Three UTAR graduates received the prestigious MSC Malaysia Huawei Scholastic Awards which were sponsored by Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd., at a ceremony held in Kuala Lumpur on 19 July 2011.
Teoh Jun Zeng, a Communication and Networking graduate, and Mak Kwan Wuey, an Electronic and Communications Engineering graduate, each received a gold award and a RM3, 000 cash prize. Lee Ching Hong, a Communication and Networking graduate, received a silver award and RM1, 000 cash prize.
The three UTAR award winners were among nine UTAR graduates who were selected to attend a MSC Malaysia Job Camp, a talent development programme organised by Multimedia Development Corporation in July 2011. The MSC Malaysia Job Camp was a 25-day certification training programme that accepted only ICT graduates with exceptionally high CGPA scores.
The other six UTAR graduates selected to attend the training were Woo Kok Foong, an Electronic and Communications Engineering graduate; Wilson Tee Wei Chian, Ng Yi Teng, Siow Wei Siong, and Tan Yew Qiang (all four are Communication and Networking graduates); and Gan Yu Han, an Electrical and Electronic Engineering graduate.
During the programme, the gold award recipient Teoh was shortlisted, interviewed and straightaway hired by Huawei as a global service technical support engineer in Huawei Malaysia.
"I felt lucky and honoured to get the job offer, as Huawei is a world's leading telecommunications company," said Teoh, adding that being well prepared for the interview and having good academic results were key to his getting the job.
Of the 104 participants from nine local institutions of higher learning, 56 who met the Huawei's CGPA requirement received cash awards, and 25 of these 56 recipients would go on a fully-sponsored industrial familiarisation visit to Huawei's headquarters in Shenzhen, China.
Together with the MSC Malaysia Huawei Scholastic Awards, which was first introduced in 2010, the job camp urges outstanding Malaysian graduates to join the communications and network industry and to develop sufficient talents to transform Malaysia into a knowledge-based economy, which is in line with the national ICT initiative.
Multimedia Development Corporation or MDeC oversees and directs the national initiative, the MSC (formerly known as Multimedia Super Corridor) Malaysia. Huawei, based in Shenzhen, China, is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider.
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