Innovation & Creativity Gallery Launching

UiTM Innovation & Creativity Gallery (ICG) is an initiative proposed under innovation DNA for UiTM and Local Communities 2010 - 2019 launched by the Honourable Dato' Mohamed Khaled Nordin in April 2010. The Gallery will showcase products and services created by UiTM researchers and inventors for the public and industry to view. UiTM ICG will open throughout the year to provide maximum exposure of UiTM products and services to potentials interested parties from the corporate sector, and small and medium-sized enterprise.

The products and services are displayed based on common themes developed around UiTM Community of Researchers (CORE), namely Drug Discovery and Health, Green Technology and Sustainable Development, Frontier Materials and Industry Applications, Advanced Computing and Communications, Humanities and Quality of Life, Forensic Sciences, Brain and Neuroscience.

This exhibition's theme is Drug Discovery and Health.  Twenty-six products covering potential pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and nutritional foods from Malaysia's biodiversity, devices and preparations for dental health, exercise program for geriatrics, applications of computer technology in healthcare, diagnostic kit for specific virus and post-operative patient support system.  The contributors are from Faculties of Dentistry, Pharmacy, Health Sciences, Applied Sciences, Hotel and Tourism Management, Architecture, Planning and Survey, and Mechanical Engineering.

For further information on the products and services, or proposals for collaborations and or commercialization opportunities, please contact:

What is the main objectives of UiTM Innovation & Creativity Gallery?

- To be UiTM Perennial exhibition centre to promote viewing of UiTM products by the industry.

- To showcase novel and contemporary products and services of UiTM research.

- To realise commercialization of UiTM research.

- To be a platform to motivate UiTM staff and students to produce creative products.

Innovation Unit

Research Management Institute,

Universiti Teknologi MARA

40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

Tel:  03-55442094 Fax: 03-55442096

email:  abubakar@salam.uitm.edu.my

CREATIVE & INNOVATIVE VIDEO

Check out this video, how they develop the next level of video game, the cutting edge entertainment software that can recognize your face,voice and answering your question...it's so cool..this innovation is rated the best innovation in 2010 by ERSB ratings (www.ersb.org)  
 
video link  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uRRj2yM50&featu...re=related

What you should know about PECIPTA 2011

PECIPTA 2011

Persidangan dan Ekspo Ciptaan Institusi Pengajian Tinggi Antarabangsa 

(International Conference and Exposition on Inventions of   Institutions of Higher Learning)

    Celebrating research, PECIPTA rolls in again. With pleasure Universiti Teknologi MARA would like to announce that it is hosting PECIPTA 2011 which will take place at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre, 13-15 September 2011. Aiming for a rich harvest of research, innovation and inventions, for the past ten years the Ministry of Higher Education has sponsored and organised PECIPTA for public institutions of higher learning every two years. 

Held for the first time in 2001, the exposition was hosted by University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). It followed by Universiti Putra Malaysia (2003), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (2005), Universiti Sains Malaysia (2007) and University of Malaya (2009).

Believing that anyone can be an inventor, Universiti Teknologi MARA is opening a window to the young minds in colleges and schools. PECIPTA 2011 is offering a new competition category, a Junior Inventor Category, trusting that this new category will invigorate budding minds to invent. Apart from exhibiting research, PECIPTA 2011 plans to hold a symposium and a model car competition.

PECIPTA 2011 aims to exhibit a diverse range of products, inventions and innovations from institutions of learning in Malaysia and abroad. It aspires to orchestrate opportunities an networking for researchers and inventors.
 

The PECIPTA 2011 objectives are:
• to brace innovation-led economy
• to engage business and industry partners
• to fast-track products to market
• to inculcate innovation among rural students

PECIPTA 2011 audience is:
• Industries and private sector companies
• Entrepreneurs
• Innovation enablers
• Researchers
• Ministries and relevant governmental agencies
• School children
• Students of higher learning institutions and colleges
• Members of the public Satellite Programmes

• Intelligent Model Car Competition

PECIPTA 2011 emphasises:
• Forming of business
• Wider participation from institutions of learning
• Budding researchers
• Research products obtaining support for businesses

Satellite Programmes:
• Intelligent Model Car Competition

Registration of Participation:
Registration will be done by the Research Management Centres/Institutes of the university between 21 February and 15 April 2011.

PECIPTA 2011 is held under the auspices of the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia and jointly organised by Universiti Teknologi MARA in collaboration with other institutions of higher learning. Organised by UiTM and supported by Malaysian Institutions of Higher Learning.