Year 3 Chemical Engineering Students won the Champion of 4th IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition

by Prof. Denny K. S. Ng For the first time, Year 3 undergraduates from University of Nottingham, Malaysia managed to outperform all other groups which mainly compose of Year 4 undergraduate students from various universities (e.g., Taylor’s University, Universiti Sabah Malaysia, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Perlis Malaysia, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, etc.).   A team of …

Universities are more than just a paper mill

There was an interesting article in Focusweek recently that discusses how Malaysian institutions are changing, and need to continue to change. You can view the article here. As an aside, Focusweek often has a lot of interesting articles so worth keeping an eye on their content and also following them on Twitter.

Writing Teaching Case Studies

I am often involved in converastions about teaching and how to publish in the educational journals, with a view of adding to one’s CV, getting promoted, disseminating good teaching practise, carrying out research in this area etc. I recently came across an interesting web site that has a short series of articles on writing up …

19th CEEMAN Case Writing Competition

If you are interested in disseminating your teaching contribution this competition might be of interest to you but please make sure you read the entry criteria)? The start of the page is shown below, but I would draw your attention to the fact that there are prizes and also look closely at items 1 and …