The creation of Industry/Community Advisory Panels within individual schools and centres of USM is in compliance with the university’s overall efforts taken towards building a lighter working framework with industry, companies and the community.  These ICAPs are considered timely and useful for enhancing institutional competitiveness. These panels comprise of selected academic staff, senior executives from the private sector and well-respected leaders from the community.

The ICAP meetings served as forums to discuss issues on curriculum, training solutions for coordinating industry/community expectations and relevance, best practices to be adopted, and practical approaches to address these contemporary issues and other areas of concern to all parties