Katlyst:
Good day all, it's really nice to locate a thread like this for PhD students.
B.Sc Industrial Chemistry
M.Sc Industrial Chemistry
M.Sc Materials for Energy and Environment
PhD Chemical Engineering (in view)

My research interests are in: photocatalytic water treatment (major), photocatalytic organic synthesis, plastic depolymerisation and titanium dioxide application. Two published papers in peer-reviewed international journals with one as first author. One under review and one in writing stage.

I wished I had joined nairaland and followed this thread some years ago.
I feel like crying but it is not too late as I am in my final year in UK.
@ prof wip7 and fellow researchers, you are doing a great job to have sustained this thread for over 6 years.

I am looking forward to doing a postdoc in biomass conversion or plastic depolymerisation/conversion anywhere in the world.

Impressive emerging profile. Expand more on your publications especially on the areas you intend to undertake a postdoc. The biomass conversion is impressive research area.

mustyy:
Good day Prof WIP, well-done for the impact you are making on us. Please..
1. Sir, how good is cogent environmental science journal (Taylor's and Francis group)

Cogent is open access journal meaning they will charge you for publishing with them. Currently, it has no impact factor and only indexed under ESCI (emerging science citation index). For me, I wont publish in this journal, what are my reasons:

1. No impact factor and low metrics

2. I will never pay 1$ to publish any paper; rather I will publish in journal where I will be paid around 1000-3000$ by my university and Turkish goverment.

3. There are over 100 environmental science journals with better impact for now and free of charge to publish like Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Environmental Science, Environmental Pollution etc

2. Also which Turkish public University will you recommend for Environmental Engineering PhD studies by international students (interms of easy admission, English language instruction medium, location and of course good quality of education)

My dream is to have my PhD in Turkey or any good University abroad.

Bsc (second class upper)
Msc (PhD grade/5.5 of 7 GP scale)
one Conference and Three journal papers published.

Thank you sir.

I dont have any specific university to recommend, you can apply to any of the university of your choice provided it has your course and have the facilities you want and you can afford it.

Best wishes

Winifred2015:
please check your email Sir

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Houston17:
Greetings prof wip7 et al. Pls I need clarification on this Candidate must have a Bachelor Degree with First Class (Honours) or Second Class (Honours) Lower Division and Master degree in relevant discipline. Does it mean if one graduated with a first class, the masters degree is not mandatory? Thus requirement is for the role of Assistant Lecturer at the ongoing FUPRE Recruitment

Although what the university wants is not very clear; however, it seems so that first classholder will be taken directly or second class lower division holders with a master degree.

Best wishes

unlimited41:

Please I’ll like to confirm, can I use someone who isn’t family as my sponsor for North Cyprus student visa application? Like a family friend and he is willing to sign the sponsorship letter, provide bank statement and Means of identification?

Yes

ejibaba:


Sure sir...I sent a mail.

Okay let me check

Akynzodeighbour:
Good morning, I just bumped into this thread, I've read from from the first page to this one, I have few questions and clarifications as I have read some articles and write ups.
1. I know that North Cyprus isn't EU, does this have any effect on the certificate?

Has no single effect even no tiniest effect. The Philippines is a country in Southeast Asia and not EU country, you will find almost all Filipino engineers, doctors and Nurses littered accross the globe from USA to Africa.....so beign graduated from EU universities does not confer the graduates Kingship nor divine protection; USA is not EU either.

2. The certificate you get from any university in NC how viable/strong is it?

If you go to work in Canada (my experience personally): they asked me if my certificates have received equivalency letter which I showed them. Next questions were on my CV and profile....have never beign asked if I graduate in Ondo state or Famagusta in NC. They were more interested in my skills, experience and what am bringing to the Table. Not only me, I have graduated PhD/master students already and currently working in USA and Canada and Aussie ...these questions of of is NC or SC or EC never came up. One thing you need to know is; if you study in USA and want to work in USA or you study in Canada and want to work in Canada, based on the system and familiarity, they know the universities in Canada and easy for them to evaluate the quality and many other things. But if you are coming from Congo to work in USA, theydont know the Congo university and they need to check if the standards sometimes meet up.............

