Sunway Construction Career Talk

This post was contributed by Derek Wong Wai Hoe Sunway Managerial Advancement for Recruited Talents (SMART) Programme. University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, 12 March 2014 — Six members of staff from the highly reputable Sunway Construction visited the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus to introduce the next generation of civil engineers to their SMART career …

Professor Dominic Foo is a Thomson Reuters Highly-Cited Author

Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo was announced by Thomson Reuters as the Highly-Cited Author for his paper entitled “State-of-the-art Review of Pinch Analysis Techniques for Water Network Synthesis”.  The paper has a total citation of 117 based on 10 years record in Web of Science, i.e. between 1 January 2003 to 31 October …

UNMC-IEM Student Chapter “Gift of Knowledge” Charity Event

This post was contributed by Hii Ching LIk A charity event was organized by the UNMC-IEM Student Chapter on the 26th April 2014 at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. About 40 children from Desa Amal Jireh (Semenyih) and Openhands (Kajang) were invited to the campus and the main objective of this event was to …

Dominic Foo received award and presented at SCEJ 79th Annual Meeting

Professor Ir Dr Dominic C. Y. Foo was an invited speaker for the 79th  Society of Chemical Engineers, Japan (SCEJ) Annual Meeting.  He delivered a talk entitled “Process Integration – From Resource Conservation to CO2 Management”, that is chaired by Professor Yoshiyuki Yamashita. During the opening ceremony of the Annual Meeting, Professor Foo was awarded …

UNMC-IEM Student Chapter Activities (Industrial Visit and Talk)

This post was contributed by Hii Ching Lik A visit was made to Shell Refinery Port Dickson on the 26th February 2014 which was led by Dr Hii Ching Lik (UNMC-IEM advisor) from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. A group of 40 students attended the visit and they were exposed to various aspects …

Teaching Food Processing Technology in Chemical Engineering Undergraduate Program

This post was contributed by Dr Hii Ching Lik A talk was presented by Dr Hii Ching Lik from the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at the Institution of Engineers Malaysia, on the 11th March 2014. The talk was chaired by Ir. Mathew Thomas from the Engineering Education Technical Division. In his talk, he …

UNMC-IEM Student Chapter Activities: Visit to Proton Manufacturing Plant and Engineering Leadership Program

This post was contributed by Hii Ching Lik Visit to Proton manufacturing plant, Shah Alam: A group of 40 students including 2 lecturers from the Faculty of Engineering have recently visited the Proton manufacturing plant in Shah Alam on 3rd December 2013. Accompanying them were two lecturers from the Faculty of Engineering Dr Hii Ching …

IEEE Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2013

This post was contributed by Tuong-Thuy Vu IEEE Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2013 was held at Multimedia University (MMU), Melaka campus. This was the first annual workshop organised by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Malaysia chapter (GRSS). This workshop aimed to provide a forum for GRSS members, researchers and students to share …

Top authors and reviewer for Computers & Chemical Engineering

This post was contributed by Dr Denny Ng. We would like to congratulate him, and the other authors on their successes. Three papers of Dr Denny Ng, Dr Hon Loong Lam and Professor Dominic Foo from the Centre of Excellence for Green Technologies and Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering have been identified as most …

Book Launch: Processing and Drying of Foods, Vegetables and Fruits

This post was contributed by Hii Ching Lik A new e-book “Processing and Drying of Foods, Vegetables and Fruits” (ISBN: 978-981-07-7312-0) was launched on 26th November 2013 from a joint effort between Faculty of Engineering staffs from the Center for Food and Bio-Product Processing and the Transport Processes Research group, NUS, Singapore. The book was …