SYNOPSIS

Ministry of Education Malaysia (MOE) and Malaysia Development Economic Corporation Sdn Bhd (MDEC) launched Science Technology Engineering Mathematics or STEM education initiatives to address the reducing number of students interested in Science studies. IEM being the forefront in promoting and advancement of the science and profession of engineering is taking up the challenge to deliver higher quality STEM activities for school students in the area of physical computing, software development and engineering design.

In this Junior Digital Class, students will explore Microduino basics to build up their familiarity with the Microduino mCookie modules, sensors and trinkets. Microduino mCookie is Arduino-compatible open source electronic hardware for makers, designers, engineers, students and curious tinkerers of all ages. Microduino mCookie is powerful, small, LEGO®-compatible and also magnetically stackable.

Student will also explore programming with Arduino software platform that is based on C programming language. With Arduino integrated development environment (IDE) for Microduino that allows for programming of the Arduino open source hardware platform, students will explore new libraries and programming syntax for managing sensors and trinkets connected to Microduino mCookie modules.

On the first day, student will learn the basics of circuitry, basics of Arduino software platform, electronic controller, power source, line finder sensor, infrared sensor, sound sensor (microphone), buzzer trinket, colour LED trinket and electric motor trinket. Students will try different types of sensors and trinkets configurations and different control logics and operation parameters to understand how sensor and output trinket works.

On the second day, student will learn intermediate level circuitry, intermediate level of Arduino software platform, electronic controller, power source, line finder sensor, infrared sensor, sound sensor (microphone), buzzer trinket, colour LED trinket and electric motor trinket to construct a remote control smart car prototype. Students will try different types of sensors and trinkets configurations and different control logics and operation parameters to modify the remote control smart car prototype for different types of real world application.

On the third day, student will learn advance level circuitry, advance level of Arduino software platform, electronic controller, power source, line finder sensor, infrared sensor, sound sensor (microphone), buzzer trinket, colour LED trinket and electric motor trinket to construct an autonomous smart car prototype. Students will try different types of sensors and trinkets configurations and different control logics and operation parameters to modify the autonomous control smart car prototype for different types of real world application.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ir. Amir Hussein Bin Jaafar graduated from University of Technology Petronas (UTP) with Bachelor Engineering (Electrical and Electronics) and from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) with Master of Science (Real Time Software). He is registered as a Professional Engineer (Electronics) status with Board of Engineers Malaysia since 2007. He has more than 16 years of experience in electronics hardware and embedded software development projects, and development and testing of advance powertrain and electronic control system for automotive application. With the industry experience, he has been giving specialized green technology training to TVET trainers and also conducting STEM courses for school students since 2016. He is currently the Head of Design and Development Engineering of Eco Motive Sdn Bhd and Technical Director for Micro Concept Tech Sdn Bhd.


Note:
- Limited to 10 primary school student only