Three undergraduate Mechanical Engineering discipline’s students from Swinburne Sarawak participated in the Innovate Malaysia Design Competition 2019 under the Shell Design Challenge Award at Tunku Abdul Rahman University College (TARC) Penang on 22nd July 2019. There is only one winner for this category and Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak won the prize among the 16 participated universities in Malaysia.
The students who participated are Lim Chan En, Regina Ang Jing Wen and Desmond Choo Yek Sheng. They were supervised by two Mechanical Engineering Discipline lecturers, Dr. Chong Kok Hing and Dr. Muhammad Rafiq Mirza Julaihi respectively. During the event, the students presented their works on crashworthiness and aerodynamic optimization of prototype FSAE vehicle through biomimetic approach. Our students were gaining valuable experiences and had the opportunity to engage with real world engineering problem through this event.