About how viable is the certificate from NC; I have attached 2020 THE (reputable university ranking..the is impact ranking for universities globally in 2020 so hopes that answers this question).

3. The certificate you get from the universities in NC is it recognised in foreign countries, i.e Canada, US and UK?

Thousands of graduates are working globally in developed, developing and underdeveloped countries with NC certificates just like thousands from Nigeria and African countries are working globally.

4. The certificate you get is it also more relevant or powerful than any school in Nigeria?

In real world now (not virtual or imaginary world): your CV impact is threading largely. If you graduates from Heaven with no valuable, no demanding or unique skills, experience or competitive profile you will not get a job and if someone graduates from HELL with such skills, that person will be CEO and get job faster and do well and compete favorably. Universities in TRNC dont go on strike, if you are to graduate in 3-4 years, you will graduate if you are serious, they have electricities, accommodation and the lecturer (like me I dont know others, I get paid well and I make huge income from my research funds and publication....[b]in 2020 inside pandemic, from Turkish govenment and my university (its verifiable records) I will be making approx 50 mill naira from Publication Award from my research (CONFIRMED) so why wont I want to teach well....I dont know about others ooooooo)

5. Does the labour market or Nigerian government employ people with certificate from NC?

IS NC HELL or satan house? because I dont know why they wont want to employ the graduates. The question should be does Nigerian graduates in Nigeria get employed in Nigeria? Anyway, employment and certificates appears different....if you get a job and have a competitive profile, demanding skills and credentials in a sane environment you should get job.....but nothing is straight in this world even in developed nations.

6. After completing a program like PhD, how easy is it to get a job in NC?

I dont know about this anyway, you may get job and may not get job. There is nothing like how easy to get job.....All boil down to availability of jobs, do you match the criteria and have the CV....even if you have does not guarantee anything.........Recently numbers of Nigerian with PhD recently graduated are flocking to Turkey and working in high ranking Universities.





My Brief profile:
I have studied in developed countries and I completed some of my education in NC , graduated and am a professor in NC and visiting and Adjunct professors to other universities in Canada, Brazil etc.

Travel experience: visited over 75 countries and counting

Citizenship: hold passports of developing and developed nations



Take note: TRNC has many problems like many countries. TRNC is a small island and still under political embargo and politically recognized by Turkey globally. However, the universities have gone beyond kitchen talk. Many of the universities have issues and sometime infrastructure and facilities. Due to the size of TRNC and embargo, job oppurtunities are quite low, there are some subtle racism not like the type they kill Gorge Floyd oooooo, currency is tied to Turkish lira and may not be okay for foreigners depending on what the person do. We have many graduates from NC that find it difficult after graduation. We have many people that agents lied to and promised heaven and earth (these kind of agents caused lots of lies, exaggerated and paint some things just to deceive the applicants). We also have numbers of successful graduates and doing fine like this one I attached here. He graduated and got job at Silicon Valley just few months after....how is that possible? because he has the credential and skils needed.


So I wish you luck in whatever decisions you make be it in USA, UK, NC or Kenya, my spring onion advice are:

1. Ensure you have finances to study any place abroad
2. Ensure you know what you want after studies and build such profile and skills that can match what you want
3. Do more personal research to know what you want.

If you choose to study in TRNC goodluck, if you choose to study in USA or UK goodluck.....just build yourself to allow you to be competitive with demanding skills.

akoredebaba1:
pls what are the steps to apply for their visit visa

Embassies or consulates provide steps on their websites that’s where you should go.


Visit Turkish embassy website you will find steps and procedure for North Cyprus.

