New Food Product from Faculty of Science and Technology’s Students

Nilai, 1st April 2009-Third year students from Food Biotechnology program of Faculty of Science and Technology had organized ‘A Product Day’ which took place at the foyer of Faculty of Leadership and Management. This has been the second program organized by the faculty and it has been considered as an annual program for them. The purpose of this program is to prepare some sort of platform for the students to demonstrate their talents, abilities and creativity in inventing new food products. 42 third year students which were divided into 6 groups took part in this special program. In this program, each group will be required to invent a new food product. By this, the students will have to use their creativity and learning experiences to accomplish their tasks. Among the interesting products that had been introduced in the one day program were Soy Yogurt Drink, Sunny Kochee Flakes, Mushroom Nuggets, Chilli Cube, Nutri-breakfast and Premix Keropok Lekor. The best product won by Chilli Cube which was named Chiqubee. While the second and third places respectively went to Sunny Kochee Flakes and Soy Yogurt Drink. Articles from USIM

 

Kejayaan UPNM Semasa Pertandingan Penyelidikan & Inovasi Kebangsaan 2011

Articles from UPNM
Author :R & I Wednesday, 03 Aug 2011


Universiti Pertahanan Nasional Malaysia (UPNM) telah mencapai kejayaan cemerlang pada Pertandingan Penyelidikan & Inovasi Kebangsaan 2011 (NRIC 2011) anjuran Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Pulau Pinang yang telah diadakan pada 22 hingga 26 Jun 2011. NRIC 2011 merupakan satu platform di mana pelajar tahun akhir setiap IPTA dalam dan luar negara dapat mempertandingkan projek tahun akhir mereka. UPNM telah berjaya mendapat 3 pingat perak dan 4 pingat gangsa dari 14 projek tahun akhir pelajar Sains Komputer, Fakulti Sains dan Teknologi Pertahanan dan Fakulti Kejuruteraan yang dipertandingkan. Tahniah diucapkan kepada semua pelajar dan penyelia yang berjaya. Senarai pemenang adalah seperti berikut:

Laman web UTM paling popular

JOHOR BAHRU: Laman web Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) muncul laman web paling popular di kalangan institusi pengajian tinggi (IPT) di Malaysia sepanjang tahun ini.

Penarafan dilakukan 4icu.org turut mendapati UTM satu-satunya universiti dari Malaysia tersenarai pada kedudukan keenam di Asia Tenggara, 47 di peringkat Asia dan 280 di peringkat dunia berdasarkan penarafan dibuat terhadap 10,200 universiti dan kolej membabitkan 200 negara seluruh dunia.
Penarafan dibuat 4icu.org itu berasaskan algoritma terdiri dari tiga web bebas berdasarkan ‘page rank’, ‘traffic rank’ dan ‘total link population’ yang mencerminkan populariti setiap universiti berdasarkan laman web dimiliki mereka.
Secara tidak langsung, ia menunjukkan Internet menjadi sumber penting orang ramai untuk mendapatkan maklumat mengenai sesebuah universiti.
Bagi penarafan peringkat dunia, Institut Teknologi Massachusetts (MIT), Amerika Syarikat (AS) menduduki tempat pertama, diikuti The University of Texas, Austin, AS dan Universiti Michigan, AS, ketiga. Universiti Harvard, Cambridge dan Oxford masing-masing menduduki tempat ketujuh, 10 dan 12.
Naib Canselor UTM, Profesor Datuk Dr Zaini Ujang, menyifatkan pengumuman itu mengekalkan reputasi UTM sebagai universiti paling terkehadapan di negara ini dari segi penggunaan teknologi maklumat.
“Selain penggunaan teknologi maklumat, menerusi memorandum persefahaman (MoU) terbaru dengan Suruhanjaya Komunikasi dan Multimedia Malaysia (SKMM), UTM bakal mempunyai kemudahan makmal teknologi ‘Long Term Evolution’ (LTE) untuk latihan, demonstrasi dan penyelidikan teknologi 4G,” katanya ketika berucap pada majlis menandatangani MoU antara UTM dan SKMM di Dewan Bankuet Bangunan Canselori UTM cawangan Skudai, kelmarin. Dr Zaini berkata, UTM dalam usaha membangunkan perkhidmatan jalur lebar 3G di seluruh kawasan kampus universiti itu seluas 1,120 hektar selepas kejayaan perkhidmatan tanpa wayar yang kini dinikmati pelajar UTM.

