This week's speaker is Dr. Nur 'Aliaa Abd Rahman. After graduating from UPM with a bachelor's degree in Process and Food Engineering, she became an alumnus of the university. She is a senior lecturer from the Department of Process and Food Engineering at UPM. Fluid mechanics, statics and strength of materials, food engineering operations, and machine design are some of the subjects that she teaches.

As well as being an entrepreneur, she's also the Technical Director at Proville Tech Sdn. Bhd., an Ice Cream Processing Company. In addition to research and development, she is responsible for processing, financial projections, and expansion of the processing system.

• Business management and engineering skills are integrated in engineering entrepreneurship. An engineer's technical skills are put to use in direction.

What is Engineer-Entrepreneur?

• Business management and technical engineering skills are integrated in this profession.

• When engineers manage big projects at work, they develop problem-solving skills useful in the world of entrepreneurship.

• Have excellent problem-solving skills that developed during my four years of learning at University.

• know how to apply critical thinking when solving a problem

• they are mathematically minded as engineering mathematics is the basis of mathematics that engineers learn

• they have a technical understanding

• they are creative and innovative

• Grab opportunities - grab sponsorships/funds, generate ideas for your product, and communicate ideas with investors for the fund

• Have to generate ideas that are based on the current trend globally - identify problems in society that can be helped

• Have intellectual property strategies - the name of the brand should be original and make sure it's copyrighted so that competitors do not steal your ideas.

• Have strong marketing, sales, and distributing strategies, investment, and financial strategies

• Make financial analysis and projections - Return on Investments (ROI)