Engage in fun interactive activities at Curtin Malaysia’s Open Day
MIRI: Themed ‘ Discover, Experience, Interact’ the 11th edition of Curtin Malaysia Open Day on Oct 10 enables visitors to engage in interactive activities that provide a unique and fun educational experience.
It will be open from 10am to 5pm at the university’s Recreation & Event Centre.
‘ Engineers Land’, ‘ Entrepreneurs Hub’, ‘ The Human Planet’ and ‘Spacetopia’, showcases of Curtin Malaysia’s Faculties of Engineering and Science, Business and Humanities as well as its Graduate School will introduce visitors to a variety of engineering, science, business and art disciplines.
Visitors get to don hard hats and coveralls to play geologists, civil engineers or petroleum engineers, or lab coats for a bit of ‘ lab work’ as chemical or environmental engineers. They learn what it takes to be network engineers, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers.
Visitors also get to identify microfossils under microscopes and minerals in rocks, create laminated bookmarks using food colouring and solvents, and try nickel and copper electroplating.
Children will enjoy the Foundation in Engineering Department’s fun ‘Sugar Rainbow’, ‘Air Cannon Smoke Ring’ and ‘Matchstick and Coin Game’.
Those interested in petroleum engineering can learn how the density of drilling mud is measured, and create a model of a reservoir using simulation software.
There will also be a demonstration on how oil rigs work using a scaled model of a rig.
The Faculty of Business will showcase ‘ The Heart of Business’ exhibition highlighting its five departments.
Visitors can participate in educational activities run by students of the Faculty at the ‘ Engaging with Business Students’ exhibition, and get to meet successful young entrepreneurs engaged in digital, rural, social, women and student entrepreneurship at the ‘Celebrating Small Business’ exhibition.
The Faculty of Humanities will showcase three areas of specialisation: Media and Communication, Culture and Language Studies, and Postgraduate Studies
A space-themed showcase by postgraduate students of the Curtin Malaysia Graduate School will feature five exhibitions on ‘Mercury’, ‘Venus’, ‘Earth’, ‘Mars’ and ‘Spaceship’.
Visitors can learn about the electromagnetic spectrum and see how light can spin a light windmill and invisible gases with measurable properties.
There will be an exhibit of a boat floating in a pool of carbon dioxide. For biology buffs, there will be exhibits of glowing flowers and a microscope for them to see their own blood vessels pumping in real time.
Apart from the ‘Future Students Hub’ and ‘ Faculty Showcases’, other attractions include facultyrun competitions and the second annual Curtin Croc Challenge and Curtin Gaming Championship, an art exhibition and competition, food and retail stalls, a community corner, day-long live entertainment and guided tours of the campus.