Universiti Tenaga Nasional
Encyclopedia
Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN, Uniten, English: Tenaga National University) is a private research
university
located in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. UNITEN has five colleges with 15 academic departments offering engineering
, information technology
, business management
programs and related areas.
Universiti Tenaga Nasional is one of the earliest private universities in Malaysia. It is wholly owned by publicly listed Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), one of the largest electric utility
companies in Asia
. Universiti Tenaga Nasional prides itself on moving rapidly toward establishing itself as the regional center of education excellence by year 2020. The support and commitment it receives from its holding company
, TNB, has enabled it to accelerate the infrastructure development of the campus.
The curricula, further enhanced with project work, research
, open-ended experiment
s and practical training
, are designed with linkages with the industrial and commercial sectors as well as from local and foreign universities. The emphasis of the university is on producing effective and marketable professional
s to fulfill the needs of industry and the nation. All academic programs are formulated to meet the academic requirements of the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA, formerly LAN, the National Accreditation Board of Malaysia).
In 1994, TNB was invited to propose for the setting up of an institution of higher learning and eventually ILSAS was transformed into an institute of higher learning and renamed Institut Kejuruteraan Teknologi Tenaga Nasional (IKATAN). It offered academic programs in engineering and business management at undergraduate and graduate levels through twinning links with local and foreign universities particularly the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
(IUPUI) program. In 1997, IKATAN was upgraded to Universiti Tenaga Nasional.
The number of programs offered by Universiti Tenaga Nasional increased accordingly, in line with its commitment to serve Malaysia and countries that look to Malaysia for assistance to meet their requirements for tertiary education. In the 10 years of its short-yet-fruitful existence over 9000 students have graduated and attained successful positions. Uniten graduates can be seen in multinational companies such as Intel, Shell
, Schlumberger
, ESSO
, Sony
, Carrier
, Petronas
, governmental agencies, diplomatic and administration officers, among others.
campus
is about 25 kilometers south of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur
near Kajang
in Selangor
and easily accessible by a number of highways. It is close to Cyberjaya
, the hub of major Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) activities and is just next to Putrajaya, the Malaysian government’s administrative center.
All engineering
, information technology
and other technological courses are held on the Putrajaya Campus.
The Putrajaya campus is roughly divided into three sections: the East Campus (Timur in Malay
), West Campus (Barat) and ILSAS. UNITEN academic buildings are lettered according to their locations on the east or west side of the campus. Lettering starts with the first building on the West Campus: the Administration building (BA Block) and first building in the East Campus: the library (TA block).
, Pahang
Darul Makmur. The fourth prime minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and Mr. Payet Paprik, officially open the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus via video conferencing in 4 May 2001. The setting-up of the branch campus is on line with Tenaga Nasional Berhads aspiration to heed the government’s call in providing more education opportunities to rural students to pursuit their studies in institutions off higher learning and act as a catalyst for economic growth, specifically in Bandar Muadzam Shah and the East Coast of the peninsular in general.
The Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus focuses on Business Management
and Accounting/Security
programs providing education for executive positions in industry, commerce, and academia. All programs are designed to the academic requirements of the National Accreditation Boards (LAN) whilst the accounting degree program is designed to satisfy the requirements for membership to the relevant professional accounting bodies.
& Communications Engineering, Electrical Power
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
, Civil Engineering
and Engineering Sciences
& Mathematics
. The college offers programs at Foundation and Bachelor's degree
levels. The college, in collaboration with the College of Graduate Studies, offers programs at the Master's degree
and Doctor of Philosophy
levels.
Programs in the College of Engineering are accredited by the Malaysian Accreditation Council MQA and the Bachelor programs are recognized by the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). To ensure that the Bachelor programs offered in the COE are relevant to the industry and in response to the requirement by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC), the outcome-based education
(OBE) model is implemented in all the bachelor engineering programs.
and information technology
in four Bachelor degree programs.
COIT has four departments: Software Engineering
, Information Systems
, Systems & Networking, and Graphics
& Multimedia
.
& Human Resource
, Finance & Economics
, Marketing
& Entrepreneur Development
, and Language & Liberal Studies
.
The present intake of students taking courses under the COBA will enroll at the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah campus. All programs offered by the College of Business Management and Accounting satisfy the academic requirements of Malaysian Accreditation Council and the Accounting degree program is designed to satisfy the requirements for membership to the relevant professional bodies.
and PhD
programs in Engineering in the field of Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering. COGS offers PhD in Industrial Science in the areas of engineering mathematics, engineering chemistry and engineering physics. Other PhD programs offered by the COGS are PhD in Information and Communication Technology and PhD in Business Management.
