CUTSE 2008

(Day 1)
Curtin University of Technology Science and Engineering International Conference short form as CUTSE held on 24-27 Nov. 24 Nov activities are participants reached Miri and ice breaker dinner at Imperial Hotel. So my Day 1 refer to 25 Nov. Today the opening ceremony started at 9am and plenary sessions held in LT started on 11am. The first speaker is Pro. Anthony (Tony) D Owen from Curtin, Perth and his speech title is "The Economics of Alternative Transport Fuels". He is the Professor of Energy Economics. The second plenary session speaker is Dr Kelly Maguire from Sarawak Shell Berhad who is a Petroluem Geologist with the speech titled "Sedimentology and its Application in the Petroluem Industry". After lunch, there is parrallel sessions divided into 3 groups which are Civil Engineering, Petroluem Geology and Mechanical Engineering. So, i am going for Mechanical one...hoho...
The first participant, Nazreen from Astronautic Technology (M) Sdn Bhd Malaysia is presenting the "small nozzles system applications for small satellite". "Thermo elastic analysis of melting steel carrier ladie by finite element method" presented by Shahrooi from UM. The session continue by Fazal with "effect of biodiesel on engine parts". It is very unlucky because some partcipants do not attend on their presentation such as the participant who is going to present "trends of air fuel ratio and crank angle on engine performance of four cyclinder direct injection hydrogen fueled engine". Sienzzz lo...the end of day 1...hehe...

(Day 2)
Today is started with the lecture titled "key drivers of new technology application in the exploration and production business sector in Miri, Sarawak from the perspective of PETRONAS Carigali". The second plenary session's speaker is Dr Arosha Senanayake from Monash Uni with the title "Bio-Interfacing Devices (BID)". BID just like devices that can used to measure and determine the motions of athlettes in sports field such as badminton (my favourite...hehe), soccer, swimming and sprinter. His speech is quite interesting. For the plenary session, i will just touch on one only which is the one i understand and amaze, "Modular power Extension Socket Outlet(MOST)" by Rodney Tan. MOST is a power extension which cascade each other using C13 female socket and C14 male socket. Its a improved power extension that you sure hope this product is on market. The end of day 2...tomorrow is the last day...huhu...