Block B: New Cocu Subjects In The Works

Ms Hellina of UTP Co-curriculum Unit has helped us address rumours of new additions to the subject options, with several special interest subjects being proposed to management.

UTP Sports & Co-curriculum Appreciation Night

Society of Petroleum Engineers UTP took home the major honour of Best Club after a year of successfully executed events, both at national and international level.

Mindsets Matter; Sexism in Our System

Columnist Ashley Ng's take on sexism in engineering universities and what we've got to do to address it.

UTP Tennis Close 2013

Defending champion Amirul Arrif reclaims his gold medal, overcoming Muhd Helmi in the final.

Sitting Down With A Mercedes F1 intern!

David Bong shares his experience interning for Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 in the UK.

Internship Myth Busters!

UTP has long been renowned for its lengthy internship periods, but there are some really dangerous misconceptions floating about, often confusing even its own students! So it's time to separate the fact from fiction when it comes to internship placements!

Goodbye Academia: Convocation 2013

1147 graduates receive their scrolls, marking an end to their time at UTP.

The Bhangra Revolution - Gajjdi Jawani's Rise to Prominenc

Columnist Afthab Afrathim tells the story of our beloved Bhangra performers, who've come very far since their humble beginnings years ago.

Elections, SRC, & Rakan Masjid : Persepective at Last?

Campus Elections of 2013 will always be remembered as the one that didn't happen. Heart of Tronoh speaks to the people that matter, in an attempt to investigate the waning interest in campus politics, and shed light on the main players of the drama surrounding the infamous no-go elections of Jan '13.

Monday, 9 March 2015

Co-Curriculum Appreciation Night 2015 by Ken Irok Sendal

Co-Curriculum Appreciation Night 2015
By Ken Irok Sendal, Foundation 3rd , EE

Seri Iskandar, 4th March – Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS’s Sports & Co-Curriculum Appreciation Night 2015 was held in D’Hotel nearby here with an objective to show an appreciation to everyone including UTP’s staffs and students who has excelled and contributed for the upbringing of the University’s name through Sports and Extra Curricular Activities for the year 2014.

            The event was honored by the presence of the YBhg Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim B Hashim, UTP Vice Chancellor, Tn. Hj. Mohamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Alumni and not forgetting the VIP of the night, YBhg Datuk Shahrul Zaman bin Yahya, State of Perak, Exco Of Youth, Sports, Communication And Multimedia, as well as UTP’s staffs and students. However, the biggest excitement of the night was the presence of a special guest, Mr. Awi Rafael, a multitalented singer, songwriter, musicians who hails from Singapore.

            The night started off at about 7.30 pm where the guests comprising of students and staffs gathered at the ballroom area of D’Hotel before the arrival of the VIP’s shortly after. Not long after that, the National Anthem was played as well as both the PETRONAS and University songs were played.

            What follows next was the highlight of the night where each club and team was presented with Appreciation Certificates for their achievement throughout the year of 2014. It was truly an exciting moment as claps and cheers echoed the ballroom of the venue. The guests of the event were then treated to a buffet, which comprised of some mouthwatering dishes. Some performances including UTP’s Bhangra Group, Mozambique Dance Group and UTP’s Performing Arts Group also took place on the stage during the dinner.


UTP’s Bhangra Group posing after a captivating performance.
           
After that, the multitalented singer, songwriter, Awi Rafael whose hits includes “Kalau Aku Kaya” and “Pulanglah”, gave a captivating sharing and motivational session to the guests. The Singaporean born performer then wowed the crowd with a mesmerizing performance of his hit, “Kalau Aku Kaya”.


Awi Rafael wowing the VIP’s and crowd with his hit, ‘Kalau Aku Kaya’.