Visit Cyprus consulate website you will find steps and procedures for south Cyprus.

milanseedorf:
Good day Prof. I wish to pick your brain a little. I wish to apply for a Phd program in computer science but am finding it difficult to get an area of research that will be cost effective for me and i also get to finish. Most of the topics i have presented have been tagged not phd worthy. Thanks as i wait for your response.

Where are you applying to (country wise)?

Can you list some of those earlier title you submitted and they said is not Phd worthy?

ejibaba:


Wow!!! This is interesting..25 during PhD...

Prof will you be willing to review some of my papers, I'm planning to send out for publication. I'll appreciate your contribution.

Thanks

Sure if they are written in English

Dharryedu:


Also, students who graduate from North Cyprus universities could get a working permit and work in many corporate companies such as banks, hotels, department etc if they have finished at least their undergraduate studies. However, Graduates need to have an offer from an employer before they can apply for a permanent work and residence permit. In most cases, the employer applies on the worker’s behalf to get the necessary permits from the government before the worker starts to actually work in that employer’s company..

There is nothing like permanent WORK and residence permit in North Cyprus.

If a person get employed you only get a work permit that has different classes based on type of employment. This is not permanent, it’s temporary and renewable by the employer.

A person can only apply for permanent residency called white card in North Cyprus after working in TRNC with temporary work permits for 6 years without interruption.

NOTE:
Also; very few foreign graduate work in Cyprus banks and those few are commonly those having western countries passport.


All information here must be real, truth at the time of posting and must not paint exerggerated details for prospective students.

Dharryedu:
For Cyprus, you are eligible for 1 year post graduation Visa.

No 1-year post graduation visa in Cyprus . There is nothing like that.

All information here must be real, true and representative at the time of posting.



In Cyprus both North and South; if students find a job and the employer apply for work permit then students can stay according to that work permit conditions if not students are given few months to leave or become illegal.

arafat95:
Good morning everyone, please I will like to know if the transit Visa fees of 155 dollars can be paid in naira.
Please I need your quick response.
Thanks all

At embassy: they request USD not naira. I encourage you to go with USD and ensure the date of printing the dollar note isn’t very old as often the embassy or the MZ office that currently handles the visa submission often turn applicants with old notes back.

Dharryedu:


Ok to board is the alternative, it is the visa itself, Just present all the necessary travel documents when you check in at the airport.

Please stop posting contrasting information on this thread.

OKTB is not a visa. Visa is a sticker pasted on applicant passport after meeting all embassy requirements and the visa can be used via any airline.

OKTB is a code only seen by the airlines official during the trip, not a sticker and cannot be used by any airline ...it’s can only be used just by the airline that approved the OKTB.

Profeme:
I am interested in learning AI and Machine Learning. How do I get materials for the listed courses?

Please visit Kaggle.com

Imustreturn:
The rate just wise they delete post here is amazing oh. I no just understand the guy

Please take note:

This particular thread will not tolerate any claims that are untrue, exaggeration and false promotion.

Such posts will be deleted; we have some other threads on North Cyprus on Nairaland that such frivolous claims can be posted but not this one.

Gibsonchidera:
Ok sir, but for me to use OKB I have to have a visa already right ? And I did some research’s today and I saw that I have to apply for my visa appointment 2 months before the day I want to depart and school starts next month. Is there a way I can meet up ?

You can apply for visa now ...2 months talk is general not fixed. Just go and apply for visa ...visit Turkish embassy website Abuja for details SIMPLE AS ABC.

Also, OKTB and visa and two different things. And not related to each other.

Please visit Turkish embassy Abuja for visa procedure ...

Gibsonchidera:
Good day sir,

I want to apply for visa appointment to study at north Cyprus (near East University) here in Nigeria and I saw an information saying I’d have to apply for an appointment 2 months before my departure date. My question is, school starts ending of September, is there a way I can get my visa before school leaves or I have to wait for the 2 months before going for an appointment.

And
Please Is it advisable to travel to north Cyprus using Ok To board ?

And if yes, will I be able to travel to other countries in Europe during vacations

You can apply for visa from now if embassy is opened.

