2021 Day 143 Task – Proof Read New Polymer MDPI Manuscript

Posted on May 24, 2021 ·

The main task I would like to highlight today is the proofreading task and improvement of the manuscript that I co-author that is planned to be published at Polymer MDPI Journal. Polymers is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of polymer science published semimonthly online by MDPI. Belgian Polymer Group (BPG), European Colloid & Interface Society (ECIS), The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) and National Interuniversity Consortium of Materials Science and Technology (INSTM) are affiliated with Polymers and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

I started proof reading and did some minor review and minor correcting since the morning. Luckily the manuscript was not that bad. It’s considered quite good, Alhamdulillah. I am glad with this collaboration with Anwar, my ex-MKKH. This is our 3rd project together.

Synopsis :

Teaching and learning at distance can be very challenging due to absence of social presence and teacher’s presence that could impact students’ cognitive presence (Shea, 2006). The presence of these 3 elements; teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence termed as Community of Inquiry is very important to ensure a meaningful online learning environment that improves students’ metacognition (Akyol & Garrison, 2011). Although an ODL environment is properly designed, lecturers have to be equipped with the necessary skills to deliver teaching and learning that include facilitation skills, scaffolding and not to forget to pay attention to students’ affectivity.

This workshop will guide lecturers to facilitate online learning which includes the best practices for online teaching for meaningful learning experience.

Other Highlighted Tasks of the Day:

  • Delivering ODL Programs – Viewed the online training. The UTM ODL system.
  • Checking and commenting on LOG BOOK LI Q1 (15/02/2021 – 14/05/2021) belong to Dr. Mohd Dinie Muhaimin Bin Samsudin.
  • Followed up on the AIP proceeding manuscripts.
  • Discussed with Dr. Syed on the Global Engineering Education Conference.
  • Completing the review for International Journal of Energy Research, for a review paper on catalyst and biodiesel.
  • Checked PSM Student progress. One of my PSM student 2nd paper maybe submitted to a Q1 journal next week or next 2 weeks. InsyaAllah.
  • Re-adjust my letter of award (LOA) for the Contract Research grant awarded to me by CEE / UTIM. Submitted the amendment to UTIM but they can only give me next week since now it is WFH.
  • Followed up, tried to contact, call, message my PA student many times to help and understand his situation. I hope he will respond to me soon.. Amin… and improve.. get better. See… Lecturer also has this responsibility as Academic Advisor (Penasihat Akademik).
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2021 Day 142 Task – Contract Grant Research Proposal – Finally Complete

Posted on May 23, 2021 ·

I have been dragging to do this Contract Research Proposal due to my stubborn procrastination trait since end of last year. It is something that I need to do and I must do… Especially that I need the money for Article Processing Cost (APC) to submit to IJET which cost quite a fortune. This is a Contract Research for me to study about Identity of An Engineer… A topic, a research that is quite interesting for me to do.

Nowadays, most of the students I taught seems not interested to be an engineer and it is imperative to seek for the main reason behind this. Some of them just listen to their parents, follow their friends, love chemistry – hence they opted for chemical engineering – which is misleading, some not sure… just select and took the course but have no passion at all for chemical engineering – they just go with the flow and many more weird reasons.

But I still can say that there are still if I can estimate 50-60% of students who really have the desire to be practicing chemical engineer. InsyaAllah.. Hence this is going to be my main study soon… Pray for me…

Other highlighted task of the day:

  • Checking my PDP student team progress.
  • Meeting with my PDP student.
  • Received invitation to review manuscript from International Journal of Energy Research. Pre-reviewed it. To be continued tomorrow.
  • Conducted 2nd CEO interview with Practicing Engineer – Audrey Then.
  • Updated SEEM website with 2 new contents – RCEE2021 and AJEE.
  • Edited CEO-001 Video – Haseeb and CEO-002 Video -Audrey a bit.

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2021 Day 141 Task – Completed Editorial Write Up for IJET

Posted on May 22, 2021 ·

Finally I managed to complete the Editorial Write Up for International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET) journal. It was my first time writing this and I hope if will not be the last one. It was not easy as I need to review all 15 papers that successfully accepted to be published in this journal. I started from few days ago, but became more serious yesterday and spent half of today to finally complete the write up. Alhamdulillah.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

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2021 Day 140 Task – Reviewed Manuscript from Perintis Journal

Posted on May 21, 2021 ·

It’s a fabulous Friday today. I was up and jumping straight to settling quite a number of official and non-official tasks today. One email that suddenly appeared in my inbox asked me to review Perintis ejournal. I had a look at it and decided to straight away handled the review process. Alhamdulillah within 45 minutes the review was completed and safely delivered to the Editor. When I replied that email, I was technically replying the Editors email within 1 hour… Wow.. this is the fastest review process and responds I think I have ever made.

