It’s here again. Minggu Mesra Kampus, MMK is back!

IChemE booth is up once more. MMK aims to introduce

clubs’ and societies’ happening in the University to the

students of UTP and recruit members at the same time.

For this semester, MMK is held in Pocket D from 4th to

6th February. Our booth has exposed students on what

IChemE is all about as well as events that are coming

up for this year which includes CHEXPOSIUM and NACES. In this MMK we prepared games

whereby keychains are given away. From this event we have gain a total of 53 new members.

Welcome! Newbies are reminded to collect their membership card at the next MMK during May

semester.

INTRO TO ICHEME-UTP-SC 1

MINGGU MESRA KAMPUS 1

CHEXPOSIUM ‘14 2

FUTSAL TOURNAMENT 2

TECHNICAL ESSAY COMPETITION 3

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING CHALLENGE 3

YOUTH SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 4

IN THIS ISSUE: IChemE-UTP-SC

IChemE-UTP-SC is the club that represents the Chem-

ical Engineering Department of Universiti Teknologi

PETRONAS. It is the first student chapter under

IChemE Malaysia and was previously named

IChemE@UTP. “Advancing Professionalism”, as the

motto of the IChemE-UTP-SC implies, it serves as a

platform for the future young professionals to enhance

their expertise and proficiency prior to entering the

chemical industries. The goal is to guide the

participants towards better understanding on the

chemical industries and assist in finding the right

career path through mentoring opportunities from

corporate executives.

Minggu Mesra Kampus, MMK

Boiling water with some vinegar added in the room

can remove offending odours. Most odours are found

to be alkali and vinegar, as we know, is an acid. Acid-base

neutralisation occurs between vinegar and the odours in the air.

Later, the smell of vinegar fades away together with the odours,

leaving the room deodorised.

Vinegar kills odours

NEWSLETTER

ICHEME—UTP—SC

NEWSLETTER JAN — APRIL

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IChemE-UTP-SC annual event - CHEXPOSIUM

2014 is on campus again! Several activities had

been carried out in this event which includes

Futsal Tournament, Technical Essay

Competition, Chemical Engineering Challenge

and Youth Social Responsibility. This year

CHEXPOSIUM is carried out from 27th of

February till 28th of March. The opening

ceremony has been successfully held at pocket

D on the 27th February from noon and has last

for 2 hours. You may watch the official teaser

for this year CHEXPOSIUM from this website

h t t p : / / w w w . y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ?

v=55ZO3P3Q1t0 for a glimpse of what have

been prepared for this event.

CHEMICAL EXPOSURE SYMPOSIUM

The first event to officiate CHEXPOSIUM is the

futsal tournament. The tournament took place

on Saturday, 8th March at the block B football

field instead of the futsal court in Village 5 that

is undergoing renovation. It is a little

inconvenient for the field is different and there

are insufficient goalposts in the block B field.

Despite those shortcomings, the tourna-

ment still went on with full spirit from the

players. For this year’s tournament, there

are 9 teams competing. The tournament

last for two days. On the first day, all the 9

teams competed for the preliminary round

while on the second day, 9th of March; the

competition for the semifinals and lastly

the finals to decide the winner took place.

After a tiring Sunday morning, a winner

was found. Congratulations to the winner

– PISTACH futsal team! Bravo!

Vikneshwaran A/L K.Balakrshnan 20054

Buaneshan A/L Murali Daran 19806

Sahathevan A/L Mohana Sundaram 20351

Saswindrran A/L Annadorai 20454

Karthik A/L Balasubramaniam 20256

Navind A/L Tamilselvan 19643

Sujesh Kumar A/L Arumugam 19799

Kuganes A/L Periasamy Pillai 16452

PISTAH FC PLAYERS

WINNING TEAM :

CHEXPOSIUM FUTSAL TOURNAMENT

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The next event we have in conjunction to

CHEXPOSIUM is the Technical Essay

Competition. Technical Essay Competition is a

platform for the students of Universiti

Teknologi PETRONAS to express their

thoughts through words. It provides a channel

for the students to give their own opinions and

their points of view on the topic given. This

encouraged the students to develop ideas and

concepts in their writing and inspire them to

be passionate in writing, practice comprehen-

sion, build up their vocabulary and improve

grammar skills.

The online registration

for this competition was

opened on 3rd March

and we had 49 students

who registered. On 7th March, the question

for the competition is released to the

participants with the aid from the judges and

the due date was set for 18th March. We have

a total of 21 participants who successfully

send in their work.