Next, a speech was presented by YBhg Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim B Hashim, UTP Vice Chancellor before YBhg Datuk Shahrul Zaman bin Yahya, State of Perak, Exco Of Youth, Sports, Communication And Multimedia. Our Vice Chancellor added that students and staffs must continue to build the impressive legacy achieved with the previous accomplishment to uphold the name of UTP not only nationally but globally as well.    
  
However, the most exciting moment of the night followed through next with the presentation of the Appreciation Awards. Some of the awards include the International Achievement Awards, Best Club, Best Sports Team Male & Female, Best Sportswoman and Men. The winners include, UTP AIESEC who bagged the Best Club/Society Award, UTP Nasyid Group who bagged the Best Co-Curricular (Performing Arts) Award and also UTP Netball Team who bagged the Best Sports Team (Woman) just to name a few.




AIESEC-UTP proudly presents the Best Club/Society Award of 2014.

            Lastly, the night came to an end after all the Presentations of Awards were given out. None of the objectives of the night would be achieve without the hard work and dedication of the Committees of the Event itself and as well as the presence of the energized crowd throughout the night. 

            

Monday, 9 February 2015

Quiz Wise 2015 by Nabilah Hassanudin (BIS 2nd/1st)

Quiz Wise 2015
By: Nabilah Hassanudin (Business Information Systems 2nd Year, 1st Semester)

Seminar Room 6 & 7, 7th February- Quiz Wise 2015 is a test of general knowledge and a mind challenging quiz ornganised by MPPUTP and UTP itself with total of 30 groups of students participating. The higlight of the Opening ceremony was the performance led by Virtuoso, UTP's band under the CO-Q unit while the closing ceremony was by The Bread Crumbs. 

As for the winners, the first prize worth RM 1000 was won by:
Thevaraj a/l Raman 
Shiva Selventiran Servai a/l Muniandy 
Murugavel a/l Chandran 

The second place goes to 
Nur Syazwani Binti Mohd Azahar 
Asiah Hanida Binti Burhanuddin
Megat Ashran Bin Megat Muzaffar, who won RM 500 

and the third place worth cash prize RM 250 was won by 
Chandra Sekhtar Kuppusamy
Ilman Gulesenov
Chariyev Bayram. 

Congratulations to the winners from HOT Editorial Board :) :) :D



The participants during the quiz




The Virtuoso Band



The emcee conducting the quiz

Monday, 2 February 2015

Minggu Mesra Kampus Jan 15 by Anita Leong

Minggu Mesra Kampus Jan 15 (MMK)
By Anita Leong Su Juan, Foundation 3rd , CE

Pocket D, 27th-29th January 2015 – Minggu Mesra Kampus, fondly known as MMK was back again this January where all the clubs or organizations and even some of the upcoming events had set up their booths to be promoted to UTP staffs as well as students.

It is held every semester to create awareness on the existence of the clubs in order to attract the students to get involved in extra-curricular activities. This also helps to realise UTP’s vision of producing well-rounded students in terms of both academic and co-curricular activities.

This time, there were roughly around 40 clubs participating to make MMK a successful one, not forgetting to name a few main clubs or societies such as Students Representative Council (MPPUTP), Rakan Masjid UTP, Media and Technology (MEDTECH) Club and also Residential College Support Unit (RCSU). The organizing committee of MMK had invited few vendors to Pocket D to make it merrier and most importantly, to quench students’ thirst as well as to satisfy one’s hunger.

Looking forward for Minggu Mesra Kampus May 15! Thumbs up to the organizing committee and also to those who came and visited MMK booths throughout that three days as your presence has contributed to the success of MMK Jan 15!

More photos of MMK Jan 15




Top view of MMK Jan 15.


Student stopped by to buy a drink while visiting MMK booths.




Cute mascots from Rotaract Club booth.

Thursday, 22 January 2015

MASISWA By Anita Leong

Karnival Sukan MASISWA Zon Utara 2014
By Anita Leong Su Juan, Foundation/2nd, CE

UTP Sports Complex, 9th November 2014 –Held from 7th of November till 9th of November, nine universities and colleges gathered to compete 7 different sport activities at the MASISWA Sports Carnival (Northern) 2014.

