Palm Oil Processing
POPSIG Outstanding Final Year Design Project Award
Update: The application for the 2024 award has been opened. (Rev: 27 May 2024)
Objectives
Each year, POPSIG awards Outstanding Final Year Design Project Award to a group of final year students, whose final year project design revolves around palm oil processing. The main objective of this award is to encourage the universities to introduce palm oil processing design for their final year students. The selection of Outstanding Final Year Design Project Award is based upon a palm oil processing design which reflects on efficiency, values inherent safety and mitigates environmental impacts, and demonstrates project viability to the palm oil industry.
View poster here (2024-version-1)
Apply now
Download the Design Award Application form (rev 27 May 2024).
Please email the form (MS Word or PDF) to popsigmalaysia@gmail.com. Please put the subject of email as "POPSIG Outstanding Final Year Design Project Award".
The application is due by 23:59 MYT (BST+7) on 31 August every year.
Requirements
- POPSIG welcomes the applications from all universities, provided the final year design is associated with palm oil processing.
- The design may involve either up-stream or/and down-stream palm oil processing, including improvement of current technologies or introduction of new technologies.
- The submission must include the following:
- In one email, the candidates must send (a) Application Form – PDF or MS Word; and, (b) Design Project.
- In a separate email, the lecturer or supervisor must send a 'Design Project Lecturer's Report' to confirm the status of the students who have taken the final year design project from a university.
- The design submitted shall be original and have not been previously submitted or published. POPSIG only considers one application per university.
- Award is awarded up to RM3,000 per group and one group will be awarded under POPSIG Outstanding Final Year Design Project Award. Each student in the winning group will be given a Design Award Winning Congratulation Certificate by POPSIG. The decision from the POPSIG is final.
- Applications for submission are available the whole year long and closed on 31 August every year. The winning team will be announced within two months from the closing date of application.
- The winning team will be invited to present their application through a webinar or any online sessions organised or co-organised by POPSIG.
- In general, the design will be evaluated based upon the structure and technical content of the proposed palm oil processing. Key criteria for the evaluation could be ranged from the comprehensiveness of the analysis until the applicability of the design to be applied in a real palm oil industry.
- If no winning team for a particular year, the award money will be channelled and used as student bursaries.
Sponsor
2024: Desmet Malaysia Sdn Bhd
2023: Desmet Malaysia Sdn Bhd; KLK OLEO
2022: Desmet Ballestra (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd
2021: Desmet Ballestra (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd