This workshop is to help the participants to explore the Arduino kit, giving participants the opportunity to apply concepts of basic electronic theory in an interesting way and without strict monitoring. Indirectly, this method will give space to the mind of the participants to get as many creative ideas that they can, through their daily tasks, test their theories and learning.

Arduino workshop is targeted to students of SMK Seri Indah, Seri Kembangan, Selangor and guided by 17 students of a Bachelor and a Master’s student of the Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). The workshop was held for half a day. In addition, the sample program to be downloaded to Arduino kit is also prepared with a simple explanation of each code is given, so the participants able to understand program code thus help participants to focus on training and how to use the kit.

The effectiveness of this workshop was evaluated by a questionnaire given before and after the training session. The participants were asked to fill out a form to distinguish and to test the understanding of the participants before and after the program. Learning techniques used during this workshop is learning by doing.

Arduino Workshop School Program with SMK Seri Indah

Arduino 2.0: From zero to hero, hands on workshop is a new program of IEEESB club . It involves some students from Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Science, Universiti Putra Malaysia. The workshop was conducted with the objective which is to introduce an electronic component of Arduino to UPM students. Arduino is an electronic kit or an electronic circuit board in which contain a type of AVR microcontroller chips from Atmel Company or ATMEGA. The software on the chip is capable to design or created ourselves with our own creativity. The workshop is also an opportunity for final year students of UPM to learn the process of programming by using Arduino for final year project.

17 Dec 2014 – Prof. Myung Hoon Sunwoo from Ajou University, South Korea delivered CAS Distinguished Lecture – Low Power Estimation Specific Instruction Set Processors (MESIP) – Novel Design Challenge For Nano Technology Era at UPM. The design techniques in realizing MESIP were discussed.

15 Dec 2014 – Prof. Mircea Stan from University of Virginia, US delivered CAS Distinguished Lecture – Breaking the 3D Power Delivery Walls Using Voltage Stacking at UPM. The evolution of 3DIC was discussed and Utilisation of CMOS switch in realizing voltage stacking was elaborated.

7 Nov 2014 – Mr Chan Yit Wei from Texas Instruments Malaysia delivered a technical talk on Assembly & Test Process – An Insight into Semiconductor Company from Texas Instruments. The roles and skill sets required for product and test engineering to gain great insight and impact on new technologies released to the market were discussed.

27 – 28 Nov 2014 – 60 final year students taking Electrical Power Generation course participated in the visit to Loji Janakuasa Tanjung Bin. Students had the chance to observe the electrical power generator used to power up some part of Malaysia in a great detail.

19 Nov 2014 – 6 representatives from CASS Malaysia Chapter conducted a networking visit to CASS Seoul Chapter at Ajou University, South Korea. IEEESB UPM took this opportunity to exchange ideas and research works at Seoul Chapter related to circuits and systems. Ms Fatimah Abd Rahman participated in the visit.

9 Nov 2014 – Eight IEEESB UPM committee members participated in the 2014 IEEE Malaysia Student Congress held at UKM, Bangi. They are:

Nur Izzatul Bahari

Alyssa Sinten Ining

Sofia Syarina Shamsul Azman

‘Ainatun Najihah Abdul Ghani

Nur Azian

Gorakanage Ashen Indimal

Khoo Kay Hoo

Azrul Azam Ismail

6 Nov 2014 – IEEESB UPM sent 29 students to this Designing with Freescale – Kinetis & i.MX Solutions workshop held at Holiday Villa Subang Jaya. Participants learnt to design low power solution for IoT applications in this workshop. This event was organised by Freescale. The participants are:

1. ONG KAI SHENG (161734)
2. ONG WEE CHIEK (174329)
3. CHIN QI PEI (176946)
4. NG WEI CHOON (176586)
5. VOON YONG JIAN (178950)
6. RAJINDRA MURUGAIAH (181075)
7. HARI HARAN NADARAJAN (181038)
8. LAXSHAN A/L RAMAR (178868)
9. MOHAMED ASHRAF BIN AKBAR ALI (176672)
10. MUHAMAD MUIZUDDIN ABDUL RAZAK (180896)
11. AHMAD FAQIH SAMIR MOHAMAD HISHAM (181037)
12. MUHAMMAD ARIF ZAINUDIN (178650)
13. DANIAL HAKIM MOHD SUHAIMI (180328)
14. MUHAMMAD FARHAN MUSTAFA (178859)
15. AFNAN RUSYAIDI ABU BAKAR (177732)
16. NUR IZZATUL SAIPULPUL BAHARI (188020)
17. NUR NADZIRAH KHAIRUL AZHAR (167297)
18. KHOO KAY HOO (166667)
19. LAU KARN JYE (167680)
20. CHAN CHI YEN (161308)
21. LOKE CHI CHUNG (161307)
22. SAI SIONG JUN (161359)
23. CHUN KEAN HONG (161556)
24. VICKERAMAN A/L A. K. RAJAN (170795)
25. MOHAMAD RAZI HAFIZHAT MOHD RODI (177993)
26. MUHAMMAD AMIRUL ZULKIFLI (179356)
27. MUHAMMAD SYAZWAN HASSAN (180804)
28. MUHAMMAD SYAHMI AZHARI (180606)
29. MUHAMMAD SAFWAN SHUKRI (180602)

20 – 27 Oct 2014 – Mr Yeo Chiau Woon from Teradyne Malaysia conducted a professional workshop on Eagle Test System-88 Multi-Site-Testing Programming. Participants of this training from UPM are :

1) Siti Zanariah Ayub

2) Muhammad Farhan Muhammad Amin

3) Muhammad Razif Rapli

4) Mohammad Zaihasril Hasan