What’s better than a competition medal? Why, a competition medal that comes from research that could help the community and environment, of course!
Our students and academics have a great track record of these achievements, and the latest high-achiever is Master of Science student Mok Shue Yee—who won bronze for her outstanding pitch at the 6th International Innovation, Design and Articulation (i-IDeA) competition.
Shue Yee’s pitch competed in the Commercialization, Innovation and i-IDeA Competition Satellite Event I category, along with entries from UiTM, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Indonesia’s Airlangga University and many more.
Hosted by UiTM Perlis, i-IDeA™ 2023 is a competition that highlights research products and promotes the culture of research and innovation among local and foreign institutions of higher education. The innovation event invites professionals, postgraduate students and school students to showcase their ground-breaking talents.
Shue Yee’s pitch is titled “Adsorption of Heavy Metals from Malaysian Rivers using Chitosan-Ionic Liquids Complex“, which deals with a sustainable and environmentally-friendly way to clean up rivers in Malaysia.
This project is part of our award-winning academic Ts Dr Magaret Sivapragasam’s FRGS grant titled, Elucidation on the dissolution behaviour between chitosan-Ionic liquids complex supported on SiO2 for heavy metal extractions, which is a collaboration with QIU’s senior lecturer ChM. Dr Maisara Shahrom, Assoc Prof Dr Azmi bin Bustam of Universiti Teknologi Petronas and Prof Zurina Zainal Abidin of Universiti Putra Malaysia.
This same poster also won her a third-place prize at a poster competition organized by the Malaysian Ionic Liquids Research Society (MILRS) and the Center for Ionic Liquids (UMCiL) Universiti of Malaya
At the same event, QIU also signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) to collaborate with host institution UiTM Perlis on institutional exchanges between staff and students from each partner institution, as well as student development on related research projects.
Congratulations to everyone involved with this latest success!
