OUM 3rd PhD Colloquium

Dato' Ahmad delivering his keynote address

Part of the participants of the colloquium

The 3rd PhD OUM Colloquium was held at OUM Main Campus on 7th - 8th August, 2010. YBhg Dato' Ir. (Hj) Ahmad Zaidee Laidin, Academy of Science Malaysia has been kind enough to deliver his very enlightening keynote address entitled: "Innovation and Excellence in Research", to a group of over 60 PhD students of OUM who have come from as far as Sarawak and Singapore.



Tan Sri Dr. Anuwar Ali presenting a token of appreciation to Dato' Ahmad witnessed by Prof. Dr. Mohd Ghazali

One for the album



Earlier, Emeritus Professor Tan Sri Anuwar Ali, President/Vice Chancellor of OUM delivered has welcoming address. Also present were Prof. Dr. Mansor Fadzil, Senior VP of OUM, Prof. Dr. Rosli, VP of OUM, Prof. Ramli Bahroom, Financial Controller of OUM and Prof. Mohd Ghazali, Dean of the Centre for Graduate Studies.

Dr. Nagarajah facilitating the session on research instrument development.

Part of the participants during the workshop assisted by Prof. Dr. Zuraidah (black jacket)

Part of the participants during tea break

During the 2-day colloquium, participants were exposed to matters related to the development of research instruments and the various statistics to test the models by Associate Prof. Dr. Nagarajah Lee and Associate Prof. Dr. Chung. A hands-on workshop were also conducted on how to use AMOS.

Seng Poh presenting her mock viva


Siow Ming presenting her mock viva

At the end of the colloquium, 2 PhD students who are waiting for their viva, Siow Ming and Seng Poh, were invited to present their Mock Viva.

Patrick Wong (left) and Richard Ng (right) were the other 2 PhD candidates waiting for their viva

Generally the participants were very satisfied with the colloquium. A big syabas to Prof. Ghazali, Dean of the Centre for Graduate Studies of OUM and his team for organizing this colloquium.