JOHOR BAHRU, 13 Februari 2018 – Seramai 25 orang peserta yang terdiri dari wakil program Perancangan Bandar dan Wilayah, Fakulti Alam Bina UTM (7 pelajar dan 1 pensyarah pengiring) dan Faculty of Architecture and Planning (FAP), National University of Civil Engineering (NUCE) dari Hanoi, Vietnam (15 pelajar dan 2 pensyarah pengiring) telah telah menyertai program UTM Summer School–Malaysia Heritage Walks & Town Trails2018. Program UTM Summer School anjuran Fakulti Alam Bina UTM (FAB UTM) melalui Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Wilayah (JPBW) ini merupakan edisi kali ke-5 bersama pihak NUCE dan yang pertama selepas Perjanjian Persefahaman (MoU) ditandatangani pada Oktober 2017 antara kedua-dua institusi pengajian.

Program ini diketuai oleh Dr. Noor Aimran Samsudin, Pensyarah Kanan Jabatan Perancangan Bandar dan Wilayah UTM selaku pengarah program. Matlamat utama program ini adalah untuk memperkenalkan usaha pemeliharaan bandar dari perspektif bidang perancangan bandar selain memupuk perasaan kecintaan terhadap nilai warisan tempatan dalam konteks alam bina melalui lawatan teknikal ke beberapa bandar warisan dan tapak bersejarah terpilih seperti Bandar Maharani Bandar Diraja dan Tapak Warisan Dunia UNESCO Bandaraya Melaka Bersejarah selain ke Putrajaya dan Kuala Lumpur.

Sebuah slot perkongsian kuliah turut dianjurkan pada hari pertama program yang disampaikan oleh pengarah program, Dr. Noor Aimran Samsudin berkaitan kepentingan pemeliharaan identiti bandar warisan tempatan manakala Dr. Lee Yoke Lai dari Jabatan Senibina Landskap berkongsi mengenai identiti landskap budaya Malaysia dan sumbangannya terhadap karektor setempat. Delegasi Vietnam yang diketuai oleh Dr. Nguyen Cao Lanh, Timbalan Presiden FAP NUCE telah disambut kehadirannya ke UTM oleh Prof. Madya Dr. Mohamad Rafee Majid, Timbalan Dekan (Penyelidikan, Inovasi, Komersialisasi dan Jaringan).

Aktiviti seperti ini telah berjaya membantu merealisasikan Bidang Tumpuan ke-7 dalam Pelan Global UTM 2012-2020 iaitu “Memperkasakan jenama UTM di peringkat global”. Program UTM Summer School yang bermula pada 31 Januari sehingga 5 Februari 2017 ini turut diisi dengan penganjuran bengkel mini yang menekankan akan pentingnya pengukuhan identiti bandar warisan dengan citra tempatan. Peserta dikehendaki untuk mengenalpasti komponen dan elemen reka bentuk bandar yang menyumbang ke arah pembentukan identiti tempatan.

Hari-1, Khamis (1 Februari 2018) : Sesi kuliah dan bertolak ke Muar

Hari-2, Jumaat (2 Februari 2018) : Menyelusuri Sungai Muar

Pada sebelah pagi, peserta dibawa menyelusuri Sungai Muar menaiki bot dari Jeti Tanjung Emas. Dengan menyelusuri sungai, peserta berpeluang melihat keindahan Bandar Diraja dari sudut visual dan pemandangan yang berbeza. Bandar Maharani yang mula dibuka sejak tahun 1887 semasa zaman pemerintahan Sultan Abu Bakar berkembang pesat selari mengikut tebing sungai sehingga muara Sungai Muar. Pada hari ini kewujudan bangunan warisan yang masih terpelihara seperti istana, masjid, pejabat daerah, mahkamah, balai polis dan deretan bangunan rumah kedai tradisional menghidupkan persekitaran bandar tersebut sebagai sebuah Bandar Diraja di Johor. Peserta berpeluang menyelusuri sejarah Kesultanan Johor dan hubungkaitnya dengan sejarah kegemilangan Melaka. Seterusnya, lawatan diteruskan lagi ke Melaka Bandaraya Bersejarah. Ketika di Melaka, peserta dibawa menyelusuri laluan jejak warisan yang ditetapkan oleh penganjur. Permulaan perjalanan dimulakan dengan memberi pendedahan kepada sejarah Bandaraya Melaka. Peserta didedahkan dengan sejarah kewujudan Kota Melaka (A‟ Famosa) yang pernah menjadi pusat pentadbiran kepada sebuah kerajaan maritim terunggul di sebelah Timur bermula zaman Kesultanan Melayu Melaka sebelum ditawan oleh Portugis, Belanda dan British. Perjalanan diteruskan lagi ke Muzium Istana Kesultanan Melayu Melaka bagi memberi

