FOE Postgraduate Research Showcase 2014
October 11, 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 …
TheConversation: Pull up a chair, we need to talk about sexist language at work
“With the arrival of the first woman to head the BBC Trust, a perennially tricky question is once again causing awkwardness. Rona Fairhead took the helm of the trust on October 9, but is she be a chairwoman, a chair or a chairman? It might seem like a secondary concern – the head of the …
UNMC PhD Student Won Presentation Award in Portugal
October 8, 2014
This post was contributed by SivakumarManickam UNMC’s third year PhD student, Ms. Renu Geetha Bai from Chemical and Environmental Engineering participated in the Ultrasonic International Conference held from 15-17th September 2014 at Caparcia, Lisbon, Portugal. The conference organized by REQUIMTE, New University of Lisbon and chaired by pioneers from the Ultrasonics field received attendance from …
Vote for our 3MT (Three Minute Thesis) candidate
October 7, 2014
The 2014 U21 Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) competition is currently underway. The University of Nottingham is being represented by Mohammad Reza Ketabchi from the School of Chemical & Environment Engineering. Reza will be competing with other U21 finalists for three prizes: the Judges Choice, Highly commended and People’s Choice. The People’s Choice voting is now …
University of Nottingham Three Minute Thesis Winner REVEALED
October 6, 2014
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 …
CFFRC domes are beginning to look like domes
September 27, 2014
On the recent on location visit, when the Vice-chancellor accompanies a number of VIPs to our international campuses in China and Malaysia, we were able to show the progress that CFFRC (Crops for the Future Research Centre) has made with regard to the iconic domes that are being built. We showed an artist’s impression of …
WinSet Programmes Launch
September 23, 2014
Programmes Launch By Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WinSET) WinSET Leadership Development Programme (WLDP) WinSET Mentoring Programme (WMP) The programmes launch by Women in Science, Engineering and Technology (WinSET 2014) was successfully launched by Y. Bhg. Prof. Dr. Raha binti Abdul Rahim, Director of the Higher Education Excellence Planning Division (BPKI), Department of Higher …
Follow our tweets on twitter
September 17, 2014
As we have been reporting, we have slightly changed the way that this blog is being disseminated. Instead of sending out a weekly email, we plan to let those that want to get an email subscribe to the feed, and we will also tweet content from this blog. To make it a little easier to …
Big Data and Analytics: New Malaysian Web Site
September 16, 2014
Unless you have been living on another planet, you can hardly have failed to miss the term Big Data. Whether Big Data is a new discipline, or simply an incremental development of areas such as Data Mining, Prediction Algorithms etc. is open to debate and discussion (in my view). Another area that is receiving attention …
Twitter and EMAIL: It’s the future!
September 12, 2014
As we have said in a recent post, the way we write and disseminate this blog is changing. This will be the last set of posts that will be disseminated via a weekly newsletter. If you want to follow the blog by EMAIL, please use the “Subscribe by email” option that is available on the …
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