, abbreviated as IKAL).
The Institute of Liberal Studies consists of four areas of study: Languages
& Communication
, Social sciences
& Humanities
, Co-Curriculum & Recreation Studies, and Teaching & Learning Studies
. The institute is responsible for providing courses in languages and general education such as history, religious studies, moral education and Malaysian studies. Short courses including the Intensive English Proficiency Programs and Preparation Programs for Overseas Universities are offered.
Private university
Private universities are universities not operated by governments, although many receive public subsidies, especially in the form of tax breaks and public student loans and grants. Depending on their location, private universities may be subject to government regulation. Private universities are...
university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
located in Kajang, Selangor, Malaysia. UNITEN has five colleges with 15 academic departments offering engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
, business management
Management
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
programs and related areas.
Universiti Tenaga Nasional is one of the earliest private universities in Malaysia. It is wholly owned by publicly listed Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), one of the largest electric utility
Electric utility
An electric utility is a company that engages in the generation, transmission, and distribution of electricity for sale generally in a regulated market. The electrical utility industry is a major provider of energy in most countries. It is indispensable to factories, commercial establishments,...
companies in Asia
Asia
Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...
. Universiti Tenaga Nasional prides itself on moving rapidly toward establishing itself as the regional center of education excellence by year 2020. The support and commitment it receives from its holding company
Holding company
A holding company is a company or firm that owns other companies' outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself; rather, its purpose is to own shares of other companies. Holding companies allow the reduction of risk for the owners and can allow...
, TNB, has enabled it to accelerate the infrastructure development of the campus.
The curricula, further enhanced with project work, research
Research
Research can be defined as the scientific search for knowledge, or as any systematic investigation, to establish novel facts, solve new or existing problems, prove new ideas, or develop new theories, usually using a scientific method...
, open-ended experiment
Experiment
An experiment is a methodical procedure carried out with the goal of verifying, falsifying, or establishing the validity of a hypothesis. Experiments vary greatly in their goal and scale, but always rely on repeatable procedure and logical analysis of the results...
s and practical training
Intern
Internship is a system of onthejob training for white-collar jobs, similar to an apprenticeship. Interns are usually college or university students, but they can also be high school students or post graduate adults seeking skills for a new career. They may also be as young as middle school or in...
, are designed with linkages with the industrial and commercial sectors as well as from local and foreign universities. The emphasis of the university is on producing effective and marketable professional
Professional
A professional is a person who is paid to undertake a specialised set of tasks and to complete them for a fee. The traditional professions were doctors, lawyers, clergymen, and commissioned military officers. Today, the term is applied to estate agents, surveyors , environmental scientists,...
s to fulfill the needs of industry and the nation. All academic programs are formulated to meet the academic requirements of the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA, formerly LAN, the National Accreditation Board of Malaysia).
History
Universiti Tenaga Nasional started as Institut Latihan Sultan Ahmad Shah (ILSAS) in 1976, which served for many years as the corporate training center for Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) and its predecessor, the National Electricity Board (LLN).In 1994, TNB was invited to propose for the setting up of an institution of higher learning and eventually ILSAS was transformed into an institute of higher learning and renamed Institut Kejuruteraan Teknologi Tenaga Nasional (IKATAN). It offered academic programs in engineering and business management at undergraduate and graduate levels through twinning links with local and foreign universities particularly the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis is an urban campus of Indiana University and Purdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. Indiana University is the managing partner...
(IUPUI) program. In 1997, IKATAN was upgraded to Universiti Tenaga Nasional.
The number of programs offered by Universiti Tenaga Nasional increased accordingly, in line with its commitment to serve Malaysia and countries that look to Malaysia for assistance to meet their requirements for tertiary education. In the 10 years of its short-yet-fruitful existence over 9000 students have graduated and attained successful positions. Uniten graduates can be seen in multinational companies such as Intel, Shell
Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc , commonly known as Shell, is a global oil and gas company headquartered in The Hague, Netherlands and with its registered office in London, United Kingdom. It is the fifth-largest company in the world according to a composite measure by Forbes magazine and one of the six...
, Schlumberger
Schlumberger
Schlumberger Limited is the world's largest oilfield services company. Schlumberger employs over 110,000 people of more than 140 nationalities working in approximately 80 countries...
, ESSO
ESSO
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, Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
, Carrier
Carrier Corporation
The Carrier Corporation is one of the world’s largest manufacturers and distributors of heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems, and a global leader in the commercial refrigeration and food service equipment industry...
, Petronas
Petronas
PETRONAS, short for Petroliam Nasional Berhad, is a Malaysian oil and gas company that was founded on August 17, 1974. Wholly owned by the Government of Malaysia, the corporation is vested with the entire oil and gas resources in Malaysia and is entrusted with the responsibility of developing and...
