Kuala Lumpur, 23 May 2015 – Three students from the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia have been awarded the Prestigious PAM-Feruni Ceramiche Scholarship Award at the PAM-Pinnacle of Excellence – Annual Dinner 2015. The event was held at the Grand Ballroom of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Kuala Lumpur on Sat 23 May 2015.

Application for the PAM-Feruni Ceramiche scholarship award was open to all Accredited Architecture Schools in Public and Private Universities in Malaysia. The award is in the form of a scholarship worth RM5,000.00 per annum for each remaining year of study.

Shortlisted candidates were earlier called in to present themselves and their Architectural Design student portfolio to a jury of panellist consisting of Malaysian Institute of Architects (PAM) officials and representatives of the Corporate Sponsor, Feruni Ceramiche, which is a producer and supplier of premium quality tiles. In previous years there were only four winners of the award, but due to the large number of high quality applications for 2015, six students were awarded the scholarship. Three of the students awarded were from UTM whilst the other three winners were from UPM, UKM & UTAR.

The three winners from UTM are Ahmad Zul Afri Idris, Ooi Soon Theng and Lim Yong Zheng. All three are from the Third Year of the Bachelor of Science in Architecture programme. Their success is highly commendable and is an inspiration to all other students to strive to be the best nationally and globally.

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