You can use OKTB if you wish. The information you saw about Visa application is general information not FIXED RULE.

About traveling to Europe during vacation, if you meet visa application requirements and get visas of any country you want to go be it Europe, Asia, Africa or America; you can go.

Bon-voyage

Mahmuday123:

Please Mr wip what is the tuition fees for Izmir institute of technology.in the picture is it 5850

580.50 TL

subcbouy:
Thank you, sir. Yeah, predicting the occurrence of corrosion in underwater pipelines caused by marine growth. I am not building for any company but to teach myself though. Who knows it might end in patent hahaha. I appreciate your response so much.

Is it the organism population that will become dataset.? Sorry, for too many questions. I am still a novice to ML.

First corrosion of pipelines are caused by many reactions (redox) in corrosive enviroment like when the pipeline reacts with another substance such as oxygen, hydrogen, SO2, an electrical current or even dirt and bacteria.

To collect data for corrosion, you have to first know the type of corrosion and that will help you to determine what causes that type of particular corrosion and then you can collect data for it. Type of corrosions are: Uniform corrosion, Galvanic corrosion, Pitting corrosion, Stress corrosion cracking, Crevice Corrosion and Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC).



To build Machine learning model to predict corrosion occurrences; first identify type of corrosion you want to predict. Some of the data that will be needed to be collected will include: structural data, environmental data and metallurgical data which can be some of these pH of the environment, temperature, pipeline composition (metalurgical factors), welding conditions, air/water pollution data.

For Microbial corrosion or MIC: this can be caused by bacteria, fungi and microalgea. The aerobic bacteria like Thiobacillus thioparus, Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans and Thiobacillus concretivorus are the three major bacteria causing corrosion. So you have to identify the concentration of these bacteria in that environment, nature of reactions they cause, do they make the pipeplines to smell like toxic hydrogen sulfide or the pipeline coating gone and looks more like light weight graphite.....all these info will help you to identify exact bacteria and then come up with parameters to collect data from.

Meanwhile, there are valuable published papers on machine learning with corrosion occurrences.

subcbouy:


I will also like to ask you some questions about artificial intelligence relating to corrosion. How do you think the dataset in corrosion should look like? Is corrosion results from various companies or collection of individual results a dataset? You have inspired my desire to use machine learning in corrosion.
Thank you, sir.

Are you talking about corrosion inhibition or predicting corrosion occurrence?

To build a valuable AI model; first you need to know aim of the model and who will use the model. If you model will predict occurrence of corrosion for a particular company or particular product. Then you have to collect data on factors that often cause the corrosion from the company if you are building for the company.

For example, I am building ML model for Air Pollution Monitoring that will be a web-based in my city and can be useful in the country; what I did was to design my own device (via Arduino board) to collect concentration of the target air pollutants like Carbon monoxide, O3, PM10, Lead, Nitrogen dioxide, Ozone, Particles, Sulfur dioxide, etc. So we have 15 of the devices in different locations within the city and it collects data daily and for 3 months we started building the model and its ongoing project. My colleague have published part of this work recently in the Journal of Atmospheric Pollution Research.

However, my intention is to build a web page that gives air pollution index and forecast just like weather forecast sites.


The data can be from 5000 upwards depend on how much you want, the more the data the more the model can easily detect patterns.

Advantage of AI/ML and large dataset

1. Fast to spot a trend: Machine Learning can review large volumes of data and discover specific trends and patterns that would not be apparent to humans.

2. ML Self and continuous improvement : As ML model gain experience, it keeps improving in accuracy and efficiency without human intervention so as to make better decisions. Example, if you want to make a weather forecast model. As the amount of data you have keeps growing, your ML model learns to make more accurate predictions faster.

For those interested in Machine learning and Artificial intelligence

Here are steps of courses you may need to take to push you through this .....along these steps you will learn valuable things and in fact do wonderful projects. Machine learning can be incorporated into nearly almost all domain provided there are data to support it.


