MALAYSIA-JAPAN
INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY (MJIIT)
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI
MALAYSIA (UTM)
KUALA LUMPUR,
Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel : 603 2203 1200 Fax : 603 2203 1266 Email : [email protected]
April ~ June Volume 2/2016
MJIIT Newsletter
INSIDE THIS ISSUE:
MJIIT CAREER FAIR 2016 2
ROBOT CLIMBING COMPETITION 2
THE 10TH JAPANESE LANGUAGE FESTIVAL 3
MANAGEMENT NEWS 4
COURTESY VISIT BY MEXT 5
MEETING WITH ROHM-WAKO 5
MEETING WITH TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY (TUAT)
5
SEMINAR ON SLOPE AND RISK 6
VISIT BY JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY 6
AWARDS & RECOGNITION 7
MJIIT GRADUATION 8 “Art without engineering is
dreaming. Engineering
without art is calculating”
Steven Roberts
Robot Climbing Competition on 26 May 2016
Page 2 STUDENT AFFAIRS
MJIIT CAREER FAIR 2016
MJIIT organized a career fair exclusively for third and fourth year students for the second time
on 14 and 21 April 2016. The event was held at
Dewan Tan Sri Ainuddin Wahid, UTM Kuala Lumpur from 11 am to 5 pm on both days. 130 final year
students are expected to graduated this year, 57 from MPE and 73 from ESE.
32 companies participated with 17 companies
on 14 April and 15 companies on 21 April
respectively. 29 of them were Japanese companies whilst the rest were local companies. They were
Denso, Hiro Food Packages Manufacturing, Hitachi Air Conditioning Products, Honda, NSK Micro
Precision, Organo, Ortustech, Renesas
Semiconductor, SMK Electronics, Sony EMCS, Sumimoto Electric Sintered Components, Tamura
Electronics, TDK, TDK-Lambda, Toray, UMW Toyota Motor, Konica Minolta Business Technologies,
Hirose Electric, IHI Corporation Kuala Lumpur,
JTEKT Automotive, Kaneka, Nippon Electric Glass, Nippon Paint, Panasonic Appliances Air-Conditioning
R&D (PAPARADMY), Panasonic Appliances Refriger-ation Devices (PAPRDMY), Perodua Manufacturing,
Rohm-Wako Electronics, Texas Instruments, Yamaha Electronics Manufacturing, Daikin
Electronic Devices, Finisar and Coway.
The MJIIT Career Fair 2016 aims for exposure of students in job hunting. The fair was also opened
to public. The event was closed by Prof. Dr. Ezzat
Chan, Deputy Dean (Academic).
3rd year students from Electrical System Engineering and Mechanical Precision Engineering
participating in Integrated Design Project took part.
Each group consisted of 5 members from the two departments. On 26 May 2016, the competition was
held at MJIIT Main Stair.
The Integrated Design Project (IDP) is a course that must be completed by third year students as a
requirement to complete their engineering degree.
The students work in groups and are given one semester to solve a problem related to a certain
theme given by their supervisors. Students are expected to do their work independently most of the
time, but their progress will be monitored closely by
their supervisors. At the end of the project, students will have to demonstrate that their product managed
to solve the given problem and then document their work in a report.
The aim of the IDP is to give students opportunity to apply the knowledge that they have
gained while studying in MJIIT to work in a team to solve practical engineering problems. It is also a
means to inculcate the process of making in the art of creative minds, related to good craftsmanship
earned through practice rather than structured
course curricula taught in education centers. It is hoped that by going through this course, the
students will not only gain knowledge and experience in solving problems systematically; they also will
acquire experience in actually making useful things
by utilizing their engineering knowledge.
The criteria used in evaluation were creative design, mastery of content, preparation and system
approach assessed by 4 judges, 2 are from academia and 2 from industry. The prize were given based on
2 categories which is creative design and
performance. Both categories won by Group 25.
ROBOT CLIMB COMPETITION
Page 3 STUDENT AFFAIRS
THE 10TH JAPANESE LANGUAGE FESTIVAL
The 10th Japanese Language Festival was held at the MJIIT compound on 7 May 2016. This yearly event is organized by The Japanese Language Society of Malaysia (JLSM) and Malaysia Japan International
Institute of Technology, UTM, is a co-organizer. The event is supported by The Embassy of Japan in
Malaysia, The Japan Foundation Kuala Lumpur, and Ministry of Education Malaysia. More than 2000 participants took part. Among them were high school and university students from all over Malaysia,
volunteers and cultural workshop instructors, most of whom are Japanese.
The festival aims at enhancing the understanding and appreciation among Japanese language learners on the culture and language of the Japanese people by providing them an interactive and experiential
Japanese-speaking opportunity and environment, whereby classroom language learning is brought into the
real world of the learners. It also welcomes the participation of the non-learners to have an authentic taste of the language and culture of Japan.
