Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
I was invited to TNCPI What’s Next Action Plan Workshop since last month due to my capacity as CEE Director. This is the first face to face official event under TNCPI that I attended at Pulai Spring Resort. All directors from Institute, Hi-COE, COE and other PTJ attended the workshop. We were there to be briefed and later discussed on what’s the plan for the next 3 years on UTM future.
It was a really lengthy and detail preparation to complete the Citra Karisma 2020 Teaching Award Documentation. I slept at 4am in the morning to complete it. I went to Taman University book shop to bind my Teaching Portfolio. In overall, I am more satisfied with my submission this time, compared to the previous 2 years. I submitted the official form that was signed by Dr. Hajar Alias (Head of Chemical Engineering Department), Shams Shazid Kader (my student) and Prof. Dr. Mohd Ghazali Nawawi (Chair of SCEE).
I submitted the documents at UTMLead at 2pm, accompanied by Dr. Azizul Azri, who is serving in UTMLead. Alhamdulillah, it was pure relieve submitting the documents. Now I will leave it to Allah. I’ve done the best that I could.
It’s Saturday, the second day of our weekend public break. However, there are still few things to be sorted out and that’s why we had this meeting with Prof. Johannes Stroble from University of Missouri. We were actually discussing on getting Prof Stroble’s help to conduct a CBAM Workshop. CBAM is Concerns Based Adoption Model – this is a model that is used to support and track the change process towards an innovation. The meeting started at 9pm Malaysia time and ended within an hour. It was 8am at Prof Stroble’s geographical location that time.
This is the first time I participated in the Mesyuarat Pengurusan Jabatan Timbalan Naib Cancelor (Penyelidikan & Innovation) Bil 2/2021 as my capacity as the Director of CEE. InsyaAllah I looked forward to participate and contribute as much as I can. Next TNCPI program that I will participated is next week which will be help in Pulai Spring.
Other highlighted tasks of the day:
Our Center of Excellence, CEE, posted a new vacant position in February which is for the Assistant Research Officer (ARO) position. Today we interviewed 6 candidates that have been shortlisted.
To identify champions in teaching among UTM academic staff
To develop community of practices in teaching
To develop talent pool for champions in teaching
Pihak Pusat Kepimpinan Akademik UTM (UTMLead) akan menganjurkan satu sesi perkongsian Anugerah PengajaranUTMseperti butiran di bawah :
Tajuk : Sesi Perkongsian Anugerah Pengajaran UTM
Tarikh : 28 Mac 2021 (Ahad)
Masa : 11.00 pagi – 1.00 petang
Platform : Aplikasi WEBEX
I participated in the above mentioned sharing after completing my MKKK Master Safety class. It was a very interesting sharing by Prof Zaidatun and I learned a lot from her sharing. I now know what I need to do in order to improve my Teaching Award application.
Other highlighted tasks of the day:
Today is a wonderful off-day Saturday, which I spent few hours in the morning to deal and settle some of the long pending tasks. One of it that I would like to highlight here is the Society for Engineering Educators Malaysia (SEEM) Website, which I was just elected as one of the committee few months ago and I am in charged of the website. Luckily we have a freelance who can help me sort out the website, but there are still some technical issues that need to be dealt with. Hopefully it will be cleared soon.
Other highlighted tasks:
This is one of the most meaningful and holy activity that I am involved in. It is one spiritual and community activity that is very good and require great deal of support. The program is not only focused on kids but also adults. The objective is to memorize 3 of the final Juz in Al Quran in 300 days.
Wesam was one of my previous Master Chemical Engineering in the course of Safety and Health in Chemical Plants. Today, I became one of his examiner for his dissertation research presentation. He did very well in his research which is about photocatalysis to produce hydrogen by using titania MOF catalyst.
