Bridging Industry-Academic Gap @ UiTM Shah Alam

Made a visit to Advanced Analytics Engineering Centre (AAEC), Faculty of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, UiTM Shah Alam on 8th August, 2019 morning.

An interesting point of discussion was how the emerging tech jobs such as Youtuber or Instagrammer was not included in the curriculum of “conventional” educational institution, but rather the street smart generation are doing good with professional works in such areas as e-commerce traders, net celebrities etc.

Shared a little bit about a century of technology innovation from one of the slide of presentation file below:

Also the important of educational institution to train enough human capital for the progress of the nation through advancement of technology, such as the automotive industry by itself, specifically the field of Blockchain and The Automotive Industry.

Get to know these professors during the meeting:

Prof. Dr Rehana,
Prof. Dr Yap Bee Wah,
Prof. Dr Norjansalika Janom,
Prof. Dr Fakhrul Hazman, Community Chair of C.O.D.E.R (Community for Distributed Ledger), where they focus on
Blockchain,
Mining in Blockchain,
Distributed Ledger,
Fintech applications in Distributed Ledger,
Distributed Ledger Technology and applications,
Public permissioned, public permission-less, private, consortium based blockchain,
Related technology on storage, consensus etc.

Interesting to pass by the Big Data Lab where the students were having Machine Learning training.

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    1. So the education institution doesn’t produce work forces that is not demanded by the real world.

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