About

• Internship Call For Participants

SOI Asia (School on Internet Asia/read: soi-asia) Project was established in 2001 with the objective of achieving education collaborations between Southeast Asian universities on the internet, utilizing the infrastructure technology developed by AI³ Project. SOI Asia has been implementing human resource development programs in Asia in various fields, including information technology, security, marine technologies, environmental issues, cultural understandings, disaster management, and entrepreneurship. And from 2008, with cooperation with UNESCO, SOI Asia also contributes to the development of the next generation of global human resources, especially in science and technology.

APIE(Asia Pacific Internet Engineer) program is a one of a component of SOI Asia activities. The APIE program will help university students and young people in the Asia Pacific region looking to improve their employability potential and build the network engineering and operation skills needed to meet the global demand for Internet engineers in industry and academia, including research and education networks (REN).

In this internship program the badge holder worked as a Teaching Assistant (TA) for APIE camp in USM, University Sains Malaysia, in 2024.

Criteria:

• Full participation to the program
• Final report(presentation)

Course Contents

The badge holder participated the APIE Camp in USM. This APIE camp was held in February-March 2024. The contents was

• Monday, 26 February
  • Overview of Internet Engineering, network cabling, network devices interconnections
  • Network devices and wireless access point setup
  • Network topology design, network devices IP addressing and VLAN configuration, NAT, OSPF routing configuration
• Tuesday, 27 February
  • Virtual machines and computing
  • Overview of hypervisor
  • Linux OS
  • Network cyber security
• Wednesday, 28 February
  • DNS(design DNS service for the organization, configure BIND)
• Thursday, 29 February
  • AWS basics
  • Introduction to IoT
• Friday, 1 March
  • Visiting Exabytes(data center)
  • Final presentation

TA roles:

Support APIE Camp participants during the lecture and hands-on. TA are:  

1. 1. 1. Development of teaching materials.
      2. Facilitate discussion on the  courses.
      3. Attendance management
         
      4. Support students during the hands-on part
         
      5. Answer questions from students
         
      6. Other class management roles.
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Course achievement

The badge holder can…

• Facilitate discussion in small group.
• mentor students in network design and deployment
• Able to work with other team members from different countries.