awards

We are announced as the Top University at the KPMG Cyber Challenge 2018!

Our teams achieved tremendously, at the recently concluded competition. Among all universities that participated, our students achieved the highest number of awards in various categories, with their outstanding skills and knowledge in the cyber security field.

The challenge was a 4th installation initiated by KPMG, to nurture undergraduates on their ability to develop innovative, real-world cyber security solutions. Apart from the main “Cyber Security Challenge” track, KPMG’s strategic partners, Netpoleon, Google Cloud, FireEye and IET developed different tracks to assess participants on based different technologies. Our students’ have attained awards in the following categories:

Based on the highest number of awards achieved by our teams, we emerged as the Overall Champion and are now recognized as the Top University at the challenge!  Without doubt, this excellent performance was a result of dedication and effort by the mentors, Dr. Meisam Eslahi, Ms. Maryam Var Naseri, and Mr. Umapathy Eaganathan who have assisted, guided as well as supported the teams towards their success.

We continue to SOAR UPWARDS!

 With great pleasure, we would like to share that APU attained the 5-Star (Excellent) Rating in the Emerging University category in the recent SETARA 2017 Ratings Exercise.
  
The award ceremony was held at Intercontinental Hotel Kuala Lumpur, in which our Co-Founder & CEO, Datuk Parmjit Singh received the award certificate from Minister of Higher Education Malaysia, YB Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh.
 
SETARA Rating is a rating instrument for all Malaysian Universities (Public and Private) developed by the Malaysian Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), based on a seven-step methodology including national and international benchmarking, stakeholders’ engagement, pilot run, data verification and sensitivity and validity analysis. Four main criteria were audited by 90 senior auditors from MOHE – general, teaching and learning, research and innovation, and services. For SETARA 2017, the Ministry used information compiled in 2016. 
 
With this 5-Star attainment,  APU is placed among the top 10 emerging Malaysian Universities among 105 Malaysian universities. 
 
CONGRATULATIONS to all staff & students; this excellent rating is a testimony of our efforts delivering the best teaching and learning experience, as well as providing excellent support services to our students. 
 
May we continue to SOAR UPWARDS!

We are proud to share that APU is now a Premier Digital Tech University in Malaysia!

Today, we received the Premier Digital Tech University status from the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE). This recognition was a result of our efforts in providing top-notch technology courses and producing highly-employable graduates within the technology industry.

Our CEO, Datuk Parmjit Singh received the certificate of recognition from the Minister of Higher Education, YB Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh today. Under this status, we will collaborate with key industry players such as IBM and Fusionex to deliver curricula that are up to the industry's expectations, in order to address the needs of technology graduates. Our students will now be accessible to wide range of resources, internship and job opportunities with top technological firms in Malaysia.

Congratulations to all students, lecturers and staff of APU; your excellence is our key to success! May we look forward to achieving greater heights.

We are pleased to announce that APU Karate Team achieved a satisfying result at Kejohanan Karate Tertutup Pengajian Tinggi Swasta, Sekolah Menengah & Sekolah Rendah Peringkat Kuala Lumpur 2017 (Kuala Lumpur Private Universities, High Schools and Primary Schools Karate Closed Championships), which was held earlier last month.

It was a national tournament that saw approximately 200 participants from primary schools, secondary schools, colleges and universities across Malaysia. This was a great platform for participants to participate in tournaments in order to sharpen their skills and techniques for further progressions and even achievements. 

APU Karate Team made up of 13 participants, 1 team coach and 1 team manager. There are a few junior members, who never had the experience of participating in a Karate open championship and the tournament was their first opportunity to perform their skills to foster endurance and enthusiasm in self-defence inside them. Generally, all our members demonstrated an outstanding performance and soaring spirits at the competition, which resulted in the victory of the team for universities. All in a whole, the APU Karate team had won 1 Gold and 2 Bronze medals in all the categories. 

It was an amazing achievement to the team; this would definitely not stop them from engaging themselves in karate tournaments. Let’s look forward to hearing good news from them!

