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3rd WEEK OF THE MONTH AS ENGLISH WEEK IN UTM

Salam Sejahtera & Salam 1Malaysia

Dear Datuk/Professor/Dr./Mr./Mrs.,

 

3rd WEEK OF THE MONTH AS ENGLISH WEEK IN UTM

We would like to announce that UTM is implementing the following programmes to enhance the use of English among the staff.

All staff of UTM are required to use English regularly in UTM to develop their confidence to communicate with foreigners. This is to provide daily training for UTM staffs besides the formal training programmes offered by Human Capital Department (Registrar Office).

 

The implementation will be effective every 3rd week of every month starting from 14 – 20 February 2016. Heads of Departments are to ensure that the program is successfully carried out at the department level involving all staff.

 

Your cooperation in ensuring the success of the program is highly appreciated.

Thank you.

 

“Berkhidmat untuk Negara Kerana Allah”

THANKING & REGARDS

HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT DIVISION

REGISTRAR OFFICE

UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA

81310 UTM JOHOR BAHRU, JOHOR

Office:07 – 553 0361/1116/37949 | Fax: 07-5585821

Primary Email: hcd@utm.my | Site: http:registrar.utm.my/en/hcd/

Majlis ‘Kopi of Change : Sharing Session with DVCRI at UTMKL

Dengan segala hormatnya perkara di atas adalah dirujuk.

Sukacitanya, seluruh warga Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (UTM KL) dijemput hadir ke Majlis ‘Kopi of Change : Sharing Session with DVCRI’ yang akan diadakan pada 17 Februari 2016 (Rabu) bertempat di Dewan Utama, Menara Razak, UTM KL.


Atur cara:
9.00 pagi : Staf mengambil tempat
9.15 pagi : Ketibaan YBhg. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi bin Ismail, Timb. Naib Canselor (Penyelidikan & Inovasi)
: Nyanyian lagu Negaraku
: Bacaan doa
: Ucapan oleh YBhg. Prof. Dr. Ahmad Fauzi bin Ismail
: Sesi Pelancaran Pusat Penyelidikan dan Inovasi UTM KL
: Lagu Keunggulan Terbilang
: Bersurai

Seluruh warga UTM KL dengan segala hormatnya dijemput hadir ke Majlis ini. Segala sokongan dan komitmen ​YBhg. Tan Sri/Datuk/Datuk Seri/Puan Sri/Datin/Prof./Prof. Madya/Dr./Ir./Sr./Ar./saudara untuk hadir amatlah dihargai.
Sekian dimaklumkan.​

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Office of Corporate Affairs

Level 16, Menara Razak

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra

54100 Kuala Lumpur

Office:+(6)03-2180 5127 | Fax: +(6)03-2180 5602
Primary Email: hek.kl@utm.my | Site: http://corporateaffairs.utm.my/kl

Final Call – Excellent Research Awards by IEEE Signal Processing Malaysia

This is a final call for IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter initiated excellent research awards. The deadline is 15th Feb 2015.

Excellent Research Awards by IEEE Signal Processing Malaysia

 

Nominations are opened for all PhD/Masters graduates and researchers for Excellent Research Awards by IEEE Signal Processing Malaysia. The awards are initiated to recognize the excellent works conducted in the area of signal processing. The award recipients will be invited to receive the award during IPIARTI/SASSP 2016. Each category will be awarded a plaque, cash and a certificate. The categories of the awards are:

#1.   IEEE SPS Malaysia Best PhD Thesis Award 2015

#2.   IEEE SPS Malaysia Best Master Thesis Award 2015

#3.   IEEE SPS Malaysia Best Signal Processing Journal Paper Award 2015

Submission Guidelines

  1. For categories #1 and #2, the thesis must have been accepted by the Malaysian Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL)’s Senate between 1st of January 2015 to 31stDecember 2015
  2. For category #3, the journal paper must have been published (or at least have DOI number) in a journal between 1st of January 2015 to 31st December 2015 (must be in any journal promoted by IEEE SPS as in Appendix A in the attachement)

iii.            For category #3, the applicant has to be the corresponding author of the paper

Award Criteria

For all categories, an expert committee will be evaluating the submission based on the originality and contribution of the works in the area of signal processing.

The applicant must be an IEEE member at the time of submission.

Submission Date: Before or on 15th of February 2016

Please submit the softcopy of the form (as attached), thesis and all outputs IN ONE ZIP FILE (of PDF format) to:

  1. Iqbal Saripan (IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia)

m.iqbal@ieee.org

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Syed Abd. Rahman Al-Attas, Ph.D., SMIEEE
Computer Vision, Video, and Image Processing (CvviP) Research Lab

Dept. of Electronics and Computer Engineering,
Faculty of Electrical Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
81310 Skudai,
Johor,
MALAYSIA
Tel: 07-5535378
Fax: 07-5566272

Register Now for IEEE SysCon 2016

Online registration for the 10th Annual IEEE International Systems Conference is now open!

SysCon 2016 will be a 4 day event, with tutorials on Monday, April 18, and the conference’s multiple tracks of technical sessions on April 19-21. View the program outline, including the keynote speaker and plenary panel.

