page_title: Institut Latihan Perindustrian Kuala Lumpur
section_title: Automotive faculty
hierarchical_section_title: Institut Latihan Perindustrian Kuala Lumpur / Training / Automotive faculty
caption_attribution_description: English: car used for drag racing
context_page_description: Institut Latihan Perindustrian Kuala Lumpur or its English name Industrial Training Institute of Kuala Lumpur, also known as ILPKL is a public vocational college situated in a 13.7 acre land in Kuchai Lama, suburb of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Founded in 1964 under Jabatan Tenaga Manusia, JTM, ILPKL is one of the oldest institute of technology in Malaysia. It is one of 32 Institut Latihan Jabatan Tenaga Manusia, ILJTM. Today, ILPKL offers 12 courses. Currently under the direction of the 13th director, Abd Halim bin Ali Mohammed, ILPKL is able to accommodate 1100 students at one time.
context_section_description: The first diploma level introduced in ILPKL is automotive. ILPKL is always giving prestige to automotive department by giving foremost attention to them and entering all automotive competition such as Pertandingan Kemahiran Malaysia, PKM (Malaysia Skills Competition), innovation competition and motor sports including drag racing and go-kart. The automotive department of ILPKL is also a three years consecutive gold winner in automotive category. They are looking forward to represent Malaysia in the 2015 World Skills Competition in Brazil. Their invention of anti-theft system also gained a gold at Polytechnic. Hence ILPKL is well known as the Centre of Excellence in Automotive, which is perpetuated at the main gate and their administration building, under the inauguration commemorative plaque.
caption: A student from automotive faculty working on a car used by ILPKL to compete in drag racing.
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