24th SEPTEMBER 2020 AT SUNWAY PUTRA HOTEL, KUALA LUMPUR
Faculty of Engineering (FE) UTM has organized an Industrial Advisory Panel (IAP) Meeting 2020 Program on 24th September 2020 at Sunway Putra Hotel, Kuala Lumpur. The program aims to seek and incorporate expert’s comments and ideas from various fields of engineering and computing into the Engineering Education Curriculum at UTM, and to enhance the relationship between FE and industries. In addition, the program also aims to acquire up-to-date industry inputs relevant to the current industrial demands in engineering especially on the IR 4.0. The input from the meeting would help improve the academic curriculum at FE UTM. It would also help in potential research collaborations, supports and funds, enabling FE programs to maintain accreditations from EAC and MQA. The program was launched by Tan Sri Abdul Halim Ali, Chairman of the UTM’s Board of Directors.
The outcomes from this meeting are to produce Industry-Led curriculums that would produce 21st-century graduates in engineering and computer science through flexible curriculum innovations, with the involvement of the industry partners. Besides, this meeting also encouraged industry network through industry involvement in organizing student career path programs, teaching & learning, and research & innovation. This industry linkage also benefits in term of students’ internship placements, which is industry-led training thus provides students with experience in solving real industry based problems. This would also lead to future employment with the participating industry.
For this year, the meeting was attended by 64 IAPs and 90 academicians, discussed with program managers of the faculty, 23 undergraduate (UG) programs and 50 postgraduate (PG) programs, involving 6 engineering and computing schools in UTM. The outcome of the meeting will help program managers to streamline the Program Learning Outcomes (PLO) of the academic programs by taking into account the needs of the current industry.