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UTM-MJIIT Bagged Two IEM Awards

UTM-MJIIT Bagged Two IEM Awards

by | Oct 9, 2018 | MJIIT Events

The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) Gold Medal Award overall winner, Abdul Syakir Abdul Wahab, 23 years old from Melaka is an extraordinary lad. As a final year student of Chemical Process Engineering at UTM-MJIIT, Abdul Syakir went through his 3-months industrial training at Daido Metal Co. Ltd., in Nagoya Aichi-Ken, Japan. Awarded with Tokoh Akademik Kediaman Siswa Jaya UTMKL in 2018 for Degree category, he was the former Director for MJIIT Entrepreneur Day 2016 and contributed as one of the crews for the MJIIT Sports Day in the same year. Ahmad Syakir is known for his active involvement in various college activities such as Ace Your Future 2.0 and many others.
 
Despite his dynamic contributions and participations in various extra curricular activities, Ahmad Syakir demonstrated an impressive academic achievement being an A-star student at MJIIT. Through careful selection by the Faculty panel members, Ahmad Syakir successfully went through the screening process for the IEM Gold Medal Award nomination. The prestigious IEM Gold Medal Award was conferred by IEM for the best final year engineering student nominated by local institution of higher learning. Congratulations to Ahmad Syakir for the conferment of the prestigious award by IEM during the 59th Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) Annual Dinner 2018.
 
Meanwhile, Yap Kian Kun, a final year student of Mechanical Precision Engineering also from UTM-MJIIT was recipient of the prestigious Tan Sri Hj Yusoff Ibrahim Best Final Year Project – Overall Winner. The IEM and the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) jointly organized the final year project competition. Opened to all Universities, UTM-MJIIT nominated Yap Kian Kun’s excellent final year dissertation that claimed the winning title. The dissertation entitled “Influences of Adsorbed Water on Adhesive Wear” was supervised by Professor Dr Kanao Fukuda, Head of Tribology and Precision Machining Laboratory (TriPreM) iKohza at UTM-MJIIT. The award was delivered by Ir Dr Tan Yean Chin, President of IEM at Wisma IEM petaling Jaya during the IEM Annual General Meeting.
MJIIT in Colloboration with Yamaguchi University organized Robotic Competition for Secondary School

MJIIT in Colloboration with Yamaguchi University organized Robotic Competition for Secondary School

by | Oct 9, 2018 | MJIIT Events

Kuala Lumpur, 18 & 19 August 2018 – Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) through Centre for Community and Industry Network (CCIN) in collaboration with Yamaguchi University have successfully organized a robotic competition for secondary school student under 18 years old. The competition was held at Language Laboratory 3 & 4, level 2, MJIIT. The two days program was headed by Dr. Ahmad Muhsin Ithnin, Senior Lecturer from department of Mechanical Precision Engineering, MJIIT, Dr. Mohd Azizi Abdul Rahman, Senior Lecturer from department of Electronic System Engineering, MJIIT and Associate Professor Dr. Tsuyoshi Koga from Graduate School of Sciences and Technology for Innovation (Engineering), Yamaguchi University. There were 14 Yamaguchi undergraduate students helping and mentoring the school students throughout the event.

 

The program started with Robotic Workshop supervised by Associate Professor Dr. Tsuyoshi Koga. The contestants were formed groups which every group consist of two school students and two Yamaguchi students. Every groups need to build and program a sumo robot by using Lego Mind Storm. The students were exposed and experienced on programming and controlling the robot with two tires and the robots need to be well balanced before entering the competition ring. The aim of the workshop is not only to enhanced the technical knowledge on robotic, but also to gain new experienced in communicating and working with international students.

The Robotic Competition was started on the second day of the program and the format of the competition is set to be a ‘sudden death’ type. Group from St. John`s Institution school, Ilhammencez Bin Mohd Rasyidi and Ryan Tam Chee Man were announced as the winner of the competition, successfully beaten up group from dari SMK Seri Gombak Haziq Aiman Bin Mohd Faizal and Muhammad Najmie Hakim Bin Tajudin in the final round.