2021 Day 132 Task – Eid Mubarak 2021 – Stay Safe, Stay at Home

Selamat Hari Raya Maaf Zahir Batin. No work today!!! Just purely celebrating Hari Raya… At Home!!!

2021 Day 131 Task – Green Lab Report Evaluation

I am one of the Green Hero Committee member at the School of Chemical and Energy Engineering (SCEE), UTM. I have been involved in several rounds of audit and checking of selected blocks and buildings in the vicinity of SCEE. Today, I completed the final task which is to complete the evaluation of Green Lab Report of one of the research center – in this case I was assigned to evaluate Prospect at N29.

I submitted my review manuscript to BCREC yesterday. Unfortunately, the submission got some problem, which is shown as below:

Dear Dr Zaki,

Thank you for uploading the graphical abstract of your manuscript. However, according to the second revision requirement in the previous email, REFERENCES must be typed according to Author Guideline of BCREC journal Section 10.19 (URL: https://ejournal2.undip.ac.id/index.php/bcrec/pages/view/authorguide\). Please be careful on how to write

First and Last Names (all authors should be provided, not et al.), article title, journal name (should be consistent whether full name or abbreviation), vol (no), page start-page end, and DOI: …..

Thank you for your contribution.

Regards

Hence, I have to improved and correct the way we did the references…

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Repair / Improve BCREC Journal Submission
  • Went through the activities of Week 2 SCEE RAE – It is about Creativity and Diversity.

2021 Day 129 Task – Completing End of Grant Report

One of my Tier 2 Report granted by the University, more known as Grant Universiti Penyelidikan (GUP) has completed last year. It’s my responsibility to prepare an End Report for the grant. This grant basically supported the expenses to conduct my PhD research student, Nur Nazlina Saimon.

2021 Day 128 Task – Visited and Donated to Asnaf at Kempas Area

Our Surau (Surau-Al-Taqwa), led by Ustaz Mohd Ismail Musytari today visited 2 groups of Asnafs that are living in a very poor conditions, located at Kempas. Eight of us travelled in 2 cars attended to the 2 asnafs. We brought foods and also cash, that were donated by Jemaah Surau. The first Asnaf are a couple that lives in a land, more like a forest for about 7 years. They were 75 and 69 years, old respectively. The wife is diagnosed with kidney problem and hence have to undergo dialysis 3 times a week – and this incur massive cost. They are lucky because a generous person built a small proper brick house for them which can be dwelled by them 1 month ago. There were so many tiny mosquito around the asnaf’s house but we did not hit the mosquito aggressively to respect the asnaf. Oh gosh.. the condition these people live in are indeed very poor and sad.

The second asnaf was a single guy who nearly reaches 70 years old. He lives alone in a poorly constructed place he deemed as his house. I sneak peaked into his house and saw that the floor is actually the same soil outside of his house. Basically, there’s no proper flooring. We gave this old man dry foods and also cash.

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2021 Day 127 Task – Began PDF Proofing for Our Renewable Energy Journal Manuscript

Alhamdulillah, I am glad that Zarifah’s massive effort writing this review paper was finally showing some nice rewards. Today, Renewable Energy journal system got in touched with me to ask me to verify few things about our manuscript and also to go through the entire article to check in case there are any problems. There were several issues, mainly on the unit for certain parameters that require very careful check. I realized that I have started this, but I cannot complete this task today. The manuscript was a 70 plus pages word document and after it is converted into Renewable Energy format, it became 22 pages. Nevertheless there are still a lot, seriously plenty to go through for the checking.

2021 Day 125 Task – Safety Champion in Engineering Education (SCEE) First Meeting

Today is the start of the SCEE RAE Fellowship program. I participated in this program and I wish to learn precious skills and knowledge from the experts from UCL, RAE and other institutions. There are 25 participants from 17 institution around the world.

The first program commenced at 5pm to 7pm Malaysia time, 6th May 2021.

2021 Day 124 Task – Guest Lecture in My Introduction to Petroleum and Refinery Technology Class

2021 Day 123 Tasks – Preparation of Test Question for Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course

As the title says, I prepared the test question for Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course that I am teaching this semester.

Other highlighted tasks:

  • Checked Raihan’s Master Dissertation Correction.
  • Reviewed the hotel budget for RCEE2021 – from Double Tree Hilton, JB.
  • Read PBL Aalborg conference program.
  • Read through the SCEE RAE Program for Phase 1, just to double confirm our task for this week.

2021 Day 122 Tasks – EasyChair Brief Training

Since RCEE2021 will be adopting to the Easychair Platform for the papers management, we conducted an Easychair Training session for our Easychair Technical person. The training was initiated by Dr. Noraini and delivered by Dr. Norah. Before this I was just a user or participant (presenter) in a conference that uses Easychair…. But now I need to also know and understand how to use EasuChair.

2021 Day 121 Tasks – AJEE & IJET Management Tasks

I am presently the Editor for ASEAN Journal of Engineering Education (AJEE) and also just became a Guest Editor for International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET). The task for Guest Editor is shared with Dr. Mohd Fadzil Daud from SME and CEE. Special Issue IJET is there for selected RCEE2021 participants to submit their high quality manuscript.