Monthly Archives: December 2016

RASMI: Pemakluman Penutupan Hutan Rekreasi UTM untuk Kerja-Kerja naik taraf Infra (13 November 2016 – 30 Januari 2017)

Assalamualaikum dan Salam Sejahtera,

Dimaklumkan bahawa Hutan Rekreasi UTM akan ditutup sepenuhnya bagi kerja-kerja naik taraf infra mulai 13 November 2016 – 30 Januari 2017 (jangkaan) meliputi perkara-perkara berikut:

(a) Naik taraf Dewan Terbuka;
(b) Naik taraf Ruang Makan;
(c) Pembinaan kabin urus setia dan aktiviti;
(d) Mengecat tandas awam lelaki dan perempuan;
(e) Mengecat kembali Rumah Kampung;
(f)  Mengecat kembali Dapur Memasak;
(g) Memperindah landskap persekitaran;
(h) Membaiki dan menaik taraf papan tanda; dan
(i)  Menaik taraf kolam menjadi santuari ikan.
Sehubungan itu, semua aktiviti rekreasi dan perkhemahan di Hutan Rekreasi UTM ditangguhkan selama tarikh yang dinyatakan tersebut.
Harap maklum. Terima kasih.

 

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Office of Asset and Development
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310, UTM Johor

 

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ANSYS Training Workshop

Assalamualaikum Wr Wb,

Dear Prof./ Assoc. Prof./ Dr./ Sir/ Madam,

Insya Allah, High Performance Computing (HPC), CICT, UTM will conduct a workshop on ANSYS FLUENT on the 27th and 28th of December, 2016. Interested parties are cordially invited to attend the workshop.
Details on the ANSYS FLUENT workshop can be obtained from the following link
Registration for the workshop can be made through the following link
If you have any questions please do contact us by email at hpc@utm.my.
Thank you.
Best regards.
Mohd Seth Bin Yaacob,
IT Officer, CICT, UTM.
email : seth@utm.my
Tel     : 019-7351102

U.S. Says EVs Must Make Noise to Warn Pedestrians

By Philip E. Ross

This article is obtained from here.

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - MAY 17:  Detail of the charging point of the Nissan Leaf is displayed at the 'A World Without Petrol' art exhibition at Customs House on May 17, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. Designed by Australian artist James Dive and inspired by electric vehicles, the interactive exhibition of 40 recycled petrol bowsers converted into useful everyday items is intended to promote the Nisaan LEAF, the first mass produced 100% electric vehicle in Australia.  (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images for Nissan)

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – MAY 17: Detail of the charging point of the Nissan Leaf is displayed at the ‘A World Without Petrol’ art exhibition at Customs House on May 17, 2012 in Sydney, Australia. Designed by Australian artist James Dive and inspired by electric vehicles, the interactive exhibition of 40 recycled petrol bowsers converted into useful everyday items is intended to promote the Nisaan LEAF, the first mass produced 100% electric vehicle in Australia. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images for Nissan)

Electric vehicles must make noise to warn pedestrians of their coming by 2019, U.S. road safety regulators said this week. And the measure is grist for our mill here at “Cars That Think” because Tesla Motors appears to be developing a robotic solution to the problem.

The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration announced on Monday that noisemakers would be needed in pure electric and hybrid vehicles operating at speeds under 30 kilometers per hour (19 mph). At higher speeds they evidently make their own noise, thanks to resistance from wind and road.

The first clue to Tesla’s plans, Electrotek reports, is the statement Tesla’s Elon Musk made at a press conference back in 2013. “I think the sensible and ideal thing long-term is to have proximity sensors that direct a pleasant sound in the direction of where somebody is walking,” Musk said. The second clue came earlier this year in the form of blueprints apparently leaked from Tesla. Clearly visible are structures labeled “pedestrian speakers.”

It’s unclear whether regulators will accept Musk’s proposal to beam noise with laser-like focus to spare the ears of the unthreatened. On the other hand, just broadcasting the noise takes away a key EV marketing advantage: silence. (Except for the motorcycle market. Some fans of Harley Davidson’s iconic bikes have disparaged that company’s planned electric version for its un-Harley-like purr.)

Many EV motorsports events already require the noisemakers to protect onlookers, photographers and pit crew. At this summer’s motor race at Pikes Peak, Colo., local stores sold modified car alarms to racing teams for just this purpose. The price: $8.

Toyota, which inaugurated modern EV technology with its Prius hybrid, has supplied optional noisemakers for years. So has Nissan, whose Leaf was the first mass-market all-electric car.

@ PSZ roadshow

We had the opportunity to drop by at the PSZ booth yesterday.  It was a fruitful visit.  We spent about an hour educating ourselves about the services the Library has to offer.  The PSZ staff were very helpful and informative.  Go to library.utm.my to discover knowledge without barrier 🙂

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Roadshow PSZKL di Masjid UTM Kuala Lumpur

Assalamualaikum w.b.t. dan Salam Sejahtera

If you can’t get to the Library, let the Library come to you! 😎
UTM Library Kuala Lumpur akan mengadakan Roadshow di Masjid, UTM Kuala Lumpur 

sempena Karnival Cinta Masjid :

 
Tarikh : 8 Disember 2016 (Khamis)
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: Lobi, Masjid UTM Kuala Lumpur
 
Antara aktiviti yang dilaksanakan:
1) Rundingan Penerbitan Penyelidikan – Indexed Journals (Scopus, Web of Science), RADIS, Impact Factors, Quartiles, h-index, etc. 
2) Perkhidmatan Perpustakaan – peminjaman dan pemulangan buku, mengemas kini rekod keahlian dan SUMBANGAN BUKU.
 
