
Third online class of part time course – Electronic System Design, which emphasize on the topic of Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) and Finite State Machine (FSM). ALU is a core built of the CPU – that basically made up a computer. Understanding the fundamental of how these units operates digitally plays an important part in developing the competencies for electronic system designers. the topic begins with a simple structure of a half adder and later transits to full adder, ripple carry adder and carry look ahead adder.
The second part of the class focuses on FSM, which elaborates on the two well known concept – Moore and Mealy machines. The concepts of counters and its variabilities were revised and later build up with the two machines mentioned previously.
Mesyuarat Pembikinan Kertas Kerja Penubuhan Jawatankuasa Pembangunan Pelajar dan JIM
Chaired by En Mohd Shahril, Lembaga Pengarah Universiti.
ICoN to play its’ role in elevating the engagement between UMP community, targeting students, and industry players.
Webinar on Block Chain Technology
November 17th 2020
An interesting discussion on Block Chain and Malaysia’s stand towards this technology.
BChain is disruptive to 2 main aspects:-
- trust
- audit
As for Talent development, we should focus on generating graduates who are:-
- self taught
- the use of github
- Python – widely used
- certification is still open
BKIM – ICoN Engagement Meeting
November 18th 2020
Discussed on several item related to ICoN’s UMP activities over the past 2 years which include Industry Academia Collaboration, CEO Faculty Programs and the recent U4s.
University – Industry linkages is a challenging topic, often due to the need and aspiration mismatch between the university and industry. As an academia, it is our ultimate aim to prepare graduates that are able to address the requirements and competencies as required by the industry. However, with the rapid advancement of technology, achieving a balance between laying a solid fundamental knowledge and ability to cope with the sophistication of technology has always been a hot debate.
One thing for sure, Malaysia is in need for pool of talent. Building up a k-economy or even a k-society foundation is a must and collaboration between university and industry is a way forward.
That being said, with the recent outbreak of Covid -19, everyone need to be creative and agile to grab opportunities that strike.
