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Inside this issue:

Welcome Week

IEEE Conference

Training Courses

Christmas Party Graduate School

Space

Loyalty Scheme Facebook and Twitter

The aim of the Graduate School is to provide training and support to post graduate

students while creating and developing a sense of student community and involvement

Winter 2011 www.nottingham.edu.my/Faculties/graduate_school

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Welcome Week 5th-8th October

Wednesday 5th

Careers Development Talk EUMCCI Chairman David Jones

David Jones is an alumnus of the University of Not-

tingham Malaysia Campus and has served as the EUMCCI Chairman for the past five years. He has

worked and lived for 30 years in Malaysia and has

extensive experience and knowledge of the Malay-sian business environment.

David Jones delivered a careers development talk, to

taught and research postgraduate students, which highlighted the need to develop soft skills and better

understand the culture of the workplace.

The talk was engaging and interactive and provided students with an insight into the world outside of

academia.

Thursday 6th

World’s Greatest Coffee Morning

Members of the Graduate School, supported by post-graduate students, organised a charity coffee morn-

ing in aid of local orphanage Desa Amal Jireh.

Coffee, cakes and curry puffs were sold outside the Graduate School and in the Student Association

building and proceeds of the day, which included a raffle, were donated to the orphanage Desa Amal

Jireh.

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Thursday 6th Satay Evening and Movie Night

The Graduate School hosted a mixer for postgraduate

students and PhD supervisors.

Braving the rain outside, lecturers and students alike gathered in the Graduate School to mingle, eat satay

and then adjourn to a film night organised by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures.

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Treasure Hunt and Coffee and Cake

The Graduate School organised a treasure hunt

that sent postgraduate students around campus in search of information and clues and the winning

team was awarded their prizes during the coffee and cake session at the end of the day.

PGSA Hustings

The position of PGSA Student Officer was discussed and three candidates explained their platforms to

the attending postgraduate students. The Gradu-ate School provided the venue for the hustings,

hosted the elections for the PG Officer and will con-

tinue to work with the PGSA over the academic year to support postgraduate activity.

Saturday 8th

Malacca Tour

A group of 25 postgraduate students spent the day on a Graduate School subsidised tour of the nearby

town Malacca. The bus collected the students from campus at 8 am and, with the guide provided

toured Porta de Santiago, St Paul’s Church, Stad-huys, Jonker Street, the Malacca River and the Por-

tugese settlement

Friday 7th

Graduate School Introduction

Members of the Graduate School delivered an intro-ductory talk to newly registered PhD students and

outlined the training courses on offer, funding op-portunities available and social activities lined up

over the next academic year.

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IEEE Conference 20th-21st October

The 2011 IEEE Conference on Sustainable Utilization and Development in EngiNeering and Technology (2011 IEEE STUDENT) was a student conference

organized by IEEE PELS/IAS/IES Joint Chapter and IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernet-ics Chapter in cooperation with the Energy, Fuel and Power Technology Research Di-

vision, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. It served the purpose of providing students of higher learning institutions a channel to

present their own projects and be recognized for their professional and technical achievements by the industry and IEEE. This conference was not just a venue for

students to exchange ideas, but to communicate, network and learn from others. The conference also allowed for more collaboration among the IEEE Chapters.

The conference provided an international forum that brought together those actively involved in areas of interest to report on up-to-the-minute innovations and develop-

ments, to summarize the state-of-the-art, and to exchange ideas and advances in all aspects of sustainability and technology. Advances in engineering continually play an

increasing role in providing an enriching experience and thereby improving the qual-ity of our lives and the sustainability of our lifestyle. Papers related to this confer-

ence theme were especially solicited, including theories, methodologies, and emerg-ing applications such as recognition of activities of daily living.

Research Themes:

Multimedia Security and Signal Processing

Photonics

Health Care Science and Technology

Vehicular Technology

Vision and Senors in Automation

Power Electronics

Power Engineering

Alternative Energy

Robotics and Automation

Artificial Intelligence

Embedded Technologies

Intelligent Transport System

Mobile Networks

Wireless Communications

DSP for Sustainable Lifestyle

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Training Courses Jan-Mar 2012

Month Title of training Date Time /Venue Target

audience

JANUARY

Nature of PhD Mon 9th 10-1pm

BA64 YR 1 PhD

Getting Going on Your Thesis Wed 11th 2-5pm

BA64 YR 1 PhD

Planning Your Research and

Time Management Mon 16th

10-1pm

BA64 YR 1 PhD

Working Effectively in Re-

search and Creative Thinking Wed 18th

2-5pm

BA64 YR 1 & 2 PhD

FEBRUARY

Project Management Wed 1st 2-5pm

BA64 YR 1 & 2 PhD

Using posters to

communicate research Wed 8th

2-5pm

BA64 All PhD Students

Understanding what

interviewers are looking for Mon 13th

2-3:30pm

BA64 All PG students

Communicating your

accomplishments and goals

effectively

Mon 20th 2-3:30pm

BA64 All PG students

Creating a poster in Power-

Point Wed 22nd

2-5pm

EA21

(Language Lab 1)

All PhD Students

Preparing for your VIVA Tues 28th 2-5pm

BA64 Year 3 PhD

Keys to writing

convincing research funding

applications

Wed 29th 1-3pm All PhD Students

MARCH

Communicating your

Research Wed 7th

10am-1pm

BA64 All PhD Students

Technical Writing and Getting

published Wed 14th

10am-1pm

BA64 YR 2 & 3 PhD

Meet the Editors Wed 21st 2-4pm

All PhD Students &

Early career

academics

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Christmas Party 16th December

The Graduate School hosted the annual Christmas

and End of Year Party on December 16th.

As always, there was Christmas food from different countries, music and much merriment. Students

and staff gathered in BA64 to celebrate the end of 2011 and enjoy a much needed break from studying.

Prof Graham Kendall, VP Research and Knowledge Transfer, delivered a welcome speech and thanked

the Graduate School for their hard work and hoped that students would continue to take advantage of

the opportunities available to them in the future.

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Graduate School Space

The Graduate School provides a valuable resource to postgraduate students at

UNMC. BA64 is a multi-purpose room that can be booked for delivering presen-tations, conducting research, quiet study or even socialising. The room has wifi,

comfortable chairs, desks and a computer with a projector. We have added a water cooler for greater convenience and the room is available to be booked at

any time – when not in use for training.

Over the course of the past semester, the Graduate School was used on a daily basis by students looking for a quiet place to study and to work on their research

projects and presentations.

The Graduate School delivers the bulk of its training in BA64 and holds the ma-jority of its social events here to. As a result, this space has rapidly become the

hub for postgraduate activity at UNMC.

If you are interested in booking the room then please contact Deepa Kumari.

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Loyalty Scheme

Polo Shirts

RM23.00

Available in blue or white.

Free with a completed loyalty card.

Coffee Thermos

RM15.00

Free with a completed loyalty card.

Get Rewarded

The Graduate School Loyalty Scheme rewards postgraduates

that attend Graduate School events such as Researcher Devel-

opment Courses .

Simply collect a loyalty card from the Graduate School and

ask a member of staff to initial and date one of the ‘G’ sym-

bols at each event you attend. Once your card is complete you

can exchange it for one of the following rewards:

Get your card today and start collecting!

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