The objective of the event was to gather alumni while promoting and delivering the news and updates of UTP Alumni Association and UTP. This event was jointly organized with UTP Career Advisory and Alumni Relation Unit, which was led by Mr M Farizal M Shawal.

There were ten teams participating in this meaningful event, which was full of excitement especially when some of the participants brought their spouses and children together. They met up with some of their colleagues who they have not met for a long time. The event was even more exciting when some of the teams named their teams with the names that resemble their fond memories in UTP such as "V4A", "Taman Maju Kembali Lagi" and "Bawahtangga" (place they used to always hang around under the staircase of Metana hostel block).

The ten participating teams were:

• Bawahtangga A (Graduation year: 2003)
• Bawahtangga B (Graduation year: 2003)
• Deng United (Graduation year: 2002)
• MARA Tigers (Graduation year: 2002)
• Galacticos (Graduation year: 2005)
• Stylo (Graduation year: 2005/2006/2007)
• V4A (Graduation year: 2003)
• Superjohk (Graduation year: 2009)
• Taman Maju Kembali Lagi (Graduation year: 2003)
• UTP’s Extended Edition (Graduation year: 2003/2004/2005)

These teams were divided into two groups of which the best two teams from each group qualified to the semi final matches. The list of the winning teams is as follows:

• Champion: Deng United

  

• 1st Runner-up: Galacticos

  

• 2nd Runner-up: Bawahtangga A

  

• Fourth place: V4A

  

After the prize-giving ceremony, Tuan Haji Mohamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Director of UTP Students Services also took the opportunity to express his appreciation and pleasure in his speech for the active participation from the alumni in this event.

In the nutshell, the set objective had successfully been achieved while we had also received a lot of suggestions and recommendations from the participants especially in empowering the UTP Alumni Association and contributing towards realizing UTP aspirations.

The main objective of this event was to meet UTP graduates who are currently working at PETT and neighbouring companies to share UTP past and present development as well as to get feedback from UTP graduates. UTP Alumni Association also provided the graduates updated information on alumni activities.

The event which was led by Mr. M Farizal M Shawal, Alumni Relation Unit Executive of Student Support Services Department UTP as the Project Director had successfully gathered 70 UTP graduates.

The event began with a short briefing by UTP Alumni Association Secretary, Mrs. Khairul Nisak Md Hassan on the objectives of the event. This was followed by Mr. Mohd Hilmi Hasan, UTP Alumni Association President who delivered a short presentation about past and future events, as well as the expectations of UTP Alumni Association.

The event continued with interesting and inspiring remarks from Tuan Haji Mohamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Director of Student Services UTP, which among others conveyed the message on the importance of alumni in continuous engagement to support the aspirations of UTP as well as PETRONAS. The event concluded with a dialogue session between the graduates and UTP Alumni Association. The graduates provided valuable feedback on ways to further strengthen UTP Alumni Association.

Similar engagement sessions will be held in Kedah, Terengganu, Melaka, Sabah and Sarawak.

For information, the students are categorized into three groups namely Platinum Program, Gold Program and Silver Program according to their academic standings and achievements.

With the theme "How to Utilize Study Week", the session was successfully carried out by the inspiring and motivating talk given by UTP alumnus Miss Ainol Rahmah Shazi.

There were a total of 111 projects participated in the exhibition from all academic departments. The inaugural winner for this award is Mechanical Engineering.

The Alumni Conference for Excellence 2008 (ACE‘08) extended the participation to the private sector education providers in Malaysia. The theme for ACE'08 is Empowering Alumni for Financial Sustainability. As the title suggests, the main thrust of the conference is to explore ways and means how an alumni organization can tap funding support and remain financially sustainable.

The objectives of ACE '08 are to:

• To address the perennial problem faced by many alumni bodies pertaining to sustainable funding.
• To enable participants to learn about successful funding methods.
• A platform for participants to interact and network.

The conference was held at Parkroyal Hotel, Batu Ferringhi, Penang, 10 -12 October 2008. Three representatives from UTP Alumni had attended the event which is Mohd Hilmi Hasan, Norlaili Amir and Khairul Nisak Md Hassan. Besides that, also attended the event was Tn. Hj. Mohamed Noor Rosli Baharom, Director of UTP Student Support Services.