Technology and Information System

During the 24^th of September 2018 on a Monday, almost all of the students from the School of Computing participated in an industrial talk about eRezeki and Global Online Workforce (GLOW). The talk about eRezeki and GLOW was organised by Malaysian Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC). The venue of the talk was held at N28a, School of Computing seminar hall. The talk lasted for about an hour and it started at 4:00pm sharp. The goal of this engaging talk was to inform students about how to generate income from online working platforms such as Freelancer. This because not many students are familiar with online working platforms and how they work. With this talk, students should have more awareness about these kinds of platforms and know how they can use them effectively in the future.

 The main purpose of GLOW is to coach, mentor and nurture full time crowd workers that are able to consistently earn a stable digital income of at least RM2,000 a month. The program aims to generate fixed and stable digital income for Malaysians via crowdsourcing.  Crowdsourcing is the future as it enables digital works to be offered and delivered online. Currently, MDEC collaborates with some of the largest global crowdsourcing platforms such as Freelancer and Upwork. Through this program, MDEC aspires to train and nurture qualified apprentices to become successful and capable online freelancers in global platforms. The benefits of online jobs or GLOW overpowers the drawbacks as they are a lot of advantages that you can obtain. Most individuals joined GLOW or work as a freelancer is because of its flexible time and working environment. Furthermore, the advantages of enrolling yourself in this program is that you can generate side incomes without having the inconvenience of leaving your home as all the work can be done from the comforts of your desk. Speaking of working environments, you can choose where you want to work as long as you have a laptop and an internet connection. For students, they may want to do their work in public place such as the library, cafes and etc. If you are a type of person that shy with other people and can’t work in a team, you can just do your work in non-public places.

Lastly, I would like to reflect this industrial talk toward myself. For me this industrial talk was a good chance for me to get some information to use my talent as a computer science student toward right path and use my talent to earn a stable income. I also think that this program will help me to improve my soft skills, for example toward this program I believe that can make me  enhance my techniques in managing clients and maintain a good ethics of  myself. In my opinion, every students including computer science students should enter this program as it is very easy to follow and the program provides guidance and mentoring sessions. I’m also hoping that the program will evolve actively and successfully to attain all of their achievements until it can compete with other global programs.

   New Academia Learning Innovation (NALI) 2018 is an exhibition and competition held at Dewan Sultan Ismail, UTM Johor Bahru on 25^th and 26^th September. The NALI exhibition and competition is organized by UTM Academic Leadership (UTMlead) in collaboration with School of education, Faculty of Social Science & Humanity and Asia Technological University Network (ATU-NET). New Academia Learning Innovation Model is a framework comprising student-centred and blended learning philosophy, multiple learning modes and materials towards achieving entrepreneurial academia. Entrepreneurial Academia is the outcome of New Academia Learning Innovation Model. NALI is in line with the National Higher Education Strategic Plan (PSPTN). The plan has now reached Phase 2 (2011-2015 – Enhancement and Empowerment). At this phase, the focus is given on improving the quality of teaching and learning with the implementation of Student-centered teaching methods.

Throughout the event, our group consist of 5 members which is is Youssef Mohamed Hamed Abdo, Badrul Fitri Bin Shaifull Naim, MD. Fardin Muttaki, Sharizzat Bin Shamsul and Mathesh A/L Kumar manage to go some of the booth there to get the knowledge and the information about the innovation from that booth. Due to a lot of classes, we lack of time to stop by at all the booth there. The booths that we manage to go titled School Go Green, Using Toy Bricks as an Innovative Teaching in Operations Management and Collaborative Online Social Learning Activities (COSLA).

A lot new ideas and innovations to improving our learning style to make it more interesting and effective to the students. We learned many new things and got new experienced especially when mostly the representative are UTM master students. That give us inspiration to study hard and compete in the international platform. The ideas they invented never we thought of it before. This shown there are many method and style in delivery a knowledge but still need to study further on it to make sure it give more positive impact on students and also for the teachers. This kind of program should continue on the other years. Our hope from this exhibition is that all the innovation can help improving our country education system to the next level.    

A visit to Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) was held on 25^th of September 2018 which is on Monday. These industry visit was conducted by Technology and Information Systems subject unit. The visit is purposely to introduce the Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) to the students especially us, first year student. During these visit, students were exposed to many thing about Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) such as the policy and terms of UTM ICT services that provided by CICT to the students and staff and many more about the Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT). The first year student from two courses which is network and security computer and graphic designing from school of computing.

Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) provides and delivers ICT services for staff and students of University Teknologi Malaysia. Throughout the visit, we saw how are we going to work  regard to our course. We know that the job related to our course is more harder and extreme out there. Therefore, we need to be prepare in content of mental. This visit gives us motivation to study harder to archive our ambition and become someone that give benefit to everyone.

In our discussion, Centre of Information & Communication Technology (CICT) need to improve in certain part like the WiFi speed where they need to improve the speed due to the student need. Next, their services upon the report and complains need to take a faster action. CICT also should provide a class or sharing their knowledge and experience to the student especially form faculty of computer so that they can prepare for future. Lastly, the promotion department need to improve their promotion so that student are more often go to the CICT to use the facilities provided. Our hope that CICT improving their services  in the future.

During the 18^th of November, all of the Computer Science students were tasked to attend an industrial talk at the IoT Open Day 2018 that was held at the school of Electrical Engineering(SKE), PO3-221. The industrial talk started at 11am and ended at 1pm. The objective of the talk was to expose students to Internet of Things (IoT) to Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). It is also to encourage UTM students, especially the undergraduate final year students to further their studies in IoT related fields at School of Electrical Engineering(SKE) and School of Computing(SC). Vendors can promote their IoT based products, research findings, final year projects and related capstone labs projects. This program can provide opportunities of research collaborations between industries and researchers with Advanced Telecommunication Technology (ATT) and division of Communication Engineering(COMM) as well as SKE and SC. The first main talk was a talk given by Mr. Syahrul Haridz Suid who is an Enterprise Consultant from Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He talked about predictive maintenance and how it is transforming industries and machines that were previously out of reach.

 I think I have gain a lot of knowledge from attending this IoT Open Day. Even if I’m still a first-year student, I already have an idea on what to do during my final year project in the future. I understood everything the speaker said and captured every bit of info. I learned that It is an important part of our everyday life from household work to industrial work. On the other note, I can properly plan my career path. I feel that my course in networking and security can help me in achieving  an excellent job.