January 2015 Semester Course Registration

An email excerpt stating online registration for January 2015 semester was open

Greetings everyone, I hope that all the UTP students who are currently studying for next semester is prepared. For those who are currently studying for the exams, all the best! Others who are on their 4 months break, welcome back and keep the spirit up!

As we all know, the online registration this time is scheduled from 31st of December until 24th of January 2015 starting at 3:30 pm. The registration website is performed at the usual website: https://studentportal.utp-prism.my/. But as usual, when you are registering at the earliest moments, you will be experiencing issues such as lags, unresponsiveness, logged out, any more. But it is important to register early especially if you are registering for courses that have limited seats such as Co-Curriculum.

This year's semester for both foundation and undergraduate roughly looks like this (excluding public holidays):

The foundation students recently has been getting a long holiday for their semester breaks. Sadly all of us has been enjoying the mid-sem break which has been forfeited.

Soon on the 5th of January, we are required to register for our hostel. Below is the fee structure for accommodation:

All the best for the upcoming semester!

Greetings January 2015 Trimester!

This 2014 has been a great but challenging year and that it is coming to an end. The September 2014 semester is coming to an end for the undergraduates as they are currently in their study week. Soon they will be facing their exam week and then they will be having a long holiday ahead of them (4 months of holiday is one heck of a holiday though).

Nevertheless, 12 January would be the beginning of lecture for the January 2015 semester both for the foundation studies as well as the undergraduate studies. The freshies shall begin their session on 8th January though as they need to attend the orientation week or Minggu Aluan Siswa (MAS) as we call it.

There have been new rumours though surrounding the foundation students. A good news for them but bad news for us undergraduates though. It involves their rooms to be installed air conditioners and that their hostel fees isn't as expensive as the V3, V4, and V5 counterpart with no air conditioners installed. That's quite a sad news for us old timers as we have been seniors and studied here longer compared to the freshies, if this rumour proves to be true though.

Whereas for course registration and hostel registration, the exact date for the course registration is yet to be announced by the officials but the hostel registration has been set on 5th of January 2015. The course registration must be done before the hostel registration for valid reasons and that the gap between the two processes probably is in few days or no gap at all. Students who wish to register for both must be quick otherwise they will have no unfavourable bedrooms and courses especially for co-curriculum subjects.

It seems that on 1st of April 2015, the government of Malaysia will be implementing the 6% Goods and Services Tax (GST) nationwide, thus prices will go up! Personally, I wonder how the fee structure for January 2015 semester will fare as most of the things such as operational cost may go up despite being exempted by GST. Hopefully, the university will not increase the fees but if it does happen, the sponsors will compensate for it.

Well that's all to it! I wish the new students all the best for their studies and that for those who are graduating, all the best in life! Keep on persistent in achieving the goal in your life until you draw your last breath. 

UTP Interns Win Awards at Mercedes AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team

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Eight students who received the 2014 F1 Constructors and Drivers World Championship
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An unforgettable experience for eight UTP students who had done their internship at Mercedes AMG PETRONAS Formula One Team (MAMGP F1 Team) as they received the 2014 F1 Constructors and Drivers World Championship.

They were Wong Yoong Xiang (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) as Car Build Intern, Lee Vuen Nee (Electrical and Electronics Engineering) as Aerodynamics Intern, Muhamad Faidsal Mohd Farid (Civil Engineering) as Aerodynamics Intern, Arvindran Gopalakrishnan (Chemical Engineering) as Purchasing Intern, Upenthiran a/l Ganeson (Chemical Engineering) as Main Inspection Intern, Muhammad Mustaqim bin Mustafa (Mechanical Engineering) as Machine Shop Inspection Intern, Chedtha Intachat a/l Somnek (Mechanical Engineering) as Machine Shop Intern and Magdalene Lee Jia Wern (Petroleum Engineering) as Planning Intern.

They achieved such an amazing feat during the course of 8 months of intern at MAMGP F1 Team from 30 September 2013 to 17 April 2014 at Brackley, United Kingdom. That was far a way from home folks!

Throughout their internship, the interns worked hard and made an all-out effort so that the tasks and responsibilities assigned to them in ensuring the winning F1 car, Mercedes F1 W05 Hybrid Car, was constructed and fabricated in its optimum performance level.

“We are very proud to have assisted MAMGP F1 Team with the technical and practical capabilities learned during our study in UTP. We hope that this internship program with MAMGP F1 Team will continue for many years to come and more students representing UTP will value the experience and knowledge gained from their internship,” said Wong Yoong Xiang.

For this remarkable achievement, they received tokens of appreciation from UTP Vice Chancellor, YBhg. Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim Hashim. YBhg Datuk also presented medals and plaque to the interns on behalf of the MAMGP F1 Team.

So as you can see, UTP is very capable in producing high quality talents for the market and provide opportunities for students to work in exciting career. What are you waiting for come and study in UTP!