.: UTP PEC :.: March 2010

UTP PEC Campus Parade

Our beloved Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) has again succeeds to join the PERODUA Eco-Challenge (PEC) for 2010 session. UTP is one of the 12 institutions that has been shortlisted from a total of 27 public and private institutions of higher learning based on the proposal submitted by each institutions. Our team consists of 20 members including 16 students and 4 staffs. Apart from them, we are supported by a group of students who assists us along the way.

As our first step, PEC Campus Parade has been launched last Saturday (6th March 2010). The main objective of the event was to put awareness of the UTP students as well as the staff about the competition. Also, we want to show our enthusiasm and interest in taking the PERODUA challenges. Before the parade, the car was taken from PERODUA Outlet in Ipoh. Our PERODUA Viva Elite 1.0L (midnight blue) was received by Mohd Bariq Bin Md Yazid, Project Leader of PEC.

The car arrived at UTP around 2.00pm where students have been gathered at V6 cafe earlier then. 20 PERODUA cars have participated in the UTP PEC Campus Parade including Myvi, Kembara, Kancil and Kelisa as well as Viva. A briefing was given by Mohamad Faris Bin Mohamed Shah , Management Group Leader before the parade started.

Around 2.30pm, the participants were ready for departure. The starting point was the V6 Café parking lot. Then, we moved around the villages starting from Village 1, Village 2, Village 4, Village 3, Village 5 and Chancellor Complex. The parade was led by a security car and lot of acts could be seen. Some of the participants scream-out loudly and honk their car nonstop for the rest of the parade to attract the other student. Some of them was waving to the students who driving and showed their enjoyment of the parade. In addition, there were many activities of other organizations and clubs on that day thus making the parade became merrier than ever. The parade last about 3.30pm and stopped at V6 Café for simple refreshment for the participants and committees.

The event ended successfully. The organizer and the PEC members would like to thanks to all the students who involved in the parade directly or indirectly but the most important thing is we have reached our main objective to put awareness of the UTP students as well as the staff about the competition.

Missions and Objectives

Missions
1. To comprehended the 3rd mission of Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, "To nurture creativity and innovativeness and expand the frontiers of technology for betterment of society" where all of us are accountable in endow with knowledge and technology and to the surrounding community. In addition, it is importance of knowledge and information.

2. Application of the technical knowledge and skills embedding with good professional skills are crucial for the UTP Students to confront to the real world of engineering, businesses and socities.

Objectives
1. To modify the PERODUA Viva Elite 1.0L to reduce fuel consumption at the same time reduce the emission of the car and win the competition by way of the combination of the good modifications of the car with the good driving techniques.

2. To gain more knowledge on the car modifications to produce less fuel consumptions within the budgets without compromise the safety decisions.

3. To sharpen the undergraduates in critical thinking skills and maintaining the emotion when facing the vital situations and make the right decisions.

4. To improve the students' abilities and skills in terms of leadership, time management and some other aspects where these are applied to the real society instead of campus community only.

5. To help the surrounding society in terms of development in high-quality academic and technology that has emerged rapidly without any frontier thee days.

INTRODUCTION TO UTP PEC

Universiti Teknlogi PETRONAS (UTP) had been invited to participate in the PERODUA Eco-Challenge Race 2010 which will be held on 26th June 2010. The purpose of this event is to create awareness among the public that good driving habit combined with a fuel efficient vehicle lead to lower exhaust emission, thus reducing environmental impact. In this race, the university will acquired a PERODUA Viva Elite 1.0 L donated by PERODUA. Some modifications will be performed aiming to reduce the fuel consumption and peroduce less emission. However, those modifications were constrained by the strict Rules and Regulations made by PERODUA. The car will be sent to the Malacca International Motorsport Circuit. The winner will be decided by the car which travel the longest distance with 1liter of fuel. Besides, other criteria such as car decorations, aerodynamics design, presentations and supporter's attendance also have their own points to contribute o the winning decision.

In consequence of this competition, the participated undergraduates and postgraduates will be expose to the engineering situations where all the knowledge and skills will be applied to the real situations. Besides, they will also expose to the critical conditions where the quick and critical thinking need to be exercised to overcome the problems encountered. These skills are important for the undergraduates to become an excellent engineer in the future.

Finally, we hope that UTP PEC Team will win this challenge and achieve all the objectives in conjunction of the UTP's Vission which is to be a leader in Technology Education and Center for Creativity and Innovation

Modify and Race (from The Star)

The Star (Please click here for original source)

How does it feel to tear up a brand new car worth almost RM40,000? Just ask the Perodua Eco-Challenge participants.

The competition will see students from 12 institutions of higher learning put their engineering knowledge to work, and modify a Perodua ViVA for the Malacca International Motorsport Circuit race.

The car that travels the longest distance with the least amount of penalities using one litre of Petronas Primax95 will be declared the winner at the race in June.

All geared up: USM students posing for a group photo after the teams received their cars at the ceremony.

The cars, worth RM470,000, were given to the participating teams through balloting witnessed by representatives from the institutions.

Perodua also gave each institution RM10,000 as development fund to carry out the modifications activities before the race.

“We received a lot of positive feedback from last year’s participants, saying that taking part in the competition helped improve their engineering skills,” said Perodua managing director Aminar Rashid Salleh at the ceremony to mark the handing over of the vehicles recently.

The institutions could keep the vehicles after the race for future research and development purposes.

Points would also be given to teams based on their creativity in the modification of the cars, decorations, as well as team spirit.

A total of 27 public and private institutions of higher learning were invited to take part in the contest. Based on the submitted proposals, 12 institutions have been shortlisted.

They are Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten), Universiti Tekonologi Malaysia, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Universiti Teknologi Mara, Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), Universiti Industri Selangor (Unisel) and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM).

Others include Universiti Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia France Institute (UniKL-MFI), Politeknik Sultan Azlan Shah, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) and Politeknik Ungku Omar.

The top prize winner in the automatic and manual categories will each receive RM20,000, while the runners-up and third-placed winners will get RM10,000 and RM5,000 respectively.

The first prize winner in the engineering, design and participation category will take home RM10,000, while the second- and third-placed winners will get RM5,000 and RM3,000 respectively.

Higher Education deputy director-general Prof Dr Rujhan Mustafa, who represented Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin at the ceremony, said a competition like this would help train students to be innovative and competent to meet national and global needs.

“It is a win-win situation for all parties involved besides giving the students a chance to learn the practical side of their course.

“Who knows, maybe one of the contestants here may end up inventing the first truly affordable green engine that runs on sea water,” he said.

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