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Learn from the cream – IEEE International Microwave, Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuit Symposium (IMESS) 2019

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International Microwave, Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuit Symposium (IMESS) is organized by IEEE Malaysia ED/MTT/SSC Penang Joint Chapter and PSDC on 8th and 9th October 2019. IMESS is a platform to exhibit product and technology solutions and networking and exchanging ideas with peers and experts. The purpose of the event is to promote and strengthen local science and engineering advancements.

Besides, networking opportunities and is provided through the event to connect technical communities. In addition, it is also to address polarization issues within the industry and academia. With this, it can help to synchronize and bridge the gap between industry advancement and academic research.

There are more than 30 members from IEEE USM Student Branch joined IEEE International Microwave, Electron Devices & Solid-State Circuit Symposium (IMESS) 2019 as student participants at Penang Skills Development Center, PSDC.

Besides gaining knowledge about the latest technology like AI, IoT and 5G from professionals, participants also had the opportunity to visit Plexus Penang Design Center to know more about the industry.

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Makerthon 2019 – Innovating Life

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Makerthon = Maker + Marathon. The Makerthon is an event where people from different backgrounds meet to face a real-life challenge by searching for new ideas, solutions, products and services. The Makerthon had been successfully conducted by IEEE USM Student Branch and collaborated with WIE USM Student Branch and also IEEE UniMAP Student Branch from 11th October 2019 to 13th October 2019. This event provides a platform for the participants to show their creativity and make an innovative prototype that can solve real-life problems.

Before the competition, the participants had gone through a few workshops to equip them with the necessary knowledge and skill. Arduino Beginner Workshop and Solidworks Workshop were conducted on 3rd October 2019. The former introduces the participants about Arduino while the latter taught about the 3D CAD software tool. Wireless Communication Workshop and Arduino Intermediate Workshop were also carried out on 10th October 2019. After the workshop, the participants would be more confident to design a product to solve our daily life problems.

There were 16 groups participated, consisting of a group of four each, from USM and UniMAP. Makerthon was carried out for three days. In the first two days, which were 11th October 2019 and 12th October 2019, participants were given a task to brain-storming their ideas on solving the problems in daily life and prepare their prototype. The participants developed their projects at EEK3 in School of Electrical And Electronics. The participants showed the importance of teamwork on developing the projects. There were facilitators available to help the students when they encountered any problem.

On the final day, the competition was held at Dewan Serbaguna USM. the participants presented their prototype on a group basis. They showed how their prototype works and also explained how their ideas can solve real-life problems. At the same time, they were also persuading the judges on their project’s advantages. A Q&A session was carried out by the judges for the queries on the participants’ prototypes. Makerthon was carried out successfully and fulfilled the objectives of the event.

Two groups from UniMAP successfully emerged as the champion and 1st runner-up in Makerthon 2019 competition. The champion was won by SCCE group from SCCE UniMAP with the title ‘Biometric Attendance System’ presented by Nurul Izzati binti Abdul Muthalib, Nur Hafizah Iffah binti Azhar, Tanussia a/p Muniandy, and Wan Nursharina binti Hayadee. While the second place was won by another team from IEEE UniMAP Student Branch which consists of four Biomedical Electronic Engineering students from School of Mechatronic Engineering, who were Muhamad Syamir Bin Azhar, Muhammad Amin Bin Rusdi, Iffa Nadia Bt Mohd Nasir and Thivya A/P Baskaran with their developed project, ‘Driving Monitoring Project’. Second runner-up was won by team X-Inventor from USM Engineering Campus with their project named ‘Smart House’.

The event would not be a success without all the sponsors especially our platinum sponsor, Greatech Integration (M) Sdn Bhd. A great thanks to our silver sponsor, Micro Modular System Sdn Bhd and also our angel sponsor, Cytron Technologies Sdn Bhd. Their support was an essential part of Makerthon being able to run smoothly and create a wonderful experience for the participant. All groups paid their hard work and presented their creative ideas on solving the problems in daily life.

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Learn while having fun? IEEE USM SB opens the opportunity to all on Engagement Day 19/20.

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Nothing more exciting than treasuring into new things, meeting new people and being inspired. On the 19th of September 2019, IEEE USM Student Branch had organized engagement day to introduce what is IEEE and what we are doing. More than 100 students from all the courses in USM Engineering Campus participated in the event. The goal of the event is to encourage students to be a part of the club, mainly to foster technological innovation and excellence for the benefit of humanity.

The event started with a speech delivered by the chair, Lin Jian Wen. The head of each department explained briefly about the job scope of each department and shared their experience about the past events. Students were given the opportunity for being a member of IEEE as well as being a committee of IEEE by filling the application form that night.

