ISDEV WELCOMING THE NEW MISDEV'15

MISDEV'15 - seated within second row from the front.

ISDEV welcoming it’s eight batch of Masters in Social Science (Islamic Development Management) students on 4th August 2015 at Dewan Kuliah A, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). 31 new students have been registered to pursue their Masters (Mixed-Mode) for the academic year 2015/2016. In continuation of ISDEV tradition, this new batch of students is collectively known as MISDEV'15.

Professor Dr. Muhammad Syukri Salleh welcoming the students.

The Ta'aruf Session (Orientation Programme) for MISDEV'15 started at 9:00am with a welcoming speech by ISDEV Associate Members (ABI) representative, Musmuliadi Kamaruding, who served as the Master of Ceremony of the program. Later on, ISDEV Director, Professor Dr. Muhammad Syukri Salleh was invited to introduce ISDEV to all the new students. Professor Syukri brief the students on the general overview of the structure of ISDEV, the courses to be attended by the students as well as the introduction to ISDEV lecturers and supporting staff to the batch of MISDEV’15.

Dr. Shahir Akram Hassan (standing) being introduce by Professor Dr. Muhammad Syukri Salleh to MISDEV'15.

On the second session, current RISDEV (ISDEV Postgraduate student by Research) and MISDEV (ISDEV Mixed-Mode) students who are supervised by ISDEV lecturers were called to briefly introduce their respective lecturers from their point of view in terms of each of the lecturers individual personality and their experiences as to how they are supervised. This is the time that everyone had a chance to know each ISDEV lecturers inside out. The entire session was also presented via an attractive multimedia presentation prepared by ABI members. A question and answer session come afterwards allowing MISDEV’15 to seek for clearer information.

RISDEV student, Wafdi Auni Mohamed briefly shared his experience of being supervised by Dr. Mohd Syakir Mohd Rosdi.

At the end of the session, everyone took the precious chance to mingle around and get to know each other. ISDEV took the opportunity to invite one and all for a simple lunch organised by ABI members.