Mentoring 4 Excellence is a program organized by UTM Lead that aims to provide guidance as well as assist in the profiling and development of academic staff talents at university and national level. A briefing session of this program was held at the CICT Seminar Hall, Level 4, UTM this morning (03-Apr-2019), by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sharifah Hafizah, the director of M4E.

I am also one of the participants for this program for Research and Innovation track and I choose to be the mentee under the guidance of Prof Dr Zainoora Zainun Noor from the School of Chemical Engineering.

The followings are the checklist of KPI that I have to achieve uponĀ  completion of this program:

Level 1: Duration is 18 Months (for staf DS51/52 and DS54 without PhD)

Monitoring Progress Level 1

Checklist

    • 1 national grant secured (as members) OR
    • 1 internal grant secured (as project leader)
    • 1 scopus or Q3/4 paper published (or accepted)
    • Any two (2) RDCI courses attended
    • 16 hours engagement with mentor

By looking at the checklist, I am confident that I can fulfill the KPI within the given time.

Now, looking forward to my first engagement session with my mentor.