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Board of Editors

Patron:Tuan Haji Mohamed Noor Rosli

bin Baharom

Advisors:Muhamad Syazwan Amarjit

Juli Murshidah binti Ahmad

Munassor

Kan Wai Choong, PE Yr. 2 Sem. 2

HOT Board:Editor-in-Chief:

Timmy Ong, ICT Yr. 2 Sem. 2

Co-editor 1:

Steward Baba, CE Yr. 3 Sem. 1

Co-editor 2:

Mellissa Lee Ai Lin, BIS Yr. 2 Sem. 2

Designers:

Muhamad Faiz Ishak, CE, Yr. 3 Sem

2

Photographers:

Jeremy Low, ME Yr. 2 Sem 2

Ong Yu Han, CE Yr. 2 Sem. 2

Lim Chia Wei, PE Found. Sem 1

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By Saddam Ahip, PG Yr. 2 Sem. 2

Tronoh, 7 April: 11th Technology,Education and Career (TECXI), a 2-day career exhibition was held onthe 6-7 April at Chancellor Hall. TECXI is an annual event of UniversitiTeknologi PETRONAS (UTP) in col-laboration with the Ministry of Hu-

man Resources, Ministry of HigherEducation (MOHE), Ministry of Inter-national Trade and Industry (MITI),SME CORPORATION and the Min-istry of Science, Technology, andInnovation (MOSTI).

Shell Malaysia Trading Sdn. Bhd.was the main sponsor of the event.

This edition of TEC had almost 40companies and organizations takingpart. These included Shell MalaysiaTrading Sdn.Bhd, SchlumbergerWTA (M) Sdn.Bhd, Halliburton En-ergy Services Sdn.Bhd, Intel Tech-nology Sdn.Bhd. and many more.TECXI was officially launched byProf Dr. Zakaria Bin Abas, Special

Advisor of MOHE.

With the theme The Gateway toSuccess, TEC aimed to serve as aplatform for UTP students to partici-pate actively in innovative chal-lenges as well as enhance theircreative thinking skills through pre-

events such as Career Seed, Aca-demic Seminars and career talks.

TEC XI also serves as a gatewaythat provides career opportunitiesfor UTP graduates and guiding themto success by equipping the stu-dents with soft and social skills es-pecially during the job interview.

Throughout the two-day exhibition,students were able to gain knowl-edge and information on the latesttechnologies of industries, seek forindustrial training placement for thirdyear students and job placement forgraduating students.

International CultureNight: 1World in UTP

Inside Stories

Columns pg. 2Chicken A la Carte

People You Should Know: Steve

Jobs

Happenings pg. 3,4Engineering Design Exhibition

ChildPro Exhibition

Choco-Choco Fair

Sports Carnival Closing

Ceremony

Moment To Share by SRM

ICN Plantation Programme

MAKK

Editors ForewordMay is the exam season for UTPiansbut at HOT, despite our academic

commitments, we promise to keep

you all updated with the latest hap-

penings in UTP, without putting our

studies in jeopardy of course. May

issue gives the juicy information of

events for the past month.

Do you have any idea who is Steve

Jobs? If you have been using IPod,

IPad and any other Apple products,

he is the guy you should feel thankful

to. Check out the column for the in-

sight on this entrepreneur.

Now we are entering another new

semester. To the juniors who have just entered UTP, we at HOT warmly

welcome you into our campus. To the

rest, all the best in your endeavours

and dont forget to keep HOT as your

daily read.

By Mostafa Mansour, EE Yr. 2 Sem. 1

Tronoh, 1 April: A fabulous Interna-tional Culture Night (ICN) rocked theChancellor Hall. The event wasgraced by Puan Juniwati RahmatHussin, Vice President of Human Re-source Management, PETRONASand En Zainol Fadzi and En Abd Mu-talib Abdul Rahman of the Perak

state government. The VIPs ex-pressed their thoughts that theuniqueness of ICN lies in the racialharmony as different people show

their cultures peacefully in a cheerfulatmosphere.

