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MALAYSIA SPIRIT FUELS BETTER UNDERSTANDING FOR UKM TEAM IN SHELL ECO-MARATHON
KUALA LUMPUR, June 30 (Bernama) -- Kencana-Gen2, one of University
Kebangsaan Malaysia’s (National University, Malaysia) two entries for this
year’s Shell Eco-Marathon Asia competition, has found the spirit of 1Malaysia
useful when preparing for the fuel-efficiency challenge over the last six
months, said team manager Marvin Madang Gau.
"The competition has brought us together in understanding each other better,
especially when we come from different ethnic backgrounds," he said on a recent
"Spotlight" talk show programme on Bernama Radio24 hosted by Gerard Ratnam.
"There’s no (room for the) I or me (attitude) but just us or we when we get
together to tackle various problems and find solutions to produce a winning
vehicle, especially on the aerodynamics and how to make the car lighter,” said
the second year chemical engineering student from the east Malaysia state of
Sarawak.
Bernard Eng, the marketing director of the team, said embodying the
1Malaysia spirit was essential among the team members as they had grown to
appreciate different perspectives as each ethnic group had its own strengths,
values and qualities.
"We have also learnt to exercise patience, respect each other’s views, share
ideas and in the end make a good decision on how to achieve our goal of building
a competitive car to do well in the competition," said the third year chemical
engineering student from Kuala Lumpur.
The team, under the supervision of Dr Edy Herianto from UKM’s Fuel Cell
Institute, has Ahmad Tajuddin Abdullah and Looi Hui Yi as drivers while other
members include Ooi Xu Quan, Mohd Hafis Mazeri, Muhammad Khoiri Abdul Aziz and
Muhamad Syazwan Saiatulkhdri.
Team KencanaGen2 (http://www.facebook.com/KencanaGen2) will enter a
prototype car shaped like a water droplet, which will be powered by hydrogen
fuel to compete against 100 other teams from 13 countries at the Shell
Eco-Marathon Asia 2011 to be held at the Sepang International Circuit near here
from July 6 to 9.
Eng said the project had also “pushed” the students to face real-life
challenges like seeking sponsorship from the public, making presentations and
getting supporters while working to build a competitive vehicle to compete
against the rest of Asia.
"It made us apply what we had learnt in the lecture halls and do our
best in the real world,” he said, adding that he hoped the competition would
inspire more young people to be innovative and take part in next year's
competition.
Azman Ismail, Managing Director, Shell Malaysia Trading Sdn Bhd and Shell
Timur Sdn Bhd, said Shell was pleased that the Shell Eco-Marathon had brought
together the students to test themselves and unleash their potential and
leadership qualities by working together on the project.
"I would say that Shell Eco-Marathon has brought about the ‘hard’ objective
among the students, which means that they would have to seriously work at
producing a winning vehicle, and the ‘soft’ objective, where they would learn to
put aside their differences and cooperate for the better while uncovering their
best qualities for different roles in the project,” he said.
Azman said although the competition had started some 25 years ago in the
United States, the performances of Asian teams had been impressive at the
inaugural Asian competition in Sepang last year.
For instance, the record of 1,521.9 kilometres on a litre of fuel set
by a Thai team last year even surpassed the record set by the winning team at
1,057.5 km per litre at a similar event held in Houston, Texas in March 2010.
Asked why Shell was promoting energy efficiency through the Shell
Eco-Marathon, he said the competition was in line with the company's broader
initiative known as "Smarter Mobility", aimed at speeding up the global shift
towards cleaner, more energy-efficient road transport.
"It is our way of engaging the youth who can give birth to ideas on fuel
efficiency and providing them with a global platform to display technical and
innovative solutions in a very practical manner," he said.
The Shell Eco-Marathon is primarily about distance, not speed for it
challenges the student teams to design and build energy efficient vehicles that
can travel the farthest distance by using the least amount of fuel.
Open to high schools, colleges, universities and technical institutes all
over Asia, the competition has two vehicle categories -- “Prototype,”
futuristic, streamlined vehicles focusing on maximising fuel efficiency through
innovative design elements, and “Urban concept,” focusing on more “roadworthy”
fuel-efficient vehicles.
