BIOGRAPHY

Liew was a practicing engineer who later became academia. He is currently the Assistant Dean of the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering and Head of Internal Quality Audit for engineering programmes at Xiamen University Malaysia. He is the current Associate Director of the Engineering Technology Accreditation Council (ETAC), and the former Associate Director of Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) from 2016 to 2020. He graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia with a Ph.D. in Engineering Education. Since 2012, he has been involved in the accreditation of engineering degrees, engineering technology degrees, and engineering diploma programmes. He has given over 60 workshops and talks on accreditation, outcomes-based education (OBE), and complex engineering problem solving for/to the EAC, ETAC, universities, the Board of Accreditation for Engineering and Technical Education, Bangladesh, among others. He also serves as an external examiner for undergraduate programmes at several universities. He has over 12 years of teaching and academic experience, and managing engineering programmes as well as 12 years of industry experience.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Engineering education, wireless communication and supercapacitor applications.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

• PhD (Engineering Education), Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,Malaysia (2019)

• Engineering Council Part I and II Examinations, the Engineering Council, United Kingdom(2001)

• MSc (Electronics), University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom (1998)

WORKING EXPERIENCE  

• Research Analyst, Industrial Automation and Electronics, Frost and Sullivan, Malaysia(2006 to 2009).

• R&D Engineer, Industrial Grant Scheme, OCM-Web, Malaysia (1999 to 2005).

• Service Engineer, Cellstar Amtel, Amtel Group, Malaysia (1996 to 1997)

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE / GRANTS

• Evaluation of Chemical Engineering Programme Structure in Improving Integrated DesignCapability Among Chemical Engineering Students (Co-researcher) – Monash University Malaysia

• Direction of Engineering Programmes in the Public Institutions in Malaysia in the Era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 (Co-researcher) – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

• Identifying Evolving Hubs of Dynamic Effective Brain Network Across Multiple Brain States (Co-researcher) – Xiamen University Malaysia

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS

• Faiq, M., Geok Tan, K.*, Pao Liew, C.*, Hossain, F., Tso, C., Li Lim, L., Khang Wong, A. Y., & Mohd Shah, Z. (2023). Prediction of energy consumption in campus buildings using long short-term memory. Alexandria Engineering Journal, 67, 65-76. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aej.2022.12.015

• Liew, C., Puteh, M., Lim, L., Yu, L., Tan, J., Chor, W., & Tan, K. (2021). Evaluation of Engineering Students’ Learning Outcomes: Creating a Culture of Continuous Quality Improvement. International Journal of Emerging Technologies In Learning (IJET), 16(15), pp. 62-77. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v16i15.23763

• Chia Pao Liew, Marlia Puteh, Shahrin Mohammad, Abdul Aziz Omar & Peck Loo Kiew (2021) Review of engineering programme outcome assessment models, European Journal of Engineering Education, 46:5, 834-848, DOI: 10.1080/03043797.2020.1852533

• Kim Geok, T.; Zar Aung, K.; Sandar Aung, M.; Thu Soe, M.; Abdaziz, A.; Pao Liew, C.; Hossain, F.; Tso, C.P.; Yong, W.H. Review of Indoor Positioning: Radio Wave Technology. Appl. Sci. 2021, 11, 279. https://doi.org/10.3390/app11010279.

• Hossain, F.; Kim Geok, T.; Abd Rahman, T.; Nour Hindia, M.; Dimyati, K.; Ahmed, S.; Tso, C.P.; Abdaziz, A.; Lim, W.; Mahmud, A.; Peng, T.C.; Liew, C.P.; Thiruchelvam, V. Indoor 3-D RT Radio Wave Propagation Prediction Method: PL and RSSI Modeling Validation by Measurement at 4.5 GHz. Electronics 2019, 8, 750.

• Basarudin, H., Ahmed, S., Geok, T. K., Alias, M. Y., Hossain, F., Liew, C. P. (2018). Dielectric Resonator Antenna Design with High Gain and Wide Bandwidth. Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences (JEAS).

• Kim Geok, Tan & Hossain, Ferdous & Kamaruddin, Mohd & Abd Rahman, Noor Ziela & Thiagarajah, Sharlene & Tan Wee Chiat, Alan & Hossen, Jakir & Pao Liew, Chia. (2018). A Comprehensive Review of Efficient Ray-Tracing Techniques for Wireless Communication. International Journal on Communications Antenna and Propagation (IRECAP). 8. 123. 10.15866/irecap.v8i2.13797.