Sumber: Harian Metro
Oleh Mohd Fahmi Mohd Yusof
am@hmetro.com.my

Articles from UTM

Facebook UTM paling popular di Malaysia

OHOR BAHRU, 17 Ogos 2011: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) menjadi institusi pengajian tinggi di Malaysia paling disukai oleh pengguna media sosial Facebook (FB) di seluruh dunia.
Naib Canselor Profesor Datuk Ir Dr Zaini Ujang berkata, analisa yang dilakukan oleh socialbakers.com terhadap 5,499 akaun FB institusi pengajian tinggi di seluruh dunia mendapati UTM menduduki tempat ketiga di Asia dan ke 57 dunia manakala Universiti Malaya (UM) menduduki tempat kedua di Malaysia dan ke 69 dunia.
“Kajian berkenaan menunjukkan bilangan pengguna FB yang menyukai FB UTM meningkat sebanyak 2,068 dalam tempoh sebulan yang lalu kepada 46,003 orang.
“FB digunakan di UTM untuk komunikasi antara pensyarah, mahasiswa warga kampus dan masyarakat luar untuk bertukar maklumat mengenai pelbagai perkembangan berkaitan akademik dan pembangunan saintifik,” katanya.
Zaini berkata, pengurusan UTM juga menggunakan FB untuk mendapat maklumat balas mengenai pelbagai isu berkaitan perkhidmatan universiti dan menyaring idea bernas yang inovatif dan kreatif bagi dilaksanakan, selain untuk tujuan promosi dan pemasaran universiti.
Bagi kedudukan di peringkat dunia, universiti di Amerika Syarikat menduduki tiga tempat teratas diketuai oleh Universiti Harvard, Universiti Lousiana State dan Universiti Ohio State.
“Kajian oleh socialbakers.com, sebuah portal statistik media sosial terbesar di dunia menunjukkan Amerika Syarikat merupakan negara terbanyak memiliki akaun Facebook di dunia diikuti Indonesia dan India.
“Facebook kini menjadi pilihan utama organisasi di seluruh dunia untuk menyalurkan pelbagai maklumat dan aktiviti secara terus tanpa melalui pihak ketiga,” katanya.

Articles from UTM

USM KINI PUSAT LATIHAN BERTAULIAH PERISIAN LINUX DI MALAYSIA

Tuesday, 05 July 2011 02:30

TERBAIK... Sebahagian rakaman foto Majlis Perasmian Persidangan Perisian Sumber Terbuka Malaysia (MOSC) di Bayview Beach Resort, Batu Ferringhi, Pulau Pinang.

PULAU PINANG, 4 JULAI 2011: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) mencatat sejarah apabila dilantik sebagai satu-satunya pusat latihan bertauliah untuk perisian Linux di Malaysia yang berorientasikan kepada konsep perisian sumber terbuka.

USM, menerusi Institut Perubatan dan Pergigian Termaju (IPPT), kini menawarkan tiga program persijilan kepakaran iaitu bagi kursus Junior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-1), Advanced Level Linux Professional (LPIC-2) dan Senior Level Linux Professional (LPIC-3) bagi pihak Linux Professional Institute yang berpusat di New Brunswick, Kanada.

Prof.Tan Sri Dato’ Dzulkifli Abdul Razak, Naib Canselor USM berkata lantikan ini akan mengukuhkan lagi keupayaan USM di dalam menawarkan khidmat kepada masyarakat terutama di dalam membangunkan sektor teknologi komunikasi yang berasaskan kepada perisian sumber terbuka.

“Sumber terbuka bermakna sesiapa sahaja boleh dan berhak untuk mendapat akses kepada teknologi tersebut tanpa terikat kepada mereka yang mampu sahaja dan tidak langsung berlandaskan kepada komoditi.

“Ia juga bermakna kita boleh berkongsi apa sahaja teknologi yang kita bangunkan untuk rakyat dan setiap orang mempunyai hak yang sama untuk memanafaatkan teknologi berkenaan,” kata beliau.

Terdahulu sebelum itu, beliau menandatangani perjanjian rakan kongsi akademik dengan Linux Professional Institute (LPI) selepas merasmikan Persidangan Perisian Sumber Terbuka Malaysia (MOSC) di Bayview Beach Resort, Batu Ferringhi, Pulau Pinang.

LPI diwakili oleh Jim Lacey, Presiden dan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif serta Christy Chang, Master Affiliate Asia Pacific LPI.

Sehingga kini, Linux Professional Institute mempunyai lebih daripada 150 rakan kongsi yang melatih tenaga pakar Linux di serata dunia dan mengeluarkan 95,000 pensijilan kepakaran bagi perisian berkenaan.

Seramai lebih 250 peserta yang terdiri daripada ahli akademik, wakil-wakil agensi kerajaan, jurutera perisian komputer, wakil-wakil industri serta pengamal perisian sumber terbuka hadir ke MOSC 2011 yang menyediakan ruang perkongsian berhubung teknologi terkini perisian sumber terbuka khususnya di Malaysia.

Tutut hadir ke majlis berkenaan ialah Haris Fazillah Jamel, Presiden Open Source Developers Club Malaysia dan Dr. Haji Ramli Saad, Pengarah IPPT USM serta Adnan Hamid, Pengerusi MOSC 2011.

