Malaysian husband and wife team Tengku Sarina Aini Tengku Kasim (Sarina) and Muhammad Azizi Abdul Rahman (Azizi) are the first international married couple the University has graduated with PhDs in the same year.
The pair decided to come to New Zealand with their three children for their postgraduate study after strong recommendations from friends. After long and careful consideration they also chose AUT for their study after deciding they needed to study at the same university for the sake of family life.
“We were looking for universities with strong and credible backgrounds in both education and engineering. We found this at AUT and coupled with warm support from potential supervisors at AUT we were moved to choose AUT,” Sarina says.
Sarina has graduated from the School of Education with a PhD in teaching and learning experiences in Malaysian higher education while Azizi has completed his PhD with the School of Engineering. His thesis was on distribution network modelling and analysis of the application of high temperature superconductor transformers.
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