Curtin Malaysia’s team top three in IEEE R10 Competition
The ‘Wall-ieee' team of five electrical and electronics engineering students of Curtin Malaysia has secured the third place in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) R10 Robotics Competition in Thailand recently.
They were fourth-year students Alan Tiong Ka Wei and Jack Tan Zhen Shiun, thirdyear students Jason Benny Wan Jutina and Yap Zhi Xuan, and first-year student Amber Kong Jianin.
In addition to representing Curtin Malaysia, they also represented IEEE Malaysia and the IEEE Curtin Malaysia Student Branch in the competition.
In the two-day competition held at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok; the team had not only participated in the competition but also engaged themselves in networking sessions with the other participants from various countries in the Asia-Pacific region.
Yap, who is also the IEEE Curtin Malaysia Student Branch president, said that despite limited exposure to robotics in Sarawak, the team's forwardthinking approach and creativity propelled them to success and a well-deserved third place through its project on waste robotics.
The team highlighted the significance of their robot's safety features and built-in technologies in transforming waste management to promote environmental sustainability.
Tan, one of the university's representatives, said they gained invaluable insights and knowledge from the competition through the robotics projects demonstrations and the sharing of ideas.
“Getting constructive comments and feedback from the expert judges are really beneficial for our team,” said Kong, adding that the two-day competition had brought them into an immersive journey of innovation, creativity and technological advancement.
Jason, meanwhile, remarked that the competition organised by the IEEE Region 10 served as a good platform for young minds to address the environmental challenges, related to climate change and humanitarian issues.
It also provided a stage for participants to showcase their robotics projects with global significance, he added.
“The success of the team was testimony of its hard work and dedication, and its desire to do Malaysia, IEEE Malaysia, the IEEE Curtin Malaysia Student Branch, and Curtin Malaysia proud.
“It also demonstrates the quality of the engineering education we receive at Curtin Malaysia,” said Jason.
Professor Garenth Lim King Hann of Curtin Malaysia's Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, also the advisor to the IEEE Curtin Malaysia Student Branch, said such exposure helped enhance students' creativity and criticalthinking skills, by integrating concepts and theories they had learned into practice.