Nurshikin Mohamad Shukery

Pada 24 Februari 2018, Kumpulan Free Market Johor telah mengadakan satu program free market untuk golongan OKU dan juga ibu Tunggal di Johor. Program yang diadakan di L50, UTM telah menjemput seramai 200 penerima sumbangan. Seramai 203 orang sukarelawan yang terdiri daripada individu, pelajar UTM skudai, pelajar UNiKL dan badan sukarelawan telah bekerjasama melancarkan program amal ini.

Seramai lebih 15 orang pelajar daripada Jurusan Sarjana Muda Ukur Bahan dan Sains Pembinaan, bersama seorang pensyarah kanan Dr. Nurshikin Mohamad Shukery dari Jabatan Ukur Bahan, Fakulti Alam Bina turut terlibat sama dalam aktiviti sukarelawan ini. Ini memberi peluang dan pendedahan yang baik kepada pelajar dalam memupuk peribadi yang cemerlang dan menyantuni sesama insan dengan tidak mengira latar belakang. Dengan pendedahan seperti ini dapat membuka minat pelajar dalam aktiviti-aktiviti amal dan sukarelawan. Semoga graduan UTM menjadi insan cemerlang dan terbilang di dunia dan akhirat.

Sepanjang minggu ini, pelbagai majlis akan berlangsung di dalam kampus kita.  Para tetamu daripada dalam dan luar negara terlibat dengan majlis-majlis tersebut.  Untuk makluman semua, senarai majlis, tarikh dan lokasi adalah seperti berikut   :

1)    8 Ogos, 2017

Lawatan Khas Pegawai Tertinggi Markas Angkatan Tentera, Kementerian Pertahanan

      Lokasi   :   Makmal AMTEC dan Aerolab

2)      University Presidents Forum (UPF)    :   8     hingga 10 Ogos, 2017

Kehadiran seramai 97 delegasi daripada 52 universiti  (dalam dan luar negara)

1.     i)     9 Ogos, 2017   :   Majlis Perasmian dan ucaptama oleh YBhg Datin Paduka Ir. Dr. Siti   Hamisah Tapsir, Ketua Pengarah Pendidikan Tinggi

             Lokasi   :   Dewan Senat , Dewan Bankuet, Dewan Sultan Iskandar dan lawatan sekitar kampus

3)      9 Ogos, 2017  –  2.30 petang

Majlis Perasmian Galeri Alam Bina oleh  YBhg Datin Paduka Ir. Dr. Siti   Hamisah Tapsir,   Ketua Pengarah Pendidikan Tinggi

       Lokasi   :     Fakulti Alam Bina

4)      9 Ogos, 2017  –     8.00 malam

Suara TN50  :  Aspirasi Warga Pendidikan Tinggi Bersama Menteri  Pendidikan Tinggi, Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Idris b. Jusoh

       Lokasi   :  Dewan Bankuet

5)      10 Ogos, 2017  –  Sehari Bersama Yang Berhormat Dato Seri Idris b. Jusoh :

1. i)Breakfast meeting bersama peserta UPF
2. ii)Lawatan ke MaGICX  dan Majlis Pelancaran UTM 4.0 4^thIndustrial Revolution and Classroom of the Future

iii)      Lawatan ke AMTEC :  Perasmian bangunan

1. iv) Lawatan ke AEROLAB
2. v)Majlis menandatangani MoU / MoA di antara Lestari Advanced Technology Sdn Bhd  dengan  UTM (AMTEC dan AEROLAB)
3. vi) Ramah Mesra Menteri Bersama Pelajar Centre for Students Innovation

CYBERJAYA, 17 July 2017 – Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s students have once again made UTM proud in the Innovate Malaysia innovation competition by winning the Excellence Award (Overall champion), three First Prize Awards, one Second Prize Awards and one Consolation prize in Innovate Malaysia Design Competition 2017. Innovate Malaysia Design Competition is a multi-discipline engineering  competition that is open to all final year student who are taking engineering or computer science and usually using their final year project to compete in this largest engineering design competition in Malaysia.

The challenges promote innovative culture in engineering work and tackling real world problems using engineering solutions which is important as well to consider impact to society. Commercialization also has been one of the criteria of developing the project.

