Knowledge Management Portal for Student Industrial Internship Programme

As a student in Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), it is compulsory to undergo
eight months industrial training in order to complete course requirement. This
experience will provide students with valuable knowledge and skills in the designated
area. However, the university does not provide a suitable environment for sharing
knowledge that had been gained by these students. The current method made it hard to
leverage and record the knowledge and lead to knowledge dissipation. As to date, there
is no specific Knowledge Management System (KMS) that has been developed for
Student Industrial Internship Programme and thus conventional method of keeping all
the hardcopy documentations for Internship Final Report and Logbook Information
Resource Centre (IRC) is still being used. Realizing this problem, thought was derived
to develop a system that will overcome the affirmed situation. Industrial Internship
Portal (IIP) is a Knowledge Management Portal for Student Industrial Internship
Programme. IIP serve the functions of knowledge sharing medium, reuse of knowledge,
store and record the knowledge and to transfer of knowledge among the students
especially for those undergoing industrial training. The portal provides support for
several purposes including knowledge sharing, promotes continuous collaboration,
acquisition and also facilitates “self-kiosk” to the students, lecturers and Student
Industrial Internship Unit (SIIU). The portal hosted a range of applications such as
forum, discussion, blog, survey, wiki, document workflow and few other pertinent
applications. This project will follow a structured approach methodology with a series of
questionnaire were being created in order to accumulate relevant feedbacks and
information from the aimed scope, which is the students of UTP. The IIP will be
beneficial for students, lecturers and SIIU in order to improve the knowledge access and
sharing as well as communication through effective collaboration, enhancing the
knowledge environment and managing knowledge as an asset for the academic
community.