Research & Development
Annual Report 2018

UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN

Internal Funding Report

UTAR Research Fund (UTARRF) is an internal research grant scheme designed to provide seed funding to support UTAR researchers and students in implementing research projects and research related activities.

UTARRF was established since 2005 with an initial amount of RM1 million allocated per annum. The allocation is intended to serve as seed fund to kick-start implementation of projects with good potential. This amount was subsequently increased to RM3 million in year 2010.

In years 2011 till 2014, the University management further increased the annual allocation for UTARRF to RM5 million, subsequently to RM6.25 million for 2015, RM6 million for 2016, RM5 million for 2017 and 2018 respectively. It enables additional and larger scale projects to be initiated as well as boost research & development activities geared towards realizing the goal to transform UTAR into a research intensive university.

As of 31 December 2018, the accumulated UTARRF amount allocated is RM50.25 million (Figure 1).

Figure 1: UTAR Research Fund total cumulative allocation per year in Ringgit Malaysia (RM)

The University, guided by stringent and careful grant approval procedures, had initially approved a funding amount of RM516,500 in 2006. The amount continued to register growth in the years following with a total of RM5.60 million awarded in 2018.

As of 31 December 2018, the accumulated UTARRF amount awarded is RM55.4 million (Figure 2).

From the RM5.60 million that was approved in 2018, a total of RM3.28 million was awarded for 100 research projects in UTARRF Cycle 1 and 2/2018. The breakdown of the awarded UTARRF projects by Faculties/Institute is shown in Figure 3.

Figure 2: Total cumulative amount awarded under UTAR Research Fund in Ringgit Malaysia (RM)

Figure 3: Number of UTARRF projects awarded to Faculties in year 2018

A special allocation was also set aside for academics' and students' research related activities. A total of RM2,017,659.75 funding was approved for the purpose. These activities include the following:

5th Applied Financial Modelling Conference on “The Importance of Commodity Markets in Financial and Macroeconomic Stability”
International Conference on Tropical Biodiversity 2018
Local Herbs Day II: Healthy eating with a touch of herbs
International Conference: Civil and Environmental Engineering (ICCEE) 2018
UTAR Intervarsity Science Symposium 2018 (UISS 2018)
Talk by External speaker- Globalization and Deglobalization
PV Cooling Seminar
FICT Postgraduate Colloquiums (May 2018 and December 2018)
International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics 2018 (BAFE 2018)
Awareness on Cancer Prevention Talk: The rising cost of healthcare
International Conference on Business, Accounting, Finance and Economics 2018 (BAFE 2017)
1st UTAR Seminar on Student Well Being 2018
Centre for Applied Psychology (CAP) Research Seminar 2018
Agriculture Technology Seminar Series 16 - Livestock farming: Sustainability and Productivity
6th UTAR Seminar on Stem Cell and iPSC (induce Pluripotent Stem Cells) Research 2018
Exhibition on The Other Side of Tun Tan Cheng Lock
Seminar on World Sleep Day
International conference on Energy Technology and Environmental Science (ETES 2018)
Busan Women’s College Nursing Visiting Program
International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Green Technology 2018 (SEGT 2018)
Approaches to Fitness and Health
FMHS R&D Symposium 2018
26th FEIAP Opening Ceremony and WFEO – CIC Seminar on 4th Industrial Revolution
Genitourinary Cancer Awareness Seminar 2018
GuangXi TCM's Training Course for the Classical Prescription and Manipulation
Taiwan Education Innovation Seminar & Visit
Bilateral Symposium between UTAR and Academia Sinica Taiwan (AS)
Biomedical Bioinformatics Workshop
International Conference on Chinese Culture, Literature and Oversea Chinese Society
Seminar cum Workshop on Incontinence
UTAR-NTHU Symposium on Environmental Mitigation Collaboration

Workshop on Nutrition Status of Institutionalised Elderly and Nutrition for Healthy Aging
International Symposium of China and East Asian Studies
International Symposium on Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) 2018 (BRISME 2018)
UTAR & Tunghai University “Urban Heritage Workshop & Joint Studio”
Agriculture Technology Seminar Series XVII with the theme “Pest Management in Malaysia Proposal”
International Symposium of China and East Asian Studies
Geriatric Workshop on Effective Communication and Understanding Elderly’s Needs
13th Malaysia Chem-E Car Competition 2018
National Innovation and Invention Competition through Exhibition 2018
Innovate Malaysia 2018
Robocon Malaysia 2018
Innovate Malaysia Design Competition 2018
13th Malaysia Chem-E Car Competition 2018
National Innovation and Invention Competition through Exhibition 2018 (iCompEx'18)
National Innovation and Invention Competition through Exhibition (iCompEx) 2018
4th International Biotechnology Competition & Exhibition 2018 (BCEX 18)
2018 F-Secure Inter-Varsity Cyber Security Competition
Actuarial Challenge 2018
InnovateFPGA Global Design Contest
Shell Eco-Marathon 2018
IIUM Robotic Competition 2018
Re:Define - The 30th Architectural Student Workshop
Software Programming Innovation Competition (PROCOM) 2018
Beyond Structures 2018: "FORM AND FUNCTION"
International APICTA 2018
KOSEN PROCON 2018
6th Platform for Asian Architecture & Urbanism (PAAU)
26th FEIAP Opening Ceremony and WFEO – CIC Seminar on 4th Industrial Revolution
Automation and Control Enhancing Innovation Competition (ACEiC)
Data Unchained Malaysia 2018
PAM Annual Architecture Student Works Exhibition 2018 (PAASWE18)
Sunway Iskandar Catalytic Development Design Challenge 2018

Active Internal Funded Research Projects (UTARRF & UTARSRF) as of 31 December 2018