UniMAP Bags 7 BIS Awards In London

KANGAR (Perlis, Malaysia), Oct 27 (Bernama) -- Four Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) researchers have notched a name in the international arena when they won seven awards at the British Invention Show (BIS) 2014 Exhibition in the Barbican Exibition Centre in London. At the two-day event ending Sunday, PhD student Farah Farhana Zainal's research product clinched three awards. Faculty of Engineering Technology (FETech) senior lecturer Dr Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah who came up with the 'Anti Corrosion Coatings' product, saw his presentation receive the Double Gold Award in the 'Users' category and Double Gold Award in the 'Industry' category. Environment-friendly products, based on wastes from industrial plants and which serve as corrosion coating, also received a special recognition from the Romanian Inventors Forum (RIF), UniMAP said in a statement Sunday. It said the product, 'Intelligent Peripheral Hemodynamic Assessment and Diagnosis Tool' (I-PHAD), produced by a senior lecturer of the School of Engineering (PPK) Mechatronics, Dr Shahriman Abu Bakar, was chosen to receive the Double Gold Award in the design category. The product also received a special award, EUROINVENT Gold Medal. In addition, UniMAP received the same award for the product, 'Triple Play Services Zero Cross Correlation for FTTH OCDMA System' research findings of senior lecturer PPK Computer, Dr Amir Razif Jamil Abdullah. Meanwhile, Prof Dr Rezuwan Kamaruddin also received a special award from Pro Invention Haller Foundation in Poland, via his innovative finding, 'Greenhouse with Fertigation in the Tropics'. UniMAP Vice-Chancellor Prof Dr Kamarudin Hussin was happy with the achievements which he described as a success for the researchers and management of UniMAP's Centre for Research and Innovation Management. -- BERNAMA