Skills in machine learning these days offer a remunerative career as its benefit organizations by making predictions and helping them make better decisions.


Credit:
Kaggle

subcbouy:
Sir, I want to know if you allow your research student to use their own idea or you asked them to do everything based on your own, not theirs.

Each student comes with different set of skills, experience, exposure, knowledge and drive. For me, I personally dont accept every students that want me to supervise them. I tend to first ensure the student is actually open-minded, really ready and have a set of background skills.

So regarding your question: I have a wide research areas and when student come I want to listen to what they want to do. So I evaluate their ideas and proposal according to these steps:

1. is the research worthy? is it a PhD or master level research?

2. Level of knowledge and practical skills my student have?

3. What are the innovations and significant contribution the proposed research idea will generate and the impact?

4. I prefer a research idea that is not bound just to my lab but must be reproducible internationally and not necessarily 100% under my lab parameters even though if its directed largely to solve national issues.

5. I prefer research idea that has element of lab-to-market.

6. I check, do we have the equipment, material and required facilities to conclude the research within the allowed time-frame.

7. If we currently, dont have the equipment, do I have network that can help with the facilitity or can I switch the student to other country for some time or can I purchase the needed facility to support the research? So I spend time on this part.

8. If this research is concluded, can we publish the data? who will benefit and what significant contribution are we going to attain.

So if my students idea falls positively into the above-listed, then we start the research work based on the student ideas under my guidance.

I personally dont leave my student wondering and depressing in the lab or field, I spend quality and high number of times in the lab and on the field, I want to be part and percel of the research work. Also, I will not give you research that I have never done myself...however, there rooms for myself and students to learn new things and work on something entirely new.....thats science.


As an example; I have a PhD student recently, she told me about her country agricultural issues and she aims to focus her PhD on slow-release fertilizer hydrogel and organic nutrient booster for a modern farming system. Her ideas and proposal is very lovely, amazing and will worth good investment if she startup her project after completing the PhD. We dont have farming system in my lab, I personally know little about that project but I have expertise skills with fabricating the material for slow release hydrogel. I spoke with a friend in Czech Republic that owns highly profitable Aeroponic farms and another that owns a start-up Greenhouse farm in Isreal, they are ready to accommodate her for 1-2 years on and off for practical trainings and testing of our materials and data collection. Unfortunately, she will need to fund her trips, her stay and everything but she will learn. Fortunately, I have some funding for another project so she is currently in that other project whereby she was able to use that funding and learnt valuable things in Czech over 7 months and we collected data and the data are worthy. That data allowed us to apply for UNESCO funding that will target her PhD work directly (we are yet to get the result of the application), we recently received funding for the same project from a local industry that also interested in the project work and that can last her another 6 months again.....

Meanwhile, when this student came, she has no idea how to do this practically in fact she has less English and less lab experience but she has worthy idea. Now she is doing perfectly great. She now teaches me how to grow potatoes and vegetable without soil just with UV lamp. I have used the data into AI (airtificial inteligence) model and we have fabricated a device to collect data straight to our cloud and thats really making valuable contribution. Later I will post some of the publications on slow-release fertilizer hydrogel we did.


I hope this answers your questions.

blcoolfemol:
Hi Prof Wip.

Please do you have materials or probably a site you refer me to where I can learn A.I from scratch that will be very easy to comprehend?

Please do you mind if I can pm you?

I can send you a text book depends on how much you want to go ...see this book .......

As per site; first thing I learnt when I was learning A.I was to learn python and be very very good with it. After that, I started to learn data science using python and extending upward that way.

To learn A.I and be good with it, you must do it practical and develop models and product not just theory.....thats how I learn and makes it worthy.

You can PM.......

Profeme:
Hello every one. I want to know if PhD thesis has a minimum word count and if yes what is the minimum word count? I am doing my PhD programme in Nigeria.

I think it depends on each university rules and regulations. Each university often have graduate institute office that coordinates and provides details regarding the thesis writing and formatting. In modern and standard school, such information are often placed on the university website.

