SWEETS
Just received a Pakistani sweets package from my PhD student Usman. It comes all the way from Pakistan! So grateful for thoughtful gestures like this that make our academic journey even sweeter! #PhDLife #Grateful #InternationalConnections
LAND ADMIN MPHIL VIVA
Exciting news! Today, I had the privilege of being the chairman for the MPhil viva session for Ungku Khalsom Sofia binti Ungku Yusoff. The session was a huge success and I am thrilled to announce that the student has passed with flying colors! We had the pleasure of having Dr. Zurinah from UKM as the external examiner and Dr. Tan Liat Choon from UTM as the internal examiner. Congratulations YM Ungku on this remarkable achievement! #MPhilViva #SuccessStory #Chairman #highereducation #Education #AchievementUnlocked
PLANNING MALAYSIA
Exciting news! Our latest journal paper titled “Late Strata Titles Delivery: Insights and Impact To High Rise Housing Development” has just been published in the Planning Malaysia Journal (Volume 21, Issue 1, 2023). This paper delves into the implications of delayed strata title delivery on high-rise housing development, providing valuable insights for the field. If you’re interested in reading more, check out the link below to access the full paper. Thank you for your support!
Link to the paper: https://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/1246/928
#housingdevelopment #stratatitles #planningmalaysiajournal #publication #research #insights #impact #highrise #architecture #construction #propertydevelopment
IFTAR 2023
Our lab’s day out. I am happy to invite my MPhil and PhD students for an Iftar session. Sorry for my students who are in their home country, maybe next time we can have this Iftar session again. No academic research discussion today. Only food and chit chat.
PUBLISHED AND WE GOT IT OPEN ACCESS (FOR FREE)!
Successfully published our research paper in volume 41 for the third edition this year (2023). The interesting part of our study this time is we observe the habits of litter in the community. Quite surprised with the amount of litter we collected within our research area. With the help of geospatial analysis techniques, we can see trends.
However, research is only an instrument for studying the effects of this waste. But the most important thing is the attitude to keep our place clean. Please don’t litter everywhere, guys. We talk about the SDGs, the Sustainable City, the Green Life, etc., but it is useless if there is no right “litter” attitude. It all starts with you (and me).
Title: Within cluster pattern identification: A new approach for optimizing recycle point distribution to support policy implementation on waste management in Malaysia.
Journal: Waste Management & Research
Link: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0734242X221123489
Quartile: Q2
#community #research #help #sustainable #wastemanagement #gis #geographicinformationsystems #spatialanalysis #litter #sdg #openaccess #highereducation
JOURNAL ARTICLE SHARING
This is our first journal publication of this year. The concept of the city with an infrastructure of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) embraces several definitions depending on the meanings of the word “smart” which include: intelligent city, smart city, knowledge city, ubiquitous city, sustainable city, and digital city. Many definitions of the city exist, but this study explores which one has been universally acknowledged. From the literature analysis, it emerges that the term smart city is the most used in the articles to show the smartness of a city. This paper shares exploration of the research from the seven main website digital databases and journals focusing on the smart city from January 2015 to February 2020 to: (a) Time research, to examine the causes of the smart city phenomenon and other concept literature in the last five years; (b) Review of words, to see how and where the smart city specification and relation of different definitions are implemented; (c) Geographical research to consider where smart cities’ greatest concentrations are in the world and determine if Malaysians are interacting with the smart city; and (d) How many papers are published in all of Malaysia from 2015 to 2020 about smart cities. Three steps are followed to accomplish the aim of this study: (1) The analysis which covered a systematic literature review search strategy to gather a representative sub-set of papers on the smart city and other definitions utilizing GoogleScholar, Elsevier, Scopus, ScienceDirect, IEEEXplore, WebofScience, and Springer between January 2015- February 2020; (2) The formation of a bibliometric map based on the bibliometric evaluation using the mapping technique VOSviewer to visualize differences; (3) VOSviewer application program to build initial clusters. The bibliometric analytical findings targeted the word harmony.
Journal name: World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology
[Urban and Civil Engineering]
Online ISSN : 1307-6892
Articles link:
#technology #digital #engineering #research #communication #strategy #sustainable #science #smartcities #infrastructure #formation #civilengineering
SPRINGER BOOK CHAPTER 2023
I would like to share about our first publication of this year. Its a book chapter in Springer research book.
This chapter discusses on how noise mapping is constructed in 3D for the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) campus area. It is also the first approach made in UTM to visualize noise impacts in 3D. We use the techniques available in 3D city modeling to obtain the results of this study. More findings can be found in the chapter.
This research is sponsored by UTM research grant. We would like to thank to UTM for giving us the opportunity to conduct this research. Here is the information about the book chapter:
Chapter 18: Three-Dimensional (3D) Noise Pollution Visualization via 3D City Modelling
Book: Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Natural Resources and Built Infrastructure Management
Publisher: Springer Publishing
Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-14096-9_18
Cite this chapter
Ujang, M.U., Dzulkefley, N.Q., Azri, S., Salleh, S. (2022). Three-Dimensional (3D) Noise Pollution Visualization via 3D City Modelling. In: Singh, V.P., Yadav, S., Yadav, K.K., Corzo Perez, G.A., Muñoz-Arriola, F., Yadava, R.N. (eds) Application of Remote Sensing and GIS in Natural Resources and Built Infrastructure Management. Water Science and Technology Library, vol 105. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-14096-9_18
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTIES
Regarding our study findings, we have successfully acquired new Intellectual Properties (IP) that have been granted Copyright status. This intellectual property focuses on the 3D voxelization method for developing wind flow models.
Congratulations to Nurfairunnajiha Ridzuan. The student’s efforts have been acknowledged with accomplishment. It is her first opportunity to work with intellectual property. I intend to educate my students on the application procedures for intellectual property.
We certainly hope that our research lab will generate a more significant number of IPs.
#work #opportunity #research #students #intellectualproperty #copyright #3dcitymodelling #3dgis #utm #highereducation #ip #3dvoxelization #windsimulation #windflow
YEAR END 2022 RESEARCH MEETING
This meeting was postponed from November to December. This is because our research lab is undergoing a major renovation and expansion to meet the needs of new students.
This meeting we introduced 3 new research members namely Syafiq, Husna and Farah. Each showed good progress despite having just started their studies in less than two months.
Hopefully next year more and more interesting research can be produced from our lab. See you next year (IA)!
#students #research #utm #3dcitymodelling #3dgis #postgraduatestudies #phd #mphil #researchlife #researchlab
This is the 11th journal publication in 2022. Based on the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT2), a Malaysia Smart Cities Stakeholders Adoption Model (MSCSA) was employed as a case study in this research. In-depth interviews with specialists from smart city development agencies were conducted using a mixed-methods research approach. These assessments provide city officials with a mechanism for measuring citizen interest in smart city services and a road map for establishing an efficient smart city plan.
Article: Factors Affecting Stakeholder Acceptance of a Malaysian Smart City.
Journal: Smart Cities
Quartile: Q1
Indexing: Web of Science, Scopus
Cite: Hamamurad, Q. H., Jusoh, N. M., & Ujang, U. (2022). Factors Affecting Stakeholder Acceptance of a Malaysian Smart City. Smart Cities, 5(4), 1508-1535.
Links:
1. Abstract: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/4/77
2. HTML Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/4/77/htm
3. PDF Version: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/5/4/77/pdf
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