Group picture: Students from France and UCSI University’s FETBE professors/lecturers.

(l to r ) Assistant Professor Dr John Tan Teng Hwang , Maximilien Lefevre (French intern student) and Assistant Professor Dr Mastaneh Mokayef.

Students from France with Assistant Professor Dr Mastaneh Mokayef.

Students in the AR/VR (Augmented Reality /Virtual Reality) activity.

(l to r): Assistant Professor Dr Ammar Al-Talib, Professor Tchanguiz Razban, Sirana Girard and Assistant Professor Dr Mastaneh Mokayef.

UCSI University’s Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment (FETBE) welcomed four fourth-year Polytech Nantes students from France for the third time in June 2018, to pursue a three-month-long cooperative internship programme at UCSI.

Polytech Nantes, known as a French ‘Grande Ecole’, is the graduate engineering school of the University of Nantes. In France, 'Grandes Écoles' are higher educational institutions that are prestigious and very selective; their graduates occupy managerial and executive positions in the industry.                             
With backgrounds in Electronic Engineering, the students were assigned to work on the design and development of digital filters on embedded digital systems, channel estimation in cooperative communication systems, SNR estimation for MIMO OFDM systems and design of a magnetic levitation system.

They were under the supervision of Assistant Professor Dr John Tan Teng Hwang, Assistant Professor Dr Mastaneh Mokayef, Assistant Professor Dr Mohamed Khan, Shahid, Manickam Ramasamy and Rahimie Mustafa.

The coordinator for this internship programme was Dr Mastaneh. Through the efforts of FETBE’s Dean, Associate Professor Ir Dr Jimmy Mok and Head of Department, Assistant Professor Dr John Tan Teng Hwang, this is the third year FETBE is hosting French students for internships.         

The participants were also engaged in various activities conducted by UCSI such as the MCMC site visit and the industrial use of AR/VR in the PWTC exhibition along with the current UCSI students.

This collaboration allowed both UCSI students and Polytech Nantes students an opportunity to exchange technical knowledge as well as improve their communication skills. It was also an opportunity for cultural exchange for both host and guest students. 

As the #1 private university in Malaysia, UCSI University is renowned for its extensive collaboration with many of the world’s best universities — the Ivy League, Russell Group, Universitas 21 and Australia’s Group of Eight — providing invaluable opportunities for students and staff to contribute to the pursuit and advancement of knowledge around the world.