Postgraduate Prospectus 2018 (May 2018) | Página 31

“The way the Monash Doctoral Program (also known as Graduate Research) is structured provides me the freedom to innovate solutions to real-world problems, giving me full control over my research direction and my schedule to implement it. I was also fortunate to discover mentors from various fields along the way.” ALAN YIP YAO HONG PhD (Mechanical Engineering) student McKinsey and Company Youth Leadership Academy 2017 Axiata Young CEO Development Programme Top 5 Leadership Award 2016 Alan’s research involves mesoscopic physics and its application in thermal management as a mitigation technique against paraffin wax formation in stored crude oil, a solution which may save billions of dollars yearly for the oil and gas industry. Postgraduate Prospectus 2018 | 29