Chemical Engineering Australia Challenge 2009: March 2010

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Around The World In A Day

On 13 March 2010, we presented our report and findings from Australia academic visit (Chemical Engineering Australia Challenge 2009) to UMP community. Among those presented were Yang Hormat Dato' Vice Chancellor, Yang Hormat Dato' Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic & International), Chief Deputy Registrar of Research & Innovation Department and Director of International Office.

Below are the presentation slides. Kudos to the team for the good presentation, as responded by Yang Hormat Dato' Vice Chancellor. Well done mate!

Introduction

Chemical Engineering Australia Challenge 2009 (CEAC’ 09) is an international visit comprises of three elements which are academic, industrial and social. In this visit, we emphasized in three agendas which are academic discussion between Universiti Malaysia Pahang students and students from Australia universities. Second is to explore the industrial development and advancement and the employability potential for chemical engineering industry in Australia while third is to exchange culture between Malaysian and Australian cultures.

For academic visit, we have selected Australia top universities that have focus in Chemical Engineering. This focus was referred to pure chemical, biotechnology, oil and gas. The objective of this visit is to establish two-way cooperation between Universiti Malaysia Pahang and Australia universities. We wish to initialize academic collaboration programme in terms of information exchange in terms of latest technology that they have in Chemical Engineering specifically in pure chemical, biotechnology, oil and gas. Apart from that, we will also study on Australia educational system starting from lower education to higher education and the teaching approach practiced by Australian academicians to be implemented into Universiti Malaysia Pahang teaching system.

Industrial visit is defined as visit to industrial areas in Australia and in this visit, we focus on industries that relate with Chemical Engineering field like chemical industries, biotechnology industries and oil and gas industries. Cultural exchange is referred to arts and cultures and introduction of Malaysian cultures to Australians and understanding Australian cultures. This visit also wishes to expose Universiti Malaysia Pahang students to how Malaysian students in Australia adapt with the country’s nature and how they live and study abroad.