Archives for November 16, 2017

KUALA LUMPUR, 15 November 2017 – Fifty-seven delegates from 39 universities around the world attended the Asia Technological Universities Network (ATU-Net) Presidents Roundtable held at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), near here today.

The meeting was organised in conjunction with the “7th World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) 2017 in Kuala Lumpur.

The ATU-Net was established in response to a need for mutual support in dealing with increasing numbers of international students coming to the Asia region.

The ATU-Net aims to support university stakeholders to advance the quality reputation of international education in Asia through increased cooperation and cohesion.

The main objectives of the ATU-Net are to enhance student exchanges and enable pump-priming of collaborative research projects between global technology universities.

Thus far, a total of 23 universities from the Asia region including UTM have joined the ATU-Net.

All technological universities in Asia are invited to become members of the ATU-Net.

The ATU-Net Presidents Roundtable theme is “Leadership for Changing Higher Education in the 21st Century”.

The session will include a keynote address by Professor Dr. Kim Seon Miin on “Future Higher Education: Innovating Entrepreneurial University” and a panel discussion on “Are Asian Universities Ready for the 21st Century Challenges”.

The panelists for this session are Professor Dr. Feliciano Alagao – Vice-Chancellor, Mindanao State University – Illigan Institute of Technology, Philippines; and Professor Ir. Dr. Rezuwan Kamaruddin – Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic & International), Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Malaysia.

Bonn, Germany, 12^th November – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), through the UTM-Low Carbon Asia Research Centre (UTM-LCARC) that is based in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, organises an exhibition and participates in side events at the 23^rd Session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 23) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Bonn, Germany, 6-17 November 2017.

Prof. TPr. Dr. Ho Chin Siong and TPr. Chau Loon Wai from the Department of Urban Regional Planning lead UTM’s participation at COP 23, which is presided by the island nation of Fiji and hosted by the German Government.  The exhibition marks UTM’s seventh installation at the COP since participating in COP 17 in Durban, South Africa in 2011.  UTM remains the only Malaysian university with an accredited Observer institution status at the COP.

The exhibition showcases UTM-LCARC’s latest work on advancing city-level climate change action plan-making (science to policy-making through multiple stakeholder engagements) and implementation (real actions on the ground) in Iskandar Malaysia, Putrajaya, Kuala Lumpur and Pengerang.

The successful “Science to Action” (S2A) approach used in climate change mitigation at the city-level impresses visitors of diverse professional backgrounds (ranging from senior government officials, politicians, industrialists, scientists engineers, architects and academicians to activists, NGO volunteers and university students) from over 30 countries in South America, Africa, Europe, the Asia-Pacific and Southeast Asia, with many indicating interests in future collaboration.

UTM-LCARC also contributes to side events at the Japan Pavilion (as speakers and panellists) and Malaysia Pavilion (as speakers and poster exhibitor).

Congratulations to Prof Dr Khairiyah Mohd Yusof as the recipient of the Student Platform in Engineering Education Development (SPEED) Mentorship Award, by the SPEED executive committee and SPEED Global Student Forum (GSF) organizing committee in partnership with Dassault Systemes at the World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF 2017) held on Monday, 13 November 2017. The award is presented to Prof Dr. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof who has proven to be a mentor for students all over the world where her voice and ideas are implemented to affect change in engineering education.

In the award letter to Prof Dr. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, it was cited that:

Prof Dr Khairiyah Mohd Yusof is very patient as she mentors her students to push their own limits of achievement. She teaches her students to be more independent in making decisions, building skills and gaining knowledge.

Her innovation in teaching and learning via Cooperative Problem-Based Learning has positively impacted students’ problem-solving assets and developing more constructive skills. With appropriate scaffolding such as motivation, encouragement, and facilitation, she helps her students to construct new engineering knowledge and also coaches them to refine the skills they already have.

In addition to the years of work she has put in developing students in engineering education, her mentorship towards members of SPEED (local and international) and the organization of the Global Student Forum 2017 is truly instrumental in organizing an intentional and well-thought-out event.

UTM is proud with the recognition received by Prof Dr. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof, for all the works that she has done in mentoring the students.