Articles from USM

USM USES DIGITAL PLANETARIUM TO MAKE ASTRONOMY ATTRACTIVE TO PUBLIC

Thursday, 28 April 2011 06:42
PENANG, 29 Apr- Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) through the Astronomy & Atmospheric Science Research Unit (UPIFSA) now owns a digital planetarium STARLAB that acts as a venue to display the true conditions of the sky for purposes of education and simulation in astronomy.
STARLAB is interesting because various simulations of sky conditions can be seen without having to go out into the field or waiting for nightfall because a realistic view of the sky can be seen in the digital planetarium.
The experience in the STARLAB mobile digital planetarium can be shared with the public in the near future through outreach programmes conducted by UPIFSA.
The coordinator of UPIFSA, Assoc. Prof. Nasirun Salleh said that besides sky simulations for purposes of education in astronomy, the planetarium also serves as a projector for screening films and also 3D films.
He said that the STARLAB digital planetarium system is from the United States and is USM UPIFSA’s latest acquisition. USM UPIFSA had to wait almost three years for the dome to be put in place so that it could be shared with the public.
“This mobile digital planetarium system is an important asset in the outreach programmes run by UPIFSA and is expected to attract more people to the field of astronomy,” he said.

He said this after the launching of the planetarium by the USM Deputy Vice- Chancellor for Academic and International Affairs), Prof. Ahmad Shukri Mustapa Kamal here, today.
Nasirun said that planetariums have been in existence since time immemorial and in the early years, the physical structure is more towards a system of light rays and shadows of celestial objects beamed from inside a dome.
“With the current technology, the planetarium has experienced its own evolution. It has changed from only simulating the movement of the moon and the sun to a digital planetarium.  In the digital planetarium, pictures/images created in the dome are more realistic and interesting. Moreover, various software applications can be used to get swift and accurate sky simulations,” he explained.
The STARLAB digital planetarium system consists of a special projector modified for use in the dome where images or light will be beamed through the projector and passed through fish eye lens that will display high resolution images all over the dome.
Apart from the special dome, STARLAB is also equipped with Starry Night Pro software application that can provide a picture of the sky at anytime and in any location on earth and in space.

Articles from USM

ASEAN COUNTRIES SHOULD MANAGE THEIR OWN INTERNET DEVELOPMENT

PENANG, 29 Apr- ASEAN countries should be allowed to manage the growth and development of the internet including the distribution of internet addresses in their own way.

Presently, the distribution of IP addresses in ASEAN countries is managed by an external agency  based in Australia and is regarded as having failed to understand the needs of the ASEAN countries that subscribe to the service.

According to Prof. Sureswaran Ramadas, the provision of IP addresses for ASEAN countries is managed by the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) which is based in Australia and all ASEAN countries have to pay the company for the addresses.

Although APNIC receives payment, it is unable to provide proper service to ASEAN countries for various reasons. One of them is the failure of APNIC to fulfil local needs and contribute to the economic development of ASEAN countries that have paid for the service.

“Thus, it is only right that internet services in ASEAN countries are managed locally through the establishment of the Regional Internet Registration (RIR), based in the ASEAN country itself and which can understand the needs of these countries,” he said while presenting his Professorial Public Lecture titled ‘Who Rules the Internet?’(‘Siapa Yang Menguasai Internet?’) today at DK A.

According to Prof. Sureswaran, the RIR that is currently in operation supervises the distribution and registration of internet addresses in ASEAN countries. As this RIR does not have executive committee members from ASEAN countries, it has created a vacuum in their internet development.

“Thus, ASEAN countries could consider the need to establish their own RIR, perhaps known as ASEANNIC so that ASEAN countries could reap benefits that match the payments being made to RIR.

Prof. Sureswaran Ramadass is currently the Director of the National Advanced IPv6 Centre, Universiti Sains Malaysia. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering/Computer Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) and a Master’s in the same course from the University of Miami, Florida in 1987 and 1990 respectively. He then received his Ph.D in Computer Science from Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2000.

He is well-known for his research on internet networking which he started when he began serving in USM in 1992. He was made Wireless World Research Forum Fellow in April 2010 for his contributions in Next Generation Networks and received the National Academic Leader (Tokoh Negara) Award in 2008 from the Minister of Higher Education, Malaysia.

In 2009 and 2007, he received the Malaysian Innovation Award from the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Minister of Science and Technology, Malaysia for his contributions towards developing network security monitoring as well as the development of Multimedia Conferencing Systems.

Prof. Sureswaran is also responsible for the successful listing of Mlabs System Berhad, a high- technology video conferencing company in the Malaysian Stock Exchange in 2005. Mlabs  is the first university-based company to be listed in Malaysia.

He was the Chairman of the Research Steering Committee for Malaysian Research and Education Network (MYREN) and is the IPV6 Domain Head for MYREN. He was also the Chairman for Asia Pacific IPv6 Task Force, involved in promoting IPv6 globally. To date, Prof. Sureswaran has published more than 110 journals and research papers, over 12 patents and is involved in various development programmes, conferences, seminars and workshops related to network research. He has also received more than USD7 million in research funding and grants from various organizations towards development of network research.

Prof. Ahmad Shukri Mustapa Kamal, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic and International Affairs), USM was also present at the event.

Articles from USM