Dissemination activities
Malaysia's activities
Industry in the Classroom
Met-Ocean Energy Bussiness
15th June 2023
This industrial talk is open to all, especially for postgraduate and undergraduate who are interested in getting more information regarding the energy industry and how oceanography can play important role for current work and future work and exploration. Both of our presenter are expert from Petronas, working with Met-Ocean Department.
INOS OPEN DAY
INOS Open Day :
Laboratory of Physical and Geological Oceanography INOS organise a special event in conjunction with the World Ocean Day 2023 with the theme; Planet Ocean: The tides is changing. THis program is intended to provide awareness to visitor especially the undegraduate and postgraduate students regarding the ocean work we are doing. Various equipment is on display, this includes ADCP (to measure current), CTD (temperature salinity and depth), Rosette water sample and ROV. We also display our state of the art, ocean forecast system MFAST (Malaysia marine forecast system). This program has attracted more than hundreds of students and has bacome a very sucessful open day.
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TOMSY-MARE Symposium: Roundtable Discussion
A special MARE-TOMSY session was conducted, which began with a roundtable discussion among panelists from industries and university on “the role of higher education and industry-academia collaboration for capital development”.
Three panelists were invited, and the session was chaired by UMT Mare project leader Prof. Dr. Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir, Director, Institute of Oceanography and Environment, UMT. Below is the list of panelists, two of them from the industry sector and one from the university.
Prof. Dr. Adi Maimum Bin Abdul Malik
Professor
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 Johor Bahru
Johor, Malaysia.
Panelists:
Mr. Mirza Iryawan Bin Hamza
Director
Hidrokinetik Technologies Sdn. Bhd.
Jalan Suria Setapak,
Taman Suria Setapak,
53000 Kuala Lumpur,
Wilayah Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur
Dr. Hii Yii Siang
General Manager
Pakar Scieno TW Sdn. Bhd.
25, Jalan Pengacara U1/48
Temasya Industrial Park, Section U1
40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia.
Summary
In summary, the discussion centred around the mutual benefits and needs of industry and academic, as well as the challenges faced while working together.
These are some of the questions and summary of the answers by the panel;
1. Can you share some of your experience working with university previously and probably some of the success stories from your experience?
Mr. Mirza: It is important for industry to always work closely with university, there are many experiences from my company such as working with UMT where the company can improvise the product they innovate by engaging with university researchers to solve various problem that we faced. This industry-university ecosystem is a win-win situation.
2. I think one of the problems is the working culture differences that sometimes become obstacles for both parties to work together. How should we avoid this and improve?
Dr. Hii: With university background, I have to say that both entities have different culture, however from my experience, we can actually try to understand differences and work with mutual understanding by appreciating the different styles of work between us.
3. What does industry need from university and what can industry offer to university?
Prof Adi: The industry can support 2 major things; 1. Provide research platform that is related to solutions to various industry needs that university can help through research they good at and 2. Industry can provide training ground for student and also give them experience in the real working environment.
Roundtable Discussion, from right: Prof. Dr. Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir, Prof. Dr. Adi Maimum Abdul Malik, Dr. Hii Yii Siang, and Mr. Mirza Hamza
TOMSY-MARE Symposium Special Session
TOMSY special session on MARE (Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia) with the theme “Enhancing Learning in Higher Education through Advancement in Marine Science Research”. In total, there were six oral presentations from MARE partners as follows:
TOMSY special session on MARE (Marine Coastal and Delta Sustainability for Southeast Asia) with the theme “Enhancing Learning in Higher Education through Advancement in Marine Science Research”. In total, there were six oral presentations from MARE partners as follows:
1. Dr. Anton Shkaruba, Estonian University of Life Sciences
Title: MARE Approach to Higher Education and Research Training and the First Results
3. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Daniele La Rosa, University of Catania, Italy
Title: Spatial planning to Address Ecosystem Services Trade-Offs in Coastal areas
2. Dr. Hee Min The, Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)
Title: Immersive Learning of an Engineering Design Course Through a Real-Life Problem-Based Project
4. Dr. Vincenzo Maccarrone, Institute For Marine Biological Resources And Biotechnology
Title: Tools for Training the Future Blue Citizenship Italian National Research Council
5. Dr. Shamila Azman, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Title: Impact of Covid-19 on Teaching and Learning in Environmental Management
6. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pietro Scandura, University of Catania, Italy
Title: Numerical Simulation of Breaking Waves Through the SPH Method
Mare Meeting Attendees
Absentees:
No representative from two Vietnam Partners:
1. Centre for Marinelife Conservation and Community Development (MCD)
2. Vietnam Institute of Oceanography (VNIO)
MARE Project Meeting (8th – 10th Nov 2022)
Welcoming speech by Prof. Dr. Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir, Director, Institute of Oceanography and Environment (INOS), UMT. This MARE meeting was organized with the support of staff members of INOS and Faculty of Science and Marine Environment (FSSM), UMT.
He also summarized the activities, meeting contents and logistics arrangement throughout the three days event to the MARE partners.
Dr. Igor Novopashenny (UniHB) highlight the status report of the financial and administrative issues especially on the documentation of equipment purchase. Partners with official documentation language not in English should have all documents translated to English. He also emphasized the important information needed for the preparation of the final financial and technical report which should be submitted before 15th September 2023.
MARE partners presenting their final version of e-learning platform.
Representative from Can Tho University, Climate Change Research Institute (CTU)
Presenting the final version of teaching and learning materials
Dr. Muhammad Kasffi Bin Ramli representing Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UniKL) demonstrates
the e-learning platform used by UniKL
Dr. Haizatul Hafizah Hussain from Institute of Technology Petronas SDN BHD (UTP) presenting the UTP version of e-learning used for MARE courses.
Dr. Thoa Le Thi Kim, Ho Chi Minh City University Of Natural Resources and Environment (HCMUNRE) presented the full version of e-learning system developed for courses under MARE
Prof. Dr. Adi Maimun Bin Abdul Malik from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) showed their e-learning platform used for MARE courses.
Prof. Dr. Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir from Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, presenting a summary of all MARE courses with focus on Tropical Oceanography developed under MARE project.
General comments/suggestions
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Suggest all MARE courses should be open access or a common password be provided for all partner institutions so that students and staff could access the learning materials. In relation to that, all teaching and learning materials should be prepared in English or with translation so that it could be understood by the wider public.
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Continuous quality control should be emphasized so that staff quality, students’ progress, syllabus quality, and statistical record evaluation could be improved from time to time.
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Vietnam partner institutions are in the process of producing an eBook, Malaysia and European Partners are invited to edit the finished contents. THe meeting agree that Dr. Sharmila from UTM will lead the ebook effort. Further discussion will be organize soon to discuss the content of the book.
Presentation on establishment of sectoral collaborative platforms in each PC. Report on the current status was presented by Dr. Siti Nur Fathiyah Jamaludin, UTP. UTP has invited Dr. Nor Bakhiah Binti Baharim, Technical Chairman of The Coastal and Marine Geology Technical Committee from Institute of Geology Malaysia (IGM) to share their role and functions for MARE partners to explore potential future collaboration.
