An Industrial Visit to the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology (FCSIT) at UNIMAS was organised on 17-02-2011(Thursday) in which 35 students from Diploma in Software Engineering (DSE) and Diploma in Information Technology (DIT) of International College of Advanced Technology Sarawak (ICATS) participated with enthusiasm. The industrial visit was a success in every aspect from being beneficial to the students in terms of gaining knowledge to being an event of college-outing as well. Overall the response of the participants was really positive. The MOV (minutes of visit) are given below:
We arrived at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology of UNIMAS around 2:00 pm and assembled at the main meeting room, where we met the Dean of FCSIT, Professor Dr. Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer, who gave us a detailed introduction on FCSIT. The FCSIT was established in November 1993. Set in the backwoods, away from the major IT hubs, the first task of the day was to simply "get connected". The Faculty's landmark then was a projection of a little VSAT satellite antenna dish by the window of Prof. Zahran Halim's (the founding Dean) office in late 1993. That brought instant electronic globalisation right to the desktop, albeit to just a few test desks at first.
Today the little dish is long gone as the campus-wide fibre optic backbone is established with leased lines to the national network, JARING and the Internet. Three undergraduate programmes were offered by July 1994:
. Software Engineering,
. Computer Systems Technology
. Information Systems.
The following 1995/96 session saw the introduction of Unimas’s 4th programme, Computational Science. The designs of the academic programmes are largely guided by the market needs and are based on the ACM/IEEE integrated curriculum. The FCSIT vision is to be a Centre of Excellence, internationally acknowledged in the field of computer science and information technology and acknowledged for its innovative and contemporary education programme, dynamic research, and professional services.
sources : UNIMAS
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