Educational Visit

On 21^st May 2009, SOCIT organized an Educational Visit to Traffic Control Centre at Penang’s Komtar Tower 13^th floor. The visit was only opened to student who is currently taking Network Studies. There were about 10 students who participated the visit to the TCC including our very own HOS Mr. Krishnamoorthy. The visit helped our student to understand how IT can be used to help in the community and how private companies work together with the government. Apparently, there are 2 private companies which are working for the government at the moment, they are Tyco Traffic and Transportation which uses their state of art traffic control system SCATS which is deployed over the globe and Pascal Engineering which uses a SIEMIENS based system for traffic control. The representative of both companies is sporting enough to let us have a view of their system and even tell us how it works.

The students who participated in this visit have gained quite a load of useful information. The system from both of the companies emphasize on Server/Client relationship, which is essential knowledge for Networking Students. They have learned stuff such as services a server can provide. Eg: Hardware diagnosis and failure alert, Asset management, Security auditing and Data management (Data Backup and Restoration). However, SOCIT has established a R & D team which we will try to organize more visits to boost our student’s knowledge about Information Technology.