pendedahan tentang sejarah permulaan Melaka pada zaman dahulu dan pengetahuan berhubung institusi Kesultanan Melayu Melaka. Selain itu, peserta dapat menerokai dan melihat paparan koleksi pakaian tradisional, aksesori perhiasan dan peralatan senjata yang digunakan pada zaman dahulu. Setelah selesai menerokai muzium tersebut, pelajar dibawa ke Bukit St. Paul bagi melihat Gereja St. Paul dengan lebih jelas. Di sini, peserta didedahkan dengan pelbagai pengetahuan yang melibatkan pembentukan sejarah daripada para pensyarah. Pada sebelah malam pula, peserta diraikan dalam sebuah jamuan di Restoran Muara Sungai Duyung.

Hari-3 Sabtu (3 Februari 2018) : Tapak Warisan Dunia Melaka UNESCO Melaka

Pada hari ke-3 terdapat beberapa muzium yang dilawati peserta iaitu Muzium Negeri, Muzium Etnografi dan Muzium Senibina. Kawasan deretan bangunan rumah kedai tradisional turut diterokai keunikkan senibinanya khususnya di sekitar Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock dan Jalan Jonker. Peserta diperkenalkan dengan kepelbagaian warisan nyata (tangible) dan tidak nyata (intangible) yang berkait rapat dengan Outstanding UniversalValues (OUV) yang terkandung di tapak UNESCO tersebut termasuklah melihat kehidupan masyarakat tempatan di Kg. Ketek dan Kg. Morten. Pada sebelah malam peserta turut dibawa menyelusuri Sungai Melaka melihat keindahan lampu hiasan yang menerangi pesisir sungai dan deretan rumah kedai dan perkampungan tradisional, Kampung Morten.

Hari Ke-4, Ahad (4 Februari 2018) – Putrajaya dan Kuala Lumpur

Setelah melawat di sekitar Putrajaya, peserta dibawa ke tempat penginapan yang telah disediakan. Setelah itu, para peserta dibawa ke Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) dengan menaiki pengangkutan awam. Di sini, mereka diberi peluang untuk merasai pengalaman menggunakan Transit Aliran Ringan (LRT) yang menjadi salah satu kemudahan pengangkutan moden ibu negara. Setelah sampai di KLCC, para peserta diberi peluang untuk menonton pertunjukan air pancut berirama di hadapan KLCC yang menjadi tempat ikonik. Para peserta dapat melihat dan merasasi suasana aktiviti yang dilakukan oleh warga Kuala Lumpur pada waktu malam hari. Pada pukul 11 malam, para peserta dibawa pulang dengan menaiki LRT dan berjalan kaki ke tempat penginapan.