Detailed registration rates and information can be found on the SysCon website here: http://ieeesyscon.org. We invite you to tour and relax in sunny Orlando, Florida.
Conference Chair: Bob Rassa, Raytheon
Conference Technical Program Chair: Sidney Givigi, Royal Military College of Canada

Registration of Research students for Semester 2- 20152016

Dear students,
The registration for Semester 2 2015/2016 will be open on 12 February 2016 – 26 February 2016. Please register your course online.
Please refer to the attached program structure for course registration.
For further inquiries please email or call 03-21805217
Thank you

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Noridah Osman

Administrative Assistant (Academic)

 

Advanced Informatics School (UTM AIS)

Level 5, Menara Razak

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur

Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Office:03-21805217

Primary Email: noridah@utm.my

Academic-PhD by Research-Mixed Mode-Master by Research

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SEMINAR KEKELUARGAAN ISLAM SIRI 1

TEMA : TARBIAH AULAD ISLAMI ABAD 21 (TARBAWI MILLINEA)

PENDAFTARAN SEDANG DIBUKA DAN SANGAT TERHAD!!!

Yuran Kedamaian Hati dilancarkan untuk Anda sahaja !!!

Yuran Asal : RM70 seorang kini tidak lagi

EARLY BIRD (sehingga 15 Februari) : RM 60 seorang
Pakej Kasih Sayang hanya Suami Isteri : RM 60 seorang
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“PEMANTAPAN TARBIAH AULAD ABAD KE-21”

Pusat Islam UTM Kuala Lumpur

Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra
54100 Kuala Lumpur
Tel : 03-22031606
Faks : 03-22031601

Publication Citations & h-Index

As part of the initiative by the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), some information on citations and h-index has been compiled for your reference.
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Introduction

Citations is one of the publication metrics/indicators to measure the significance or impact of publications. It can literally be translated to the reference point of research. However, citations also is limited to express the overall achievement of an author or institution. This is where h-index comes in. According to Wikipedia, The definition of h-index is that a scholar with an index of h has published h papers each of which has been cited in other papers at least h times.

Some example:

  1. If an author has 1 publication with 1 citations. The h-index is 1.

  2. If an author has 1 publication with 200 citations. The h-index is 1.

  3. If an author has 1 publication with 2 citations and another 1 publication with 2 citations, the h-index is 2.

  4. If an author has 1 publication with 200 citations and another 1 publication with 2 citations, the h-index is 2.

Please take note that if you have a h-index of 2, meaning, you have at least 2 papers with at least 2 citations each. So, to be able to have high h-index, you will need to make sure different papers received as many citations as possible. Even if a publication get cited 200 times but the rest of the papers have zero citations will result in h-index 1  (Example 2).

With that, the lowest achievable target is one citation (cumulative) which automatically translated to h-index 1.

Guidelines

  1. There are a number of indexing services which keep track of citations. Example: Scopus, Web of Science (WOS), Google Scholar, ResearchGate, etc.

  2. Citations information in Scopus and WOS are considered reliable since they only indexed journals of certain standard. Whereas for Google Scholar and ResearchGate, virtually any publications are indexed as long as they are available online.

  3. Citations in Scopus and WOS are important because the information will be used for analysis, world ranking, university performance, etc. Where Google Scholar and ResearchGate are more of visibility and branding.

  4. It is advisable to have these accounts:

    1. Scopus ID (or Scopus author profile) will be automatically created as soon as we have a publication in Scopus. Based on the field of expertise, additional paper published in the future will be assigned to that specific profile/ID. There is, however, a possibility, that some publications in Scopus authored by us did not linked to our Scopus ID (partly due to the missing full author name in the publication and the different field of research we are involved with). Which is why it is important for the author to scrutinize their publications in Scopus and if they are not linked to the profile or if we have multiple profiles, we can request profile merging in Scopus (by email scopusauthorfeedback@elsevier.com or if you have any problem, email to teonghan@utm.my)

    2. There is no automated ID creation in WOS which makes it quite difficult to track the citations. We can create an ID called Researcher ID (http://www.researcherid.com/) to help us keep track of our publication in WOS. However, the whole process is manually (i.e.: we will need to add our publications manually to our Researcher ID). With that, we can then track our citations.

    3. Google Scholar and ResearchGate. These are alternative indexing services and are very useful for visibility purpose. They can be created at their respective website and papers can added either automatically or manually. Both provide some kind of citation metric. It is strongly recommended to have these account as well, especially for researchers who have yet to have Scopus or WOS indexed publications.

    4. Please note that some accounts (particularly Researcher ID and Google Scholar) can be make private and this is not recommended. The account/profile should be made publically available, to make sure they are searchable, which can be translated to more reference and more citations.

  5. Few strategies to improve citations

    1. Although self-citation is not encouraged, it is ethically fine for us to cite our own work. Hence, we can start off with citing our own work.

    2. We can also utilize our friends, students, supervisors, etc. to cite our work. This can be part of the collaboration efforts among our network for mutual benefits.

    3. Since the Research Entities Membership Policy was enforced, all UTM academic staffs are required to be part of Research Group and/or CoE. This can also be part of the strategies to improve citation by working together.