The private educational institutions that participated includes :
Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, 
UniKL MSI, 
Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman Kampar Campus, 
Kolej Tunku Abdul Rahman Penang Campus, 
Kolej Poly-Tech Mara Alor Star, 
UTAR Kampar, 
UniKL MIMET, 
Kolej Universiti Islam Sultan Azlan Shah and 
Kolej Professional Mara Seri Iskandar 

with the overall champion decided through the most collection of gold medals from the various categories. 

Delighted to announce that Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS crowned the overall champion with 7 golds, 6 silvers and 7 bronzes altogether, followed by UniKL MSI with 3 golds, 3 silvers and 2 bronzes and the third placing goes to Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman who managed to win 3 golds and 2 bronzes. Last but not least, HOT team would like to congratulate all the winners as well as other athletes for making MASISWA a remarkable sport event. Below are some pictures from selected games.


 All players in full focus.



Supporters cheered out loud to motivate the players.



During the volleyball match, players tried hard to defend.

Sunday, 18 January 2015

CONVOFAIR 2014

               CONVOFAIR 2014
                     By Teh Wei Qian, Foundation 2nd, PE

Tronoh, 16 - 19th October 2014 - Our annual UTP CONVOFAIR had been held in Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) in conjunction with the Convocation Ceremony which fell on the 19th October and the Sekretariat Rukun Negara.

The main purpose of having a CONVOFAIR is to attract the family members of UTP students to come and visit UTP as well as providing platform to conduct their personal family day to strengthen the bonds among each family member. This year, more than thousands of family had come to celebrate this annual event.

During these four days event, up to 60 booths were set up mainly food stalls, clothes stalls, PETRONAS merchandise stall, games and activities, and many more. There were variety of local food such as laksa, curry mee, ayam madu, burgers, fried rice, claypot mee, nasi lemak and so on. For games and activities, there were FIFA 15, The King of Guitar Hero, water ball, water boat, inflatable castle, wall climbing, water futsal and many more. Congratulations to Ahmad Syahiran who had won the title of “King of Fifa 15”. There were also exhibitions displaying antics vehicles.

At night, UTP students entertained the guests with performances. The performances include UTP Chinese Orchestra, Malay Dance, our most favourite dance - Bhangra Dance, Silat Melayu, International Dance, Rock Songs, Taekwondo, Caklempong, Gamelan and so on. The performances were splendid as proven from the big applaud by the audience after watching it.

On the last day of this event, a special talk, titled “Tentang Cinta” had been given by Ustaz Kazim Elias, who is a very famous religious icon in Perak. The talk was attended by many elderly and young people.

CONVOFAIR this year was a successful one and for that, we express gratitude to the committees of CONVOFAIR for the effort and commitment.



Some of the food stalls during the CONVOFAIR.



Some of the games and activities such as water ball, rock climbing and inflatable castle at Village 4 field during the CONVOFAIR.


Performance – before “Tentang Cinta” talk: Nasyid by Muhandis.









Friday, 16 January 2015

UTP's 14th CONVOCATION

UTP’s 14th Convocation Ceremony
By 
Anita Leong Su Juan, Foundation/2nd, CE
 

Chancellor Hall, 19th October 2014 – “For the graduates, we wish you success in your future careers, knowing that your success will also be the University’s success,” words spoken by our very own Tun Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, Chancellor of University Teknologi Petronas (UTP) during the 14th annual Convocation Ceremony in Chancellor Hall, UTP. Convocation is held annually, celebrating the hard work and excellence of its newly minted alumni.  This year, there were a total of 1278 students graduating from various programmes.

The ceremony was divided into two sessions; one in the morning officiated by our beloved Chancellor and one in the afternoon officiated by the Pro Chancellor of UTP.

