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Collaborative Industrial Partners
Industry-academia collaboration is a strategic necessity to ensure the quality and relevance of our programmes. Through our Industry-Academia Collaboration (IAC) model, we design programmes in collaboration with inputs from the industry, that are also aligned with the government’s initiatives to address the shortage of skilled talents. Over the years, APU has established collaborations with key industry players worldwide; we have been delivering highly-relevant programmes that help us develop skilled and professional graduates for the workforce.
| Dynamic Link Solutions (DLS), a leader in innovative ICT and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) solutions, proudly partners with Asia Pacific University (APU) to establish the GIS Collaboration Lab. This cutting-edge facility empowers APU students with practical GIS skills, bridging academic theory and real-world applications. | |
| Red Hat is a recognized leader in the IT industry, particularly in the Linux environment. Learning Red Hat Linux can provide students with skills that are in high demand in the job market. Red Hat Academy partners with APU to provide the next generation of IT talent to learn practical skills based on use cases from thousands of enterprise implementations. Red Hat recognizes the importance of closing the technology skills gap for the future of enterprise software and promotes equal opportunity for all to do so. Learning Red Hat can equip graduates with the necessary skills to be ‘work-ready’ in the IT industry. | |
| Under the Elevating IT Education (ELITE) program, a unique Education Outreach Program set up by Tecforte Group, a Security Operation Centre (SOC) is set up in APU to produce career-ready graduates that are able to “hit the ground running” upon graduation and are equipped with relevant cybersecurity skillsets that would meet the expectation from the industry. By manning the live industry-grade Security Operations Centre, students get to have practical hands-on & Industry-like experience from the People, Process and Technology perspectives. | |
| The state-of-the-art Cisco Networking Academy laboratory in collaboration with Cisco is built to provide hands-on experience and vibrant environment to gain practical experience and learn modern concepts and industry practices in computer networks. Equipped with routers, switches and a multitude of academic and commercial software to design, simulate, test, monitor, analysis and manage computer networks, the laboratory is used by the Cisco Networking Academy program to equip students with hands-on digital skills training. | |
| The joint collaboration between APU and Salesforce is committed towards talent development of customer relationship management (CRM) professionals in Malaysia and the region. Salesforce is a developer, manufacturer and distributor of CRM technologies and with this partnership APU looks forward to having a working relationship with Salesforce in the teaching of CRM concepts to IT professionals for the industry. | |
| Materialise and APU have collaborated to mutually work to facilitate opportunities for consultancy or project development services directly towards talent building in the field of computer engineering, online services and 3D printing. This agreement is intended to facilitate the industrial relationship between both parties concerning opportunities for consultancy services in the areas of expertise of APU. | |
| Cyber Test Systems is a French company composed of experts with more than 20 years of experience in the field of cyber defense training. The Cyber Test Systems introduced the first of its kind cyber defence technologies called “Cyber Range” in Malaysia, that can simulate highly complex cyber-attacks in a hyper realistic environment, enabling cyber security professionals and students to prepare themselves in dealing with real cyber threat attack when it happens. | |
| The collaboration between APU and KPMG is intended to drive Cyber Security capability building and students involvement within APU which is relevant to ICT industry requirements by tapping into KPMG’s experience and network. KPMG has also been involved in industry review and feedback of APU’s Cyber Security programmes. | |
| APU is the first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Sector Transformation Partner in Malaysia. This partnership enables students & staff to obtain free computing resources, gain access to free workshops, trainings, boot camps and other activities organized by AWS. With the prestige under this partnership, students & staff also have the opportunities to work on research projects, that are funded by AWS to support our academic activities. | |
| APU has signed a MoA with HILTI allowing for HILTI to sit in our industrial advisory panel for curriculum development.HILTI is where many of APU graduates are currently working having established OJTs in Liechtenstein and Switzerland. Traditionally APU academicians have been judges and students as participants in HILTI industrial competitions in which APU has done well constantly. | |