, governmental agencies, diplomatic and administration officers, among others.
Putrajaya
Universiti Tenaga Nasional's 214-ha (528.8-acre) PutrajayaPutrajaya
Putrajaya is a planned city, located 25km south of Kuala Lumpur, that serves as the federal administrative centre of Malaysia. The seat of government was shifted in 1999 from Kuala Lumpur to Putrajaya, due to the overcrowding and congestion in the Kuala Lumpur areas...
campus
Campus
A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes libraries, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings...
is about 25 kilometers south of the capital city of Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur is the capital and the second largest city in Malaysia by population. The city proper, making up an area of , has a population of 1.4 million as of 2010. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 7.2 million...
near Kajang
Kajang
Kajang, is a town in the eastern part of Selangor, Malaysia. Kajang is the district capital of Hulu Langat. It is located from of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur.The current locational gravity of growth in Kajang would be Sungai Chua...
in Selangor
Selangor
Selangor also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or "Abode of Sincerity") is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and the Strait of Malacca to the west...
and easily accessible by a number of highways. It is close to Cyberjaya
Cyberjaya
Cyberjaya is a town with a science park as the core that forms a key part of the Multimedia Super Corridor in Malaysia. It is located in the district of Sepang, Selangor and is situated about 50 km south of Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia...
, the hub of major Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) activities and is just next to Putrajaya, the Malaysian government’s administrative center.
All engineering
Engineering
Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
and other technological courses are held on the Putrajaya Campus.
The Putrajaya campus is roughly divided into three sections: the East Campus (Timur in Malay
Malay language
Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
), West Campus (Barat) and ILSAS. UNITEN academic buildings are lettered according to their locations on the east or west side of the campus. Lettering starts with the first building on the West Campus: the Administration building (BA Block) and first building in the East Campus: the library (TA block).
Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah
Universiti Tenaga Nasional's branch campus located in Bandar Muadzam ShahBandar Muadzam Shah
Bandar Muadzam Shah is a town located in the district of Rompin in the State of Pahang, Malaysia. The town was established in 1979 by the South-East Pahang Development Authority under the purview of the second Malaysian Prime Minister, Tun Abdul Razak, who also happened to be the native of nearby...
, Pahang
Pahang
Pahang is the third largest state in Malaysia, after Sarawak and Sabah, occupying the huge Pahang River river basin. It is bordered to the north by Kelantan, to the west by Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, to the south by Johor and to the east by Terengganu and the South China Sea.Its state...
Darul Makmur. The fourth prime minister of Malaysia, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, and Mr. Payet Paprik, officially open the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus via video conferencing in 4 May 2001. The setting-up of the branch campus is on line with Tenaga Nasional Berhads aspiration to heed the government’s call in providing more education opportunities to rural students to pursuit their studies in institutions off higher learning and act as a catalyst for economic growth, specifically in Bandar Muadzam Shah and the East Coast of the peninsular in general.
The Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus focuses on Business Management
Commerce
While business refers to the value-creating activities of an organization for profit, commerce means the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural, and technological systems that are in operation in any...
and Accounting/Security
Accountancy
Accountancy is the process of communicating financial information about a business entity to users such as shareholders and managers. The communication is generally in the form of financial statements that show in money terms the economic resources under the control of management; the art lies in...
programs providing education for executive positions in industry, commerce, and academia. All programs are designed to the academic requirements of the National Accreditation Boards (LAN) whilst the accounting degree program is designed to satisfy the requirements for membership to the relevant professional accounting bodies.
College of Engineering
The College of Engineering (COE) is the largest college in the university, comprising five departments: Electronic engineeringElectronic engineering
Electronics engineering, also referred to as electronic engineering, is an engineering discipline where non-linear and active electrical components such as electron tubes, and semiconductor devices, especially transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, are utilized to design electronic...
& Communications Engineering, Electrical Power
Electric power
Electric power is the rate at which electric energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt.-Circuits:Electric power, like mechanical power, is represented by the letter P in electrical equations...
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical engineering
Mechanical engineering is a discipline of engineering that applies the principles of physics and materials science for analysis, design, manufacturing, and maintenance of mechanical systems. It is the branch of engineering that involves the production and usage of heat and mechanical power for the...
, Civil Engineering
Civil engineering
Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including works like roads, bridges, canals, dams, and buildings...
and Engineering Sciences
Natural science
The natural sciences are branches of science that seek to elucidate the rules that govern the natural world by using empirical and scientific methods...
& Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
. The college offers programs at Foundation and Bachelor's degree
Bachelor's degree
A bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for three or four years, but can range anywhere from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
levels. The college, in collaboration with the College of Graduate Studies, offers programs at the Master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
and Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
levels.
Programs in the College of Engineering are accredited by the Malaysian Accreditation Council MQA and the Bachelor programs are recognized by the Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM). To ensure that the Bachelor programs offered in the COE are relevant to the industry and in response to the requirement by the Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC), the outcome-based education
Outcome-based education
Outcome-based education is a recurring education reform model. It is a student-centered learning philosophy that focuses on empirically measuring student performance, which are called outcomes. OBE contrasts with traditional education, which primarily focuses on the resources that are available...
(OBE) model is implemented in all the bachelor engineering programs.
College of Information Technology
The College of Information Technology (COIT) was established as an independent college of education on 1 September 2004. Its evolution began with the inception of UNITEN in 1997, as the Department of Computer Science and Information Technology under the College of Engineering. The COIT provides degrees in computer scienceComputer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and information technology
Information technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
in four Bachelor degree programs.
COIT has four departments: Software Engineering
Software engineering
Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...
, Information Systems
Information systems
Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...
, Systems & Networking, and Graphics
Computer graphics
Computer graphics are graphics created using computers and, more generally, the representation and manipulation of image data by a computer with help from specialized software and hardware....
& Multimedia
Multimedia
Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which use only rudimentary computer display such as text-only, or...
.
College of Business Management & Accounting
The College of Business Management and Accounting (COBA) has two branches on both campuses of UNITEN. COBA has five departments: Accounting, ManagementManagement
Management in all business and organizational activities is the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals and objectives using available resources efficiently and effectively...
& Human Resource
Human resource management
Human Resource Management is the management of an organization's employees. While human resource management is sometimes referred to as a "soft" management skill, effective practice within an organization requires a strategic focus to ensure that people resources can facilitate the achievement of...
, Finance & Economics
Financial economics
Financial Economics is the branch of economics concerned with "the allocation and deployment of economic resources, both spatially and across time, in an uncertain environment"....
, Marketing
Marketing
Marketing is the process used to determine what products or services may be of interest to customers, and the strategy to use in sales, communications and business development. It generates the strategy that underlies sales techniques, business communication, and business developments...
& Entrepreneur Development
Entrepreneur
An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...
, and Language & Liberal Studies
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...
.
The present intake of students taking courses under the COBA will enroll at the Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah campus. All programs offered by the College of Business Management and Accounting satisfy the academic requirements of Malaysian Accreditation Council and the Accounting degree program is designed to satisfy the requirements for membership to the relevant professional bodies.
College of Graduate Studies
The College of Graduate Studies (COGS) offers MastersMaster's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
and PhD
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...
programs in Engineering in the field of Electrical, Mechanical and Civil Engineering. COGS offers PhD in Industrial Science in the areas of engineering mathematics, engineering chemistry and engineering physics. Other PhD programs offered by the COGS are PhD in Information and Communication Technology and PhD in Business Management.
Institute of Liberal Studies
Since 1992 IKATAN then played its role as an educational and training institute, conducting diploma, certificate and employee training programs in technical and managerial aspects. The Centre for Languages and General Education expanded rapidly to become a centre of excellence, offering courses in the field of liberal studies and thus changing its name to the Institute of Liberal Studies (‘’Institut Kajian Liberal’’ in MalayMalay language
Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It is the official language of Malaysia , Indonesia , Brunei and Singapore...
, abbreviated as IKAL).
The Institute of Liberal Studies consists of four areas of study: Languages
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
& Communication
Communication
Communication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
, Social sciences
Social sciences
Social science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
& Humanities
Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
, Co-Curriculum & Recreation Studies, and Teaching & Learning Studies
Pedagogy
Pedagogy is the study of being a teacher or the process of teaching. The term generally refers to strategies of instruction, or a style of instruction....
. The institute is responsible for providing courses in languages and general education such as history, religious studies, moral education and Malaysian studies. Short courses including the Intensive English Proficiency Programs and Preparation Programs for Overseas Universities are offered.
Notable alumni
- Nurul Izzah AnwarNurul Izzah AnwarNurul Izzah binti Anwar is a Malaysian politician from Parti Keadilan Rakyat , and is the current Member of Parliament for Lembah Pantai. She is the daughter of Anwar Ibrahim, a former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister and the current de facto opposition leader and of the PKR...
, Member of Parliament for the Kuala Lumpur constituency of Lembah PantaiLembah PantaiLembah Pantai is a parliamentary constituency in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Constituencies adjacent to Lembah Pantai are Seputeh, Segambut and Bukit Bintang....