This one day event was divided into six parts. The first part had options of more than forty (40) cultural
workshops, such as Origami, Kirigami, Yukata, Kendo, Takayuki, etc. The second part was a cultural
demonstration of Origami and Kendo. The third part was a Japanese Language Market where food, beverage and books were available for purchase, as well information on the academic program at MJIIT and
in Japan. The fourth part is academic booth where people can get information on the academic program at MJIIT, Malaysia Japan Higher Education Program (MJHEP), Ambang Asuhan Jepun (AAJ), Institut Bahasa
Teikyo (IBT), Embassy of Japan, JFKL, JLSM and others. The fifth part was a Japanese Culture and Language Contest, where participants
competed in story-telling, painting according to song lyrics, calligraphy,
Soran Bushi Dance, choral speaking, cosplay, Ms. & Mr. Yukata, etc. The final part was Bon Odori.
The event also attended by H.E. Dr. Makio Miyagawa, Ambassador of
Japan to Malaysia, Mr. Koichi Horikawa, Director of Japan Foundation
Kuala Lumpur, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Shahrum Shah bin Abdullah, Deputy Dean (Research & Development) of MJIIT. The Ambassador honored to judge choral speaking competition
and left after giving speech and prize giving ceremony of the particular competition.
Page 4 NEWS ON MANAGEMENT
Well done DR. NORHAYATI ABDULLAH of UTM Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT), for your success in getting the
Fulbright Fellowship for the US ASEAN Academic Exchange!
Dr. Norhayati will be at Ann Arbor, Michigan starting 1st September 2016 until early January 2017. She had to undergo a year long process of selection and interview amidst tough competition at the global level,
conducted by MACEE at the US Embassy.
NEW STAFF
Since April 2016 until June 2016, there is one academic staff who commenced duty at MJIIT.
He is:
1) Prof. Dr. Koichiro Mashiko
Welcome to MJIIT!
Until April 2016, two Japanese academic staffs ended their duty at MJIIT. They are:
1) Prof. Dr. Satoru Matsumoto (ESE) - 8 April 2016
2) Prof. Dr. Tatsuo Kitajima (ESE) - 16 May 2016
Their commitment and contributions to MJIIT are
highly appreciated.
CONGRATULATIONS: DR. NORHAYATI ABDULLAH
STAFF RETIREMENT
TECHNICAL COMMITTEE MEETING
The 4th MJIIT Technical Committee Meeting was held on 3 June, 2016 with the attendance of representatives from Ministry of Finance (MoF), Malaysia, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Japan,
Japanese University Consortium, Embassy of Japan in Malaysia, JICA HQ and Malaysia Office.
Prof. Datin Dr. Rubiyah, Dean of MJIIT, jointly with other management committee members presented
a progress report and a future plan of MJIIT placing a main focus on MJIIT’s road map towards LEP 2.0 and mind map towards sustainability. Attendees from different offices and institutions exchanged views
and opinions to enhance further development of MJIIT and also shared concern about the budgetary constraints MJIIT has been facing due to the struggling economy of the country. - Sakae Yamada
Page 5 MAIN ACTIVITIES
COURTESY VISIT OF MEXT
Three delegates from Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan (MEXT), Mr. Tetsuhito Minami, Mr. Hideto Matsumoto and Ms. Midori Kojima and one from Mission of Japan to
ASEAN, Mr. Taku Kawahara visited MJIIT on 25 May, 2016. Following a brief introduction of education and
research activities of MJIIT by Prof. Dr. Fuminori Kobayashi, Chief Advisor of JICA Project Team cum Deputy Dean of MJIIT, discussion was made on such issues as higher education and internationalization of
universities. - Sakae Yamada
MEETING WITH ROHM-WAKO
Mr. Yukihiro Takisawa and Mr. Yasuhiro Kajita of ROHM-Wako had a meeting on 14 June 2016 at MJIIT with Prof. Dr. Fuminori Kobayashi, Deputy Dean, Prof. Dr. Kanao Fukuda, Dr. Jun Ishimatsu, all of
whom had visited the company in Kelantan and provided a special lecture for its staff, to enhance mutual
cooperation. ROHM-Wako has kindly been providing opportunities of industrial training as well as employment for MJIIT students since 2015. Collaborative relationship between the two is expected to be
strengthened and further developed in many aspects. - Sakae Yamada
MEETING WITH TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY (TUAT)
Prof. Dr. Tomo Ueno and Associate Prof. Takako Ochi of Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology (TUAT) visited MJIIT on 30 June, 2016 as part of preparation for students exchange
programmes in 2016 between the two institutions. Prof. Dr. Ezzat Chan, Assoc. Prof. Saiful Amri and Dr.