This competition is co-organized by Intel, Fusionex, Keysight, MathWorks, Microsoft, CeDEC, Motorola Solutions, National Instruments, SilTerra, ViTrox and Dreamcatcher supported by Ministry of Education, MaGIC, Talent Corp Malaysia, MDEC, IEM, Techsqurce, and Terasic.

There are new categories which they called design challengers by CyberView, Daikin, Entopia, IM4U, IQ-Group, Ranhill, Sime Darby, TM, and WCS.

The Spot team won the Excellence Award and First Prize Award under Vitrox Track. The team won RM 5,000 + ViTrox Incubation Space for 6 months with Mentoring Program + Free CoE Training Courses in 2017.

Spot is an app that contains the latest technology of machine vision and smartphone to eliminate all parking problems. Features including finding parking, reserving parking and even solving double parking make Spot always the first choice among all drivers.

It provides real time update on availability of parking lots, platform for drivers to communicate, alert users in undesirable occurrences and convenience reserve parking system.

The team members are Daniel Ng Chiu Loong, Ang Miin Shan and Lee San Kong  from Faculty of Electrical Engineering(FKE).The team was supervised by Dr Yusmeeraz Yusof.

Another team that  won the 1st Prize Award (RM 5000)  and Cyberview Design Challenge award (RM 3000) was the ‘ParkKing’ in Motorola Track.Their product ParkKing is a smart parking system with double parking detection. The system provide a smart social solution for the city administration and public user.

For city administration, the system has an integrated parking lot monitoring and analysis system as well as a smart phone application for officer to give summon. For the public user, they can check for parking lot availability in real time and also report any illegal parking by the provided platform.

The team members are Gan Yi Reng, Edward Chan Kam Fai, and Leow Tan Chun Kit all from Faculty of Electrical. The team was supervised by Dr. Kamaludin Bin Mohamad Yusof (FKE).

For the Microsoft Track, the Solvere Team has won the First Place again after last win at Microsoft Imagine Cup in UTP, Perak.

The team won RM 5000 based on same project they won for previous competition. SmadBot(Smart Advertising Robot) that is capable moving around in places of attraction like shopping malls, restaurant, airports and exhibitions based on waypoint navigation.

One of the unique features of this robot is that it can know a person’s details by scanning their face to predict age, gender and emotion and then show relevant advertisements personalised specifically for the person who is standing in front of it.

This method of targeted advertising also publishes the data to the cloud so that advertisers can perform analytics on their data and make decisions from it.

The new features of the robot is the robot can greet you by your name by just using camera data in which the person need to feed the image to train in the first place.

This will improve personal preference on product advertisement shown at the robot. The project was developed by Nik Ahmad Faisal bin Mohd Kamarolzaman, Zul Fahmi bin Khamiti and Muhammad Syukri bin Sainal all from Faculty of Electrical Engineering.The team was supervised by Dr Yeong Che Fai

Second prize winner for Mathworks track won RM 3000 + Matlab Software. The project, Autotuned Electrical Muscle Stimulator with electromyogram biofeedback was developed by Muhammad Naqiuddin bin Nazali from under supervision of Dr. Leow Pei Ling aims to treat people that suffering the muscle weaknesses. It applying a certain electric intensity automatically across the muscle to stimulate is as a passive exercises.

Lee Mei Xiang won consolation prize worth RM 500 for the project “16-bits High Speed Adder” for Silterra Track.In VLSI system,  everyone preferred more for a high performance with low power consumption system.

Adder as the lowest level in VLSI system plays an important roles to make the system to full fill all of those requirements. In this project, the performance of several types of adder was investigated by using Quartus II and Synopsis tools in the target of 180 nm Silterra Technology.

At the end of this project,  the performance of Kogge Stone Adder is the best compare to other adder especially in speed up rate. Kogge Stone adder is 3.44 x speed up rate when compare to the build in adder in Synopsis Tools.The team was supervised by PM.  Muhammad Mun’im Ahmad Zabidi

The teams would like thank the Centre for Student Innovation (UTM CSI) and faculties involved in facilitating and supporting them in joining this competition.

Congratulations to Noor Azeyah Khiyon, PhD candidate at the UTM Faculty of Built Environment under the supervision of Dr Sarajul Fikri bin Mohamed, for winning the Best Paper Award at the 21st Pacific Association of Quantity Surveyors 2017 in Vancouver, Canada.