| APU-ISACA Student Group is officially recognized by ISACA International Headquarters. It is the first officially recognized ISACA Student Group in Malaysia.ISACA Student Groups (ISGs) encourage education beyond the classroom by allowing students to network and learn from each other, and connect with a supportive group of professionals. Upon the establishment of this group, APU is accessible to ISACA’s material, tools as well as a range of other benefits. | |
| APU and SAS have signed an MoA in partnership to develop Data Scientists in Malaysia. SAS also has endorsed the UG and PG level programmes in Data Analytics by providing tools and educational material support for learning and research purposes. All UG and PG Data Analytics graduates will received a Joint Professional Certificate from SAS. | |
| Microsoft has been an APU industrial partner for over two decades. APU is one of the frontier universities on the Microsoft Talent Development programme. Students at APU have continued to engage directly with professionals from Microsoft via workshops and talk sessions. Many of these students have also attained professional Microsoft certification allowing for greater job prospects. APU has also received the Microsoft Azure Educator Grant Award. | |
| APU continues to work closely with MDEC on the development of IT graduates feeding into the industry. APU has built itself as a top institution serving the needs of digital, computing and IT employability in Malaysia. This is further enhanced via student competitions and projects that APU has been directly involved with. | |
| APU established Oracle Academy partnership which makes available CS education resources that are up-to-date, industryrelevant, and engaging. It also provides support in curriculum, Faculty Professional Development, Certifications and community building. | |
| APU and F-Secure has been partners in joint students skills development enhancement in the areas of forensics and cyber security. F-Secure’s prominent industrial level competitions have been constantly participated in by APU students and they have traditionally done extremely well. | |
| The collaboration between APU and ASTRO is to mutually facilitate opportunities to benefit the growing need for software engineers in the current ICT industry and the requirements of digital transformation. This is in line with projects by APU students as part of their coursework assignments or final year projects as supervised by APU academicians with ASTRO professionals as the industry supervisors. A project working space in the name of APU-ASTRO Innovation Zone (AIZ) to be provided for students to work on live projects with an ASTRO stationed personnel. | |
| APU and LuxTag have agreed to work mutually to facilitate opportunities for consultancy and development services to benefit the growing need for technology and innovation in the current ICT industry. As the main focus, LuxTag will provide knowledge sharing services on Blockchain Technology to the students of APU, starting with seminars and workshops that could be embedded as part of the curriculum. In addition, this would provide opportunities for students and lecturers to participate in Research & Development activities. | |
| APU became the first university in Malaysia to partner with EMC under its successful EAA initiative and introduced courses on Data Science and Big Data Analytics, Cloud Infrastructure and Services, Information Storage & Management to undergraduate students. | |
| APU and Finterra Technologies have entered into a partnership to build on block chain capability by collaborating on industrial training and internship placements, industry inputs on academic programme development, student project supervision, guest lectures and adjunct appointments as well as on research and development. | |
| APU joined MyUniAlliance SAP UAP in 2012. This alliance allows students to access SAP curriculums, demos, webinars, recorded videos and other learning platforms. | |
| APU and Wizlynx have partnered to facilitate the industrial relationship and collaboration for research & development and for collaborative activities in IT Security and technology development. | |
| APU became CompTIA’s First Academic Partner in Malaysia. It provided an excellent opportunity for APU students to get vendor- neutral IT education embedded in their curriculum through CompTIA. | |
| APU has joined with Supercharger to develop future talents and academicians that are proficient in financial technology via FinTech Specialization Centre by allowing exchange of knowledge and expertise and to ensure talents are well prepared to enter the financial services industry. | |
| Metronomik is a video game company founded by a FFXV lead game designer, Wan Hazmer (also an alumnus of APU), and an illustrator of Street Fighter, Daim Dziauddin in December 2017. They strive to have games and music co-exist without the need of making rhythm games. | |
| APU and Xhinobi have been in collaboration by providing industrial experience opportunities such as internship and industrial talks for our students in the area of computer games development.
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| APU collaborated with IBM on academic initiative to deliver a series of technical workshop, technology talks, industry visits, etc. IBM academy collaboration has received overwhelming participations from APU students. APU has produced over 200 students as IBM certified solution designers and application developers so far. |