ICN this year included manyspecial performances by UTP danc-ing groups as well as participantsfrom other universities. For the firsttime ever, ICN has become a compe-tition in which the representativesfrom each country competed to windifferent prizes for costumes, chore-ography, best theme-related and au-diences choice.

The theme for ICN was GoingGreen. Prior to the night, the ICN

committee planted mangrove trees inKuala Sepetang, used UTP recycledpaper for their tickets and organiseda talk by the Natural Resources andEnvironment Ministry on marineparks and tortoises during the ICNRoadshow.

For Ahmed Mamdouh, the pro-ject manager, this ICN represented adream for him. He was deeply satis-fied and hoped to set a higher stan-dard for the subsequent editions ofICN.

TECXI: Gateway To Success

Performance Finale: All performers gather on stage.

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By Calvin Chong Chi Hung, EE, Yr 4 Sem 1

The grainy images flit across the screen showinga horde of emaciated 11-year-olds crowdingaround the trishaw-puller. He gets off his ricketycontraption, wipes the sweat off his face and pro-ceeds to push his bike forward. The crowd starts

to grow around him with his every stepinnocentgrimy faces plastered with loud grins and hopefuleyes. Finally he stops. Takes out the packetfrom the tatty satchel hanging loosely around hiswiry waist and passes the contents around. Aseach kid receives his/her share, off they gallopedinto the lazy afternoon sun, their convivial laugh-ter ringing across the parched old plain.

Then he heads for home, the trishaw trundlesprecariously across the uneven earth as heholds on tightly to the packet, muttering and smil-ing. The audience is left bewildered at this point.What is in the bag?

He steers a corner and stops. The camerazooms in on a rundown shack. He hastens hissteps, gingerly pushes the door open and ashriek of laughter is heard. A tiny girl, no morethan 8, runs into his arms. He lifts her up into the

air. Her hair dances across the humid air as an-other portly woman is seen setting the table for ameal. As abruptly as he hoisted her up, he gentlyputs the little girl down. He hobbles toward thedinner table, opens the crumpled packet, sniffsand scrounges through its contents with his fatfingers. Then he takes something out and placesit onto the paper plate. The scene freezes andthe angle locks in onto the plate a half-nibbled

chicken bone with morsels of meat remnantscleaving to the bone at odd angles. The little girlclaps in delight and she bows her head down tosay her prayers.

The images fade and the line appears Countless out there give thanks everyday for thefood on their plate, the very food that you chooseto discard from your dinner plate. The scenesabove were extracted from a prize-winning docu-mentary that chronicled the unspoken lives of

many. Every so often we spent our waking hoursdebating over the most trivial of matters, chasingafter ephemeral dreams of so-called happinessand waging wars over spilt milk. Sometimes sim-ple stories like these make us stop in our tracksand challenge ourfundamental concept of happi-ness. When all it takes to carve out a sinceresmile on an 8-year-old is half a piece of soggychicken, what does it take to be happy?

CHICKEN A LACARTE

By Yesar Bin Mustafa Al Maleki , FoundationSem. 3

We all have been influenced by the type of tech-nology offered by Apple , starting from personalcomputers with Macintosh, music with iPod andiTunes, phone with iPhone, and the recent tabletindustry which boomed after Apples revolution-ary iPad. But, we all know behind all kinds of in-novation there should be a human being eitherindividually or collectively. In Apples case we allshould know about Steven Paul Jobs.

Jobs was born in San Francisco, California onFebruary 24, 1955. His biological parents weretwo college graduates, American Joanne Simp-son and Syrian Abdulfattah Jandali, they bothhad him adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, a lowermiddle class couple. Steve grew up in the valley

of apricot orchards known largely today as theSilicon Valleythe cradle of the greatest technol-ogy companies in the computer industry globally.

