Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) was one the 10 leading local universities that signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Huawei Technologies Malaysia Sdn Bhd on 14 June 2012 to set up a Huawei University Teaching Laboratory at their campuses.
Huawei, headquartered in China, is a global technology company supplying telecommunication and networking equipment and solution. At a ceremony where Malaysian Prime Minister Dato' Sri Mohd Najib bin Tun Haji Abdul Razak officially opened the Huawei Malaysia Global Training Centre in Cyberjaya, the signing parties exchanged MoU documents.
Also present at the ceremony were Prime Minister's Special Envoy to China Tan Sri Ong Ka Ting, Huawei Senior Vice President Victor Wang, Chinese Ambassador Chai Xi, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC) Chairman Tan Sri Abdul Halim bin Ali and Deputy Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation Datuk Haji Fadillah bin Haji Yusof.
Signing for the two parties were UTAR President Ir Prof Academician Dato' Dr Chuah Hean Teik and Huawei Technologies Malaysia Sdn Bhd Chief Executive Officer Dai Jingyue. UTAR Vice President (R & D and Commercialisation) Prof Dr Lee Sze Wei and Huawei Technologies Malaysia Sdn Bhd Deputy Chief Executive Officer Foo Fang Yong signed as witnesses.
Under the MoU, the two parties agreed to work together to set up a Huawei University Teaching Laboratory at a UTAR campus to deliver industry-relevant curriculum to UTAR students to enhance their employability after graduating. The arrangement would contribute to providing competent talents to the growing human capital need of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector.
UTAR would fund the setting up of the teaching laboratory, while Huawei would highly subsidise the necessary courseware, which UTAR would adopt or adapt for teaching. Collaborating with Multimedia Development Corporation (MDeC), Huawei would conduct the train-the-trainers sessions to prepare UTAR lecturers. Huawei would also facilitate internship placements for UTAR students and job placements for UTAR graduates within Huawei group of companies and partners. In return, UTAR would promote ICT studies to more students.
The partnership with Huawei was yet another all-win initiative UTAR had engaged itself in. It would benefit the students, the University, Huawei, the industry and the country.
Prof Chuah (front right) exchanging MoU document with Dai; while (from left) Tan Sri Ong, Wang (hidden), Dato' Sri Najib, Chai (hidden), Datuk Fadillah and Tan Sri Abdul Halim look on
Dato' Sri Najib (centre) officially opening the Huawei Malaysia Global Training Centre, and Wang (left) and Chai look on
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