IEM Research Paper Competition

A PhD student, Rex T. L. Ng from The University of Nottingham, Malaysia was announced as a winner at the IEM Research Paper Competition after the contestant’s final presentation at Wisma IEM in Petaling Jaya on 30 March 2013. IEM Research Paper Competition, organised by Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD), The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia …

Engineering Research Brochure

Engineering has recently launched a new research brochure. It can be downloaded from here. I have also placed a version on this blog site for archival purposes, available from here (note, this has been optimized as the original was too large to upload onto the blog site – this has reduced the resoltion of the images …

University explores Malaysian aerospace partnerships

We recently (briefly) reported on the Engineering Aerospace delegation. He is a slightly enhanced version (in the form of a press release).   World-leading University of Nottingham aerospace experts recently visited Malaysia to showcase their world-changing research and to discuss how they can work together with the aerospace industries in Malaysia. This was a tri-campus …

Manufacturing team gets a £4.6m boost

This recently appeared on the this is nottingham web site. “Professor Svetan Ratchev, director of the University of Nottingham’s Institute for Advanced Manufacturing, has received two five-year research grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, totalling £4.6.” read more Professor Svetan was at UNMC this week, as part of the Engineering delegation which …

Engineering Delegation visits UNMC

This week, we were fortunate enough to have a UK delegation, and a representative from Ningbo, spend a week with us, seeking to develop collaborative links and funding opportunities between our three campuses. The week comprised a series of workshops, as well as visits to various industrial partners including Spirit Aerosystems, CTRM (Composites Technology Research …

Professor Dragos Axinte receives prestigious Rolls-Royce Best Patent award

This recently appeared on the this is nottingham web site. “PROFESSOR Dragos Axinte from the University of Nottingham, together with colleagues at Rolls-Royce, has received the prestigious Rolls-Royce Best Patent award in recognition of a new technology that has been developed for the aerospace business.” read more Professor Axinte was at UNMC this week, as …

Pin Pin Oh and Karol Opara awarded Mikhalevich Award

Pin Pin Oh (Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering), together with Karol Opara, were awarded the Mikhalevich Award for outstanding work by participants of the 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) organized in the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. The Mikhalevich Award provides financial support for the winners to return …

Engineering Research Divisions: 2011 Activities

You might be interested in a nice set of web pages from UNMC, that outlines some of the research activity being carried out in the Engineering divisions. These pages are specifically from Sustainable Process Integration, but you might want to look around at the other activities.