{"id":9402,"date":"2010-08-10T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T00:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?page_id=9402"},"modified":"2015-05-23T06:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T06:28:09","slug":"sciencetechnology-lift-ukms-performance-says-vc","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/august-2010\/sciencetechnology-lift-ukms-performance-says-vc\/","title":{"rendered":"Science,Technology Lift UKM\u2019s Performance, says VC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main \"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">0<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukm.my%2Fnews%2Farchive%2Fyear-2010%2Faugust-2010%2Fsciencetechnology-lift-ukms-performance-says-vc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/?p=9402&amp;via=https:\/\/twitter.com\/ukmtwit\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-toggle-container\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"newsitem_tools\">\n<div class=\"newsitem_info\"><span class=\"createdate\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/fst1.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>TUESDAY, 10 AUGUST 2010 18:05<br \/>\n<\/span><strong>By Abdul Ghani Nasir<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"newsitem_text\">\n<div class=\"news_item_article\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\"><br \/>\nBANGI, 10 Ogos, 2010 \u2013 The Science and Technology Faculty (FST) that was re-structured in 1999 has made a major contribution to the overall performance of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), said Vice Chancellor Prof Tan Sri Dr Sharifah Hapsah Syed Hasan Shahabudin here today.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Several new programmes to the country were first introduced by this faculty, she said during her address at the seventh session of the 38th convocation ceremony of the national universiti at Dewan Canselor Tun Abdul Razak (DECTAR). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Among the degree programmes were Actuarial Science, Nuclear Science and the Quality and Productivity programme, all of which were unique in that they were based on mathematical science.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">FST also chalked up a first in pioneering a double post-graduate degree programme with the Institute of Technology Bandung (ITB) where the students studied one year in UKM and the other year in ITB for a double Master degree in Petroleum Geoscience.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">This cooperation programme between the two institutions had attracted 10 Indonesian students, one Iranian and one Malaysian.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">\u00a0\u201cI congratulate this first batch of graduates of the double Masters degree programme called Master of Science (Petroleum Geoscience) in UKM and Master of Petroleum Geophysics in ITB. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">In term of research, FST had contributed to the National Innovation Agenda where it had used innovation and creativity as the basic building blocks to train human capital with noble values and to produce intellectual properties to create wealth, especially through commercialisation\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">FST, she pointed out, had succeeded in bagging research grants of RM81.6 million in three years from 2007, for 430 research projects. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Prof Sharifah Hapsah also said that several of research results had attracted the support of the Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) to set up the university\u2019s companies. The researchers too had received recognition and were invited to sit in the national and international organisations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Professor Gires Usup formerly Head of the UKM\u2019s Marine Research Station was selected to head the Global Ecology and Oceanography of Harmful Alga Blooms or GEOHAB\u00a0 Asia. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"border alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Campus_News_Picture\/fst2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/>In term of publications, FST has succeeded to enhancing the use of the Malay language in science and technology at the national and international level through the \u201cJurnal Sains Malaysiana\u201d (or Malaysian Science Journal) which were listed in SCOPUS and ISI Thompson.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Later, in her address at the last session of the convocation in the afternoon, she as part of the university&#8217;s internationalisation programme, the Nuclear Science Programme of the School of Applied Physics, had successfully\u00a0held the W<em>inter School On Nuclear Science and Technology<\/em> with the University of Bordeoux, France and the <em>Summer School<\/em> <em>on Nuclear Engineering<\/em> with the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST). \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">Prof Sharifah Hapsah\u2019s speech was read out by the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic and International), Prof. Dato\u2019 Dr. Ir Hassan Basri.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">She said those programmes were very strategic for the nation in preparation for the possibility of using nuclear energy when the country\u2019s oil and gas were exhausted. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">One of the special attractions of UKM in its garden of knowledge was its \u201cliving labs\u201d which were research stations in several places in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"MS\">\u00a0These stations at Langkawi, Tasik Chini, Bukit Fraser, Mersing and Lata Jarum had provided the students with a unique learning experience in physical ecology and humanities.<br \/>\n<\/span><span lang=\"MS\">They also provided an opportunity for the students and lecturers to contribute to the development of the local communities, she added.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/images\/stories\/Icon\/ukmnewsportal.png\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Translated by Kuah Guan Oo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, 10 AUGUST 2010 18:05 By Abdul Ghani Nasir BANGI, 10 Ogos, 2010 \u2013 The Science and Technology Faculty (FST)<a class=\"tukm-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/archive\/year-2010\/august-2010\/sciencetechnology-lift-ukms-performance-says-vc\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9403,"parent":1398,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9402","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9402\/revisions\/9404"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1398"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}