Overseas exposure for local students – Sunday Star 14 August 2016
How to prepare for chartered engineer
This slide was given by Dr. Firdausi Razali, he shared his experience on how to prepare for a chartered engineer (from IChemE) with the faculty members back in 2014. It sounds easy but it took ages for me to even look at the form C. 🙄
Serious academics take the media seriously
For Full article: http://smallpondscience.com/2016/08/08/serious-academics-take-the-media-seriously/
The Guardian chose to publish a piece from a “serious academic” who made an argument that we shouldn’t share our work on social media. So who is this “serious academic?” Well, we have no idea. They are an anonymous “young” PhD student. Does this mean they’re some kind of whistleblower, warning the world about the rampant public sharing of academic information?
Beyond Good and Evil (Food)
Full article: http://fitisafeministissue.com/2016/08/07/beyond-good-and-evil-food/
This week, Tracy wrote on the blog about thinking differently about “healthy” eating. If you missed it, check it out. What she had to say boiled down to this: Foods are not good or evil. People are not good or evil for eating foods. As she put it: “It’s food. We all eat it. Move on.”
Creativity Station 2016 – part 2
1-13 August 2016
This year the students from UTM, Korea and Indonesia have gathered at the Creativity Station 2016 in Bandung to help the community using their engineering skills. Some of the products are Rabbit Cage “Starhouse”, “Poo Poo Mixer” for composting, “Rolling Dolling” for keeping the dolls, “I-Chu Box” a freezer, “Samyang Cutter” to cut aluminum foil, “icubit” an innovative incubator for rabbit and a few others.
Creativity Station 2016 – part 1
1-13 August 2016
This year has marked the 5th year anniversary of Creativity Station. UTM has participated in Creativity Station for the fifth time since 2013 and hosted it last year in Punggai Johor. Telkom University is the host for this year’s event. The uniqueness of this program is that it mixed three countries in one roof, and make engineering as community service. Global engineers shall have an attribute that love to contribute to the society and able to mix with other culture to achieve the ultimate goal.
Serahan Tesis UTM
Tarikh akhir untuk serahan thesis postgraduate UTM pada semester ini adalah 30 Ogos 2016. Sebagai penyelia pelajar, ia tugas yang amat berat dan menjadi tanggungjawab kami bagi memastikan tesis adalah berkualiti dan mencapai standard yang ditetapkan.
Closing for Summer School
Today was the last day for the summer school program with the Alexandria University. They presented their overall report about the program in front of the Dean and lecturers of FKT. They have given positive feedback about this program.
Summer School Program
11 August – I was assigned to teach together with Prof Ida, “Sustainable Development in Petrochemical Industry” the 8th module for the Summer School program involving students from Alexandria University, Egypt. Seven students participated in this summer program, starting from 4th August until 13th August 2016.