Hairi attended the meeting together with Prof. Dr. Norio Arai and Mr. Sakae Yamada. Three TUAT undergraduate students are expected to study at MJIIT under that ASEAN International Mobility for
Students (AIMS) Programme for the semester 2016/2017 with credit transfer involved, while six MJIIT undergraduate students at TUAT. In addition, TUAT plans to send its ten undergraduate students to MJIIT
for one week programme in September, 2016. The meeting brought a mutual general agreement with regard to the implementation of those programmes and details in arrangements are supposed to be
discussed and finalized in due course. - Sakae Yamada
Page 6 NEWS ON DPPC
MJIIT received visitors from Japan Science and Technology Agency on 27 June 2016. They were Prof. Prof. Yoshimori
Honkura, Program Officer of Natural Disaster Prevention for
SATREPS, Mr. Koji Kojima, Director of International Science and Technology Department, and Mr. Sato Masaki, Representative
of JST Singapore Office. They were welcome by Prof. Datin Dr. Rubiyah binti Yusof, Dean of MJIIT followed by briefing and
discussion about Disaster Preparedness & Prevention Centre (DPPC), a new research centre established at Universiti
Teknologi Malaysia focused on conducting multi-disciplinary
research and training on disaster management and public safety both nationally and the ASEAN region.
VISIT BY JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY
SEMINAR ON SLOPE AND RISK
On 30 May 2016, a Seminar of Slope and Risk was held at MJIIT, UTM Kuala Lumpur. The event was jointly
organized by Disaster Preparedness & Prevention Centre
(DPPC), MJIIT, BS Consultancy & Management Services and Kuala Lumpur Infrastructure University.
This seminar shared techniques and supervision that
can be used in development activities in the hill slope and highlands, this seminar also revealed procedures practiced
search and rescue when the landslide occurred.
Landslides is one of the natural disasters that often
gains attention in Malaysia. Usually landslides occur naturally. In addition, landslides also occurred as a result of human activity itself. The area of slopes are usually more at risk of landslides due to slope
instability compared to a relatively flat and smooth.
This is a sign of natural disasters as a result of changes in ecosystem
ecology or nature. Various factors have caused the ecological change dramatically so that claimed many innocent lives. It is undeniable that
landslide is natural, however, steps of precautions to face this disaster must be emphasized. Malaysians should adopt the practice of 'a stitch in time
saves nine' to prevent more lives are lost. All parties should work together
to provide emergency assistance to the victims to alleviate their misery.
Page 7 AWARDS & RECOGNITION
The Citra Karisma Excellence Service Award was established to recognize service to the Universiti Teknologi
Malaysia (UTM) that exceeds job parameters. Through the efforts of this staff member, there has been noticeable
improvement in specific areas at UTM. Here are list of recipients from MJIIT:
CITRA KARISMA EXCELLENCE SERVICE AWARD UTM 2015
Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Saiful Amri bin Mazlan
Head
Department of Mechanical Precision Engineering
Ir. Dr. Zool Hilmi bin Ismail
Senior Lecturer (ESE)
Dr. Mariam Firdhaus binti Mad Nordin
Head
Department of Environment and Green Technology
Dr. Azura binti Hamzah
Senior Lecturer (ESE)
Dr. Ooi Chia Yee
Post-Graduate Manager
Mrs. Nasuhah binti Che Ab Rahman
Administrative Assistant (Finance)
Dr. Mohd Ibrahim bin Shapiai @ Abd. Razak
Procurement Manager
Dr. Mohd Fitri bin Mohd Yakub
Tutor (ESE)
MALAYSIA-JAPAN
INTERNATIONAL
INSTITUTE OF
TECHNOLOGY (MJIIT)
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI
MALAYSIA KUALA
LUMPUR,
Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra,
54100 Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Tel : 603 2203 1200
Fax : 603 2203 1266
Email : [email protected]
Advisor: Prof. Dr. Fuminori Kobayashi Editors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anthony Centeno Dr. Shohei Matsuura Mr. Sakae Yamada Ms. Nobue Hayashi Members: Dr. Hafizal Yahya (Website) Ms. Siti Juliana Mohd Imam Ms. Wan Maryam Wan Zulkipli Mr. Megat Farizul Auzan Zuhairi
MJIIT GRADUATION
THE TEAM
We are proud to announce that our MJIIT Student have received Best Postgraduate Student Award. They are :
This award is given in conjunction with the UTM 56th Convocation Ceremony 2016. We hope that this award will encourage more MJIIT students to graduate on time.
Again, OMEDETOU GOZAIMASU!
BEST POSTGRADUATE STUDENT AWARD
AT UTM 56TH CONVOCATION CEREMONY 2016
Name: Dr. Mojtaba Alizadeh (Phd)
Supervisor:
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sabariah Baharun
Name: Ms. Khairunnisa Mohd
Hairuddin (Mphil)
Supervisor : Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Saiful
Amri Mazlan
Name : Ms. Nusaibah Roslan
Master of Technology and Innovation Management
(MTIM)
CONGRATULATIONS!
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