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On August 6th, the Energy and Power System (EPS) research group from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE) organized a short course entitled ‘Statistical AnalysisforEngineeringDatausingMINITAB(withhands-on)’.Theshortcoursewas opentothepublicwithafeeofRM200forpostgraduatestudentsandparticipants fromtheindustry.AspecialdiscountonfeeswasgiventotheUTeMundergraduate students, which aim for a better data analysis procedure during their final year project. The short course was handled by FKE lecturer, Dr. Arfah binti Ahmad who has a background in statistics and data analysis. With a wide knowledge of statistical analysis procedures and has been involved in a variety of research projects,includingthesocialsciencestudy.

During the training, the participants had the opportunity to install the MINITAB softwareandexperiencedalltheanalysisusingtheexercisesandexamplesgiven. There are three parts of the statistical data analysis procedure explained in the training, that are; graphical analysis and descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing andAnalysisofVariance(ANOVA),andthedesignoftheexperiment.Foreachpart of the analysis, samples of engineering data were provided and the participants arerequiredtorunthestep-by-stepanalysisusingtheMINITABsoftware.

The short course on Statistical Analysis for Engineering Data using MINITAB is one of the alternative taken by the EPS research group in generating income for the faculty and university. The training was held online via Microsoft Teams application. A total of 25 participants joined the training, with 14 of them were postgraduate students and industry worker from Malaysia and Brunei. Previously in 2021, the short course was held on October 27th with 19 participants joined the training. Taken into account the encouraging responds from the participant,theshortcourseisplannedtobeheldyearlyaspartoftheknowledgetransferactivitiesbytheEPSresearchgroup.