Reaping the rewards: Chong Ping Ting (centre) showing her lecturers in Miri the award she received from the Malaysian Institution of Electronics and Electrical Engineers.
MIRI: A Curtin University Sarawak student has won a national award for designing an energy-efficient low-power micro electronic circuit which can give longer life to electronic gadgets, including small robots deployed by rescuers to investigate environments that are inaccessible to humans.
Chong Ping Ting, a final-year electronic engineering student at the campus here, won the Best Final Year award from the Malaysian Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (components, packaging and manufacturing technology) in Kuala Lumpur.
