| Danial Norjidi |
THE Faculty of Engineering of Universiti Teknologi Brunei (UTB) organised the ‘UTB Engineering Project Showcase 2018’ yesterday.
Held at the Common Engineering Block at Phase 3 of UTB, this year’s one-day showcase saw 150 projects – 134 Final Year Project, and 16 Design Projects from third year students – on display.
According to a UTB press release, the projects were developed by students from Civil Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Petroleum and Chemical Engineering programmes.
The projects gave students the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to apply engineering design and research principles in solving real-world problems.
Under Civil Engineering there were 30 final year projects dealing with road safety in Brunei – slope stability, pavement and concrete materials, water and environment, and modelling of innovative structures.
Thirty-seven final year projects were featured for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, including microcontroller-based smart technologies, embedded systems and their applications, automation in agriculture, solar power and its applications, energy and power systems, electric vehicles, image processing, optical fibre communications, silicon photonics, robotics, Internet of Things (IoT), computer programming and applications.
For Mechanical Engineering there were 54 final year projects dealing with development and improvement of products, investigation of material behaviour and properties, and manufacturing processes, modelling and analysis of solids and fluid flows, and renewable and alternative energies.
There were also 16 group design projects under Mechanical Engineering on ‘Downhill Cart’ by third year students.
Meanwhile, under Petroleum and Chemical Engineering, there were 13 final year projects (in groups) on methanol production plant from biomass, natural gas or coal covering conceptual design, basis of design, overall balances, flow sheeting, detailed design of major plant equipment (heat exchangers, flash drums, distillation columns and reactors), risk assessments and financial plans.
The press release noted that UTB is one of the best nine Universities of Engineering and Technology in Southeast Asia, and its Faculty of Engineering is a major provider of higher engineering education in Brunei Darussalam since 1986.
The faculty offers seven undergraduate programmes, Master and PhD programmes in Civil, Electrical and Electronic, Mechanical, and Petroleum and Chemical Engineering disciplines.
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