EURAXESS Science Slam 2014 ASEAN

EURAXESS Press Release   Researcher from Nottingham University Malaysia Campus beats region-wide competition in 2nd EURAXESS Science Slam ASEAN. Doctoral candidate Bhamini Bhujun will join the Science Slam Champions from Brazil, China, India, Japan, and North America on a unique networking trip to Europe in spring 2015. The young electrical engineer also gets the opportunity …

PERINTIS Research Invention and Innovation Competition

By Hii Ching Lik   The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus won two Silver medals in the Research Invention and Innovation Competition for Private Institutions of Higher Learning, Malaysia (PERINTIS 2014), which was held in the Infrastructure University Kuala Lumpur on the 10th of September, 2014. The two projects that won were based on research …

FOE Dean’s Undergraduate Research Scheme 2014

By Dr. Show Pau Loke Dean’s Undergraduate Research Scheme (DURS) is an annual summer internship program for undergraduate students of Faculty of Engineering. It was established in 2012. In 2014, the scheme is organized by the Faculty Research Operation Group (FROG), overseen by the Faculty Research Committee. The objectives of the scheme are three-fold: to …

FOE Postgraduate Research Showcase 2014

By Liew Yuh Xiu, Feven Mattews Michael, Viknesh Andiappan and Zain Taha   The annual Postgraduate Research (PGR) Showcase was held successfully with great enthusiasm at the Great Hall, UNMC on the 23rd September 2014. This event was organised by the Faculty of Engineering with aim to provide a platform for their PGR students to …

University of Nottingham Three Minute Thesis Winner REVEALED

This post was contrinuted by Tissa Chandesa On September 5th, 2014, The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) conducted its Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition for the second year running. A total of 15 participants from the Faculty of Engineering and Science took part in this year’s competition. We at RTAD would like to take …

3 Minute Thesis Competition

This post was contributed by Tissa Chandesa Fancy hearing an 80,000 word thesis explained in less than 180 seconds? Research students from across the globe are doing just that in preparation for the Three Minute Thesis Competition (3MT®). Established by the University of Queensland (UQ) in 2008, 3MT is now held in universities around the …

Nottingham-RHB Resume Competition focuses on Effective Resume

This post was contributed by Alicia Ch’ng The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and RHB Bank Berhad recently organised its inaugural Resume Competition to raise student’s awareness about the importance of writing an effective resume. “The competition was well received by both undergraduate and postgraduate students. Resume is important because it introduces a candidate to …

Longitude Prize 2014

The (from their web site) “Longitude Prize 2014 is a challenge with a £10 million prize fund to help solve one of the greatest issues of our time. It is being run and developed by Nesta, with the Technology Strategy Board as launch funding partner.” The longitude prize is so named as there was an …

Pack Santa’s Sleigh and share a prize pool of $10,000

It’s a little late to help Santa this year, but as this competition does not close until the 26th January 2014, I guess the man in red is already looking towards next year! The competition, arranged by Kaggle, asks you to pack Santa’a sleigh in the most efficient way possible. It is actually an abstraction …

VeRoLog Solver Challenge 2014

If you are interested in the Vehicle Routing Problem (although the actual problem being considered is called Swap-Body Vehicle Routing Problem (SB-VRP)), you might be interested in this competition. The deadline, to register, is the 31st Dec 2013 although the actual submission deadline is not until April. The competition is run by VeRoLog and full …