Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU)
PhD in Engineering
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
PhD
DURATION
4 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
MYR 45,000 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* MR 45,000 (USD 11, 250) for both Malaysian and international students
Key Summary
Why our APU Ph.D. by Research Programme?
- You will be assigned to a group of highly qualified supervisors.
- A wide range of latest research areas in the fields of computing and business administration areas.
- We have our regular research workshops, colloquium, and seminars facilitated by local and international academicians and professionals.
- Comprehensive Student Support Services.
- Resourceful online databases.
| Duration: Full-time (3 years) Part-time (4 years) | Award: APU, Malaysia | Course Fees: RM 45,000 (USD 10,720) |
Application Process
Ideally, students work with potential supervisors to develop a proposal.
*Supervisory sessions consist of 4 elements as appropriate to the candidate’s background:
- Research Methods
- Literature Review
- Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis
- Design of Research Proposal
Students with entry qualifications of a mixed-mode Masters programme with a minimum of 30% research component and a pass in a research module will be required to undergo 3 and 4 above.
Students with entry qualifications of a full research Masters will be required to undergo 4 above.
Subject to the expertise within the School of Engineering, the areas of research include, but are not limited to the following:
- Sustainable Development
- Renewable Energy
- Power Electronics
- Corporate Finance
- Data Analytics
- Medical image processing
- Neural networks
- Data Compression
- User interfaces
- Content-based retrieval
- Artificial Intelligence Applications in Engineering
- Signal and Image Processing
- Rapid Prototyping
- Engineering Materials
- Silicon Nanoelectronics
- Nanofabrication Technologies
- Single-Electron Transistors
- Quantum Computation
- Radiation Detectors
- Optics fibre/wireless communication
- Infrared remote sensing Technology
- Wireless and Mobile Systems
- Active Radiofrequency Identification System (RFID)
- Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)
- Antenna Design
- Ultra-Wideband applications
- Electromagnetic sensing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Speech Technology (Recognition and Synthesis)
- Image Processing
- Biomedical applications in Engineering
- Image Segmentation