The Students' Gemilang Award is known as the HEP Award and was held once in 2012 and was introduced to ensure that the association or JKM is better quality and recognized by the university as well as achieving the HEP DG and for the Ministry of Education's Undergraduate Hero award. It is also one of the platforms to recognize the contributions, creativity, innovation and efforts of associations/ clubs/ JKM / undergraduates who have been actively involved in organising activities either at University/National/ International level to announce the name of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The ceremony was the second session after 2018 first in 2018. To ensure that the programme is progressing smoothly, there are 22 appointed committee members comprising of various backgrounds. The preparation of the programme was carried out for 2 months to ensure that it is running successfully.