Hari Ke-5, Isnin (5 Februari 2018) : Pembentangan akhir

Pada hari terakhir, peserta diminta membuat pembentangan mengenai identiti dan perbezaan di setiap tapak lawatan yang peserta telah lewati iaitu di Muar, Melaka, Putrajaya, dan Kuala Lumpur. Setiap peserta dibahagikan kepada 4 kumpulan dan 1 kumpulan terbahagi kepada 5 ke 6 peserta. Kumpulan 1 telah menerangkan mengenai perbezaan antara setiap tapak lawatan, kumpulan 2 menerangkan apa itu identiti di setiap tapak lawatan, manakala kumpulan 3 membentangkan mengenai keunikan makanan di Malaysia dan identiti di Muar, dan kumpulan terakhir menerangkan mengenai pelbagai jenis senibina dan identiti. Setiap kumpulan berjaya melakarkan pelbagai jenis senibina yang terdapat di setiap tempat mereka lawati. Pada akhir pembentangan, setiap pensyarah telah memberi komen yang positif kepada setiap pembentangan peserta. Wang saguhati turut diberikan kepada peserta hasil kutipan „denda‟ yang dikenakan kepada setiap peserta yang menggunakan bahasa ibunda masing-masing semasa berkomunikasi dalam program ini bagi menggalakkan penggunaan bahasa Inggeris. Majlis penutup dan sesi penyampaian sijil kepada peserta telah diadakan selepas selesai pembentangan. Selesai penyerahan sijil, peserta dibawa melawat ke sekitar Masjid Jamek. Pihak pengurusan masjid telah sudi menerangkan sejarah pembinaan masjid tersebut. Peserta juga dibawa melawat sekitar masjid dan merasai suasana di dalam masjid dan juga di masjid ini mempunyai pelbagai Al-quran terjemahan dan ini membolehkan pelancong memahami isi kandungan Al-quran tersebut. Selepas itu, peserta dibawa ke Pasar Seni dan seterusnya ke Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad-Dataran Merdeka. Pelbagai perisitwa penting berkaitan sejarah kemerdekaan negara telah dikongsikan kepada peserta di kawasan tersebut. Selesai lawatan, semua peserta telah berangkat pulang dengan menghantar delegasi Vietnam ke KLIA2 pada sebelah petang sebelum kembali pulang ke kampus UTM JB.

Her Majesty Duli Yang Maha Mulia Tuanku Raja Zarith Sofiah Binti Almarhum Sultan Idris Shah, Permaisuri Johor and the Chancellor of UTM has kindly grace Saturday Night Lecture series organised by CASIS, Centre for Advanced Studies on Islam, Science and Civilisation, a centre of excellence in UTM, in collaboration with Yayasan Raja Zarith Sofiah, Yayasan Ta’dib and HAKIM which was organised on 10 February 2018 at UTM Kuala Lumpur.

Saturday Night Lecture series started almost 30 years ago at the International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC), founded and directed by YM Tan Sri Prof. Dr. Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas, a world renowned Malay thinker and reformer. The Lecture was his deliberation of the great ideas contained in many of his books which were read by contemporary Muslim scholars all over the world. The lecture series at ISTAC was abruptly suspended in 2002 due to certain unfortunate circumstances and it was only resumed in 2012 when Tan Sri al-Attas was appointed as distinguished visiting professor of CASIS UTM. He then delivered the lecture series for a period of 3 years.

Saturday Night Lecture series is about honouring a great scholar of Islam. It is a celebration of knowledge and scholarship. Saturday Night Lecture series reflects the culture of knowledge that is lacking in many parts of the Muslim World. It brings people together, from all walks of life, not only for the sake of personal quest for beneficial knowledge but also to find answers  and solutions to the contemporary problems facing the ummah.

Saturday Night Lecture series will be recorded in history, perhaps, as the longest lecture series ever held in the Malay World, which has received tremendous support from various interested and learned parties; its audience includes academics, diplomats, politicians, administrators, public servants, professionals, educators activists and students alike regardless of age.

The lectures discuss fundamental elements constituting the worldview of Islam, epistemic frameworks, the civilisational challenges confronting the ummah internally and externally, and provide intellectual means and solutions on how to address them.

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The purposes of this programme were to consolidate the global friendship bond between youth in Malaysia and Maldives, to foster the value of volunteerism in youth, to explore the knowledge and culture about Maldives, and to develop the potential of participants towards excellence.

The activities included of an educational visit to The Maldives National University to exchange ideas about education systems in particpants’ own countries and an activity related to corporate social responsibility such as beach clean-up activity to make an impact on the society.

Besides that, another significant activity is the sharing session with local NGOs such as the Regional Alliance for Fostering Youth to introduce Malaysia and NGOs in Malaysia and cultural performances where the participants  performed traditional dances.

Moreover, they were also arranged to join a city tour led by local students in Male to understand the development of the capital, and also to join the beach activities such as island hopping and a sand bank tour to see the natural beauty surrounding Maldives.

Throughout the whole programme, they had exchanged cultural knowledge and ideas as well as built a global friendship that had enriched their learning journey.

