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Research Officer Job Vacancies @ UTM

Fadhzir — Fri, 15 May 2009 08:23:04 +0000

For those who are interested to work as Research Officer in UTM, please click on this link for details:

CREG won The Best Research Group UTM 2008 award

Fadhzir — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:45:27 +0000

Tuesday, 12th May 2009

Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG) has been awarded The Best Research Group UTM for year 2008 at Citra Karisma ceremony held in Dewan Sultan Iskandar, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia.

On top of that, Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Head of CREG) also received the award for The Best Applied Research UTM for year 2008.

For The Best Research Group category, CREG received an RM5,000 cheque with additional RM25,000 worth of research grant. Besides that, Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah has been awarded with an RM3,000 cheque for the Best Applied Research Category for year 2008.

With the incentives given by UTM management, CREG will surely strive for Creative, Excellent, Resourceful and Green in line with CREG tagline.

CREG members that were present during the Citra Karisma ceremony are as follows:

Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Head of CREG)

Associate Prof. Dr. Ramli Mat

Mr. Mahadhir Mohamed

Mr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria

Mr. Mohd Fadhzir Ahmad Kamaroddin

Mrs. Roslindawati Haron

Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme UTM and MOSTI

Fadhzir — Wed, 06 May 2009 08:04:17 +0000

Dear Researchers/Sir/Madam,

Re-posting

Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG) is searching for a Post Doc to assist its research activity. Anybody who fulfills the requirements are encourage to apply.

Closing date: open all year round

Details of the Post Doctoral Fellowship Scheme:

This schemes provide funds for appointment post doctoral research fellow who will conduct full time research work and thereby contributes towards enhancing and strengthening research work in particular research area. Candidate must be foreign researcher (non-Malaysian citizen) who possesses a doctorate or will obtain within 6 months in related field of studies from a recognized institution of higher education.

Terms of appointment:

1. The tenure for the post-doctoral is one (1) year subjected to research performance.
2. Monthly allowances is RM5,000.00 based on his/her proven skills and experiences.
3. Travel expenses (economy class only).

Eligibility Criteria:

1. Application must be made by the Post Doctoral candidate through his/her UTM supervisor.
2. Non-Malaysian Post Doctoral candidate need to prove his/her proficiency in English through TOEFL (minimum score 600) or IELTS (minimum score 6.5).

Documents to be attached together with application form:

1. Passport
2. Recent photograph
3. Academic certificates
4. TOEFL/IELTS results
5. CV
6. Research proposal

For interested candidates, please contact fadhzir@yahoo.com or zakiyamani@fkkksa.utm.my.

IEM UTM Engineering Week 2009 Exhibition

Fadhzir — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:54:34 +0000

CREG had been invited by the IEM, Malaysia Student Chapter UTM to join IEM UTM Engineering Week 2009 Exhibition. Following from that, CREG has submitted three (3) research output titles to be presented during the exhibition. The research titles are (1) New Biopolymer Materials from EPFB Pyrolysis Liquefaction (2) Two Step Process of Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil: Optimization of Pre-treatment step and (3) Enzymatic Pre-treatment of Empty Fruit Bunch (EPFB) for Biofuel Production. Here are the details:

Date: 17-18th January 2008

Time: 9am – 3pm

Venue: Dewan Sultan Iskandar, UTM

Thanks

Research Workshop “Tips & Tricks for Successful PhD”

Fadhzir — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:38:55 +0000

Dear all,

RESEARCH WORKSHOP (FREE EVENT!!)

“TIPS AND TRICKS FOR SUCCESSFUL PHD”

AND

“THE ORGANISATION AND MANAGEMENT OF UNIVERSITY RESEARCH – THE SALFORD EXPERIENCE”

You are all invited to the above workshop conducted by Professor Ghassan Aouad, the Pro Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation; and Mr Brian Meichen, Marketing Officer, Research Institute of Built and Human Environement at the University of Salford, a 6* RAE status university in the UK in the area of Built and Human Environment .

The detail of the workshop is as below:
Date: 17th November 2008 (Monday)
Time: 9.00am – 1.00pm (Registration at 8.30am)
Venue: Seminar Room, B03 Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
Fee: Free event

Who should attend:
1. Post graduate students
2. Research staffs
3. Research managers/ administrators
4. Anybody who is interested

Please contact the persons below via phone or email to book your place:
1. Dr Kherun Nita Ali 019-7750354 email: b-kherun@utm.my / kherun.nita@gmail.com
2. Dr Nur Emma Mustaffa 075530707 email: ammerun@gmail.com
3. En Zuhaili Mohd Ramly 012-6159249 email: zuhaily@utm.my

We would appreciate it if you could extend this invitation to your friends, colleagues and students.

We are looking forward to receive your positive reply and participation.

This message has been emailed by Dr Kherun Nita Ali from Faculty of Built Environment to the rmc.rnd.net@groups.utm.my and academic.net@groups.utm.my

ExxonMobil Grant 2008

Fadhzir — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 03:13:03 +0000

Dear all,

I’m pleased to inform you that our CREG research group has been awarded RM30,000 grant from ExxonMobil. This grant has been awarded to research proposal entitled Feasibility Study of Plasma Reaction in Converting Flare Gas to Synthesis Gas and C2+ hydrocarbons. In the research proposal’s summary has included the summary about how the project should be carried out. It mentioned, this research about Plasma Reaction is a new way to handle flare gas with the objective to reduce the greenhouse effect from flaring process. Besides, the conversion of natural gas into higher valuable products bring out the advantage economically. Dielectric barrier discharge plasma reactor wil be used and influence of the input voltage, flowrates and catalyst will be investigated.

Official letter from ExxonMobil dated 17th September 2008, did mentioned that the mock cheque presentation ceremony to be held on 12 November 2008.

Best Regards