SSIET Appreciation Dinner

Now that finals are over, semester 2 2018 has officially ended. What better way to celebrate than to munch on some delicious food together with some friends?

On 12 December 2018, SSIET organised an appreciation dinner for committees at Nando's in Vivacity Megamall. The main purpose of the dinner was to show gratitude and appreciation to the SSIET's committee for their contributions and commitment throughout the semester.

After gathering at Swinburne's A-Block lobby and arriving at Vivacity by carpooling, the members gathered at 7 pm for their dinner. One of the highlights of the dinner was the sharing session, where each member was given an opportunity to share their feelings and opinions regarding past events and club operations. Members shared constructive comments, and discussed the importance teamwork, tolerance and understanding. All in all, the members are thankful and grateful for the teamwork and leadership of the team.

Event report by:

Hanry Yong

Edited by:

Edwin Thou

Swinburne Carnival

Organizing Chairperson: Jonathan Ho Siew Kit

Vice Organizing Chairperson: Kong Wey Luek, Caleb Low

Date & Time: 27 - 28 April 2018, 9.00 am – 4.00 pm

Venue: Outside G Block, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus

Participants:

30 SSIET On Campus Members

50 Swinburne Sarawak Student

On 27th and 28th of April 2018, SSIET On Campus set up a booth in Swinburne Carnival 2018. The SSIET booth was organized to create homemade drinks such as coffee and tea for the customers. Part of the earnings will go to charity through the Student Council while SSIET will use the rest for future events.

The activities that occurred in this event are as follow:

8.30am

Committees of the first shift set up the booth. They will learn the technique to brewing coffee and tea.

9.00am

Commencement of selling Tea and Coffee.

Volunteers of the day will rotate between promoting coffee and tea and brewing it.

Committees of the shift learning how to brew tea

Committees refilling coffee powder

3.20pm

Consolidating the earnings of day one.

3.30pm

Cleaning up the booth before closing.

4.00pm

End of day one and repeat for day two.

Prepared by,

JONATHAN HO SIEW KIT

President,

<Swinburne Sarawak IET On Campus>

Date: 1 MAY 2018

ViTrox Technologies Interview and Talk

Organizing Chairperson: Jonathan Ho Siew Kit

Vice Organizing Chairperson: Kok Zhen Hui, Alex Liew Jia Cheng, Jasman Chai Yi Hao

Date & Time: 18 April 2018, 10.30 am – 5.30 pm

Venue: B209, Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus

Participants:

12 SSIET On Campus Members

5 Swinburne Sarawak Student

On 18th April 2018, SSIET organized two conjoining events in collaboration with Penang image detection company, ViTrox Technologies. The interview session is to help students to secure an industrial placement for the company as well as new recruits after graduating. The talk, which is held during the afternoon, will talk more on the company’s mission and vision, encouraging participants to be exposed to more challenging situations in order to grow.

The activities that occurred in this event are as follow:

10.30am

Arrival of ViTrox Technologies’ representatives, Elaine, Gary, and two others. Committees and representatives proceed to B3 room to set up for interview.

11.00am

Commencement of interview split into two groups of two. The interview was selected by the representatives beforehand through online submission to Google Drive. This is due to time constraint that not all interview can be done in a day and there is an excess of recruits already in Penang.

A total of 7 interviewees out of 17 were chosen and 4 were selected to be part of the industrial training program.

12.30pm

Lunch break and networking session between ViTrox Technologies and SSIET On Campus.

2.00pm

Arrival to B209 to set up for the talk.

2.15pm

Elaine from the Human Resource department of ViTrox, gave an introduction to the participants about the mission and vision of the company. It is an ever-growing family that has just moved to the new location which they referred to as a “campus”. The expansion of the company signifies unity and determination for success. The criteria for entering ViTrox is not about excellence in Academics, but rather the willingness to adapt and learn.

Gary, who was the next speaker, highlighted about the market growth of the company in Malaysia as well as overseas. Some of their products have made their way into many manufacturing lines and eliminating the need of extra labour. Machine vision developed by ViTrox is a very reliable equipment that has many advantages over a human such as being able to detect small errors in a short duration and the absence of tiredness. ViTrox also sent two representatives from different departments on how the company has nurtured them to becoming more successful engineers as well as developing soft skills.

Gary presenting about the growth of the company

Lastly, ViTrox also emphasized that those who have yet to go to industrial placement to send in their resume at the box near the entrance so that they will stand a chance to be chosen for the next batch of recruits.

4.30pm

Refreshments, photo taking session and networking session.

Group photo of participants and ViTrox Technologies’ representatives

5.00pm

End of program.

Prepared by,

JONATHAN HO SIEW KIT

President,

<Swinburne Sarawak IET On Campus>

Date: 22 April 2018