UNITEN RESEARCH PARTICIPATION AT INPEX 2007, PITTSBURGH, USA

Universiti Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN) was awarded the highly coveted Silver Medal at THE INVENTIONS & NEW PRODUCTS EXPOSITION (INPEX) 2007 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA on 6 – 9 June 2007.

Ir. Marlinda Bt Abd Malek upon receiving the Silver Medal.

UNITEN’s research project team, headed by Ir. Marlinda Bt. Abdul Malek, a principal lecturer in Civil Engineering Department, College of Engineering (COE) showcased its prototype product called Rainfall Missing Data Imputator (codenamed “RaMeDy” – version 1), a prototype method of imputating missing rainfall data which has vast potential to be applied in many other areas beyond hydrology, dealing with incomplete and missing data. Despite being UNITEN’s maiden entry in international competition, RaMeDy, due to its sheer technical and commercial potential, had successfully gained the accolade by the international community. A total of approximately 624 participants from private companies and various institutes of higher learning worldwide took part in this exposition. The Malaysian contingent comprised of Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Universiti Malaysia Perlis, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Universiti Islam Antarabangsa, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Universiti Teknologi Petronas and MARDI. Other international delegations are Australia, Belgium, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Netherlands, Russia, Moldova, Spain, England, USA, Korea and Taiwán.
UNITEN hopes that this recognition will encourage other academicians to strive for the best in their research works and be at par, if not better than, other international research institutions locally and internationally. Not only the awareness of quality research works that UNITEN is capable of producing would increase, it also elevates UNITEN itself to a level to be reckoned and position UNITEN clearly on the map of today’s globalised world.