Her paper, entitled ‘Whole Life Cycle Costing for Sustainable Facility Management’ which deals with the very relevant issue of sustainability in today’s world. Noor Azeyah is also an academic staff at the University of Reading Malaysia.

29 July: UTM website ranks the second highest among Malaysian University listed by the Webometrics Ranking Web of Universities July New Edition. UTM is currently at the second place at the national level after UM, followed by USM, UPM and UKM.

A Gold Medal to Quantity Surveyor and Architecture students in the International UTMBridge Competition 2017! Two group of QS and Architecture students won 2^nd Prize for Presentation and Multimedia category and 9^th Place on Overall Champion out of 80 participants in the competition. The International UTMBridge Competition was organised by the Faculty of Civil Engineering held on 27-29 March 2017 in UTM.
They received a total of RM1,150 and a trophy.

Congratulations to Syamsul Hendra Mahmud, Nurshikin Mohamad Shukery and Dr. Nafisah Abdul Rahiman, the group advisor from Department of Quantity Surveying and the students.

FBE won Silver Medal Award at Invention, Innovation and Design (IID) competition held 9^th March 2017 in Amansari Residence Resort, Johor Bahru Malaysia.

Invention, Innovation and Design (IID) competition was first mooted by the UiTM main campus in Shah Alam in an effort to promote innovations in all faculties and campuses as feeders for participations at the university level IIDEX (Invention, Innovation and Design Exposition). IID Johor was first organised in compliance with this requirement from the Research Innovation Business Unit (RIBU).

Nurshikin Mohamad Shukery who has developed A Flexible Multi-Criteria Integrated Performance-based Decision Making: A Prototype, won Silver Medal Award under Professional Level for Social Sciences category. The research has developed a significant tool for contractor selection, by helping organizations to select a competent contractor and decreasing the subjectivity of the decision-making process. The advantage as gave by the system favour a reliable indicator to predict performance of construction project by selecting a contractor based on his best performance. The team members are also participated in the IIID Johor 2017 are Dr. Hamizah Liyana Tajul Ariffin, Dr. Nafisah Abdul Rahiman and Syamsul Hendra Mahmud.

After waiting almost a year, my paper finally published!

Title: Level of Importance of Performance-based Tender Evaluation Indicators

Abstract:

Objectives: The objective of this paper is to identify level of importance of performance-based tender evaluation indicators required to stimulate the effectiveness of current tendering practice in Malaysian Public Sector. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This paper presents a case study conducted at Public Works Department (PWD) of Malaysia. The Quantity Surveyors are examined with a concern of the implementation of performance-based tender evaluation indicators. The research also questioned the level of importance of 11 past performance indicators and 11 potential performance indicators. The quantitative research method was adopted by developing a questionnaire survey and data collection in PWD. Findings: Evaluating contractor based on performance has positively help to select the right contractor. This study aims at finding out drawbacks on current tender evaluation practice, developing the performance based indicators, identify level of importance of each indicators and seeking opinions of PWD. Relatively, the setbacks have been observed in their criteria of tender evaluation with the lack of past performance and potential performance being measured. Ironically, the findings indicate that the quality of workmanship on past project and customers’ satisfaction are the most important indicators but none of the indicators are considered in the current tender evaluation practiced by PWD. The result of this study provides an important contribution as a guide that helps the public sector to select a competent contractor based on performance indicators. Measuring performance based contractor selection is rather new ,and implementation is still limited. Application/Improvements: Comprehensive contributing factors of performance indicators developed in this research may help the client to improve their contractor selection by using the performance indicators identified.

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All undergraduate students (SBEQ and SBEC) has to submit their research title and objective for vetting session before 25th September 2016. The vetting session will be on 27th September 2016. The PSM (Project Sarjana Muda) Panel will deliberate your proposed research title and objectives.

In determining the research title and objectives, all students must reads on related topic or research area that you are interested in. The supervisor will guide you, but you have to READ! READ! and READ!

The problem is, some of the students develops their objectives itself without having a solid base on current issues (a valid references). Finding research gaps is about doing an extensive readings on journals, latest issues.

For example, Figure 1 shows one article (reference: http://konsumerkini.net.my/v1/index.php/berita-terkini/alam-sekitar/533-bangunan-hijau-ke-arah-pembangunan-mampan). From one article, there are several issues can be further develop to be your research focus. All you need just, select one issue and find more references on the issue – READ.