University as a place to cultivate leadership traits - Nurul Maherah

KUANTAN, 17 March 2022 – Leadership needs to be cultivated in individuals in order to produce people who are confident, wise in planning and able to encourage others to do something to achieve the objectives set.

According to Nurul Maherah Md Mansor, 25, many platforms can be used to hone this leadership talent including obtaining it at the university through formal training.

“At Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP), I often participate in programmes and mostly hold director and secretary positions such as in the International Festival of Innovation on Green Technology (i-FINOG), Value Innovation ASEAN 4.0 Thailand–Malaysia and several other cultural programmes.

“I was also the Student Representative of Residence College Three as president and was an Exco of Culture and Arts during my study here,” she said when met at the 15th UMP Convocation Ceremony yesterday.

Nurul Maherah who is also the recipient of the Excellence Award Prize from Dimension BID Sdn. Bhd. 2020, acknowledged that the experience gained while at UMP is practicable in her profession.

She who holds a position as a Product Research and Development Executive at a company producing home necessities in southern Malaysia, acknowledged that her active co-curricular involvement greatly helped her in public speaking, dealing with customers and staff and solving problems.

“I am very grateful that the knowledge learned during the four years at this university can be applied in real life.

“Therefore, I thank all UMP staff, especially at the Faculty of Industrial Sciences and Technology (FSTI), for helping me a lot when I was there,” said the Material Technology graduand from the Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) programme.

By: Shalfarina Shariman, UMP Press
Translation by: Dr. Rozaimi Abu Samah, Engineering College/Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering Technology