An educational trip to Kelantan had been conducted by Technology, Education and Career 2010 (TEC X) organising committee in collaboration with Student Support Services department (SSSD) on the previous mid – semester break. There are 10 participants joined, which are including few final year students, as well as few TEC X committee members. Together with our team are the advisor of TEC X himself, Mr. Idham B Che Ghani and Mr. Jailani B Zubir Ahmad.

The journey started on 15^th March 2010, in which the team departed from UTP to Kelantan at night.  After 8 hours of journey, we finally arrived at Kelantan. After preparing selves for the day, our journey continues to the 1^st destination of the trip, which is Malaysian Royal Air Force at Gong Kedak.  As soon as we arrive at the base, we were being welcomed by the officers there. Then, we were being briefed by Kapten Hasrul regarding the basic information about the base itself, as well as career future in Air Force. We were also informed that the specialty of Gong Kedak’s base is that they are the base that operates Malaysia’s Jet Fighter, which is SUKHOI (Su30-MKM). In the base, there are 18 jets available to be operated, and every flight, there will be 2 jets will be used per day.

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On 10^th March 2010, five representatives from KPMG Malaysia had successfully conduct a career talk entitled: Career as an ICT Consultant with KPMG. This career talk mainly aims at final year student which are in ICT and Business Information System department. A total of 27 students joined this event. The purpose of this event is to give exposure to students on how employees at KPMG work such as their working culture and opportunities to be employed by them.  Besides that, they also listed out criteria and qualifications needed for graduates to apply for employment with them and what will they offer for their employee. Later on, a cubic assessment was conducted which consist of 3 segments; verbal test, number test and essay test. The event ended at 6.00 p.m. The next day, 11 candidates were shortlisted to have an interview conducted by KPMG from 10 a.m. till 11.30 p.m.

KPMG Speakers

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On 6th March 2010 Technology Education and Career (TEC) 2010 under the department of Seminar and Forum had successfully organized Shell management Skill Games (MSG) 2010. MSG is an annual event conducted by Shell in conjunction with TEC X 2010. A total of 60 final year final semester students from all courses participated in this workshop.

The event started at 10 am with a talk on Shell’s prospect and future career opportunity in Shell which was delivered by Miss. Debbie, one of the five representatives from Shell.

Giving attention to the Shell representatives

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People say a thousand steps begin by the first step. As the words saying, a step is always small, but the seconds step does not follow without the first one. On 24^th Febuary 2010, Seminar and Forum Department TEC X has stepped to third event of their accomplishment which is Intern-Share Forum. Intern-Share Forum, as the name goes was a forum which main purpose is to increase awareness of the real working situation among students and to expose the student with the routes of their career paths.

This year, Intern-Share Forum was brought to the audience by the collaboration of TEC X and Student Industrial Internship Unit (SIIU). With a new concept of modern forum, Intern-Share Forum was held in the mainhall of UTP. The panelists were consisting of four prominent speakers. Two of them are UTP’s alumni itself and the other two are remarkable panelists who were specially invited from PETRONAS Research and Intel. The Alumnies UTP were Muhammad Aizat bin Abu Bakar, PETRONAS Carigali Drilling Engeering, and Thanikaimani Elamparuthi, Business Development Manager MISC. While the other are Syed Omar bin Syekh Alsagoff, Former PETRONAS Sauber F1 Engineer, and Mohd Parid B Sulaiman, Engineering Director World Wide Product Engineering Intel.

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