Huawei Connected Campus 2020
On 2nd March 2020, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) was held an event known
as Huawei Connected Campus at Dewan Sultan Iskandar, UTM JB and this event hosted by
Huawei. Huawei is a Chinese multinational technology company which is one of the leading
global provider of information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart
devices. UTM is the first public university that host this event in this year. There was so
many activities conducted such as talk by Huawei leaders, campus recruitment, and showcase
of Huawei products. This event had gathered more than 3000 students from various courses
and faculty in UTM. This community event that is organised by academia and industry was a
good platform for UTM to learn and experience the future and to foster partnership for the
betterment of Malaysia’s higher education, industry, society and whole nation, Prof. Datuk Ir.
Dr. Wahid Omar the Vice-Chancellor of UTM who is launched this event on that day. The
event was also attended by Mr. Lim Chee Siong (Director of Huawei Cloud & AI Southern
Pacific Region), Ms. Emily Peh (Senior Talent Development Manager Southern Pacific
Region), Prof. Dato’ Ir. Dr. Mohammed Rafiq Dato’ Abdul Kadir (Dean of UTM Faculty of
Engineering), and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Othman Ibrahim (Director of UTM Career Center). The
reason why Huawei held this kind of event for all universities in Malaysia is to engage with
thestudents and to recruit a potential talent as well as giving exposure to students to its
technology and future development.
During this programme , Im in second year student of Multimedia and Graphic
software student and I had join this programme with my course mate and other students from
different courses. Based on my course this event is very recommended to join because our
course are very related to this event objective as we are the students of computer science that
studies about the technology and something that relate to it. As the participant, all of
participant will get a curricular merit. From this event,experience and knowledge is the main
reason for some student that joined this event because this is very infrequent event that has
been organized. The tentative for this event is divide into two session that .available for us.
First is the showcase, the showcase start around 9 am in the morning where student were has
a choice to join the showcase at anytime because the showcase is available from the
beginning until the end of the event. In the showcase all of us were shown on what Huawei
company has been achieved until this days, the technologies that Huawei used, new
technologies that has been discovered or being developed, the beneficence of Huawei
products and so on. Second is career talk session, it was start at 2 pm in the afternoon. The
talk session was conducted by Huawei`s leaders which is Mr. Lim Chee Siong and Ms. Emily
Peh, both are a high ranking personnel in Huawei Southern Pacific Region. After that is the
campus recruitment session where Huawei team observed and evaluate the students that
participate through their ability to solve problems and talent in technology. The purpose of
this recruitment is to give a chance to students to join Huawei team in the future.
Throughout the event that was organised by Huawei,I realized that my knowledge in
this it field is not sufficient yet to make me grow and get a better job the future because in
this field it has a lot of things that we must explore by joining this kind of event so much as
we can. In the career talk, it seem that there are many things and content that I never heard
before and for me it is a new knowledge that we must take seriously to become a good fresh
graduate. Everything that was explained during this career talk was very important and
crucial things that give a benefit for my future as well as my knowledge in
technology.Moreover, we should ensure to our self that we are on the right path to our
success because once you are not in the right path, we might be deviated far from our
mission. Based on my opinion, the career talk gave students a lot of encouragement and
motivation to strive forward to achieve their career and had given me a glimpse insight on
what the future holds and what will it be for us, the students which majoring in computer
science and technology.In the showcase, there was so much exhibition form for their
technology, products and solution that were displayed by Huawei representative
teams.During the showcase, I was so amazed by the greetings of the student.
My experience of the technology and future career during that event was very
different to the experience during my education time. For example, my backround is basically
in computer science that does not cover the overall aspects of the real world technology but
only a general things based on a syllabus that which has been set by the university. Unlike
these event by Huawei, my understanding and knowledge of technology as well as career was
seen as separate to the environment during my education. The event give me a better
understanding in choosing the right career path and figure out what should I do to success in
my career. The career talk in the event was give me an exposure about the internship talk that
was given to us back then during our diploma studies was a little bit the same with the career
talk as I heard, the final year diploma students insight on how will the internship be like as it
was out first experience of internship. This is because most of us had never experienced
internship before in our life. Back to the career talk, it does not covers only the surface of our
career life such as internship, but it goes way deeper into our future career so that we can
make the right choice and be ready to start our career.
Based on the event, each of the students that I observed remained engaged and
motivated throughout the entire event. This can give result that everything that has been
delivered through this event can be say as effective and impactious to everyone who joined it.
In addition, Huawei Connected Campus also talk about the graduate success attributes that
are essential for every students to be a successful students or graduate in the future. Some of
the attributes can be classified as information gathering skills, self-awareness and adaptability
skills. Information gathering skills is a crucial skill that very students must have in order to
moving forward to the another level. This skill is important for students because when we are
in a lecture, some of the lecturer or presenter will talk or lecture without highlighting the
main information. So, a high information gathering skill can make us gather the main
information easily and prevent ourselves from gain a less important information. Other than
that, self-awareness is the ability to see yourself clearly and objectively through reflection
and introspection. We should have a high self-awareness on current affairs especially on
current modern technologies. This is because we need to adapt our self to our current
technologies as we are living on the era of Industrial Revolution 4.0, where we are introduced
with, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence (AI), IoT (Internet of Things), and so on. If we do not
catch up with the current technologies development, we might be left behind and our chances
to be employed is lower that the others people
When I look back the experience of learning through my education and my own
experience joining Huawei Connected Campus, I can see how effective that event was as
insights and knowledge obtained through that event was far-reaching to my career path and
education. I believe that, choosing the right career path can leads us to improve our self
during our career and will reduces some of the challenges and difficulties in our career life.
As part of my future career planning, the career talk during that event really gives a big
impact for myself and to every student that has been joined as it gives us a little bit of a vision
on planning our future career. After that, the showcase gave me an awareness to the new
technologies that is being developed and ability to catch up in the world of expanding and
advance technologies. I learnt that by gaining and learning new technologies could give me
ideas to come out with new solution that are out of my syllabus for my assignment and
projects that need to be done in my studies. In conclusion, the outcome from this Huawei
Connected Campus is important to me as a student of computer science as given theory in
planning my future career as well as gaining extra knowledge in the aspects of technology. I
hope that UTM will organize more event with the bigger company after this because this kind
of event will helps me to planning my career path clearly.