The participants also played some mini-games with committee members. A few mystery letters were placed in the campus library before the event. For those who successfully found the letter, they were given a gift on the event day. All the winners were given prizes. There was also a lucky draw session. Projects done by IEEE committees also exhibited on that day.

Lastly, we conducted a mini Q&A session for the participants. Engagement Day was the very first step to acknowledge students about the existence of our club. IEEE USM Student Branch would like to thank all the participants. Stay tuned for more interesting and beneficial events that will be conducted by us.

USM Squad Fury 2019

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Winner winner chicken dinner! Player Unknown Battleground, well known as PUBG has taken the world by storm and has since become a favourite game among people.

During the second semester of 2018/2019, USM Squad Fury (a PUBG competition) has been organized by IEEE USM Student Branch. The competition was held on 17th April 2019, located at Puma Hall, USM. It was joined by 58 players. All the players tried their best to win the game. It wasn’t a simple task, being able to place top among all the players. It does require some skills and teamwork to take down the opponents. Surprisingly, a variety of good game skills were shown by the participants on the battlefield!

                              

And last, congratulations to the winner triumphing over the other 54 players. We sincerely hope that the participants had a good time throughout the gameplay!

Premiere Pro Workshop 2019

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Premiere Pro is one of the leading video editing software applications. It is important to know how to use for anyone interested to work in video or film industries.

Learning Premiere Pro is also useful for those editing videos as external knowledge or personal use, as it can be used to create videos ranging from highly professional using high-definition footage to more basic videos captured with a camera phone. Once videos are edited using Premiere Pro, it can export to virtually any screen or format.

Premiere Pro can be used on either Mac or Windows platforms and supports a wide range of file formats. This allows us to import videos and still images captured using most any device. Premiere Pro also can be used to add sound, adjust colors, and insert titles and captions.

Premiere Pro workshop had provided a foundation for the beginner. The committees provide a clear path for learning essential digital video skills and progress into editing, assembling, and exporting completed videos. Premiere Pro Workshop was carried out successfully at Microcomputer Lab, on 17th April 2019.

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Collaboration for better future – STEM Program at SMK Badawi

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With greater power comes greater responsibility. In collaboration with USM Electrical and Electronic Engineering School and Students’ Society of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , IEEE USM Student Branch has been to SMK Badawi, Kepala Batas to carry out C Programming Language Workshop. The event was filled with excitement and joy. Other than inspiring project exhibitions, students were also given the opportunity to work with Arduino under the guidance of volunterrs from USM.

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Java + Object Oriented Workshop 2019

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Java Programming Workshop has been conducted successfully on 22nd March 2019 at EEK3. The students learned about how to do a simple mathematical calculation using Java mathematical operator, display output of variable and so forth from the Java Programming Workshop.

The participants joined also Object-Oriented Programming Workshop which was successfully held on 27th March. Through the workshop, the students of USM Engineering Campus get to learn about the concept of programming which makes the software engineer debug easily and come out with more systematic programming code. The majority of the students participated in both programming workshops are from School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. There were facilitators available to help out the students who face problems too.

 

A great thanks to IEEE USM Student Branch on conducting these workshops as well as to all committees who worked hard day and night for this event to be successful as well as the students that participated in these events.

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Web Development Workshop

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Web Development Workshop had been successfully carried out by the IEEE USM Student Branch on 7th of March 2019 at EEK 3. The organizers were excited to guide the student community of USM Engineering Campus on how to create their own website using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. More than 30 students of the campus participated in the workshop with majority of them from the School of Material and Mineral Resources Engineering. The workshop was conducted in a conducive environment and cheerful atmosphere with the main tutor cracking some jokes here and there as well as the participants were able to create their own website in the end. A big shout out to IEEE USM Student Branch for allowing us to conduct this workshop and to all the committees who worked hard day and night for this event to be successful.


The workshop was conducted successfully at EEK 3, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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Fundraising for Free Workshops 2018

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We are all told to do good deeds and to help one another in need. In saying so, this can also be rephrased as helping the less privileged and that is exactly what USM IEEE Student Branch did. The members of the club conducted free workshops for the orphans in Rumah Jagaan Harapan Al-Mahabbah, Rumah Nur Kasih Ulu Sepetang as well as the Shan’s Children Home.

