10th ANNIVERSARY OF CONVOCATION OF UTP"
SERI ISKANDAR, Oct 17 (Bernama) -- Ninety per cent of the Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) graduates who graduated early this year were able to get jobs within six months after completing their studies, its Rector, Datuk Dr Zainal Kasim said.
Proud with the achievement, he said there were vast employment opportunities for UTP graduates in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Ireland with Malaysia being a signatory to the Washington Accord, an international accreditation agreement for professionals in the field of engineering, last year.
He said UTP was also implementing its transformation plan towards achieving the objective of becoming a research university by 2013.
"The research is focused on nine fields, namely, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Deep Water Technology, Nano Technology, Green Technology, CO2 Management, Energy, Health, Mega City and Sustainability Science," he said in his speech at the UTP''s 10th convocation today.
Towards this end, he said, eight research centres had been established, including the Centre for Automotive Research, Enhanced Oil Recovery, Intelligent Signal and Imaging, Petronas Lonic Liuid, Biofuel and Biochemical, Corrosion, Gas Separation and South-East Asia Carbonate Research Laboratory.
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A total of 1,190 graduates received their scrolls, including 32 people who received their doctorate and 92 who were awarded master''s degree in science.
The convocation also saw Petronas president and chief executive officer Datuk Shamsul Azhar Abbas proclaimed at the new UTP Pro-Chancellor. He replaced Tan Sri Mohd Hassan Marican.
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