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UTP WON TOP PLACE IN THE NATIONAL COMPETITION IN ENGINEERING AND INNOVATION 2008 :

FLOATING TOWER COMPETITION

11 JUNE 2008

UTP Team emerged as champion in ‘The National Competition in Engineering and Innovation 2008: Floating Tower Competition’ which was organised by Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) Shah Alam in conjunction with the ‘International Conference on Civil and Infrastructure Engineering (ISCIE’08)’. It was held from 11-12 June 2008 at the Faculty of Civil Engineering, UiTM Shah Alam. A total of 36 teams from 9 institutions of higher learning in Malaysia had participated in this competition. The teams were from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UMS), Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP), Universiti Pertahanan Malaysia (UPNM), Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) and Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UNIMAS).

 

The overall results of the competition are as follows:.

Winner : Baram Team of UTP
1st Runner Up : UTHM
2nd Runner Up : UPNM
3rd Runner Up : UKM
4th Runner Up : UKM

The objective of the competition was to determine the greatest efficiency failure load/weight of the tower . The tower must be constructed using only straws (max 200 pieces), empty bottles of 500 ml mineral water (max 8 nos) and masking tape.

The number of students in a group is limited to four and they need to build the tower including the presentation materials within the stipulated time period (3 hours).

UTP sent 4 teams and below are the list of students :

GROUP NAME: Baram

1 Mohd Rasydan b Bahrom
2 Nik Mohd Fakrul Fidzrie b Nik Mohd Shukri
3 Farhan Iqbal Mohd Yusof
4 Mohd Farhan ABd Razak

GROUP NAME: Duyung

1 Hazmatul Farha bt Hamzah
2 Nadzirah bt Zainal
3 Siti Nor Adha bt Tuhaijan
4 Nur Ilyani bt Hasimy

GROUP NAME: Tembungo

1 Aimran b Abd Hamid
2 Ainil Husna bt Mohd Sharir
3 Muhammad Yazid b Salehuddin
4 Chyrina bt Mohamed Zamri

GROUP NAME: Semborang

1 Mohamad Nasrol b Abdullah Sani
2 Halil b Hisham
3 Muhammad Alif Hamdan
4 Muhammad Rafiuddin b Arjimi.

The other UTP teams namely Duyung, Tembungo and Semborang managed to get consolation prizes in the competition.

By participating in this competition, the civil undergraduate students were able to better understand and apply the knowledge that they have gained throughout their studies in UTP. It also helped to improve their soft skills and managerial skills which would add-value to their qualifications in future.

All the students involved were coached and mentored by the Advisors for this competition namely Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Fadhil Nurruddin, Assoc. Prof. Dr John Kurian and Mr M. Mubarak A. Wahab.