Dr Wong at the award ceremony
Dr Wong Whee Yen,
Head of Master of Information Systems Programme from
UTAR
Lee Kong Chian Faculty of Engineering
and Science (LKC FES), was awarded the second runner-up in Category D:
Outstanding Entrepreneurship Mentor Award at the Entrepreneurial Awards 2021
(MEA 2021), organised by the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE).
MEA is the Ministry
of Higher Education’s highest recognition for the higher education
institutions (HEIs), teaching staff, mentors, students, and graduates to
strengthen the entrepreneurial agenda in HEIs and to foster entrepreneurial
spirit. It gives recognition to HEIs that show excellence in promoting
entrepreneurship education as well as entrepreneurship development at HEIs.
This year, the award
attracted 133 entries from public universities, private HEIs, polytechnics
and community colleges. It consisted of five categories, namely
Institutional Awards; Outstanding Student Enterprise Award; Outstanding
Graduate Enterprise Award; Outstanding Entrepreneurship Mentor Award and
Outstanding Student Social Entrepreneurship Award.
Dr Wong received
RM3,000 as the second runner-up in Category D: Outstanding Entrepreneurship
Mentor Award. In addition, UTAR entered the Top 11 finalists for Category A:
Institutional Award.
The award ceremony
was held on 21 December 2021 at Putrajaya Marriott Hotel's Grand Ballroom.
Also present at the event on behalf of UTAR were Vice President for R&D and
Commercialisation Prof Ts Dr Faidz bin Abd Rahman, LKC FES Dean Ir Prof Dr
Goi Bok Min, LKC FES Deputy Dean for Academic Development and Undergraduate
Programmes Assoc Prof Ir Dr Gobi Vetharatnam, and Software Engineering
student Jayden Sue Jun Hong.
Dr Wong walked away with RM3,000 as the second runner-up
The submission of the
award nomination was coordinated by Unovate Centre. Since the establishment
of Unovate Centre in 2020, UTAR has started to explore more business and
learning opportunities in digital entrepreneurship. The University has
collaborated with industry partners such as Alibaba, BizPorter, Yayasan KRU
and many more to develop future generations with digital entrepreneurship
skills through active involvement in the areas such as digital marketing,
e-commerce, and fulfilment centre services. All these activities are
consolidated under Unovate Unipreneur STEP Cultivation Programme.
UTAR is one of the
few private universities that has a complete e-commerce ecosystem on campus
that fulfils the process of sourcing the products, branding and marketing,
labelling and storage, reaching out to consumers online, handling online
payments, packaging and delivering the products to consumers; all completed
on campus with the assistance of students to enable them to be trained and
proficient in e-commerce.
More information about the UTAR entrepreneurship ecosystem is available here: unovate.utar.edu.my
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