UTM fosters a culture of collaboration across disciplines and encourages research over a multitude of boundaries – featuring chemical, bioprocessing and polymer engineering related disciplines. We are particularly interested in producing novel research works and aimed to transfer technology developed by expertise amongst our faculty members to the industry. Furthermore, significant research efforts have also been directed to bring forth the concept of sustainability and the idea of green technology. Our research strength does not lie on a single entity but formed through a collaboration work amongst faculty members and fruitful alliance with the industry and research consortium worldwide.
In line with this policy, research in the Faculty of Chemical Engineering (FChE) has become almost borderless due to the breadth covered by our technical backgrounds and the fact that much of research activities ventured by the dedicated and well experienced researchers residing our laboratories converge with those of many other fields. In FChE, research activities stretch along both macroscopic and microscopic frontiers of scale.
In line with our Global branding concept, we encourage our faculty members to form alliance or a joint research work with the industry and research consortium worldwide!
Prof. Dr. Zainuddin Abdul Manan,
Dean of FChE
In between the two sides, varieties of innovations and inventions have emerged from various research activities offered by research groups in the faculty. Research in catalysis, separation technology, material science and environmental engineering continue to flourish. New inventions by some leading researchers have put the faculty in the limelight by winning numerous awards in product exhibitions at national and international levels.
The call for higher plant efficiency has also motivated developments of more intensified processes. By combining multiple processing approaches such as microwaves and heat transfer, electrochemistry and molecular separation, ultrasonic waves and magnetism, traditional process units are intensified to generate new processes that are not only compact but also efficient from both functional as well as operational perspectives.
