Minggu Sains Negara Zon Sarawak

 [Kuching, 3rd May 2025] – The Faculty of Computing and Software Engineering led by Ts Nurlaila Binti Rosli, who is also the Director of CITM (Centre for Information Technology Management) led the initiative for Minggu Sains Negara Zon Sarawak held at Dewan Jubli, UiTM Cawangan Sarawak, Kampus Samarahan from 35 May 2025. Together with other faculties at i-CATS University College,  the faculty decided to showcase bachelor degree final year projects amongst others: EmoCounsel: Emotion Based Counselling System for Counsellors to Assess the Emotional State by Joycelyn Tan (an AI based system to detect emotion through text), Jawi Script Game by Mohammad Khairuddin Bin Mushadad (An educational learning game for Primary School student ) and ‘Count On Me’  by Muhammad Kamaruddin Bin Ahit – A Math learning game for Primary School Student.  All these projects are supervised by Ts. Nurlaila Binti Rosli.  The first project EmoCounsel was copyrighted by the faculty, while the remaining games are an on going.  The young visitors were excited and enthused by the games developed by the undergraduate students.  It is hoped the past 3 days showcase of IT Projects would spur young minds to pursue studies in STEM.  Also assisting were the undergraduate students of Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours): Mohammad Khairuddin Bin Mushadad & Muhammad Kamaruddin Bin Ahit, as well as Ain Nazihah (lecturer) and Maricha (lab assistant).

 

Prepared by Tay Chung Ang

Faculty of Computing and Software Engineering