    4. Personal website as well as alternative academics profile (Google Scholar and ResearchGate) are a great way to promote citations as well.

  6. For those who have yet to have publication in Scopus, we can start with UTM’s Jurnal Teknologi (either normal issue or special issue).

  7. To search for journal indexed in Scopus, visit www.scopus.com, click Browse Source (above the search button). We can search look for the journals that are indexed by Scopus. Please pay attention to the indexing period. For example: Advanced Materials Research. This title is no longer indexed by Scopus since 2015. Same case for, Procedia – Social and Behavioral Sciences.

  8. To search for journal indexed by WOS, we can visit http://admin-apps.webofknowledge.com/JCR/JCR?SID. JCR is a short for Journal Citations Reports and it is compiled yearly by Thomson Reuters. JCR will rank the indexed journal in terms of Impact Factor and Quartile according to field. Here, we can get such information for a particular journal to assist us in deciding which journal for submission and so on.

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With this, the Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation), hopes that all researchers are working together to ensure UTM continue to soar high.
Please do not hesitate to contact me (teonghan@utm.my, h/p: 0124738239, ext: 31202) should you need any further information and explanation.
Have a nice day ahead.
TQ.

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Regards,

Chew Teong Han
Research Officer
Strategic Unit
Office of Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research and Innovation)
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
81310 UTM Skudai
Johor
Tel: 6075531202 | 60124738239

Maklumat Tambahan Geran KPT 2016

Maklumat tambahan berkenaan geran FRGS, PRGS, TRGS, dan LRGS dari KPT disertakan.

FRGS

1. Siling permohonan setiap projek penyelidikan FRGS adalah sebanyak RM250,000.00 sepanjang tempoh penyelidikan.

2. Pihak Kementerian akan memberi pertimbangan kepada projek-projek penyelidikan FRGS Fasa 1/2016 berdasarkan kriteria-kriteria berikut:-

(i)     kertas cadangan projek penyelidikan yang menepati kriteria penyelidikan fundamental, berkualiti dan mengikut Garis Panduan FRGS (pindaan 2016);

(ii)    jumlah peruntukan projek penyelidikan yang dipohon tidak boleh melebihi siling yang ditetapkan dengan tempoh penyelidikan tidak melebihi tiga (3) tahun;

(iii)   setiap Ketua Penyelidik hanya boleh mengemukakan satu (1) permohonan projek penyelidikan;

(iv)  permohonan baru bagi mereka yang telah diluluskan geran FRGS dengan bukti tahap selesai projek pada kadar 75% (laporan prestasi yang disokong oleh pihak RMC perlu dimuat naik dalam sistem MyGRANTS);

PRGS
 1. Siling permohonan setiap projek penyelidikan PRGS adalah sebanyak RM500,000.00 sepanjang tempoh penyelidikan.
TRGS
 1. Siling permohonan setiap projek penyelidikan TRGS adalah sebanyak RM1,500,000.00 sepanjang tempoh penyelidikan.
LRGS
 1. Siling permohonan setiap projek penyelidikan LRGS adalah sebanyak RM3,000,000.00 setahun.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS – MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION RESEARCH GRANTS CYCLE 1/2016 (FRGS, PRGS, TRGS, LRGS)

Dear UTM Researchers,

We are pleased to inform that Ministry of Higher Education has announced the call for proposals for research grants cycle 1/2016 of the following :-

Research Grant Proposal Submission in Mygrants
Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) 1 Feb 2016 – 29 Feb 2016
Prototype Development Research Grant Scheme (PRGS)
Trans-disciplinary Research Grant Scheme (TRGS)
Long term Research Grant Scheme (LRGS) 1 Feb 2016 – 20 Feb 2016

 

All proposals must be submitted through MyGrants Portal. Please refer to the workflow schedule attached. The latest Guidelines can be downloaded from RMC portal at the following website address

http://rmc.utm.my/download/

A briefing session will be held on the 14th Feb 2016 at UTM JB, and 17th Feb 2016 at UTM KL. Further details of the events will be announced soon.

 

For enquiries please contact the research officer of your respective Research Alliance:

Research Alliance Research Officer Phone Ext Number Email Address
Resources Sustainability Ms Umussaadah 31022 umussaadah@utm.my
Innovative Engineering Ms Nurarbainah 31034 nurarbainah@utm.my
Health and Wellness
Frontier Materials Mr Razis 31012 razis@utm.my
Smart Digital Community Ms Sapiah 31026 sapiah@utm.my

 

or RMC :-

khairilanuarmh@utm.my (ext 37870)

hazida@utm.my (ext 37806)

hasmayati@utm.my (37770)

eitaeusof@utm.my (37822)

ziana@utm.my (37824)

 

Thank you.

Prof. Madya Dr. Shukor Abd Razak

Timbalan Pengarah Pengurusan Projek

Pusat Pengurusan Penyelidikan

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Tel:(6)07-5537803

Fax:(6)075566177

http://www.rmc.utm.my – RMC Portal

http://www.rmconline.utm.my – RMC Helpdesk

https://radis.utm.my – Research and Development Information System