Huawei Connected Campus

The guests and speakers with the audience

UTAR together with Huawei hosted the Huawei Connected Campus on 15 August 2017 at the Kampar Campus. Aimed to learn how to build a connected world together with Huawei and explore the digital world of this new millennium, the event saw a participation of more than 300 staff and students.

The panellists sharing about their working experience in Huawei

The first session of the day was a forum and saw the presence of several panellists, namely Huawei Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd Regional Senior Recruitment Specialist Joanne Chan, Malaysia Device Retail Manager Carlson Leong Soon Meng and Malaysia Finance Department Malaysia Consumer Business Group CFO Ken Kee Ee Neng and GenYouth Founder and CEO Eldrick Koh Chun Thiam, and hosted by Huawei Technologies (M) Sdn Bhd SP IMC Creative Marketing Director Sean Kok Choon Ming. The panellists shared about the employment requirements and their working experience in Huawei. They also shared about matters related to resume, job interview, image building of personal professional, employment and career. Nowadays, importance is given to personal social networking because it provides the interviewer or superior an observation platform to observe the interviewee. Their advice to the fresh graduates regarding the personal social network was “run your personal social network well to leave a good impression.”

Dr Liew expressing his gratitude

UTAR Faculty of Information and Communication Technology Dean Assoc Prof Dr Liew Soung Yue expressed his gratitude and said, “UTAR and Huawei signed an MoU in the year 2012 and worked together to set up a Huawei University Teaching Laboratory at UTAR Campus to deliver industry-relevant curriculum for UTAR students to enhance their employability after graduating. And now, it seems that it has contributed to the high employability of our communication technology graduates. Besides, it is also our pleasure to be chosen as one of the higher learning institutions to join the Huawei Connected Campus programme as it would bring great benefits to our students. Communication technology breaks the limitation of space and time, and connects everyone in the world together.”

Dr Liew (left) presenting a token of appreciation to Fang

The second session was followed by a series of talk conducted by Huawei Malaysia Human Resource Director Peter Fangpan on “The Introduction of Huawei”, Kok on “Build a worldwide connection together”, Regional Human Resource Manager Sarah Sunhongbo on “Employment Career in Huawei” and Leong on “Connecting in a Brave New World”.

 Fang, Kok, Leong and Sun (clockwise, from top left) delivering their talks

There was also a sharing session conducted by the Malaysia Network and Bidding Department Manager Damien Poo Lup Wai, a former UTAR Electronic Engineering student and Kee, a former UTAR Accounting student regarding their educational background in UTAR and working experience in Huawei.

UTAR alumni Poo (left) and Kee during the sharing session

Besides the forum and career talk, there were also various fun activities such as mini game, product booths and lucky draws. The lucky draw prizes included Huawei P10 and Huawei Nova 2 Plus smartphone.

Leong (left) and Fang (right) presenting lucky draw gifts to the winners

Participants during the mini game session

Huawei, headquartered in China, is a global technology company supplying telecommunication and networking equipment and solution. UTAR and Huawei started their collaboration in June 2012 after an MoU signing. The UTAR-Huawei Networking Lab is the first Huawei University Training Lab to be set up in Malaysia. Read more at:

UTAR launches first Huawei University Training Lab http://www.utar.edu.my/econtent_sub.jsp?fcatid=16&fcontentid=3495

UTAR and Huawei to set up teaching lab
http://www.utar.edu.my/econtent_sub.jsp?fcatid=16&fcontentid=3194