As many could imagine that a business magnateand the first CEO of two companies simultane-ously should be a graduate of a prestigious uni-versity, Steves life tells us differently. Stevedropped university after one semester to start hishippie life studying Eastern mysticism and goingon strange diets. He even took a trip to India toseek enlightenment at the age of 19.

But many would question how can this man whosimply dresses in a pair of old jeans and a longcollar shirt become the 43rd wealthiest Americanas Forbes estimated him to be worth of US $ 5.1

b in 2009. It all goes back after his return fromIndia to the valley where he met his new friendSteve Wozniak, they both shared more than aname! Steve got Woz, as he liked to be called,into the idea of creating circuit board computers.They started small with Steve assembling circuitsin his home garage and selling them to the elec-tronics shops while Woz was working on the nexthit computer. A couple of years later Woz andJobs were done with the first revolutionary com-puter called Apple II. They were supported by theinvestor Mike Markkula who invested $ 250,000in Apple. The revenues Steve got from Apple IIwas $ 200 million and he was only 25 years old!

Apple was founded but soon it had many foes ,giant IBM wanted to dominate the market , Steveintroduced Apple III and Lisa , the latter was thefirst ever PC with graphical interface. Althoughhe was a shareholder and the head of the boardof directors, Steve was often neglected on Ap-ples future plans. He then founded his owngroup inside Apple naming them piratesworkingon a brand new computer called Macintosh toreplace Lisa the PC on which the rest of thenavy (i.e. Apples staff) was working on. Macin-stosh was a great step forward for Apple. TheGUI interface which made it as Steve called it acomputer as easy to use as a toaster..

Later, Steve tried to stage a coup to takeoverApples management but they ended up in exilinghim and kicking him out of his own company. He

then started forming many of the most successfulcompanies like Pixar which we all know for thefirst animated movie in history,Toy Story(1995)and others like A Bugs Life (1998), Toy Story 2(1999), Monsters Inc. (2001) and Finding Nemo(2003). Pixar was merged with Disney and soonin 2006 Steve jobs had 7% of Disneys sharesmaking him the biggest shareholder in DisneysHistory.

Soon, Steve goes back as interimCEO of AppleComputers, but how?! While being ousted, Steveformed NeXt , a small company to build powerfulcomputers for education , industry and busi-nesses. He had major failures but the Disney-Pixar merger made him offset his losses whileApple was facing troubles marketing Macintosh

because of Microsofts Windows 95. Steve wasback in. He started cancelling all projects andhardware products put in the market by Applefrom hundreds to dozens. He took off some ofthe staff and used the UNIX based GUI operatingsystem called NeXTSTEP (from his NeXT com-pany which was bought by Apple) to build thenew Mac OS X. The Mac OS X made Apple goback strong on the market and breathe again theair of personal computers industry.

Through his changes Steve Jobs managed tobring Apple back to the industry and also he suc-cessfully ended the struggle between Apple and

the gigantic Microsoft Corp. ending decades oftroubles over patents and legal rights. But, Steveknew that the power of Apple is not just in thePersonal computer industry. He thought of turn-ing the Mac into a digital hub. The project includ-ediApps: iMovie (1999), iTunes (2001), iDVD(2001), iPhoto (2002), iCal and iSync (2002), Ga-rageBand (2004) and finally iWeb (2006). But themain source of 75% of Apples revenue was theiPod, the futuristic Walkman which came intolight as the music industry started to boom. Laterin 2007, Steve noticed that the cellular phonemarket is also booming, so he came with theiPhone which he used to call light-years aheadof its competition. Under his management Ap-ple today was able to start a new market for tab-let PCs something which had been there ne-glected in the drawers of other major players ,through the all new revolutionary iPad.

Although , he had been very successful in hislife , Steve had some downs , starting with ne-glecting his daughterLisa which made him losebeing chosen as Time Magazines Man of theYear 1982. Also, in late 2003, Steve was diag-nosed with pancreatic cancer although it was non-fatal but he continuously refused to have a sur-gery and went on some strange diets till he waspersuaded to do one. He never appeared for theApple events which made many speculations onWall Street about his health conditions that oftenaffected the Apple stock price.