In general, thesis does not have maximum nor minimum provided the key elements are all included proportionally.

I remember one of my classmates (or senior) we were nearly graduating at the same time during our PhDs;

---her thesis was like 350 pages with just one scientific publication as requirement to graduate PhD (her supervisor loves heavily paged thesis, she believes that means worthy and valuable and with such heavily paged thesis she said the student is highly competitive).

----On the other hand, my PhD thesis was 40 pages and graduated with 25 scientific publications (although when my PhD supervisors saw my thesis, they tried to convince me to increase the page so the Jury members wont say its too light.........for me I dont see any sense in that, because I only summarized all my publications........I convinced the major supervisor that spending 3 years in lab/field with 25 publications and another with 7.5 years for PhD with 1 publication even blind person will know......so no further comments). During the submission at the graduate institute, the director said the thesis appears light and less pages, I told him my supervisors and Jury members did not complain niether myself... so......!


For the PhD students I have supervised; I believe in quality, passing experience, training and exposure to my students rather than giving me 1000 pages thesis and after graduation they are not worthy or their CVs cant compete favorably globally. The university needs just 1 reputable publication to graduate, but my rule for my PhD students is minimum of 10 paper publications, some meet and exceed while some meets just 5 ......

Anyway, So check with your university and supervisor advice.

Mahmuday123:

Please @wip can you help me with cheap universities in Turkey that offer engineering in English

Undergraduate in English 4500$ per year. If interested let me know!

haroldwilly780:
like computer analyst, forex beneficiary and moderator ..??

Jesus to inspire to acquire

Yampotatocarrot:
Please, I know we constantly hear that there is no job (this information cuts across several countries). But is it possible for one to earn just enough for feeding and accomodation while studying in North Cyprus?

Also, is online business allowed as a student in the country? (Legit o)

Yes, like every other countries job are getting scarce. Many students are able to get some jobs in NC and able to fend ....some could not get and some got with low pay and some got with considerable pay. That’s how it works.

No limits to legal online Businesses.

Co-Funded Brain Circulation: Funding to carry out Research in Turkey

Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) introduces a new European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Cofund program “Co-Funded Brain Circulation2 Scheme (CoCirculation2)”.

CoCirculation2 is a 5-year project aiming to invite researchers to both academic and non-academic research performing organizations located in Turkey. Within this context, 100 experienced researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in incoming mobility and to implement a research project in Turkey will be able to apply for a fellowship that will last 24 months.

Living allowance: An amount of €4.500 per month will be paid to recruited researchers. The living allowance is a gross contribution to the salary costs of the researcher.

Mobility allowance: An amount of €550 per month will be paid to recruited researchers.

Research, Training and Networking costs: An amount of €800 per month will be provided for research activities involved in the researcher’s project such as participation in training activities, conference visit.


You can apply today!

Co-Funded Brain Circulation: Funding to carry out Research in Turkey

Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) introduces a new European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Cofund program “Co-Funded Brain Circulation2 Scheme (CoCirculation2)”.

CoCirculation2 is a 5-year project aiming to invite researchers to both academic and non-academic research performing organizations located in Turkey. Within this context, 100 experienced researchers of any nationality who wish to engage in incoming mobility and to implement a research project in Turkey will be able to apply for a fellowship that will last 24 months.

Living allowance: An amount of €4.500 per month will be paid to recruited researchers. The living allowance is a gross contribution to the salary costs of the researcher.

Mobility allowance: An amount of €550 per month will be paid to recruited researchers.

Research, Training and Networking costs: An amount of €800 per month will be provided for research activities involved in the researcher’s project such as participation in training activities, conference visit.


You can apply today!

Imustreturn:
bro is there any age grade for undergraduate?

In Cyprus 25-27, in Turkey up to 30 years.

finestbeck:
Hello everyone. I came across a university in north Cyprus called BAU. Pls does anyone know about the school?

I replied you regarding this already.