Malvin Nadan

Motivated teacher and a student focused educational professional with over a decade’s experience of demonstrated experience in helping students to learn and achieve academic success. Friendly and approachable when helping students on an individual basis with daily assignments and research projects. Maintains a safe, organized, and comfortable classroom environment for learning and studying. Strong teaching skills combined with excellent knowledge of subject content and a solid understanding of connecting core content to real-world applications.

1. Managed to obtain funding from for the Secondary School Waste Management Campaign while at the University of Fiji.

2. Developed new programme in Agricultural Engineering for the use of renewable energy systems in achieving energy demands in the sector.

3. As a teacher

a. Effectively used technology to develop to track students’ performance and improvements

b. Used appropriate online tools to deliver lectures during Covid lock down to minimize student learning disruptions.

c. Continuously strived towards keeping students engaged and towards self-centered learning.

4. Publications:

a. Nadan, MK, Baraoutian, S. (2023), Prospective of pretreatment and anaerobic digestion of dairy cow manure in Fiji. J Chem Technol Biotechnol. Accepted Author Manuscript. https://doi.org/10.1002/jctb.7388

b. Nadan, M.K (2019). Chapter 6: Waste to energy - Biogas from municipal solid waste for power generation. In A.Singh (Ed.), Translating the Paris Agreement into Action in the Pacific. Springer Nature. India.

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