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SEALING THE DEAL: Senior Prof Dato¡¯ Dr Khalid Yusoff, Vice-Chancellor and President of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ University exchanging the MoU with Dmitry Eydinov, Global Business Development Manager of Rock Flow Dynamics.

GROUP PHOTO: (first row, second from left onwards) Faiz Sulaiman, Dmitry Eydinov, Senior Prof Dato¡¯ Dr Khalid Yusoff and Gordon Williams. (second row, third from left onwards) Assoc Prof Ir Dr Jimmy Mok, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Technology and

KUALA LUMPUR: Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ University (Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­) recently received a donation of 25 tNavigator software licenses from Rock Flow Dynamics. The licenses are worth slightly over US$2mil and are expected to enrich the learning experience of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­¡¯s BBA (Hons) Oil & Gas Management students. 

Through collaboration with Rock Flow Dynamics and its Malaysian partner, Onyx IES Sdn Bhd, Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ will provide its students with the new state of the art dynamic reservoir simulation technology for their classroom learning. The tNavigator software is Rock Flow Dynamics¡¯ flagship product with capabilities far exceeding any industry standard dynamic simulation tools. 

The licences were received by Senior Prof Dato¡¯ Dr Khalid Yusoff, Vice-Chancellor and President of Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ University. Rock Flow Dynamics was represented by Dmitry Eydinov, its Global Business Development Manager. 

In his speech, Senior Prof Dato¡¯ Dr Khalid said that the donation will contribute to Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­¡¯s vision of becoming an intellectually resilient Praxis? University, renowned for leadership in academic pursuits and ¨C most importantly ¨C engagement with the industry and the community, 

¡°Today marks the first collaboration between Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ University and Rock Flow Dynamics. This will pave the way for value realisation in Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ University in terms of enriching students¡¯ experience, improving research capabilities and academic delivery while simultaneously providing an industry-driven education for our students,¡± he said. 

¡°By providing Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³»­ with the software, our organisation is hoping to do our part in bringing about changes that would contribute to this industry in the future,¡± Eydinov said. 

Also present at the ceremony were Assoc Prof Dr Jimmy Mok, Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, Technology and Built Environment; Faiz Sulaiman, Asia Pacific Manager of Rock Flow Dynamics, and Gordon Williams, Managing Director of Onyx IES Sdn Bhd.