2021 Day 190 Task – Checked Education for Chemical Engineer Paper Draft

If yesterday I was checking paper draft for Energy Conversion and Management Journal, today I checked paper draft for Education for Chemical Engineer (ECE) prepared by Nazrul and the gang. This is still the same paper as the one I mentioned the other day. It’s actually the 2nd draft after improvement has been done following my suggestions and comments. I managed to check whole of the paper but there are few things that I need to do with the paper – that are to improve Table 6 and 7 and also add a new paragraph for discussion and analysis.

In Syaa Allah the paper will be fine tomorrow.. Hope so.

2021 Day 189 Task – Checked Energy Conversion & Management Paper Draft

My main task today was purely to check my student’s ECM paper draft which has been pending for 2 weeks. I found it tough to check the paper before this because I need to revamp the Introduction part a lot and that alone has pretty much delayed me. However, the end of today I am very pleased that I managed to stay focused and check the paper up to 90% of the content. I will complete the remaining 10% tomorrow and return the draft back to my student.

Important point: I am very impressed with my student’s work. After all she managed to prepare this 50 page manuscript in 3 months as a PSM student. Remarkable!

2021 Day 188 Task – Pitching Our Project @ Safety Champion in Engineering Education (SCEE), RAE, UK

Today, we pitched Our Project @ Safety Champion in Engineering Education (SCEE) Project under Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE), UK. It was quite a nerve-racking experience. But I felt I did quite well. We managed to have a very super last minute meeting just before the SCEE program, managed to get the slide prepared in good shape and managed to present the proposal. We hope to get pass to Phase 2 of SCEE Fellowship program. In Syaa Allah. More pictures and information here.

Other highlighted task of the day:

  • CEE Meeting No. 6 2021 @ 9am
  • SCEE RAE Hub Meeting @ 2.30pm
  • Updated SEEM website for the T&L Kopitiam Event

2021 Day 187 Task – CEE Meeting #6 & SCEE RAE Final Slide Preparation

Today I prepared CEE Meeting #6 Slide since I will be hosting our 6th CEE meeting tomorrow. Quite a number of Agendas have been set up for discussion and I hope the meeting will be a fruitful one. On top of that I also spent quite some time to prepare the final presentation for SCEE RAE presentation. It is not Week no. 10 in the SCEE RAE program and it is the end of Phase 1 for our prestigious fellowship under SCEE RAE. I have passed the slide to the team for them to check before we have a Hub meeting tomorrow after lunch.

Other tasks highlighted today:

  • Checked ECM paper
  • Checked potential ECE paper.

2021 Day 186 Task – Checked Potential ECE Paper Publication

I have listed quite a bunch tasks to be completed today. Once of it includes the checking of Nazrul’s paper that is about Engineering Education Scholarly Experiential sharing. The paper was intended for other journal but after listening to Nazrul’s intention and also going through swiftly the paper content, I suggested the paper to be enhanced and submitted to Education for Chemical Engineer (ECE) journal.

ECE is definitely an amazing platform for sharing Engineering Education Scholarly practice sharing and also Engineering Education Research (EER). The recent update last 2 weeks had happily declared that this journal has an impact factor of 2.333. Before this there’s no impact factor recorded and a sudden jump from nothing to 2.333 is such an spectacular success for this highly reputable journal.

2021 Day 185 Task – Paper Project Meeting

I had a online meeting with Shams and Eliya, our new team for few paper writing projects. Both of them are very energetic and highly enthusiastic students that just completed their bachelor degree from UTM and now in pursue of their post graduate studies overseas. I am very fortunate to have them because they wanted to be guided for journal publications. It is imperative to note that both of them are not presently my official active students. Both are just 2 person that have completed their study but want to learn and publish their research work.

It’s easier to coach, mentor and guide those who wants to publish journal paper compared to those who are not willing to do it. I am also fortunate because my present and passed PSM are very driven and wanted to write and publish. As a Supervisor, our task is to expose, explain to them the importance and spirit behind paper publication, guide, mentor and coach them the best that we can.

I always make it a point to provide feedback to their weekly progress, so the students know what they should improve. By doing this, they also will feel happy and appreciative because they know that their SV is really going through their work and they will always want to do their best. In Syaa Allah.

2021 Day 184 Task – Interview CEE ARO and Final Exam MKKK1653

Today is the day for Plant Design Project presentation which takes place from 9am to 1pm. However, I cannot attend the Plant Design Project presentation because at the same time I have the Final Exam for Master Chemical Safety MKKK1653 that takes place from 8.30pm to 1pm. Even though the final exam is made online and mostly managed by AP Dr. Norzita, I still have to be there and make myself available, just in case, because my questions are also asked in the final exam.

Subsequently after that, at 2.30pm we’ll have an interview session for CEE Assistant Research Officer position. The interview will also take place virtually. InsyaAllah we hope that we can find a suitable candidate after not successfully getting one from the previous 3 interview sessions.

2021 Day 182 Task – Checked RADIS and Submitted Research Grant Progress Reports & CV Update

After going through my research grants in RADIS UTM system, I realized that it’s time for me to submit quite a number of grant progress reports. I have completed and submitted a progress report for a research grant that has ended last 2 months. However I forgot to check about my other research grants.

But honestly, most of the time was actually focused on improving and enhancing my CV. I realized that my CV was not super complete in terms of all the tiny details. Don’t be mistaken. I do have my CV and the CV is in decent condition and also updated. I just wanted to update one that is updated to the fullest detail, that means up to all the conferences that I presented and attended, all the students and topics of the master presentations, all the details of the research grants and all the details of the publication and others.

2021 Day 180 Task – Submission of 2 Manuscripts

Today was quite tough. I submitted 2 manuscripts to 2 different journals. The detail preparation for it was quite brain and energy consuming. I submitted to Environmental Pollution journal and also Material Today Proceeding Journal. Not much activity today apart from the above and also trying to update my CV bit by bit.

2021 Day 179 Task – Miscellaneous Research Activities Matter

I have no special heavy weight activity that can be highlighted as of today because all of them are normal small scale activities. Among them are checking my PSM and Master students progress / updates, checking and preparation for Materials Today Proceeding journal and others. I was looking as well at some of CEE and RCEE2021 activities and planning too.