Excellent applied research refers to select fields determined in the university’s Research Master Plan (RIP). This research must be directed and top-down or bottom-up with the support of funds, research facilities, and infrastructure from universities and stakeholders with direct or indirect interests. The final target of this research is to produce technological innovation in frontier fields and social engineering to improve sustainable development at the local and national levels.

 The objectives of Leading Applied Research are:

1. Synergize research in higher education with local/national/international development policies and programs through the use of higher education expertise, research facilities and infrastructure, and local resources;
2. Responding to the challenges of science and technology and social and cultural needs by real sector users; And
3. We are building collaborative networks between researchers in the same scientific fields and interests to grow institutional research capacity and technological innovation in line with technological advances and frontier technology.
4. Increase the number of published applied scientific papers in indexed international journals.
5. Increase the number of patents.