They can choose conventional fuels such as diesel, gasoline and LPG or
alternative fuels such as fuel cells/hydrogen, bio-fuel, solar and Gas-to-liquid
(GTL).
-- BERNAMA
Kebangsaan Malaysia’s (National University, Malaysia) two entries for this
year’s Shell Eco-Marathon Asia competition, has found the spirit of 1Malaysia
useful when preparing for the fuel-efficiency challenge over the last six
months, said team manager Marvin Madang Gau.
"The competition has brought us together in understanding each other better,
especially when we come from different ethnic backgrounds," he said on a recent
"Spotlight" talk show programme on Bernama Radio24 hosted by Gerard Ratnam.
"There’s no (room for the) I or me (attitude) but just us or we when we get
together to tackle various problems and find solutions to produce a winning
vehicle, especially on the aerodynamics and how to make the car lighter,” said
the second year chemical engineering student from the east Malaysia state of
Sarawak.
Bernard Eng, the marketing director of the team, said embodying the
1Malaysia spirit was essential among the team members as they had grown to
appreciate different perspectives as each ethnic group had its own strengths,
values and qualities.
"We have also learnt to exercise patience, respect each other’s views, share
ideas and in the end make a good decision on how to achieve our goal of building
a competitive car to do well in the competition," said the third year chemical
engineering student from Kuala Lumpur.
The team, under the supervision of Dr Edy Herianto from UKM’s Fuel Cell
Institute, has Ahmad Tajuddin Abdullah and Looi Hui Yi as drivers while other
members include Ooi Xu Quan, Mohd Hafis Mazeri, Muhammad Khoiri Abdul Aziz and
Muhamad Syazwan Saiatulkhdri.
Team KencanaGen2 (http://www.facebook.com/KencanaGen2) will enter a
prototype car shaped like a water droplet, which will be powered by hydrogen
fuel to compete against 100 other teams from 13 countries at the Shell
Eco-Marathon Asia 2011 to be held at the Sepang International Circuit near here
from July 6 to 9.
Eng said the project had also “pushed” the students to face real-life
challenges like seeking sponsorship from the public, making presentations and
getting supporters while working to build a competitive vehicle to compete
against the rest of Asia.
"It made us apply what we had learnt in the lecture halls and do our
best in the real world,” he said, adding that he hoped the competition would
inspire more young people to be innovative and take part in next year's
competition.
Azman Ismail, Managing Director, Shell Malaysia Trading Sdn Bhd and Shell
Timur Sdn Bhd, said Shell was pleased that the Shell Eco-Marathon had brought
together the students to test themselves and unleash their potential and
leadership qualities by working together on the project.
"I would say that Shell Eco-Marathon has brought about the ‘hard’ objective
among the students, which means that they would have to seriously work at
producing a winning vehicle, and the ‘soft’ objective, where they would learn to
put aside their differences and cooperate for the better while uncovering their
best qualities for different roles in the project,” he said.
Azman said although the competition had started some 25 years ago in the
United States, the performances of Asian teams had been impressive at the
inaugural Asian competition in Sepang last year.
For instance, the record of 1,521.9 kilometres on a litre of fuel set
by a Thai team last year even surpassed the record set by the winning team at
1,057.5 km per litre at a similar event held in Houston, Texas in March 2010.
Asked why Shell was promoting energy efficiency through the Shell
Eco-Marathon, he said the competition was in line with the company's broader
initiative known as "Smarter Mobility", aimed at speeding up the global shift
towards cleaner, more energy-efficient road transport.
"It is our way of engaging the youth who can give birth to ideas on fuel
efficiency and providing them with a global platform to display technical and
innovative solutions in a very practical manner," he said.
The Shell Eco-Marathon is primarily about distance, not speed for it
challenges the student teams to design and build energy efficient vehicles that
can travel the farthest distance by using the least amount of fuel.
Open to high schools, colleges, universities and technical institutes all
over Asia, the competition has two vehicle categories -- “Prototype,”
futuristic, streamlined vehicles focusing on maximising fuel efficiency through
innovative design elements, and “Urban concept,” focusing on more “roadworthy”
fuel-efficient vehicles.
They can choose conventional fuels such as diesel, gasoline and LPG or
alternative fuels such as fuel cells/hydrogen, bio-fuel, solar and Gas-to-liquid
(GTL).
-- BERNAMA
