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Vacancy : Chemical Engineering Master and/or Ph.D student(s)

I completed my Ph.D study last year and it has been a great experience, I must say. I am going to continue doing research mainly because I am very interested to conduct research, I love publishing my work, I like presenting my work in conferences as well as I want to contribute to the advancement of technology and knowledge.

Hence, in order to continue the research culture, I am currently looking for master and/or PhD student to work on a project with me. Following are the criteria/information for the future student.

  1. Citizenship:- Malaysian (because scholarship can easily be obtained).
  2. Topic: related to biodiesel sustainability study.
  3. Scope: experimental, optimization, modelling and kinetics.
  4. Full time position.
  5. Trusted, honest, self discipline, self motivated, responsible.
  6. Have the desire to complete master in 2 years and phd in 3 years.
  7. Good command in English (writing especially)
  8. Location: Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor. 
If you fulfill the above criteria, you are welcome to contact me via email.
zakiyamani@cheme.utm.my


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posted by Kipas Repair JB @ 8:45 AM, ,

Does A Chemical Engineering Student Wants to Be A Chemical Engineer?

Presently, I am actively teaching and supervising students. It is important to know our students. What I mean is not to know them very close but enough in order for us to know the best way to treat them based on who they are, their background, based on what they want to be and several other factors.

One of the most frequent question I asked my student are what do you want to be after you graduated as a chemical engineer? For your information, I received numerous answers and feedbacks. Not majority of the students I asked want to be an engineer? However, I can easily categorize them into 3 huge distinctive segments.


Illustration of a chemical engineering student (source)

Here is the breakdown of what they want to be regardless of the gender: 

40% wants to be an engineer
44% wants to be an entrepreneur
6% wants to be an academician

The sample size of the students that I asked the questions was 20 students. From those 20 students, 16 are in their 3rd year and 4 students in their 4th (final) year. 

What does this information tells us?

This is a Chemical Engineering course and the students are trained to be a good and reliable chemical engineer. Is there anything wrong somewhere along the teaching? Should we conduct a more extensive survey to see our product output? 

Well, this is just my very rough survey. It is a quite a shocking personal early discovery. I will investigate this matter seriously in future.

Any comments? Ideas?



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posted by Kipas Repair JB @ 11:47 PM, ,

The Author

zyz

I’m Zaki. I used to be a project, process and chemical engineer. Few years ago I successfully became a Chartered Engineer (IChemE) and Professional Engineer (BEM). I'm now employed as a chemical engineering educator/researcher/consultant. Hope you like reading my blog. I welcome any feedback from you. My email: zaki.yz[alias]gmail.com. TQ!


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