 
Anda Dijemput Hadir!!!  😃
 
 
Sekian, terima kasih.
Nurrull Huda Binti Abdul Wahid
Librarian
UTM Library, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)
Jalan Semarak, 54100 Wilayah Persekutuan, 
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

 

Statistical Process Control (statistics for industry)

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This program is technically co-sponsored by IEEE SPS Malaysia Chapter.

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Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

A one-day short course on “Statistical Process Control (statistics for industry)” is being organised by Center for Intelligent Signal and Imaging Research (CISIR)”.

 

The course brochure is attached herewith. Also, please refer to a short description of the course as follows:

“This short course introduces the principles and tools behind statistical process control (SPC) and monitoring. Monitoring and controlling the process ensures that it operates to, produce items that conform to specifications with minimum amount of waste. The tools of SPC can be applied to any process such as manufacturing, or any service related business, for which conformance can be measured. This short course will introduce the principles of SPC which include statistical thinking, understanding of variation and tools that are used to measure, identify, monitor and control variation.”

 

In addition, the course objectives include:

  1. To introduce the principles of SPC which include statistical thinking and the understanding of variability; both natural and abnormal.
  2. To introduce statistical tools that can measure natural variation and identify abnormal variation.
  3. To introduce and develop control charts as a tool for process monitoring and control.
  4. To introduce and develop capability and performance indices to measure the ability of the process to operate with specification limits.

 

The course has been organized according to the following schedule:

Day: 15th December 2016

Time: 9:00am to 4:30pm

Venue: Seminar Room 6, UTP

 

Course Instructors:

1) AP Dr Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam,

2) AP Dr Sarat Chandra Dass,

3) Dr Mohana Sundaram Muthuvalu,

 

For course registration, please refer to the method as mentioned in the course brochure (attached herewith).

 

We have limited numbers of slots, and the participation fee is RM 100/- to RM 250/- per participant.

Thank you

5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems (ECBS 2017)

*** First Call for Papers ***

5th European Conference on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems

ECBS 2017

Lordos Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus

31 August – 1 September, 2017

http://cyprusconferences.org/ecbs2017/

In Cooperation with ACM SIGAPP, SIGOPS and SIGSOFT

ECBS 2017 is a formal meeting dedicated to formulating and advancing
methods, techniques, and tools for engineering of computer-based systems.
The conference is devoted to the design, development, deployment, and
analysis of the complex systems whose behavior is largely determined or
controlled by computers. Such systems are characterized by functional,
performance, and reliability requirements that mandate the tight integration
of information processing and physical processes.

ECBS integrates software, hardware, and communication perspective of
system engineering through its many facets that include system modeling,
requirements specification, simulation, architectures, safety, security,
reliability, human–computer interaction, system integration, verification and
validation, high performance/parallel computing, cloud-based technologies,
and project management. The conference provides a bridge between industry
and academia, blending academic research and industrial development.

The proceedings will be published in the International Conference
Proceedings Series of ACM and after the conference they will be accessible in
the ACM Digital Library. A Best Paper Award will be presented to the best
paper presented at the conference, and a Best Student Paper Award will be
presented to the best paper written solely or mostly by students.

Scope

Papers are sought which reflect this intent in fundamental ECBS technologies
and application domains including, but not limited to the following topics:

· Agile and Lean Approaches and Human Aspects of Software Development
· Architectures
· Advanced Modularity
· Cloud-based Applications
· Co-Design
· Component-Based System Design
· Cyber-Physical Systems
· Parallel & Distributed Systems
· Parallel Programming Methodologies and Languages
· FPGA Systems Design
· ECBS Infrastructure (Tools and Environments)
· Education and Training
· Embedded Real-Time Software Systems
· Integration Engineering
· Lifecycle Processes and Process Evolution
· Model-Based System Development
· Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
· Networked Control Systems
· Reengineering & Reuse
· Reliability, Safety, Dependability, and Security
· Software Engineering
· System Assessment, Testing, and Metrics
· Verification and Validation

Industrial reports of practical solutions, trends, and new system
characteristics for ECBS, taking an integrated systems approach, are
particularly welcome. They may target application domains such as:
Aerospace Systems, Command and Control, Continuous and Discrete
Manufacturing, Environmental Systems, Instrumentation and Control
Applications, Internet Technology and Applications, Intelligent Highway-
Vehicle Systems (IHVS), Medical Systems, High Performance Computing
Development Environments and Applications, and Telecommunications.

Submission of Papers

The conference solicits regular (no more than 10 pages) and short papers (no
more than 4 pages). The Program Committee may require an accepted paper
to be adapted into a short paper or extended abstract (no more than 2 pages
and poster presentation only). All papers must be prepared according to the
ACM SIG Proceedings Template format (see the conference web site for
further information). The papers must be original contributions not submitted
or accepted for publication elsewhere. A submitted contribution should
clearly indicate the conference topics it targets. For an accepted contribution
to be included in the proceedings, at least one author must register and
present the paper at the conference. For further information, see the
submission guidelines on the conference web site.

Important Dates

· Submission of Papers: 1 May, 2017
· Notification of Acceptance: 1 July, 2017
· Camera-ready Submission: 17 July, 2017
· Registration and Payment for Authors: 17 July, 2017
· Early Registration for Non-Authors: 9 August, 2017

Organization

General Chair
· George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chair
· Ondrej Rysavy, Brno University of Technology , Czech Republic

Program Co-Chair
· Valentino Vranic, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia

Steering Committee
· Hassan Charaf, ECBS-EERC 2013 General Chair
· George Angelos Papadopoulos, General Chair
· Miroslav Popovic, ECBS-EERC 2009 General Chair
· Ondrej Rysavy, ECBS-EERC 2015 General Chair
· Valentino Vranic, ECBS-EERC 2011 General Chair

Program Committee
http://www.cyprusconferences.org/ecbs2017/organizers.html