Bangi, July 4: The e-SEER (Engineering Seismology and Earthquake Engineering Research) team from Department of Structural Engineering, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia lead by Prof. Dr. Azlan Adnan, has won two medals at Hari Inovasi Nuklear Malaysia 2012 held at Agensi Nuklear Malaysia (Nuclear Malaysia) in Bangi recently, from 2 to 4 July in conjunction with its 40th anniversary. The e-SEER team also bags home ‘Piala Pusingan Inovasi Jemputan’, and RM800 cash as the overall winner for the Invitational Invention Category. A total of 29 products from institutions inside and outside Nuclear Malaysia, were exhibited in the event.

Two inventions from e-SEER, SEER-iPLAT (a seismic isolation platform) and SEER-mSAG (seismo-accelerograph and crack detector for shell structures), won the gold and silver medals respectively, handed out by the Director-General of Agensi Nuklear Malaysia, Dr Muhamad bin Lebai Juri. [ read more ]