At the end, we can say nothing or feel nothingbut admiration for a man with no college degreewho could manage to thrive the very harsh tech

industry. Also, wecan appreciate hisefforts in changingthe way personalcomputers look orfeel like.

Steve Jobs, the man behind Apples wizardry!

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CHILDPRO EXHIBITION

Engineering Design Exhibition 27By Gan Denson, EE Yr. 2 Sem. 2

Tronoh, 24 April: The 27thEdition of EngineeringDesign Exhibition, (EDX27) was held at Chancel-lor Foyer Complex. EDX is held every semesterto provide a wider horizon of knowledge and toact as a platform to showcase the students in-vention, researches, and engineering projects.

EDX was first held in 1997 and it has been morethan a decade since the first EDX was success-fully launched in UTP. EDX acts as a platform forUTP students and staff to exhibit and competetheir inventions and research. This will furtherenhance the level of design and research at UTPin line with our target to become a Research Uni-versity by 2013.

The Chairman for EDX27 was En Mohd Zamri B.Abdullah and the team was led by Mr. GanDenson, the Project Director of EDX27. Theopening ceremony was held at Seminar Room 6and 7, Undercroft. The Opening Ceremony wasofficiated by the Honorable Vice Chancellor ofUTP, YBhg. Datuk Dr. Zainal Abidin Hj. Kasim on13 April 2011. The Closing Ceremony of EDX27was officiated by the Deputy Vice Chancellor(Academic), Prof. Ir. Dr. Ahmad Fadzil MohdHani on the following day. External VIPs fromPETRONAS OPUs also participated in the eventto witness the EDX exhibition. With a total of 17external VIPs from Education Sponsorship Unit,Petrosains, Group Intellectual Property Technol-ogy Commercialization Management, AdvancedEngineering, Research & Technology Division,PETRONAS Management Training Sdn Bhd,

PERMATA, Sarawak Operation DevelopmentProduction Sector Production Malaysia andTechnocal Services Division PETRONASPenapisan Melaka Sdn Bhd.

There were 4 categories open to all UTP stu-dents and staff. This included Engineering TeamProject (ETP), Final Year Project (FYP), Post-

graduate categories (PG) and Open innovativeChallenge (OIC). The participants were judgedby different judging committees and all thejudges were UTP lecturers. There were a total of279 exhibitors comprising students and UTP staffwith 113 exhibition booths.

There were many activities on EDX day as well.Smart Car Competition and games were carriedout to attract students and some won prizes suchas bicycles.

Prizes and medals were given out during thesecond day of EDX. Out of 113 participants,there were 25 Gold, 19 Silver and 24 BronzeMedalists. Prizes such as Best Poster ETP, BestPresenter ETP, Best Poster FYP, Best PresenterFYP, Best Final Year Project, People ChoiceAward, Most Innovative Award and ChairmanAward were given out to the respective winners.

In addition, the new award category was addedthis semester, that is Idea-Generated FundAward. The value of this award is at RM10k ofgrant scheme. This award is conferred by theUTP Research & Innovation Office to the recipi-ent who fulfills the criteria in the Sustainability

area. There are 3 different awards that is Idea Generated Fund Award for the Sustainable Solu-tion for Rural/Remote Area, Generated FundAward for the Sustainable Solution for Education& Continuous Learning Process and GeneratedFund Award for a Sustainable Solution for theEnvironment.

Sports Carnival Closing CeremonyBy Josh Wong, ME Foundation Sem. 3 Tronoh, 30 March: The UTP Sports Carnival Closing Ceremony was held

by the Student Support Services Department (SSSD) in collaboration withSekretariat Rakan Muda (SRM) at the Main Hall. Among the VIPs wereTuan Haji Mohamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Deputy Vice Chancellor of Stu-dent Affairs and Alumni and En Muhamad Syazwan Amarjit and En MohdZuhri bin Zainuddin from SSSD.

The ceremony began with a marching ceremony of six contingents repre-sented by each programme. It then continued with opening speeches byProject Manager of UTPSC, Nur Hafizah binti Khalid and Tuan Haji MohdNor Rosli. He emphasized on the importance of being involved in sports tostrengthen our character towards becoming all-rounded UTP students.

Prizes were given to the winners of each sports competition. There was a

total of 18 sports competitions with 156 athletes participating. The Best

Marching Contingent goes to Chemical Engineering Department whereas

the Civil Engineering Department won the Best Supporter Award. The Over-

all Champion of UTPSC 2011 was won by Geoscience and Petroleum Engi-

neering Department (SPE) with 6 Gold medals, 5 Silver medals and 3

Bronze medals.Geoscience and Petroleum Engineering Department champs.

By Ting Nguong Seng, EE Foundation Sem.3

Tronoh, 5 April: ChildPro Exhibition washeld for the second time in Pocket D and UTPChancellor Complex from 4-5 April. The word"ChildPro" stands for Children Provision. Themain objective of holding this exhibition was toraise funds to provide the necessities for theunfortunate children such as those living in or-phanages as well as those suffering from incur-able or severe illness.

All the activities held in the exhibition weremainly charity-based. A donation Box was pro-

vided for students and staff of UTP to donate."Charity Futsal, food charity and goods sellingwere introduced as well so as to get morefunds for the children. Profits gained from ticket-selling for the Charity Night on 22 April, wouldbe channelled to eight orphanages in Perak.

The volunteers in the exhibition said that theywould have more goods to sell in future to helpthese unfortunate children and they also urgedeveryone in UTP to show their support for thismeaningful event.

CHOCO-CHOCOFAIR

By Ma Shian Ee, PE, Yr. 2 Sem 2

Tronoh, 5 April: The Choco-choco fair at Room 09,Pocket D was held from 4-5 April. It was organised byStudents In Free Entrepreneurship of Young Entre-preneurs Club (SIFE of YEC) and the project man-ager for this event was Muhammad Asyraf Iskandar.The event was conducted with the aim to offer choco-lates to UTP students at cheaper prices.

The type of chocolates available were Cadbury, KitKat, Cloud 9, Kinder Bueno, Ferrero Rocher and oth-ers. A dedication booth was set up to provide choco-lates delivery service and the chocolates would besent once payment was made. Two games whichwere chocolates guessing and dungeon throw were

carried out to attract the crowd and provide the fun;free chocolates were given to the winner. Cupcakeswere also sold and the profits gained was donated tocharity.

Students exhibit their inventions

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By Teh Sabariah Abdul Manan, ME PG

Taiping, 26 March: ICN Plantation Programme washeld on 26 March 2011 with international recognition byUNESCO at the well preserved Matang Mangrove For-est, Kuala Sepetang, Taiping, Perak. It was a first pro-

gramme with the involvement of Post-Graduate studentsin conjunction with the International Cultural Night 2011.The theme was Healing the Earth with a smart-cooperation programme between the Forestry Depart-ment of Perak and UTP. The programme was fullysponsored by Trong ADUN YB Datuk Haji Rosli BinHusin as Platinum sponsor.

The objectives were to plant 1000 mangrove trees alongthe mangrove forest in Taiping, to create awarenessamong UTP students on environmental issues, enhanceawareness on the importance of mangrove forests inMalaysia and to generate love for nature among UTPstudents. A total of 52 participants consisting of UTPstudents, ICN11 committees, ICN11 PlantationProgramme committees and SERUKUN committeeswere involved. The plantation activities were assisted by

the head of Matang Mangrove Forest, Miss Jashrina,forestry officer, Cik Hafiza and the forestry rangers. ICNadvisor, En Saiful Hizam Bin Abu Zarim (executive ofStudent Support Services) and Mr Joan Valenzuela,UTP lecturer, were the UTP representatives for theprogramme.

