From left Prof Dr Abdul Rashid Abd Aziz, UTP Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim Hashim, Prof Dr M Sam Mannan and Dr Dimitris Lagoudas.Pic Couertesy of UTPSERI ISKANDAR, Nov 7 (Bernama) — Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES) focusing in the area of process safety here, recently.
The signing ceremony took place during the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center (MKOPSC) International Symposium at Hilton Conference Center, College Station, Texas on 28 October, 2014.
UTP Vice Chancellor, Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim Hashim and TEES Deputy Director, Dr Dimitris Lagoudas signed the MOU on behalf of the two organisations.
“The signing of this MOU is another important milestone for UTP’s journey towards becoming an internationally recognised higher learning institution. Indeed, we are honoured to have TEES to collaborate with us,” said Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim in a statement.
He added the collaboration would cover various academic and research activities, which include technology transfer of advanced knowledge through sharing of academic materials and joint publications, staff and student exchange, joint fundamental and industrial research and services and organising joint lectures, symposia and conferences.
UTP has recently established a Centre for Advanced Process Safety (CAPS) to provide support in the advancement of knowledge, research and services to industries to prevent major accidents, the statement said.
The Centre, headed by Prof Dr Azmi Mohd Shariff, has begun research in process safety since 2003. Since then, a number of postgraduate students have graduated in the areas of risk assessment, inherent safety, fire hazard analysis, toxicity and process safety management.
Further, a number of journals and conference papers have been published in similar areas.
Datuk Ir (Dr) Abdul Rahim said that the strategic collaboration with MKOPSC TEES would further strengthen the scientific and technical capabilities of CAPS UTP in research and academia in advanced process safety.
UTP is one of the most prominent private universities in Malaysia offering wide range of industry-relevant engineering and technology programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
–BERNAMA
