Lawatan Pensyarah dan Pelajar PUO 29 September 2015
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SELF-DISCIPLINE AND A SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY ARE KEYS TO SUCCESS OF THE UNIVERSITY
PENANG, 15 May 2015 – To ensure the continued excellence of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), each member of its community must be self-disciplined and embody the principles of responsibility and integrity, regardless of whether he or she is being monitored by the head of department or any other party.
In a speech delivered during the 2014 Service Excellence Awards (APC) ceremony, the USM Vice-Chancellor Professor Dato' Dr. Omar Osman stated that staff with an apathetic attitude would tarnish the image of the university and deter its mission to drive excellence.
“Besides this, efficiency of the staff needs be enhanced in line with national development as we approach developed nation status,†said Omar.
The Vice-Chancellor explained that these were core issues faced by many organisations, hence urgent action was required, whether in the form of re-education, re-structuring or any other means to ensure that there was no ‘dead wood’ in the organisation.
“Those who are languishing in the comfort zone should also be awakened from their slumber so that they will discharge their duties and responsibilities competently and competitively,†continued the Vice-Chancellor in his speech.
A total of 796 recipients were awarded the APC for the previous year’s performance, consisting of 414 (52.01%) from the Services l category, 149 (18.72%) from Support Services ll, while 120 recipients (15.08%) were selected from the Academic category and 96 or 12.06% were Management and Professional category recipients. Members from the Special Top Management accounted for 2.01% or 16 recipients, and one member (0.13%) from the Main Top Management category also received the APC.
“At the meeting of the university’s Human Resources Development Panel, we found that many of the staff had delivered excellent work and were eligible for the award, with 77.20% achieving average performance appraisal marks of 85% and above,†the Vice-Chancellor revealed.
The Vice-Chancellor noted that the main challenge facing USM now, which would continue into the future, is the readiness of its staff to work hard to deliver swift results, and to exercise intelligence, creativity and innovation in discharging their duties. If everyone were to co-operate to achieve this aspiration, the institution would be able to grow from strength to strength, and USM would truly be an estimable organisation.
Hence the Vice-Chancellor urged the USM community to enhance and sustain the excellence already achieved to spur the university on to greater heights in the future.
Also present on the occasion were the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research and Innovation) Professor Dato' Dr. Muhamad Jantan, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Industry and Community Network) Professor Dato' Dr. See Ching Mey and the Registrar, Siti Zubaidah A. Hamid. - Translation: Dr Nurul Farhana Low Abdullah/Text: Syuhada Abdul Aziz/Edited: Mohamad Abdullah
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Universiti Sains Malaysia cooperates with Nuvoton Technology Corporation Taiwan in Academic Program
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Sains Malaysia (SEE USM) formed a partnership with Nuvoton Technology Corporation (NTC), Taiwan, a chip design company having a high interest to partner in ‘Academic Programs’. Nuvoton had donated and provided 20 microcontroller NuMicro ARM Cortex™-M0 NUC 140 learning boards, document, facility for the class for research based on microcontroller ARM Cortex™-M0. Nuvoton had before this donated two units of NuMicro ARM Cortex™-M0 microcontroller learning boards for pre study. This program enables microprocessor and embedded systems courses teaching platform for SEE USM students, lecturers, and professors. It is also to provide knowledge and understanding to students about the latest microcontroller technology 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M0. In addition, transfer of information and technology between the industry and academia will provide mutual benefits to both sides and also realized the technology transfer between Malaysia and Taiwan.
Professor Mohd. Zaid Bin Abdullah, Dean of the SEE USM, had been for many years engaged in microprocessor and embedded systems related teaching and research applications. He is the key person in charge of Nuvoton Academic Program in SEE USM. The plan of Nuvoton’s academic program is mainly to provide training to students for the mainstream products in next 1~2 decade, and subsequently to projects or software development in the next stage. This program had begun in January 2013 and Nuvoton will visit SEE USM soon for meeting and discussion regarding academic program plan and evaluation.
Microprocessor in the next 20 years, is still widely used in mainstream architecture, and it is hoped that through the courses attended by the SEE USM students, these students will be able to catch up with the industrial technology, standards synchronization industry cultivating for more competitive talents. In the future, SEE USM and Nuvoton will have a further technical education, training, and research cooperation.
The 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M0 microprocessor is significantly improved in computing speed and application performance, common used in car electronics, such as: audio, window controls, navigation system, and so on, through the internet and vehicle electronic communication, to expand the surrounding function. Nuvoton academic program also want to take the industry's latest embedded platform ARM Cortex™-M0, not only to learn the basic control theory and implementation, but also allows students to learn the basic tools and production processes required by electronics engineers, due to the course content information and examples of both practicality, helps students thematic studies and significantly enhance future employability. In the future, Nuvoton will continue to support the microcontroller-based research conducted by SEE USM.