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Chong Chien Hwa

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Associate Professor Ir. Ts. Dr. Chien Hwa CHONG is Associate Professor at Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University of Nottingham and Guest Professor of Batangas State University, College of Engineering, Architecture and Fine Arts, Alangilan, Phillipines. Dr. Chong also served as Director of CQI and Accreditation, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at University of Nottingham Malaysia. Formally, he was appointed as the Associate Director of Learning and Teaching (ADLT) at Engineering and Physical Sciences, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia Campus in 2019. Prior to this, he was the Programme Director of Studies (PDoS) of Chemical Engineering Programme, Heriot-Watt University Malaysia campus from 2017 to 2019, Associate Dean (Learning and Quality), Taylors University from 2013 to 2017, Programme Director (Chemical Engineering), Taylor's University from 2011 to 2013. He currently is a Professional Engineer registered with the Board of Engineer, Professional Technologist (Chemical), International Professional Engineer (Int PE (MY)), APEC Engineer, ASEAN Engineer, Chartered Chemical Engineer, IChemE (UK) and Chartered Engineer of the Engineering Council, UK. Dr. Chong obtained the fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK in 2020. He was the former Chairman of Chemical Engineering Technical Division 2019-2021 and currently served as an advisor for Chemical Engineering Technical Division 2021-2022. He also served as Council member of Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) 2021-2024 and Head of Delegates, Head of Panels for Accreditation Council (EAC) and Engineering Accreditation Technology Council (ETAC) visits for local and UK, Australia and China branch campuses Chemical Engineering Programme offered in Malaysia. He was the external reviewer for Newcastle University in Singapore undergraduate and postgraduate programme in 2020-2021. He is also a TRIZ level 2 practitioner. Since he started his career in 2010, he has received academic awards including Vice Chancellor's Top Cited Academician Award in 2015 at Taylor's University, Presidential Awards of Excellence, Institution of Engineer Malaysia (IEM) from 2013 to 2016 and Outstanding Research Supervisor Award (2022-23). He also won an International Invention & Innovative Competition (INIIC) 2022 Award: Gold Award and Best Video Winner (Category : Higher Institution - Science, Engineering & Technology). Further to this, he won a Gold medal in International Conference and Exposition on Inventions by Institutions of Higher Learning (PECIPTA), which is a biannual program organized by Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia together with its partner institutions of higher learning (IHL) and he won the Diamond and Gold awards in the 3rd Virtual Innovation Competition 2022 (VIC22). In total more than 872 participants from local and international organizations such as Indonesia, India, and the Philippines. Only 13 projects were selected as special Diamond awards. The special Diamond award received is under the category of TERTIARY - SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY. In 2023, he won a Gold medal at Malaysia Invention & Innovation Expo 2023 and International virtual expo of innovation product and system design 2023, Universiti Malaysia Perlis 2023. All awards are related to the 3D-Printed PEGDA Monolith with Robust Silane-Grafted Chitosan for the Enhanced Textile Wastewater Treatment research project.

He has published 73 indexed journal papers, book chapters and monograph based on Scopus data. His publications cited over 1588 times with h-index of 21 in Scopus. He is also the Primary Project leader for 4 projects and Co-Investigator for 3 projects from International, National, and Industry Projects, with a total amount of more than MYR 500 thousand. He was the Guest Editor for Foods (2018) in Special issue: Drying Technologies in Food Preservation and Guest Editor for Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (Emerging Source Citation Indexed), Asia-Pacific Journal of Chemical Engineering, APPChE 2022 and Foods (2018) in Special issues: The 5th International. Symposium on Processing of Food, Vegetables and Fruits. 2023. My main achievement in 2022 was leading the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering for Tri-Campus accreditation visits from IChemE, UK and IOM3, UK, badged three gold medals and a Diamond award in three international innovation competitions. In 2023, he received two gold medals again in an international exhibition, was conferred a fellowship from the Institution of Engineers Malaysia and received an outstanding research supervisor award and a Vice Chancellor Medal 2023, University of Nottingham, UK. In 2025, he is officially invited by Drying Technology, An International Journal, ISI Q2 as an Associate Editor.

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My teaching approach is student-centered and I adopted case based learning to achieve this objective. My teaching pedagogy was developed from learning from training by education experts, peers,… read more

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My teaching approach is student-centered and I adopted case based learning to achieve this objective. My teaching pedagogy was developed from learning from training by education experts, peers, students, mentors, CDIOTM leaders and industry leaders. My teaching pedagogy encourages students to develop professional communication skills in terms of verbal and non-verbal and think like an engineer in solving challenges.

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