Tuan Haji Mohamed Noor Rosli Bin Baharum joined Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) in October 1998 after about 19 years in education industry. He involved in several levels of education where he was a schoolteacher, education district officer, an officer at Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri, and the last posting, as a school inspectorate at Jemaah Nazir Kementerian Pendidikan Malaysia. He joined UTP after seeing an advertisement for UTP where it says PETRONAS is going to set up a new university. He then resigns from his post after 19 years in ministry where then he officially joined UTP in October 1998.