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"THe joint expo to showcase r&d

by Alyciia Lim

THE International Exposition of Research and Inventions of Institutions of Higher Learning (PECIPTA), which will be held for the fifth time this year, will draw the attention of local and international industries.

The exposition to be held from Oct 8 -10, is jointly organised by the Higher Education Ministry and Universiti Malaya.

The exposition themed “Driving research innovation towards value creation,” would be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre (KLCC).

It would see a total of over 500 exhibits, from 19 public universities (IPTA) and three private institutions (IPTS) of higher learning.

From left: UM deputy vice chancellor (Research and Development) Prof Datuk Dr Mohd Jainul Maah, Higher Education Ministry planning and excellence department director Prof Dr Mohd Jailani Mohd Nor, Prof Radin Umar, Prof Dr Ghauth and PECIPTA 2009 committee chairperson (university level) Prof Dr Rosmawati Mohamed.

At a press conference recently, Higher Education Ministry director-general Prof Datuk Radin Umar Radin Sohadi said that the ministry already had plans to look into the details of these inventions.

One of the ways to do so, he added, was through expositions like PECIPTA.

“The focus of this exposition is to showcase the research and development (R&D) works that have been done, and encourage the commercialisation of the products featured,” he said.

Universiti Malaya vice-chancellor Prof Datuk Dr Ghauth Jasmon agreed, saying, “we hope to attract not only local visitors, but more foreign visitors, as this event is aimed to expose the level of research and output that has been done by Malaysian universities”.

“Based on what we have seen, the research capability of Malaysian universities is comparable to that of international standards,” he added.

Prof Ghauth said, “We saw over 30,000 visitors in the previous PECIPTA event, and this year, we hope to see more visitors.”

There will also be a competition to spice up the event."

Well i guess, this kind of exhibition should be organize more, this allow student to express their creativity and innovations while having a company to commercialize their product. As a student, i really feel that if my product can be sell to the public and earn some profit before even before graduate is quite a big deal, since that mostly IPTA student are in debt with ptptn, so having to earn money at that time would really ease up a lot of things. Thus student may have a lot of idea that they would want to express but no motivation for them to do so, thus this could be the ignitation for them to start working....so chearss for PECIPTA....and happy celebrating merdeka days everyone!!!