The Gold Chancellor Award, awarded to the highest achieving undergraduate student was presented to Norazwan Wahid from Petroleum Engineering, while the Silver Chancellor Award was awarded to Vivian Lim Zher Yee from the Mechanical Engineering programme. As for Final Year Project Award, one of the grantees was Lok Chen Chuang from Chemical Engineering program.

The Best International Undergraduate Student Award was presented to Tran Duc Chung, a Vietnamese student from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering program.

This year’s UTP Alumni Awards for Best Researcher— which were first introduced in the 12th Convocation Ceremony as a recognition for the contribution by postgraduate students for propelling the university to achieving the Research University status; went to Ali Samer Muhsan from Iraq who achieved his Doctorate of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, and Norzaireen Mohd Azmee from Malaysia who completed her Masters of Science in Civil Engineering.
  


 Friends and family trying to spot for their graduating loved ones.

Waiting to finally receive their graduation scrolls.


Friends and family watching their loved ones receive their degrees via the live-stream at the Undercroft. 

An Introduction to Effective Stress Management

An Introduction to Effective Stress Management
By: Arthur Eliseus (Chemical Engineering 2nd Year, 2nd Semester)


Lecture Room 7, 22nd November- Studying in university is undeniably very stressful with assignments, tests and events abound. To combat this stress, the Academic and Career department of Student Representative Council Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (SRCUTP) (managed by Sharina binti Mohd Yusak, Business Information System 1st Year 2nd Semester) conducted a stress management exercise for students. 

The aim of this programme was to help students to develop techniques to manage stress effectively through the talk techniques presented by two stress management, Senior Lecturer Dr. Ahmad Shahrul Nizam bin Isha and Pn Haryanni binti Harun, both from the Management & Humanities department. 

Participants included both staff and students of UTP, with activities like ice breaking, dancing, and quizzes to judge their levels of depression and stress. The second session of the day dealt more directly with how to handle stresses as well as testimonials from the two speakers. The event ended with everyone participating in a dance before having their lunch together.





Dr. Ahmad Shahrul Nizam bin Isha sharing techniques on how to manage stress effectively

RAISE YOUR GAME (SEDEX 34 PRE-EVENT)

RAISE YOUR GAME
In Conjunction With
34th Science and Engineering Design Exhibition - SEDEX 34
By Teh Wei Qian, Foundation 2nd, PE 

Pocket D, 15th October 2014 - Raise Your Game V1.0 is a biannual community project aimed at helping tertiary education students to train their leadership and business skills SEDEX pre-event.This year, ambassadors from Leaderonomics graced the programme as special guests.


 Raise Your Game V1.0, which was previously known as Youth Social Responsibility (YSR) involves the participation of students from primary schools and this time, foundation students from various universities in Perak. The students were split into two workshops provided by Leaderonomics on the topic of business and marketing.

The 34th installation of SEDEX will be held on the 8th and 9th of December.




Introduction session for the students from various universities.



Kirenraj Doraiselvan, Project Manager of Raise Your Game (RYG) event.




Adeline from Leaderonomics giving a workshop to the students.


Tuesday, 1 April 2014

SPDeC's Youth Social Responsibility Progam Sets New Standard

By Nur Dalilah Dzulkarnain, Foundation/3rd, PG

Tronoh, 29th March- Held to provide a platform to develop technical and soft skills as well as introduce high schoolers to the engineering way of thinking, ASME-UTP-SC with sponsors from Gempak Starz and IM4U held their first ever SPDeC Youth,Social Responsibility (YSR) program, in conjunction with Student Professional Development Engineering Conference Malaysia 2014.

A total of 85 students from three different schools which are Methodist Girl’s School(MGS), SMK Simpang Pulai and SMK Sri Iskandar had participated in this 3 day program starting from 27th March to 29th March.