It was raining heavily in the morning and the plantingactivity was delayed for safety purpose. Fortunately, therain stopped after lunch and everybody was veryenthusiastic to plant the trees. They had their yellowboots for the plantations which were provided by theForestry Department. All of the participants reallyenjoyed their time planting the trees in hoping that all ofthe trees will grow and the environment will bepreserved from any harmful elements in the future.

The theme emphasizes on keeping our world green andsafe. It is time to preserve the Earth and start thehealing. Our cultures represent our identity and ourhumanity that will lead us to save the Earth andpreserve it. New experiences, green exposure andsatisfaction among UTP students these objectiveshave successfully been achieved.

ICN PlantationProgramme

By Ting Nguong Seng, EE Foundation Sem

3

Tronoh, 2 April: About 400 people partici-pated in Majlis Anugerah Kolej Kedia-man (MAKK) which was held for the 12thtime at Undercroft, Universiti TeknologiPETRONAS (UTP) with the theme, Path toParadise. This ceremonial dinner was organ-ised by UTP Residential College Support Unit

(RCSU) to award students and staff of UTPfor their outstanding performance. The guestsof honour for the night were Tuan Haji Mo-hamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Deputy ViceChancellor of Student Affairs and Alumni aswell as En Talhah bin Hassan, Manager ofResidential College. The Project Managerwas Tuan Syed Naufal bin Syed Ahmad Al-habshi.

This dinner was also charity-based as some portions of themoney earned from ticket sellingwould be used for charity pur-poses. Orang Asli folk from

Kampung Lalang, Simpang Pu-lai, Perak were invited and theyperformed an amazing dancenamed Tarian Sewang.

MAKK VII 2011

Performances from Orang Asli folk

MOMENT TO SHARE BY SRMBy Steward Baba, CHE, Yr 3, Sem 1

Tanjung Rambutan, 9 April: The kindnessof UTP students reaches the community be-yond the little township of Tronoh when Sek-retariat Rakan Muda Universiti TeknologiPETRONAS (SRMUTP) paid a visit to RumahSeri Kenangan (RSK), Ulu Kinta. This was

the third and the last trip in conjunction withtheir semester-event, Moment to Share(M2S) 2011. The project manager wasMohamad Azuan bin Abd Satar.

RSK is located inside Hospital Bahagia, ahospital for the mentally-disabled patients.RSK houses the patients who have com-pleted their remediation. RSK also acceptsthe underprivileged of poor health conditionsand without family members. Currently, RSKcomprises 200 residents of all races. Theresidents come to this house on their ownfreewill or by court order.

The arrival of SRMUTP was warmly greetedby the residents who were actually expecting

them. They can recognize the students andeven came forward to greet them personally.This is due to the fact that SRMUTP has con-sistently visited RSK for the past few years.

The day began with a tour around the housefrom hostel to hostel and giving away charitygifts to each resident. The residents areseparated according to their genders andalso health conditions. The severe cases inwhich some can become aggressive are iso-lated away from the others and placed in aspecial room.

Simple activities such as bottle-throwing anddancing were conducted after the tour. Themain reason for this module is to make all theresidents involved, although some preferredto stay back and watch them.

Tuan Haji Zulkefli bin Haji Mokhtar, the Supe-visor of RSK congratulated the team for theirconsistent support for the house and high-lighted the importance of self-awareness andsocial responsibility. This was seconded byEn Muhamad Syazwan Amarjit bin Abdullah,the Senior Manager of Student Support Ser-vices Department of UTP, who was the Guestof Honour for the closing ceremony.

The day ended with the officiating of Reflexol-ogy Park, a contribution by SRMUTP for thisedition of M2S..

SRM committee members with the fellow residents.

CAMPUS DIARY

23/5 May Semester commences

31/5 IT Fair

6-10/6 Martial Arts Week

10-12/6 Euphonious Audition17/6 Euphonious Final

ICN committee members during the plantation

programme.