Local Collaborators

Tunisia - Ecole Nationale d'Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT)

Dr. Raja Ghozi

Raja Ghozi, an assistant professor in Electrical Engineering at the National School of Engineering of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar. She holds a Ph.D  (University f California Davis) and MS and BS (University of Tennessee Knoxville)  all  in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Her field of research is in signal and image processing and perception.  Her recent interests have focused on auditory Complexity Analysis of persons with altered perception. She has been involved in several multidisciplinary research collaboration, namely:  presbycousic persons in public space,  Autistic Children in care centers, and Athletes performances and pre-game anxiety.  More recently, Dr Ghozi has been interested in the apport of the ElectroDermal Activity as a tool to assess persons in emotional dissonance and stressful situations.

Dr. Meriem Jaidane

Mériem Jaïdane received the M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia, in 1980. From 1980 to 1987, she has worked as research engineer at the Laboratoire des Signaux et Systèmes, CNRS/Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité, France. She received the Doctorat d’Etat degree in 1987. Since 1987, she has been with ENIT where she is currently a full Professor at the Information and Communications Technologies Department. She is a researcher at the Signals and Systems Lab at ENIT, Université Tunis El Manar. Her teaching and research interests are in adaptive systems for digital communications and audio processing.

Malaysia - Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)

Dr.Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof

Dr. Khairiyah Mohd-Yusof is the Director of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Centre of Engineering Education (CEE), promoting meaningful research and scholarly practices in engineering education and managing the PhD in Engineering Education program. She obtained her PhD in Chemical Engineering for the University of Waterloo, Canada. Prior to becoming the Director of CEE, she was the Deputy Director at the Centre for Teaching & Learning (2008 – 2011), and Head of the Chemical Engineering Department (2006-2008). Currently, Dr. Khairiyah is an Editor for the ASEAN Journal of Engineering Education, an Associate Editor for the Journal of Engineering Education, and is in  the Editorial Board for the Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education and the IChemE Education for Chemical Engineers Journal. She is also a Master Trainer for the Higher Education Leadership Academy (AKEPT) under the Malaysian Ministry of Education, the Secretary for the Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM), and board member representing Asia for the Research in Engineering Education Network (REEN). Dr. Khairiyah had chaired and organized various Engineering Education Conferences in Malaysia, including the 2013 International Research Symposium on PBL in collaboration with the Aalborg University UNESCO Chair on PBL in Engineering Education and AKEPT, and the 2013 Research in Engineering Education Symposium in collaboration with REEN, AKEPT and SEEM.

Dr. Fatin Aliah Phang

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatin Aliah Phang is a fellow at the Centre for Engineering Education (CEE),  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). She obtained the B.Sc. & Comp. with Ed. (Physics) at UTM in 2003 before she was posted as a Physics teacher at a secondary school. Later, she joined UTM as a Tutor and obtained her M.Ed. (Physics) at UTM in 2005. In 2007 she completed her M.Phil. (Educational Research) from University of Cambridge before she graduated with a PhD in Education at the same university in 2009. Upon returning to UTM from her study leave, she joined the Faculty of Education as a senior lecturer and was appointed as the Coordinator for the Physics Education postgraduate programs managing the supervision of the postgraduate students. In 2011, she was appointed as the Academic Manager of CEE to manage the PhD in Engineering Education program. Her research areas in engineering education include problem solving, problem-based learning, industrial training, engineering at school level and faculty training. She teaches engineering education research methodology and analysis methods to the doctoral students of engineering education. Her other research interests are science education, cognitive science, epistemological beliefs, environmental education and subjectivist research methodology. She is a committee member of the Society for Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM), Young Scientists Network - Academy Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) and Johor Science and Mathematics Education Association.