Mr Ahmed Fouad, head of ASME Asia Pacific, was invited as the honoured guest at the closing ceremony and he gave a short speech on the importance of working together as a team in such programs and having leadership qualities from an early age. Among his words of wisdom were, “Don’t be followers, be leaders”. He also congratulated the winners of the games and activities conducted by the SPDec comittee.

Participants waiting eagerly for their tie-breaker question during the Quiz.


The 3-day event was the first YSR program of such length and will serve as an important example to future programs by other clubs and events.

Ms Vanisha Kumar, 2nd year 2nd sem/CE, the Head Of Department of  YSR went on to share that the program was a big success and they are looking forward to holding similar events in years to come, besides improving on what they were lacking in this time.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014

A Fun Day with Kids: Take the Roads in PETRONAS – University (T.R.I.P-U) 2013

By, Neroshinni Balachandran, Foundation/3rd CE

Seminar Room 2, Undercroft, 1st March – With a big applause, 33 orang asli children from Batu Empoh, Tapah arrived at the hall with the youngest being 7 years old while the eldest 16. The first venture of 3rd semester foundation students was a homestay programme for the international students at Kampung Orang Asli, Batu Empoh, Tapah.  Their next vision was to expose the children to university life with ‘Take the Roads in PETRONAS – University (T.R.I.P-U) 2013’ program. The participants were genuinely impressed with our laboratory facilities and advanced studying environment during the campus tour. The next agenda was a motivational talk to overcome participants’ obstacles in school and team-building games as well as a lesson in mind mapping techniques by our facilitators. In the evening, all of them were brought to the netball court for futsal and poison ball game sessions. Prizes were given afterwards and the eventful day ended at 7pm.



Professional Training and Grooming Etiquette (PRESTIGE)

By Neyley Adriana, Foundation/1st

Tronoh, 8th March –The popular annual event, Professional Training and Grooming Etiquette (or more commonly known as PRESTIGE) have made its debut yet again this year at Seminar Room 7, Undercroft and was held by Peer Helper Club. Over 100 enthusiastic students participated in PRESTIGE in the hopes of learning how to give their appearance and personalities a makeover. The event aimed to teach and train its participants on grooming etiquettes, how to look professional and how to give an impact to people, especially during job interviews.

The event kicked off at 9.30 am with a session called “Re-groom, Re-brand, Re-fresh” featuring Madam Murshidah, a famous advisor for personal grooming and a corporate image consultant. Her session began with an ice-breaking session where the participants had to draw an image of themselves in order to portray their personality. Afterwards she gave a talk concerning “Love and Respect”, whereby she emphasized on how confidence, and positive vibes will induce a positive aura to those around us.

The second module continued at 11.30 am with Madam Murshidah again as the speaker with the topic entitled ‘Present with Impact’. This session focused on professional communication skills and appearance. Madam Murshidah gave useful tips on how to look presentable in front of people, especially during job interviews where you would want to impress your (future) employer. In addition, she touched upon topics such as self-esteem and how to improve it, as well as how to speak to people confidently.

The event continued after lunch with the third module, ‘What Employers Want’, delivered by Muhammad Gadafi, UTP Alumni. He told the participants of his experience upon entering the industry, and spoke about having the right attitude in the working environment.
Later at noon, the participants were enlightened by Mr.Saiful Nang, a famous Malaysian photographer and a successful entrepreneur, with the fourth and last module, ‘Aspiring to Excellence’. Supplementary to sharing his humorous life experiences, Mr Saiful also shared his road-to-success story and encouraged the participants to start a business (even without any money), emphasizing that perseverance and dedication will lead to success. Uplifting and insightful, his talk gave the participants an idea of the challenges that they will inevitably face in the real world.

“This event really motivates me and teach me on the proper way of grooming etiquette and not to forget meeting many successful people and knowing their recipe of success was something that I would not forget”, said Arshad Arifin (PE, Foundation 1st). The event finally came to an end at 5pm. For all the beneficial knowledge that PRESTIGE brings, we hope to see more of it in future.