Our objective was to provide motivation, encouragement and support for youths who would like to explore more into the world of science. This workshop was also to inspire and guide youths to acquire self-learning and critical thinking skills. This programme launched off with collecting donations from students and as well as the staff of the university. This was carried out to purchase the items required for the workshop. This event was also supported by a few charitable sponsors like ViTrox Corporation Berhad and Cytron Technologies Sdn. Bhd.

The event kick started on the 28th of April at Rumah Jagaan Harapan Al-Mahabbah. The event started at 9 a.m. with an electronic workshop. The children were taught to connect circuits in series and parallel. They were provided with jumpers, breadboard, resistors and LEDs. The children were very excited when their LED bulbs lighted up.

The science workshop came next after the electronic workshop. Activities such as Hologram, Anti-Gravity Water and experiment on the refraction of light were conducted on that day. To keep the children excited, small gifts were given to them if they answered the question about the experiments correctly. They were very enthusiastic to answer the question as the gifts that were offered became a motivating source. The event ended successfully with a demonstration of Fire-on-Hand experiment and the children were astonished with the uniqueness of the experiment. All these activities were carried with just as much of liveliness at Rumah Nur Kasih Ulu Sepetang and Shan’s Children’s Homes on the first and fifth of May. Before leaving, members of IEEE together with the children had hearty lunch.

All in all the day turned out better than we expected with everyone working together in perfect harmony. Teamwork being the key ingredient had made the event a very successful and memorable day indeed. As the saying goes honey is not made by a bee but a colony.

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STARTUP WEEKEND GEORGETOWN@USM 2017 RECAP

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Startup Weekend Georgetown@USM was held on the 17th, 18th and 19th of November, 2017 Universiti Sains Malasyia (USM) Main Campus, Penang. The event was organized by IEEE USM Student Branch in collaboration with Startup Campus Asia and MaGIC. Startup Weekend is a global event held in over 135 countries that focuses on creating startup companies in the duration of a weekend, or 54 hours. The event has helped create many successful startups such as Carousell, proving that simple ideas can turn into lucrative business.

On the first day, participants registered at the School of Computer Science meeting room and were introduced by Malcolm Wu, who was the facilitator for the entire three-day event. Malcolm started the event with some fun ice-breaking activities to help the participants get to know each other and mingle around. Later on, Johnson Lam, Founder of KakiDIY gave a talk about his experience in entrepreneurship and how he went through many challenges that motivated him to never give up. A mock ‘Startup’ pitching was held where each group of participants had to choose two random words from a list and use both words to create a company name and idea. Wacky wording was the result as imaginary companies such as ‘Naked Cow’ and ‘Paper Movie’ were presented in detail by each group. Lastly, the real pitching session had arrived. Six ideas were presented and four were voted by popularity among the participants. Before the event ended for the night, the idea pitchers had to go around and explain their ideas to everyone and form a team.

 

The next day, after breakfast, the four teams started their work. One of the first tasks each team did was to create a survey and ask the public about their opinions on problems regarding the pitch ideas that will hopefully solve them. Some participants from each group went out to gather data for the survey. As USM Main Campus is situated in the heart of Penang, there were many locations that proved useful for carrying out surveys. Participants went to bustling restaurants such as McDonald’s, KFC and Golden Phoenix. Tesco was also another location as many shoppers were present during the weekend. After gathering valuable information from the public, the groups did evaluations and discussed how their startups could solve the end user’s problems. There mentors present were Mei Tan, Bryant Gan, Nazlina Quadir, Ray Beh, Dr Caren Lee, Richard Gan, Choo Geng Qian and Tan Mei Chuin. They helped each group by giving feedback on what to improve and add to the startup ideas. Each mentor had their own experiences from different backgrounds that were implemented into the group’s startup ideas. In the evening, a mock ‘Judging’ session was held with the mentors as judges. This was to help the groups prepare for the real judging the next day.

 

The final day that everyone was waiting for had finally arrived. It was judging day and participants were nervous but at the same time excited. Elvin Lee, Howie Chang, Saiful Rizal and Caroline Fong were the judges. Each team was given five minutes to pitch their startup and three minutes for the Q&A session from the judges. The teams have to successfully ‘reel in’ the interest of the ‘investors’ (in this case, the judges) to invest in their company. In the end, all startup ideas are excellent, and everyone is a champion, however for formality, the team to win was KEBUN.COM, with Thrift Central being awarded as ‘Most Viable Business Plan’. iConfinement.com and TutorMuda won 1st runner-up and 2nd runner-up respectively. The event closed with group photos and post-event chit-chat.

Overall, Startup Weekend is a terrific way of boosting potential entrepreneurs who are seeking guidance and experience. It has become a global platform where unique talents and minds collaborate to bring the next breakthrough startup.