UTM PEJABAT PENASIHAT UNDANG – UNDANG
ARAS 3, BANGUNAN CANSELERI SULTAN IBRAHIM
UTM JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR
Wan Fahmin Faiz W.A (wan_fahmin[at]utm.my)
Congratulations to Prof. Dr. Mohd Ghazali Mohd Nawawi on being appointed as the new Dean of UTM Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering effective 16 Feb 2017.
OHOR BAHRU, 16 February 2017 – Professor Dr Zainuddin Manan has been appointed as the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Academics and Internationalisation of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) effective 1 February 2017.
He is also a professor of chemical engineering, the founding director of Process Systems Engineering Centre (PROSPECT), and the founding Dean of Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering.
Professor Dr Zainuddin received his BSc from the University of Houston, USA, MSc from University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), United Kingdom, and PhD from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, all in Chemical Engineering.
He began his career as an engineer in PETRONAS and Hume Industries and has been an academic leader, educator, researcher, consultant and professional coach for 25 years.
He has completed over 100 research and development consultancy projects, filed for fifteen patents and has over 350 publications that include 15 books/chapters, 170 refereed journals and 190 conference papers on sustainable engineering of resources (energy, power, water, emissions & materials).
Professor Dr Zainuddin co-authored the 2014 book on Process Integration and Intensification – Saving Energy, Water and Resources. He was the winner of Saudi’s Prince Sultan International Prize for Water (2008) and was awarded Top Research Scientist of Malaysia by the Academy of Science of Malaysia (2013).
In 2014, he received award as UTM Top Researcher, UTM Top Academician and the Pannonia Honorary Award from University of Pannonia of Hungary. Professor Dr Zainuddin is a chartered engineer, a certified energy manager, a registered electrical energy manager and the certified lead trainer for Malaysian energy managers.
He has delivered over 400 professional workshops, seminars and invited lectures, including the 2014 Imperial College Distinguished Chemical Engineering Lecture, and coached professionals from more than 500 companies.
Professor Dr Zainuddin was the chair of the 6th PSE Asia conference (2013) and the 9th Regional Conference of Chemical Engineering (2016).
He was the vice-chairman of the Board of Judges for the ASEAN Energy Awards program for the commercial and industrial sectors, and the project director to develop the Green Technology Blueprint for 57 OIC Countries (2014).
Professor Dr Zainuddin spearheaded the UTM Sustainable Energy Management initiative that led UTM to achieve more than USD 5 million energy savings between 2011 and 2016, and to win the ASEAN Energy Award in 2012.
Congratulations to Dr. Eileen Su Lee Ming for winning First Place in the Royal Academy of Engineering’s Leaders in Innovation Fellowships (LIF) final pitch session 2016/7 under the Newton Fund.
The Leaders in Innovation Fellowship (LIF) Programme is designed to build the capacity of researchers for entrepreneurship and commercialisation of their research. The wider benefit of the LIF Programme will be the creation of international networks of innovators and technology entrepreneurs centred on the Royal Academy of Egineering Enterprise Hub
On the 12th of September 2017, UTM Vice Chancellor Prof. Datuk Ir. Dr. Wahid Omar and the President of the Arab Academy for Science, Technology, and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) Prof. Ismail Abdel Ghafar Ismail Farag signed a Memorandum of Agreement to foster closer collaborations between the two universities in areas of research, staff and student exchange and establish the Trans National Education Program (TNE).
In his speech, Prof. Wahid stresses the importance of TNE program which he believes will become the catalyst for excellence in higher education and research enabling both universities to reach greater heights in terms of capacity building and professional development for universal prosperity and the well-being of society. He also highlights that UTM already has many Egyptian students consisting of 70 active Egyptian students in UTM, of which 37 are undergraduate students and 33 are postgraduate students. Through this collaboration, UTM will receive more Egyptian students and vice versa. Furthermore, by collaborating with the Malaysia Japan International Institute of Technology (MJIIT) UTM, the TNE program will have added advantage in terms of an expanded network since there are currently 29 Japanese universities that are partners of MJIIT.
Meanwhile, Prof. Ismail congratulated the organizers of the event stating that joint conference such as this should be continued to foster closer collaborations among institutions involved. He also hoped that through the TNE, students from UTM will also come to AASTMT to complete their engineering degree and broaden their experience while studying at AASTMT.
The signing ceremony was performed in conjunction with the opening ceremony of the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technology and Applied Sciences (ICATAS 2017) jointly organised by AASTMT and MJIIT. AASTMT is supported by the Arab League comprising 22 Arab states and 4 observer states. Also present at the ceremony were the Dean of MJIIT, Prof. Dr. Rubiyah Yusof and the Dean of College of Engineering and Technology, AASTM, Prof Khalid Shehata.
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