The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is widely known by graduate students and research community globally as an eminent research communication competition. It is a truly unique competition for PhD students to explain and present their research within three minutes in language appropriate to the general audience.

NIBONG TEBAL, PENANG, 28 October 2021 – A team from the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Engineering Campus will be representing the university to take part in the Spaceport America Cup 2022, which is the world’s largest Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Conference (IREC) for the first time, organised by Experimental Sounding Rocket Association.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) through the School of Chemical Engineering and the School of Mechanical Engineering, has entered a research and technological collaboration with Petronas Research Sdn Bhd, one of the research and development arms of Petroliam National Bhd (Petronas).

The #ShellSelamatSampai Varsity Challenge programme by Shell is an inter-varsity road safety innovation competition which empowers varsity students in leading an innovative road safety project that would contribute towards eradicating road-related accidents. Due to the outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic, this competition will be held virtually this year. The preliminary judging session for the first stage of the competition was conducted on 19th September 2021. On the 27th of September 2021, it was imparted that the proposal submitted by TITANS has been selected as the top 20 teams to proceed to the next stage of the competition. TITANS comprise of undergraduate students from the School of Chemical Engineering and School of Materials & Mineral Resources Engineering, USM. This team is being supervised by Dr. Masrina Mohd Nadzir. The team members are Guneswaren Subramani, Aravind Karupaiah Muthuraman, Kesavan Nair Appu and Keijhendrri Chandran.