ROUXUEN'S REFLECTION
What is your goal/dream with regarding to your course/program?
Regarding to the courses we are studying which is data engineering, our main goal is to become a successful data engineer in the future. We hope to become a successful data engineer that equip with all the requirements a successful data engineer should have. For example, having deep knowledge of SQL database design, multiple programming languages and familiarity with data administration. We are looking forward to work as a part of analytics team, to provide a platform for modelling data and help enterprise to achieve their business goals. Also, we want to contribute our efforts to develop our country through digital technology.
How does this design thinking impact on your goal/dream with regard
to your program?
After we got involved in this design thinking project, it further strengthen our goal to become a data engineer. In this new digital era, there is no doubt that the demand of Big Data will increase surprisingly in the future. Throughout this design thinking process, we found out that this is the best way to provide a solution-based approach in solving real life problems. Undergoing the stages in design thinking which included empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test, we gained an insight on what is the job scope of a data engineer. This further strengthen our convictions which is to become a data engineer that can contribute our efforts to the people needed. By mastering all these skills, we really hope we can use our skill to help people out there by using the data we have collected.
What is the action/improvement/plan necessary for you to improve you potential in the industry?
We should have a mindset that never stop learning as there is many knowledges out there waiting for us to explore. Also, keep updating ourselves and master the skills that is needed for us to become a skillful data engineer. We also plan to enhance our skills on various aspects such as SQL, data architecture, data warehousing and database solutions. We believe that by keep improving our skills and self-value, we are able to improve our potential in the industry.
Design Thinking Video
Johor is a place i never came before because it is too far from Kedah, it took almost 10 hours drive from my hometown. I still remember the feeling when i first step in UTM, so exciting and nervous. Exciting is because finally I study in public university after the challenging STPM and nervous to meet new friends, new colleagues , new environment and new life without my backbone ( my family). I had to be independence and try to step out my comfort zone. Making new friends is not my specialty because i am the person who introvert so i was very happy that i successfully make new friends within one day. HUREHHHHHHH!!!
UTM is always my first choice when i was in STPM because its reputation is good and a lot of graduates can find job easily. This is because UTM provided us a lot of skills like social skill, communication skill, problem solving , teamwork and leadership. Through these lessons, I will become a better person and employee.
Nowadays, the world is dealing a lot with the technologies and we have the chance faster than other to in touch with them because we are the students of data engineering course. We are aiming to have a high – paid job after graduation and we dream to be an authority in the field of computer science and technology. Nowadays, the big data are too complex and massive that the traditional data processing application software is unable to deal with them perfectly. Thus, we are trying to modify the technologies or even create and design a new technology to deal with those big data. We have been encourage to improve ourselves in every aspect to devote our knowledge in this big data field after the visit.
We have to develop some skills to improve ourselves to achieve our dreams. Firstly, talking about the professional skill, we are now learning the skills with the lecturers in UTM but this is not enough for us. We have to widen our knowledge about the current technologies through the seminars or the industrial visit to some companies such as Microsoft, Intel and Apple. The technologies are continuously improving and replacing existing products meaning that we must have much more specialized and precise skills to manage them.
Moreover, we also must have creative thinking in our learning process. We have to set our minds free and think out of the box so that we could come out with creative solutions. People would surely prefer an alternative solution which is able to solve various problems one-off rather than to produce a specific solution for each problem. Hence, we should think creatively and let our imagination run wild.
Besides, we also need to learn some soft skills to improve our potential in the industry. As an example, communication is a critical soft skill. As a data engineer, we must able to communicate with the clients to describe the data that we processed and explain to them about the analysis of the data. Clear and effective communication skill is required for the purpose of conveying the complex technical information to the non-technical professionals.
Furthermore, we must have a lot of knowledge about the database system because it is a new thing to the public. So, we have to apply our skills by looking into the issue regarding the big data and understand it to enable us to innovate a brand-new technology or upgrade current technologies which are capable to deal with the big data. It is our time to utilize our strengths and contribute to the company so that we will hold an important position in the company and be the best among the experts and finally achieve our dream to become a high-paid data engineer.
In conclusion, the visit had encouraged us to improve ourselves to achieve our goals and dreams. It lets us know that everyone has the room of improvement as long as you want to do it. Let’s us make our dreams come true!
As a student of computer science, we have to know a lot of information about technology and also the trend in the new era. We are no longer able to only study in classroom without realizing the changes in our world. The world does no need the bookworm to help them develop the world but they need a person who fulfils all the demands such as professional skills, soft skills and also the creative thinking. Through the talk, MDEC gives me a lot of information about the e-Rezeki, GLOW, and e-Usahawan and let me understand deeply about what can I do to have a better life.
As we know that e-Rezeki is a global platform to find the part-time job through the whole world, it provides the opportunities for the enterprise and the freelancers to solve their problems and earn more income on the Internet. In this new era, people more prefer to work on the Internet than the full-time job because the working time is flexible. We can decide where to work and when to work, thus our life may not be so stressful to accomplish all the works perfectly from the boss. Besides, we can meet a different kind of clients, companies and enterprises through the e-Rezeki when we get the job. We can get different experiences in the work by solving different problems that proposed by the clients.
We feel grateful to have a fruitful acquisition from CIMB. Through this visit, we gained new experiences and knowledges on banking sector, and our perspective towards this sector have changed. After the visit to CIMB, we have more understanding on the working environment in banking sector. Besides, we learnt that besides financial departments, IT departments play an essential role in a banking company, as it is the medium of all banking procedure, include service management, financial and administration, applications and infrastructures. Data management is an important assets of a banking companies and require high-level protection, as it not only stores customers information, it also act as a guideline to help banking company to improve their system and decide the future path.
Besides, this visit also gave us more detailed information of our available carrier in the future. Banking is actually one of the available options we can consider to get into since there are also demands on manpower who have capability to work with big data. However, getting into this sector are not easy as the criteria of qualification is high. This gave us an impact on knowing that what is still lacking among us in order to have higher potential in market.
Therefore, we need to improve ourselves in order to have higher potential and more competitive in the market. We will learn more new things, gain more knowledge and experience outside the lectures, besides work hard to perform well in academic. We will also be active in extracurricular activities to gain new skills apart from academic field. This is important because soft skills will also be considered by employers when taking new employees.
As we all know this Data Engineering courses is a new courses, we as student still did not have a clear mindset of this courses in the aspect of our future and career path, this industrial visit to ADAX totally change our mind and we are now have a clear mindset on our future.
Throughout the visit in ADAX, the biggest benefits we gained is in the talk session. During the talk, we gained an insight on how ADAX function where ADAX aims to develop the ecosystem and build a critical mass of talent pool in the big data analytics category. This is the time we realized the importance of data analyst and data scientist, and our role as undergraduates in this courses really matter.
Besides if all the talks given during the visit, we had a short tour in the working spaces in ADAX which is truly amazed us, the working environment is so nice and comfortable! Also, it is good to know that ADAX provides a paid finishing school training program in order to develop industry-ready Data Professionals in Malaysia. Other program they offered for example Innovative Lab, Talent Development and Start-Ups is really benefits to us as data engineering student.
We are really appreciate that visiting to ADAX gave us the idea about industry which initially lead us to decide our future career at an early stage. One main thing is, since ADAX have cooperate with few industrial company, it is a definitely good news to us as we can foreseen our bright future. To make this happen, we should be open minded, learn unconditionally from lectures and coursemates, improve our skills and knowledge in computer science. As we all know this road is hard, we should never give up until we achieve our goals which is to be a successful data analytics and data scientist.