“Creativity is intelligence having fun!” – Albert Einstein

Our students from the School of Media, Arts and Design (SOMAD) recently participated in a design hackathon challenge by Maybank Malaysia, and recorded awesome results. 

The hackathon focused on designing the bank’s future self-service terminals, in which participants undertook a design challenge to come up with creative ideas on how a self-service terminal should look like in the future. Entries were submitted to Maybank as  Maybank notified shortlisted participants a few days later to attend a briefing at their innovation centre. 

Our students from the  Multimedia Technology, Animation, Advertising & Brand Management, Product Design & Transport Design programmes, Winnie Tan Jia Jie, Ainur Bagitova, Waad Sayed Hameed Saeed Jaafar Alawi Shehab and Team Creatifixion (Clara, Safira, Timothy and Vinny qualified into the Individual and Group Categories respectively. They were invited to Maybank Tower for the final pitch session, in which they presented their idea followed by a comprehensive Q&A session by the panel of judges. 

Waad, our student of the BA (Hons) in Animation programme achieved 2nd Runner Up at the final pitch and walked away with a cash prize of RM1000. His excellent performance was a result of dedication and effort by the mentors, Mr. Teay Siew Yen, Mr. Saiful, Ms. Christine, Mr. Harsha Rao, and Ms. Rizawati who have assisted, guided as well as supported them to success. Kudos to SOMAD and the students! We look forward to seeing more creative juices flowing among them in the future.

The next time we look at Smart Selangor’s logo, we will feel a sense of pride, as the hands behind the design of Smart Selangor’s official logo now belong to Winnie Tan Jia Ci, our Year 3 student of the BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology programme.

Winnie participated in the Smart Selangor Design Hack, a logo design competition organized by the Selangor government last month, which saw participation from 22 Multimedia and Design students who came from local and private universities nationwide. 

Smart Selangor is an organization initiated by the Selangor State Government that aims to transform the state into a Premier Smart State in ASEAN by 2025, through the implementation of effective technology infrastructure to improve the quality of life of Selangor folk.

Winnie worked with all participants for 24-hours non-stop, together with the Smart Selangor Delivery Unit, the corporate communication team of Menteri Besar Selangor Incorporated and their branding team, Brand Geeks Incorporated. In total, 22 logos were produced, of which, the best 3 were selected and presented to Y.A.B. Dato’ Menteri Besar Selangor, Y.A.B. Dato’ Seri Mohamed Azmin bin Ali. Apart from Winnie, Ainur Bagitova, also from the BSc (Hons) in Multimedia Technology programme, was also selected as one of the finalists.

At her presentation, Winnie described her logo’s concept, which is based on “Synergy & Connection”, in which she incorporated design elements that represent both the Rakyat and the State, working hand-in-hand in a dynamic, fluid and organic matter. This is supported by the fusion of technology as the enabler to drive and deliver a people-centric Smart Selangor.

The logo was unveiled at the Selangor International Expo 2017 earlier this month. Winnie’s logo design was selected as the official logo of Smart Selangor, and she walked away with a cash prize of RM3,000 and a Certificate of Achievement, presented by the Chief Executive Officer of Invest Selangor, Dato’ Hasan Azhari Idris and Project Manager of Smart Selangor Delivery Unit, Mazlan Mahadi.

We have one more award in our bag!

One of our students, Wong Kar Fai, excelled at the 12th National Mathematics Competition was that held in UTAR Sungai Long on 17th June 2017. The competition was jointly organized by UTAR Mathematics Society and the Centre of Mathematical Science. 

The competition was divided into three categories, namely Theory of Everything, The Running Maths and The Mathketeers. More than 200 participants from more than 20 schools, colleges and universities around Malaysia took part in this competition.

Our students led by Mr. Saw Looi Beng participated in all the three categories. They all demonstrated their best performance. Wong Kah Fai, our first year student from BSc (Hons) in Actuarial Studies, School of Accounting, Finance and Quantitative Studies (SAFIQS) won the 2nd runner up in The Running Maths category. Well done Kar Fai!