International Culture Night 2014

By Rannad Atef, PE, 1st/1st & Munir Juman, PE, 1st/1st

Chancellor Hall, 14th March – The biggest yearly cultural event in UTP, International Culture Night 2014 was held on Friday night in the Chancellor Hall. With more than 20 performance from different countries, universities and groups the ICN 2014 aimed to bringing unity and joy to the students and guests of UTP.

‘My expectation is that ICN 2014 will be awesome’ said the project director of ICN 2014 Mr. Mohamed Akhter Hussein (2nd/2nd-PE). Mr. Akhter also said that he had 107 committees working hard to make the ICN 2014 a hit.

There were performances from Myanmar, Turkmenistan, Sudan, Yemen, Pakistan, South Sudan, Mozambique, India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Florisscia John with Trio, The Stage Breakerz (TSB), UTP Bhangra Group and UTP Preforming Art Group (UPAG).

Amongst the guest performances included dances Asia Metropolitan University (AMU), University Malaya (UM) Bangladesh and Mozambique Capote with Virtuoso. Also there were performances from exchange students from Japan and a beautiful performance on the piano by Colin Woolums from USA.
The beauty of ICN this year was the diversity in showing the cultures as dancing wasn’t the only art form on display. Some countries and groups used music to deliver their cultures which add more diversity to the cultural event. Shiva Selventiiran, TSB performer, said that he was very excited to be part of the ICN for the very first time and believed that ICN is the occasion for TSB to mesmerize the audience with their out-of-the-world performance.

All-in-all, ICN 2014 was not without its flaws, especially technical missteps, but judging by the audiences’ reactions ICN 2014 proved to be a smash hit, and the next installment is still very much eagerly awaited.


Saturday, 15 March 2014

Block B: Brand New Cocu Subjects In The Works

By Munir Juman, PE 1st/1st

Tronoh, 13th March – According to Miss Hellina binti Ahmad Kamil, the senior executive of UTP Co-curriculum Unit, there will be at least 4 new co-curriculum subjects introduced to the UTP students. Two new subjects to be brought in are photography and futsal. “We will be presenting the proposal to the Academic Committee (AC) this month and (if approved by the AC) the Senate next month. Hopefully, students can expect to register for the two subjects starting next semester”, confirmed Miss Hellina.

For the second phase, percussion and a uniformed body seem to be in line. As stated by Miss Hellina, the proposal will be presented to the AC somewhere in May and the two new subjects will be made available for the students starting from September 2014 semester. “We’re thinking of Askar Wataniah, St. George and JPA for the uniformed body but, most probably it would be Askar Wataniah”, she added.


Ms Hellina letting us in on the latest from Block B.
Also, she cleared the air regarding swimming as a co-curriculum subject in UTP. “Actually, swimming has already been approved by the AC and the Senate. Basically, it is already a subject and the syllabus is there. Our dilemma is in regard to the unavailability of instructors. So, we’re working on this for now”, she clarified. However, she finished with uncertainty, mentioning that these are all in process and it depends on the AC and Senate to approve the proposals. 

Friday, 7 March 2014

GE Personality Development Workshop

By Nur Dalilah Dzulkarnain, Foundation/3rd, PG
Tronoh, 5th March-  Aimed at increasing leadership skills and teaching people how to be inspiring leaders, TEC invited a representative from GE Corporation to give an informative talk on how to communicate like a leader, in a two hour GE Personality Development Workshop.
Ms Xiao Qhing of Outreach and Talent Development unit in GE Asean was invited as one of the speakers and Ms Ramia Balakrishnan of GE Asean answered questions regarding internship possibilities by the audience. Participating as a participant of the workshop myself, Ms Xiao started off by defining leadership and according to her, a good leader is not the one that manipulates others to gain power rather, the one who inspires everyone around them to climb through the ladder of success together.
She went on to share about the various leadership styles and reminded us that personality is what we are born with but the style of a leader is something that we need to learn. Dividing these styles into four parts which are the relator, the expresser, the analyser and the director, the audience began to grasp an understanding of what style fits them best.

