Posts by Graham Kendall
Who’s Afraid of Peer Review?
October 21, 2013
Very interesting article in Sciencemag.org, that talks about spoof articles that had been submitted to Open Access articles. I was particularly interested in this as I had recently heard about an article that had been submitted to an Open Access journal. It was accepted within a week and when the authors asked for the reviewer’s …
Post Graduate Research Lab Cleaning
October 18, 2013
This post was contributed by Rex Ng The Postgraduate Research (PGR) lab cleaning, organised by the Faculty of Engineering (FoE) was successfully carried out on 4th of October 2013. The aim of this activity was to clean and tidy the labs in Engineering Research Building (Block N) to achieve a safer and more comfortable working …
How to publish your research (Videos)
October 17, 2013
At one of the leading Evolutionary Computation conferences earlier this year, there was a session on how to get your research published. Below is a link to the various videos that resulted from that session (the sound quality could do with being improved, but the messages are important).
Post Graduate Research Night Out
October 16, 2013
This post was cotributed by Rex Ng The event “Postgraduate Research (PGR) Night” was successfully carried out on the 4th of October 2013 in the Great Hall, UNMC. This event was organised by the PGR students from the Faculty of Engineering in conjunction with the PGR week. The aim of the event was to kick-start …
What is Tropospheric Ozone Enhancement?
In this What is? series, we invite experienced researchers to write about their area of research, but in more general terms than they might normally do. This article, entitled What is Tropospheric Ozone Enhancement?, is written by Muhammad Yaasiin Oozeer If you would like to contribute, then please let me know (Graham.Kendall@nottingham.edu.my) and we can discuss …
Post Graduate Research Poster Competition
October 14, 2013
This post was contributed by Rex Ng The annual Postgraduate Research (PGR) Showcase and Poster Competition was held successfully at the Great Hall, UNMC on the 1st of October 2013. This event was organised by the Faculty of Engineering (FoE) for PGR students of the FoE to showcase their research work and build networks as …
Malaysia shortlists announced for IChemE Awards 2013
I am sure that you will join me is wishing good luck to those that are in the shortlist for the Malaysia IChemE Awards 2013. The award ceremony will take place on the 21st Oct in Kuala Lumpur. Header Image: Chemical Engineering. Downlaoded from Google (13 Oct 2013), labelled as free to reuse. URL: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cushinglibrary/3641668286/
UNMC Mechanical Engineering Student returned with trophy from the IMechE EngNow 2013, Hong Kong
October 11, 2013
This post was contributed by Albert Tshai KY IMechE “EngNow – The Future of Engineering is Now” is an inaugural cross regional IMechE event encompasses a collection of activities over 4 days, 14th – 17th September 2013, including a Design Competition for the Visually Impaired (DCVI), Asia Pacific Speak Out for Engineering competition (API SOfE) …
How international are our publications?
October 10, 2013
I saw an interesting article (International research coauthorship – trends and implications) recently from blog.universitiesuk.co.uk, which discusses how collabotaion with international partners has changed over the past few years. I thought it might be interesting to see how we do, and compare ourselves against another well known institution in the UK. It shoud be noted …
EURAXESS: Newsletter (Sep 2013, Issue 31)
October 9, 2013
EURAXESS – Researchers in Motion is unique European initiative providing access to a complete range of information and support services to researchers wishing to pursue their research careers in Europe or stay connected to it (to quote from their web site). We are pleased to be able to provide access to the EURAXESS_Links_ASEAN_September 2013.
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