Johor Bahru, 18 Dec 2016 –  There is a lot of potential research collaboration between UTM Faculty of Mechanical Engineering researchers and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Research and Innovation Centre staff led by Dr Sumiu Uchida, together with Imperial College London researcher Prof Ricardo Martinez-Botas, a close partner of the UTM Low Carbon Transport (Locartic) Group.

Prominent researchers from Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Prof Nasir Tamin, Prof Nazri and the Dean, Prof Noordin Yusoff shared the strengths of the faculty in various aspects of Simulation Technology, Maintenance, Validation Models, Efficient Models for Industry in various fields of Materials Development and Characterization, Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Mechanics of Fluid and Heat Transfer, Indoor Air Quality and Conditioning, Plasma, Engineering Design, Technical Knowhow, Control and Automation, Industrial and Advanced Manufacturing. The research infrastructure of Research at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering was also shared.

Prof Ricardo Martinez-Botas insists that there exists a lot of potential for more research to be done on Thermal Recovery System to enhance Energy Efficiency and low level high quality research for high quality outputs.