As thoughtful as the workshop held, participants came home along with a certificate of participation and a birds-eye view on the leadership world.

Monday, 3 March 2014

Sports & Co-curriculum Appreciation Night 2014

By Aravindhan Anbalagan, Foundation/3rd

Tronoh, 26th February – Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS’ Sports & Co-Curriculum Appreciation Night 2014 was held in the Main Hall with an objective to show an appreciation and acknowledgement to UTP’s students and staff who have contributed in the upbringing of the University’s reputation through sports & extra-curricular activities for the year of 2013. The event was honoured with the presence of YBhg Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim B Hashim, UTP Vice Chancellor, Tn. Hj. Mohamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs and Alumni, as well as UTP staff and students. This year’s special guest was YBhg Dato’ Dr.Fazley Yaakob, a multi-talented celebrity, motivator, actor, singer, chef, businessman and much more. He shared the secrets behind his great achievements and gave a motivational talk, besides also singing his latest song ‘Chocolate Cake’- all the while snapping photos with almost all the guests in the hall without hesitation. The event got merrier when it was time for the award giving ceremony.

This year, the Best Sportsman title won by a professional in Taekwondo, Mr Lee Kian Seng who was a gold medalist in MASISWA (Majlis Sukan IPTS Malaysia) Taekwondo Championship 2013, 3rd Perak Junior Taekwondo Development League Circuit 1 & League Circuit 2 and a huge success in the 32nd Perak Closed Taekwondo (WTF) Championship 2013; while the Best Sportswoman title was won by a skilful netball player Nur Amalina Binti Ahmad Baharuddin, due to her great performance in SUKIPT(Sukan Institusi Pengajian Tinggi) 2012, MASISWA Zon Utara 2013, MASISWA Champion Of Champion 2013, and SUKMA (Sukan Malaysia) 2012.

The Best Sports Team awards were given out to the UTP Rugby, Netball and Kayak Teams. UTP Kayak Team also secured the Most Promising Team award. The top three clubs of 2013 were the UTP Debate Club, Society of Petroleum Engineers UTP, and Rotaract Club, who all gained the Best Club award with UTP Performing Arts Group and UTP Debate Club once again grabbing the Best Co-Curricular award.

The High Impact Corporate Social Responsibility Educational Program awards were given to ENACTUS UTP, MEDTECH UTP, SEDEX 31 UTP, Counselling & Student Development UTP, and AIESEC UTP while the High Impact Corporate Social Responsibility Socio-Economic Program awards were given to Sekretariat Rakan Muda, MPPUTP, and UTP ALUMNI’s program in collaboration with ENACTUS UTP.

The Special Achievement awards were acquired by UTP Gamelan Group (Sanggar Kirana) for their first album ‘Gatra Pertama’; Mohd. Zulkefli Mohd Jamaluddin for his published book ‘Rintik – Rintik Hanya Singgah’; and Sekretariat Rukun Negara UTP with their project ‘Larian 70 Jam’ which was listed in the Malaysia Book of Records.


Last but not least the International Achievement awards were scooped up by AIESEC UTP, SPE UTP, Rotaract Club, UTP Debate Club, UTP Tronoh Theatre Shop, and UTP Performing Arts Group. Our Deputy Vice Chancellor Student Affairs & Alumni said that the students and staff should continue this legacy of success, and to not lose momentum in order to maintain the reputation of the university in sports and extracurricular activities. He also thanked the students for their wonderful performance and promised to continue to build the infrastructure to support our sports and co-curricular activities.

SPE-UTP-SC proudly retained the Best Club/Society Award after missing out last year, having previously won 3 times in a row.