{"id":18267,"date":"2021-10-21T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/21\/edotco-group-launches-inaugural-infrastructure-design-competition-in-collaboration-with-university-kebangsaan-malaysia-ukm\/"},"modified":"2021-10-21T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-21T02:15:00","slug":"edotco-group-launches-inaugural-infrastructure-design-competition-in-collaboration-with-university-kebangsaan-malaysia-ukm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2021\/10\/21\/edotco-group-launches-inaugural-infrastructure-design-competition-in-collaboration-with-university-kebangsaan-malaysia-ukm\/","title":{"rendered":"edotco Group launches inaugural Infrastructure Design Competition in collaboration with University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/\">Media OutReach<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a021&#13;<br \/>\nOctober 2021 &#8211;<b> <\/b>edotco Group&#13;<br \/>\n(&#8216;edotco&#8217;), the region&#8217;s leading telecommunications infrastructure services&#13;<br \/>\ncompany, is organising the first in Asia, Infrastructure Design Competition in&#13;<br \/>\ncollaboration with the University Community Transformation Centre under&#13;<br \/>\nUniversiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (&#8216;UCTC-UKM&#8217;). The competition is open to Year 3,&#13;<br \/>\nYear 4, and postgraduate Engineering students who are currently studying in&#13;<br \/>\nuniversities based in Malaysia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, the&#13;<br \/>\nPhilippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan,&#13;<br \/>\nJapan, Korea, and China.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img src=\"https:\/\/images.media-outreach.com\/Thumb\/500x0\/188252\/edotco-Tower.jpg#image-188252\" width=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-align: center\"><b>edotco is organising the first Infrastructure Design&#13;<br \/>\nCompetition in Asia, in collaboration with the University Community&#13;<br \/>\nTransformation Centre under Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (&#8216;UCTC-UKM&#8217;).<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Themed <b>&#8220;Infrastructure for Tomorrow: Designing the Future&#8221;<\/b>, this&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition is edotco&#8217;s annual commitment to provide today&#8217;s aspiring youths&#13;<br \/>\nwith a platform to engage with experienced leaders, gain industry knowledge and&#13;<br \/>\nattain technology exposure while applying their skills to create innovative&#13;<br \/>\nsolutions. The competition was piloted in Bangladesh last year to nurture&#13;<br \/>\ntalents within the student community in the country and successfully garnered a&#13;<br \/>\ntotal of 28 contestants from 7 teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UKM is edotco&#8217;s academia partner in&#13;<br \/>\norganising and leading the university-student engagement initiatives. Both&#13;<br \/>\nparties will join hands in the industry-academia mentorship sessions to coach&#13;<br \/>\nand mentor participants throughout the competition process to ensure the&#13;<br \/>\noutcomes align with the judging expectations. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Adlan Tajudin, Chief Executive&#13;<br \/>\nOfficer of edotco Group said, &#8220;As a regional towerco, we acknowledge the&#13;<br \/>\nimportance of nurturing innovation and cultivating the importance of&#13;<br \/>\nsustainability amongst the youth. Through this competition, we aim to spearhead&#13;<br \/>\ninnovation while upskilling youths across Asia. It is a part of edotco&#8217;s&#13;<br \/>\nongoing efforts on fostering a future-ready workforce that is capable of&#13;<br \/>\nbuilding next-generation technologies for the telecommunications&#13;<br \/>\nindustry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The technical focus of the&#13;<br \/>\ncompetition brings together innovation, cost efficiency, feasibility &amp;&#13;<br \/>\nfunctionality, and environment-friendly solutions. Education institutions play&#13;<br \/>\nan important role in shaping future telecommunication talents, and we are&#13;<br \/>\ndelighted to work with UKM on creating this platform for skills development. We&#13;<br \/>\nlook forward to involving these university students in our efforts of&#13;<br \/>\ndeveloping a sustainable and efficient future, and we are excited to see the&#13;<br \/>\ncreative ideas that are about to come,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More than 100 submissions will be&#13;<br \/>\naccepted at the competition. To participate, students must form teams of 2 to 4&#13;<br \/>\nparticipants consisting of at least 1 student from the Civil Engineering major.&#13;<br \/>\nUpon successful registration, teams will be required to design a tower and&#13;<br \/>\nfoundation that fits the next generation of telecommunication infrastructure&#13;<br \/>\ncriteria based on the given Technical Framework. Over a period of 65 days,&#13;<br \/>\nedotco and Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment of UKM will conduct&#13;<br \/>\nmentorship sessions to coach participants on their projects and proposals. <\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Top 5 entries will be selected&#13;<br \/>\nfor a presentation to the panel of judges, consisting of experts from edotco, the&#13;<br \/>\nindustry, and academicians from UKM, at the virtual Grand Finale that will take&#13;<br \/>\nplace in March 2022. A total of 3 winners with innovative ideas will win cash&#13;<br \/>\nprizes totalling up to USD 5,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Registration for the competition&#13;<br \/>\nopens from 14 October to 24 October 2021. For more information about the&#13;<br \/>\nInfrastructure Design Competition or to register, visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/uctc.ukm.my\/news\/edotco-infrastructure-design-competition\/\">https:\/\/uctc.ukm.my\/news\/edotco-infrastructure-design-competition\/<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media-outreach.com\/news\/2021-10-21\/100080\/edotco-group-launches-inaugural-infrastructure-design-competition-in-collaboration-with-university-kebangsaan-malaysia-ukm\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA &#8211;\u00a0Media OutReach\u00a0&#8211;\u00a021&#13; October 2021 &#8211; edotco Group&#13; (&#8216;edotco&#8217;), the region&#8217;s leading telecommunications infrastructure services&#13; company, is organising the first in Asia, Infrastructure Design Competition in&#13; collaboration with the University Community Transformation Centre under&#13; Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (&#8216;UCTC-UKM&#8217;). 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