With the help of Mdm Gail Slyvia Steele and

Mdm Roselind Wan as the judges of this

competition, we had found our winners, they

are Irene Lock Sow Mei, Eric Teng Jing Han

and Yong Hong Yaw. Congratulations! Thank

you to all those who had participated.

TECHNICAL ESSAY COMPETITION

A new competition to the engineers-to-be out

there – Chemical Engineering Challenge, CEC.

This competition was first introduced on

NACES 2013 and is now being introduced to

UTP students to get to know more about this

competition. CEC is a team event consisting of

4 students in a team. A number of teams will

be eliminated in each stage and the winner

will be chosen at the last stage.

CEC was held for 2 days which is on the 19th

and 20th of March 2014. The competition

started with Stage 1, the written test with 16

teams that had registered earlier in the

morning. The test was held in Undercroft

Seminar Room 7. In this stage, 8 teams with

the highest marks calculated by the adding up

all the marks obtained by all 4 members will

go on to the next stage.

On the same day, Stage 2-the quiz section, is

next. This stage consists of two parts. The

first part is the True and False round and the

second part will be the buzzer round. From

this round 4 teams with the lowest marks

were eliminated which left us with the

remaining 4 teams with the highest marks to

qualify for the final stage.

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In the third stage and final stage, case study

presentation was carried out on the second day

in the presence of VIPs and the judges who were

Dr Yeong Yin Fong, Dr Bambang Ari-Wahjoedi

and Dr. Rajashekhar. The session lasted for one

hour.

The winners are decided by adding up all

their marks from Stage 1 to Stage 3. The

winner for the Chemical Engineering

Challenge 2014 is team “Find X”, followed

by team “Kiwifruit”. The second runner up

goes to team “Adrian Seng” and the fourth

place goes to the team “Papaya”. Well done

to all groups.

the ice-breaking session to get to know the

students. Before that the students were

grouped into different races and gender. In

order to get to know each other students

play the game “What’s your name?” and also

“Tangled”, where the students need to cross

and hold each other hand and then try to

un-tangled themselves.

The next session is the “Healthy Lifestyle”

session which aims to create awareness

among the students about the healthy

lifestyle.

In conjunction with CHEXPOSIUM 2014, our

committee members have organised Youth Social

Responsibility programme with the theme of

"Action! For Children! For Change!”. This event

was successfully held at the seminar room on

15th March 2014. In this event we bring in

primary school students from Tronoh, which

consist of SK Tronoh, SJK(T) Tronoh, SJK(C)

Chung Sun and SK Seri Tronoh to UTP to

conduct various program to benefit the school

students.

School students and the

teachers in charge

arrived at the Chancel-

lor Complex early in the morning and is given

breakfast. The event started with a speech given

by the VIPs, Dr Dzulkarnain Zaini (Advisor of

IChemE) and Mr. Marfauza Bin Mat Jusoh

(Senior Executive of Student Support Services

Department). The VIPs then officiated this event.

The event continues with some warm up which is

YOUTH SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

Aerobic dance is then conducted followed by a

simple “bingo game” which is solved according to

the food classes, protein, carbohydrate, fiber and

so on. At noon, an ice-cream making session is

conducted. A science concept is used for the ice-

cream making where salt is used to decrease the

freezing point of the ice. The students are

educated with some knowledge of science

through this session.

The evening continues

with Chexplorace, a

treasure hunt game.

Students are required

to solve a task given

to them in each station. Marks are calculat-

ed to determine the winner. This event then

ended with the closing ceremony. Prizes for

each session are given to the group winners

and souvenirs are also distributed to all the

students. Before the students leave, a final

photography session was held to mark the

end of the event. We are happy to have all

the students with us. Hope you have enjoyed

it.

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Mink is a recent 3D printer that prints makeup,

invented by a Harvard graduate, Grace Choi. It

allows users to create custom cosmetics at home.

Users can choose any colour that they favour, be it on the web or from the photos captured,

then transmit the colour code to programmes like Photoshop or Microsoft Paint and print that

colour into lipstick, blush, eye-shadow, creams and etc. The base ingredients for Mink printer

are the same as those used in the makeup products found in the market.

Cosmetics DIY?

Print makeup?

FIND US ON: Editorial Board

Chief Editor : Lee Pei Ting

Assistant Chief Editor : Teh Huey Ying

Credit to : Lee Soon Li,

Yugadarshni Samudra Raja

Institution of Chemical

Engineers UTP SC

IChemE-UTP-SC

www.ichemeutpsc.weebly.com