Other tasks highlights of the day:

  • Checked my PSM student’s progress.
  • Followed up on my 2 PhD student’s progress.
  • Applied Activity to attend ICLCA conference from RADIS.
  • Evaluated and verified my PA students EXCEL activities.
  • Set-up Goggle Adwords for Revision Eye and Brain Supplement.
  • Drafted IJET Special Issue Editorial Write up.

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2021 Day 138 Task – SCEE RAE Hub Meeting #1 in Week #3

Posted on May 19, 2021 ·

The SCEE RAE Weekly Appointment will be held tomorrow and from Week #2 instructions, we were asked to have a meeting to discuss about one of the activity which was the Moon Landing Scenario. It was quite interesting to have 5 out of 6 of us discussing about the Moon Landing scenario.

Following is the instruction of the assignment:

Scenario

You are a member of a space crew scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship on the lighted surface of the moon. However, due to mechanical difficulties, your own ship was forced to land at a spot 200 miles from the rendezvous point.

During re-entry and landing, much of the equipment aboard was damaged and, since survival depends on reaching the mother ship, the most critical items available must be chosen for the 200-mile trip.

15 items are listed as being intact and undamaged after landing. Your task is to rank them in terms of their importance for your crew, to allow them to reach the rendezvous point. Place the number 1 by the most important item, the number 2 by the second most important, and so on through to number 15 for the least important.

Instructions

1. Look over the list of salvaged items below and think about their importance to your crew.

  • Box of matches
  • Food concentrate
  • 50 feet of nylon rope
  • Parachute silk
  • Two .45 calibre pistols
  • One case of dehydrated milk
  • Two 100-pound tanks of oxygen
  • Stellar map
  • Self-inflating life raft
  • Magnetic compass
  • Five gallons of water
  • Signal flares
  • First aid kit containing injection needles
  • Solar-powered FM receiver
  • Portable heating unit

2. Download the ‘Moon Landing Ranking Sheet’ attached below. Write down your rankings in the first column – it is important that you write your answers down.

Please do not discuss them with anyone else on the course. This activity will then be built upon during this week’s Live Workshop.

Other Highlighted Tasks / Info of the Day:

  • Coordinating RCEE2020 publication plan to Scopus Proceeding.
  • Joined my Wife’s Class from 11am to 1pm where student presented about Oil and Gas Upstream and Mid Stream.
  • 2nd Mock Presentation for my Plant Design Project Students at 8pm.
  • Received Agreement draft from IOP Journal… Yesssss!!!!
  • Our Renewable Energy Journal Paper written by Efa has been published… YESSSSS.. Alhamdulillah…

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2021 Day 137 Task – Marking Petroleum and Refinery Technology Test

Posted on May 18, 2021 ·

This is not an easy tasks as the answer scripts are all in softcopy form. Students have uploaded the pdf version of their answer script to elearning and I just used the platform the marked it online and insert the marks straight away in eLearning. Luckily I have graded more than half of it the day before and left with just few more today.

Other Highlighted Tasks of the day:

  • Mock Presentation #1 with my PDP students at 1pm.
  • Went to clinic for wife and daughter medication.
  • Assisted my daughter (standard 3) with her online class and assignment.

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2021 Day 136 Task – Drafted Contract Research Grant in Radis System

Posted on May 17, 2021 ·

This is indeed a long pending task that I have to do since last December 2020. Unfortunately, I procrastinated on this tasks. Today I forced myself to work on this project. It is actually a contract research grant i was given from Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) and the short title of this research is “Identity of an Engineer”, which is non-techie, non-chemical engineering but important for capacity building of an engineer.

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2021 Day 135 Task – From JB to Seri Iskandar to JB

Posted on May 16, 2021 ·

First things first. I have not done any official task work for today. Me and my wife we traveled from JB just before 7 am to Seri Iskandar Perak and back to JB again, reached around 6.45pm. We sent our son Ikhwan to UiTM Seri Iskandar Campus as he is requested to pursue a face to face study.

Long trip… but Alhamdulillah, Allah protect us throughout the journey. Syukur.

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2021 Day 134 Task – The Lemang Project – 3rd Day Eid

Posted on May 15, 2021 ·

Today is a wonderful Saturday, also the 3rd day of Eid. I suffered a massive stomach ache due to some eating or food problem. Half of the night was spent in the toilet. Nevertheless, after recovering a bit, I joined the Lemang Project that was done just in the vicinity of our residential area.

But it is imperative to highlight that I did not do any official task today. The day was busy with Lemang, Surau and family activities 🙂 .

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2021 Day 133 Task – Few Research Monitoring Work

Posted on May 14, 2021 ·

It’s the second day of Hari Raya but I am doing some research work such as applying for conference research activity, going through PSM research work and some manuscripts. But it was not that serious or heavy.

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