- Heriot-Watt College Malaysia nurtures purpose-driven leaders
- UK uni celebrates a decade of making constructive affect in Malaysia
Excessive-skilled engineers are important for nations to realize excessive incomes and for the graceful functioning of contemporary civilization. They’re accountable for bringing the discoveries developed on the bench or within the lab to fruition to realize their objective. Contributing to the standard of life of their communities, they proceed to make a distinction.
The difficulty of underemployment amongst engineering graduates has just lately been highlighted. Some graduates have been unable to acquire higher-paying expert jobs, leading to them accepting low-skilled jobs, whereas others earn beginning salaries nicely beneath common.
Earlier this month, Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob stated the Authorities takes the low beginning salaries of engineers significantly as it might adversely have an effect on younger individuals’s curiosity in engineering.
Heriot-Watt College Malaysia’s (HWUM) Head of Faculty of Engineering and Bodily Sciences, Professor Ir Dr Denny Ng (pic) says, “As Malaysia turns into a high-income nation and helps the event of latest applied sciences that may improve its key financial sectors, we’ll want a big pool of expert engineers. As a consequence of a abilities mismatch, a rising variety of younger engineers are unable to reach the true world with the job market extraordinarily aggressive, with expert engineers in excessive demand.”
Denny famous that it’s crucial that immediately’s younger employees are outfitted with the talents they might want to achieve tomorrow’s office. “Because of this, they won’t solely have a bonus on the job market however can even be extra enticing to potential employers,” he said.
Via its world-class programmes, collaboration with main Malaysian companies for industrial placements, and accreditation from skilled our bodies, HWUM has been delivering high-quality UK schooling for over ten years, celebrating a decade of making constructive affect in Malaysia.
To advertise an built-in strategy to studying, the College emphasises the significance of mixing technical abilities with comfortable abilities.
Jason Hwang graduated from HWUM with a Grasp of Engineering in Chemical Engineering in 2022 and shall be beginning his first job in September 2022 as a Course of Manufacturing Engineer in Kuala Lumpur. Incomes between RM4000-RM5000 as a beginning wage, he says: “I selected to change into an engineer as a result of they’re very a lot wanted in immediately’s society. Engineering means that you can suppose creatively whereas contributing to our society’s development in expertise.
A second HWUM alumnus, Alvin Tan, who earned a Grasp of Engineering in Chemical Engineering this yr, and is at the moment working as an Vitality Analyst in Petaling Jaya, stated: “My selection of engineering as a area of examine was primarily based on my perception that I’d be capable of purchase a number of abilities that may assist me succeed sooner or later.
“My diploma from the College enabled me to amass a high-quality UK qualification extremely regarded within the business and improved my analytical, essential considering, and time administration abilities. I used to be employed a month and a half after graduating.”
With a “Optimistic Schooling” strategy, HWUM continues to nurture purpose-driven leaders, particularly by way of it Faculty of Engineering and Bodily Sciences.
