Congratulations to Dr. Tan Mou Leong who won the best postgraduate student award during the 56th Convocation Ceremony of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) on 22nd April 2016. A “Hooding Ceremony” was organized in the conjunction with this event, and he was hooded by his supervisor, Associate Professor Dr. Ab Latif Ibrahim, for signifying the successful completion of his Ph.D. in remote sensing program.
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| The Three Minutes Thesis Competition 2016 for FGHT and FBME (faculty level) was successfully held on 7th March 2016 at Seminar Room FGHT (Level 3 T06) of UTM. This competition aims at assessing the student’s ability to communicate ideas effectively. It intends to enhance academic and research communication skills. Eight from FBME and 14 from FGHT PhD students presented their thesis topic and significance of research within 3 minutes before the non-specialist audiences.
A panel of four judges, Chaired by Prof Mazlan Hashim (FGHT) announced the names of 2 contestants who won the competition. Both the winners were students of INSTeG. One of them was Syarifuddin Misbari as the first prize winner, received certificate and RM300. The second prize winner named Linda Roziani Jamru received certificate and RM200. They will represent FGHT for contesting later at the UTM level. Let’s congratulate them for future success. |
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| INSTeG is pleased to inform the appointment of Dr Mohd Nadzri Md Reba (pictured left) as the new Director of the Geoscience and Digital Earth Centre (INSTeG) as of February 1. Dr. Nadzri succeeds Prof Mazlan Hashim (pictured right), who will become Senior Director of Research Institute of Sustainable Environment (RISE) with effect from February 15. |
A very big congratulations to Prof. Dr. Mazlan Hashim and Dr. Jaw Siow Wei who won a gold medal and jury award in the Industrial Art and Technology Exhibition (INATEX 2015) that was held in Dewan Sultan Iskandar Hall, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia from 3 – 5 November 2015. INSTeG had been presented by:
Title of invention:
CALIBRATION SITE FOR UNDERGROUND MAPPING LOCATIONAL AND DETECTABILITY ACCURIES ASSESSMENT
Delegates of Geoscience & Digital Earth Centre (INSTeG) headed by Prof Sr Dr Mazlan Hashim have made impact in the recent 37th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, held in Manila, the Philippines from 20-24 October 2015. This annual gathering of the Asian Association on Remote Sensing (AARS) not only serve as a annual general meeting for all AARS members but also have been a crowdly-followed conference by all remote sensing and related technologies professionals, scientists, engineers, researchers, policy makers, students , etc. ARRS has regular memberships of all countries in the Asia and Pacific, apart from worldwide sustaining members. INSTeG-UTM is an associate member of AARS. A total of 750 participants have attended this 37th ACRS. Malaysia pledged an intention of hosting ACRS 2018.
INSTeG delegates comprised of Prof Mazlan Hashim, Dr Nadzri Mohd Reba, and Dr Amin Beirvand Pour, also joined by 3 PhD students namely Syarifudin Misbari, Linda Rozaini and Maslina Natar. All have made their oral presentations, lead by sub-plenary presentation of Prof Mazlan Hashim, and technical sessions by others and also poster sessions.
