UTAR Alumni

APRIL 2013

Graduating students urged to do postgraduate studies

ome 100 UTAR students graduating in August 2013 attended the UTAR Postgraduate Studies Workshop held at Perak Campus and Kuala Lumpur Campus on 27 and 28 February 2013 respectively.

Department of Alumni Relations and Placement (DARP) has been organising UTAR regularly to encourage students to pursue postgraduate studies after graduation.

A session of the workshop

For the Kuala Lumpur campus workshop, besides the regular UTAR Office of Vice President (R&D and Commercialisation) and the Institute of Postgraduate Studies and Research (IPSR), DARP also invited Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE) and IDP Education to present in the workshop, so that the students were provided with information about postgraduate studies both locally and overseas.

For the Perak campus workshop, DARP invited Malaysian-American Commission on Educational Exchange (MACEE), Australian Trade Commission and Australian Educational International (AEI).

Vice President Prof Dr Lee Sze Wei, himself, spoke for his office. He advised the attending students on the various options available and considerations to be taken for pursuing postgraduate studies locally and overseas.

Prof Lee presenting at the workshop

IPSR Director Prof Dr Faidz bin Abd Rahman presented on the choices of discipline for postgraduate studies available in UTAR. At the moment postgraduate programmes are available in all the faculties and Institute of Chinese Studies.

Prof Faidz on postgraduate studies available in UTAR

He advised students interested to pursue postgraduate studies in UTAR to contact IPSR.

Daly on postgraduate studies in USA

Blair Daly from MACEE Education USA Advising Center was presenting on postgraduate studies in USA.

Ir Dr Lim sharing his overseas postgraduate experience

Invited to share overseas postgraduate studies experience was Ir Dr Lim Yun Seng, an associate professor at UTAR Faculty of Engineering and Science. He studied for his Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Electronics at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, the United Kingdom.

Tang from IDP Education

IDP Education student service manager Tang Wooi Khoo was invited to speak on further studies overseas. Established in 1969 and 50 percent owned by 38 Australian universities, IDP was set up to help students for admission to Australian colleges and universities. It has extended its services to cover institutions in New Zealand, UK and USA.

After the presentations by the invited speakers, the students broke into groups according to their intended future destinations for postgraduate studies. Five counselling corners were set up for UTAR, local and Asia, North America, UK and Europe, and Australia and New Zealand.

UTAR group North American group

UK and Europe group Australia and New Zealand