The Faculty of Applied Science is one of the university's core science and technology faculties. The faculties strives to continuously provide a dynamic environment that seeks to foster academic innovations and excellence in teaching, learning and research. In all of our activities, be it teaching, research or outreach, we aim to operate with a forward-thinking, results-oriented and community-responsive approach - in persuit of realising our vision of becoming a premier institution in science and technology .

AS117 - Diploma Industri Perkayuan

I wish to welcome you to the website of Department of Wood Industries. This website hopes to provide information and guide to students, researchers and industrial sector .

Our commitment to excellence in education of wood-based which train more bumiputra to get higher skills and knowledge in managing aspects and producing aspects in the wood – based industry in present and future, increase the opportunity for bumiputra to develop their career and to make Mara University of Technology become the center of cooperation and reference inside and outside the country in producing wood products from rainforest .

We also welcome to those researchers and industrial sector who want to collaborate with researchers in UiTM or those who want to use our facilities and consult our experts .

This is some of our history and background. Diploma in Wood – Based Industry (Diploma Industri Perkayuan) or Diploma in Wood – Technology is established in 1973 under the Faculty of Applied Sciences. It was the one and only Diploma Program in Malaysia during that time. In the beginning, this course was accomplished in Shah Alam. Then, for some infrastructure reason, this course was transfer to UiTM Pahang branch (Jengka), which provide a better infrastructure facilities and more space that suitable for this course studies environment. This transfer was accomplished in 1995 .

AS120 - Diploma Sains

The Diploma in Science (AS 120) is a 6-semester program in which students are taught the fundamentals of sciences (chemistry, biology and physics) as well as some applications of the knowledge. After the 2nd semester the students are streamed into physics-based and biology-based specializations. Those graduated in this diploma are qualified to further their studies at the degree level in the science-based courses, such as the pure sciences, applied sciences, engineering, pharmacy and medicine in the local or overseas universities.

Here the students are provided with high class learning facilities including the well-equipped chemistry, biology and physics laboratories. The academic staff here are well-experienced with most of them have at least a masters degree.