Biography

Norhayati Ahmad was born in Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia (1970), received the BSc. (Applied Sc. Physics) from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) in 1993 and MSc. (Engineering Materials) from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) in 1998. She obtained her Ph.D degree from Kagoshima University, Japan (sponsored by Hitachi Scholarship Foundation) in 2010. She joined the Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) as a tutor in 1993 and lecturer in 1998. Now she is serving as senior lecturer in School of Mechanical Engineering, UTM. She is teaching courses of Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Advanced Materials, Materials Technology, Manufacturing Processes, Adv. Tech. for Materials Characterization, Adv. Techniques for Materials Characterization and Materials Selection for more than 20 years at under- and post-graduate levels. Dr. Norhayati is a Chartered Scientist (CSci), Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, UK. She has spent extended periods as a visiting researcher at Kagoshima University, Japan (2011). Dr. Norhayati main research interest is on plasma technology, polymer, ceramics, composites, powder processing and inorganic membrane. The outcomes of her research have been published in High impact/scopus journal (27 papers ), non-index journal (16 papers) conference proceedings (28 papers) and Book chapters (4 articles).

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Research Interest

Applied Sc. Physics,Materials Science, Materials Engineering, Advanced Materials, Materials Technology, Manufacturing Processes