Khan Mohd Shariq, an international student at YU Graduate School from India won 1st place
Another achievement since winning the bronze medal at the 9th European Congress of Chemical Engineering
[Sep 12, 2013]

 The YU (President Noh, Seok Kyun) Graduate School of Chemical Engineering and Technology once again performed superbly in the global arena.

  In the 'Asia Pacific UniSim Design Challenge' hosted by Honeywell Company, research by Khan Mohd Shariq (28, 4th term in PhD program) of the YU Graduate School of Chemical Engineering and Technology Process System Design and Control Research Lab (Advisor Lee, Moon Yong) took first place. Honeywell is a global electronic system total solution company in the Fortune 100 companies and it is famous for the licenser of the UniSim simulator, which is a commercial computing tool for designing chemical processes in the chemical engineering sector.

 This competition is separated into the 3 regions of America, EMEA(Europe, Middle East and Africa), and Asia Pacific, and it is a global design competition held annually. The 2013 Asia Pacific Design Challenge was held with the participation of 103 universities in the Asia Pacific region such as Australia, New Zealand, Korea, India, Japan, China and countries of South East Asia. 10 teams that passed the preliminaries underwent final reviews. In result, the YU team took first place with the 'Optimization of Natural Gas Liquefaction Plant with Particle Swarm Paradigm', thus demonstrating the process design research capacities of YU. Khan Mohd Shariq was invited to the 'Honeywell User Group Symposium' held in Perth, Australia from August 25-29 to attend the symposium and awards ceremony.

 Khan Mohd Shariq, who came to study at the YU graduate school from India, began his master's degree program in 2009 and is currently in his PhD program on advanced process design technologies at the Department of Chemical Engineering Process System Design and Control Research Lab.

 Meanwhile, earlier in April, Yus Donarld Chaniago (32, 4th term in PhD program) and Riezqa Andika (24, 2nd term in Combined Master's & PhD program) also from the YU Department of Chemical Engineering Process System Design and Control Research Lab won the bronze medal at the 'Huntsman Design Contest' held as part of the 9th European Congress of Chemical Engineers in the Hague, Netherlands. Thus, YU is becoming globally recognized in the chemical engineering sector.