Dear All,

Materials Lecture Competition (UTM-MLC 2018) at university level will be held to find a suitable candidate to represent UTM to national level. The details of the competition are as follow:

Date: 11 March 2018
Venue: FKM
Time: 8 AM– 5 PM

The Materials Lecture Competition 2018 (UTM-MLC2018) is open to all UTM students under 28 years old and participants must deliver a 15-minute presentation on a topic related to Materials or Minerals Science and Engineering

To take part in the UTM- MLC2018, please provide an abstract of maximum 150 words and submit the registration before 25 February 2018 at https://goo.gl/72ykAn

For details of the competition, please download the e-poster attached or visit https://people.utm.my/mlc

If you have any enquiries, feel free to email us at utmmlc@mail.fkm.utm.my

Best regards and thank you very much.

“Hack for Good” is the first of its kind, end-to-end cellular Narrow Band Internet of Things (NB-IoT) hackathon covering the complete ecosystem from device, connectivity, IoT platform to apps, to provide a unique opportunity to university students and professionals to build IoT based solutions relevant for Malaysia.

“Hack for Good” is open to all university students and professionals. Register for free at https://t4gc.com/ by 26th February 2018.

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On 25 January 2018, Dr. Rozetta Dolah has delivered a technical short course for MIT and Harvard affiliates, universities and industrialist. This is part of the IAP 2018 (Independent Activities Period) event organized by MIT annually every January of the year. For over four decades, IAP has provided members of the MIT community with a unique opportunity to participate in a wide variety of activities, including how-to sessions, forums, athletic endeavors, lecture series, films, tours, recitals and contests. Having the experience working with Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and industry prior to academic field, Dr. Rozzeta took this IAP 2018 opportunity to contribute her expertise to MIT. Besides, she introduced UTM and UTM Razak School to these MIT participants and exposed UTM as a premiere engineering university and its achievement.

This short course is essentially made to understand on how to construct an experimental design using MINITAB as a vehicle to a robust product and process optimization. It covers the terms of the TAGUCHI Static and Dynamic designs, Design of Experiments (DOE) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) to be wisely fit the input of orthogonality and variation minimization. Variation context as noise function and simplifying the statistics into practical or real application are some of the responses highlighted by the audience. The 3-Hour hands-on engaged with MIT reveals the truth of experimental design by resolving the confusion on:

• How far I can stretch my parameter setting for optimum results?
• How to explore the relationships between several Explanatory Variables and one or more Response Variables 
• How reliable, clean and optimized the data is
• Which region should be explored and which should not?
• How should I start the experiment and get it RIGHT at the first time?

From participants’ responses, they concluded that this is a very good tool for researchers, engineers, and industrialists. At present MIT does not employ this tool but from the good feedback from the attendees, it is expected that MIT will soon acquire some copies of MINITABS license for the use of its staff and students. UTM has contributed to MIT continued excellence and leadership in R&D by introducing this important tool to its staff and students.

MINITAB is a powerful statistical software for comprehensive data analysis. It provides a simple, effective way to input statistical data, identify trends and patterns, and extrapolate answers to the problem at hand. MINITAB is vital to investigate the underlying cause of a problem and expedite the problem solving process. This software option uses a series of elements to help Six Sigma professionals work with data and optimization process, thus further enhance your ability in optimizing your process response. It’s an essential tool in process improvement, making it essential to any Six Sigma program.

PROFILE:

Dr. Rozzeta Dolah CEng MIET is a post doctoral fellow at MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering under Microfluidics and Nanofluidics Research laboratory. Her research interest involves renewable energy in biomass conversion into biofuels and nanotechnology using robust quality engineering including Taguchi method optimization. Her experience in response surface methodology for quality engineering was gained under the direct tutelage of the pioneer of Taguchi method, son of the late Dr. Taguchi, world’s renowned quality expert. Prior to being in academic field, she has many years of experience in industry as process engineer, where she involved in various Black Belt Six Sigma projects, and problem solving through defects and variation elimination using MINITAB.

As a MINITAB trainer, she involved mainly in process robustness against variation in order to boost yield and production of a system. She is a member of Japan’s Quality Engineering Society, she led many quality improvement projects through the implementation of Taguchi Method (Robust Quality Engineering), Design of Experiments (DOE), and Lean Six Sigma.