DR. NORHIDAYAH WINS THE MRC-IIE 2022 BEST INVENTION AND IENA AWARDS

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s Ts. Dr. Norhidayah Abdul Hassan won the Best Invention Award and the IENA Special Award for the asphalt FWB product at the Malaysian Road Conference Invention & Innovation Exhibition (MRC – IIE).

The IENA special award for the MRC-IIE 2022 awarded to the overall best high achieving, break-through inventions and innovative technologies, comes with a gold medal and a sponsored booth at IENA Nuremberg. The IENA International Invention and Innovation Show has been held in the city of Nuremberg, Germany since 1948. More than 30 countries take part in the event every year. Malaysia has been a partner of IENA for more than 20 years.

This year, at the Malaysian Road Conference exhibition, a total of 32 inventive and innovative products were entered by the institutions higher learning, and the road industry’s public and corporate sectors. The products on display were judged by professional international and national juries for the award of Gold, Silver, and Bronze Medals. The panel of judges awarded Gold Medals to 17 products, 10 Silver Medals and 5 Bronze Medals.

The objective of this event is towards encouraging new research and development among the academicians and students from institutions of higher learning, engineers, public authorities and the corporate sector. Towards achieving this objective, a platform by way of an exhibition was conceptualised to bring innovators and the relevant industries together to pave the way for better and quality roads in Malaysia and to further enhance technological communication between road construction and maintenance departments, construction enterprises and manufacturers of road construction and maintenance equipment.

Ts. Dr. Norhidayah Abdul Hassan receiving her awards from Dato’ Seri Ir. Haji Mohamad Zulkefly bin Sulaiman.