THE STORY OF WOOD TECH

STORY ABOUT WOODTECH....

This is our new KPP

Amran Bin Shafie
Pemangku Ketua Pusat Pengajian
Fakulti Sains Gunaan (Industri Perkayuan)
Universiti Teknologi MARA (Pahang)
26400 Bandar Tun Abdul Razak Jengka
Pahang, Malaysia
E-mail : amran453@pahang.uitm.edu.my
Phone No : 09-460 2297

Fax No : 09-460 2455

Diploma in Wood – Based Industry (Diploma Industri Perkayuan) or Diploma in Wood – Technology is established in 1973 under the Faculty of Applied Sciences. It was the one and only Diploma Program in Malaysia during that time. In the beginning, this course was accomplished in Shah Alam. Then, for some infrastructure reason, this course was transfer to UiTM Pahang branch (Jengka), which provide a better infrastructure facilities and more space that suitable for this course studies environment. This transfer was accomplished in 1995 .

Excellence in education of wood-based which train more bumiputra to get higher skills and knowledge in managing aspects and producing aspects in the wood – based industry in present and future, increase the opportunity for bumiputra to develop their career and to make Mara University of Technology become the center of cooperation and reference inside and outside the country in producing wood products from rainforest .

Sylybus for each semester

LIST OF SUBJECT TAKEN FOR SEMESTER 1:-

CONSOLIDATING LANGUAGE SKILLS (BEL 120)

BIOLOGY (BIO 103)

BASIC CHEMISTRY(CHM 138)

FUNDAMENTALS OF ISLAM (CTU 101)

NATIONAL KESATRIA I (HBU 111)

MATHEMATICS (MAT117)

FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS I (PHY 130)

LIST OF SUBJECT TAKEN FOR SEMESTER 2:-

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH (BEL 260)

ISLAMIC THOUGHT AND CIVILIZATION (CTU 151)

NATIONAL KESATRIA II (HBU 121)

FOREST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (WTE 157)

FOREST DENDROLOGY (WTE 160)

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF WOOD (WTE 162)

WOOD ANATOMY (WTE 198)

FOREST CAMP (WTE 199)

LIST OF SUBJECT TAKEN FOR SEMESTER 3:-

ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC PURPOSES (BEL 311)

COMPUTER AND INFORMATION PROCESSING (CSC 134)

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY IN ISLAM (CTU 211)

NATIONAL KESATRIA III (HBU 131)

WOOD PROPERTIES LABORATORY (WTE 219)

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF WOOD PRODUC (WTE 222)

SAWMILLING AND WOOD MACHINING (WTE 226)

ADHESIVE AND ADHESION (WTE 232)

LIST OF SUBJECT TAKEN FOR SEMESTER 4:-

STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY (QMT 250)

PARTICLEBOARD TECHNOLOGY (WTE 255)

WOOD SEASONING AND PRESERVATION (WTE 256)

LIGNOCELLULOSIC FIBER COMPOSITE (WTE 258)

WOOD MECHANIC AND STRUCTURE (WTE 259)

FURNITURE PRODUCTION (WTE 260)

TIMBER PROCESSING WORKSHOP (WTE 281)

LIST OF SUBJECT TAKEN FOR SEMESTER 5:-

FINANCIAL AND COST ACCOUNTING (ACC 166)

FUNDAMENTALS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP (ENT 300)

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT (MGT 126)

FURNITURE MANUFACTURING WORKSHOP (WTE 305)

POLLUTION CONTROL IN WOOD BASED INDUSTRIES (WTE 322)

PRACTICLEBOARD TECHNOLOGY WORKSHOP (WTE 335)

LIGNOCELLULOSIC FIBER COMPOSITE WORKSHOP (WTE 346)

WOOD PRODUCT TRADE PRACTICES (WTE 365)

LIST OF SUBJECT TAKEN FOR SEMESTER 6:-

INDUSTRIAL TRAINING (FSG 331)

Example of Wood Industry

in industry

after a few process

wood product.