Five minute presentation competition

Participants of 5MP

The Five Minute Presentation (5MP) and Poster Competition organised by the Faculty of Accountancy and Management (FAM) with the participation of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) was held on 19 April 2016 at Sungai Long Campus.

Representing ICBC in the event was its Head of Human Resource and Administration Wang Shaoqiang and Senior Manager of Human Resource and Administration Alfred Chan.

The 5MP event was a research communication competition that was based on FAM students’ Final Year Project. The purpose of the competition was to cultivate students’ academic presentation and research communication skills.

Students were tested on the level of understanding around their research areas and their presentation skills through their conveyance of research information to the audience in a clear, concise manner within five minutes.

Wang mentioned, “Such events are important as they cultivate two important skills that are much needed in the working industry, which are writing and effective communication. We are very glad to participate in this event and I hope there will be future collaboration between ICBC and UTAR such as internships and exchange of financial information for further research opportunities.”

“What we are doing today has been done by many universities throughout the world such as in Australia and the United Kingdom. As UTAR envisions to be a global university, we would like to expose our students to this global standard which will be useful to them in the near future,” said FAM Dean Dr Sia Bee Chuan.

The judges for the Five Minute Presentation were lecturers from FAM, namely Dr Lim Yet Mee, Dr S. Sheelah, Dr Lee Siew Peng, Prof Dr Cheng Ming Yu, Dr Hen Kai Wah, Dr Tan Pei Meng, Dr Lim Wan Leng, and Vincent Tung.

Meanwhile, the judging of the posters was held earlier through an exhibition on 15 April 2016 at KA Block. The judges for the Poster Competition also hailed from FAM, they were Nurhayati Bt Md Khair, Dr T. Puvaneswary,Tiong Kui Ming, Siti Nurhidayah Mohd Roslen, Cham Tat Huei, Kasmah binti Tajuddin, T. K Shamini, and J. Jayamalathi.

When asked, Onn Ming Kuan and Tiew Heng Chuan from the International Business programme said, “We are glad to be given a chance to participate in this competition as it enables us to build our interpersonal skills in preparation to enter the working world.”

From left: Dr Sia, Chan, Wang, and FAM Deputy Dean Assoc Prof David Ng Ching Yat

Oon and Tiew representing their team for poster competition

Judges grading one of the participants’ poster

Winner of the 5MP

Exhibition of posters

Exhibition of posters

Dr Sia presenting a souvenir to Wang



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