Science in the muslim world: contribution of UTM scientist

Abstract

Nowadays, there are many products and technologies that have been contributed by scientists all over the world. Thus, this paper is emphasized more on the contribution of the Muslim scientists in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) which an innovation-led and graduate- focused Research University. UTM is the oldest public engineering and technological university in Malaysia. The university specializes in technical studies, with separate faculties as Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical and Biomedical engineering. UTM also has faculties in Islamic civilization, education, pure sciences, management and human resources development. Mostly, each faculty has its own contribution of products and research. Therefore, focus has narrowed down to choose one of the faculties which Faculty of Chemical Engineering (FChe). FChe was established on the 1st June 2010. FChe can be divided into three departments which are Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Polymer Engineering and Department of Bioprocess Engineering. This case study is to emphasize the contribution of scientists in each department in FChe toward community nowadays and their current products. The focus has given to three excellent scientists (researchers) in each department. In Department of Chemical Engineering, Prof. Dr. Zainuddin Bin Abd Manan, Prof. Dr. Arshad Bin Ahmad and Associate Prof. Ramlan Bin Aziz. In Department of Polymer Engineering, attention will give to Prof. Dr. Azman Bin Hassan, Dr. Agus Bin Arsad and Assoc Prof Dr Wan Aizan while in Department of Bioprocess Engineering, Prof. Dr. Mohamad Roji Sarmidi, Prof. Dr. Ani Idris and Prof. Dr. Rosli Md Alias