Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
Done Moderating Distinguished Lecture Series #113 – Professor Cynthia J Atman, Human Centered Design & Engineering University of Washington.Such an amazing research sharing titled: Design Process Expertise: The Importance of Design Awareness. To engineers, I highly recommend you to watch the video. Here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssa0J07_5yU
I saw the advertisement in my mailbox few days ago and I took this opportunity to apply again for the Individual Webometric Award. Since this award was listed several years back, perhaps around 2015 (if not mistaken), I never won it at UTM level. The best I did was as the finalist on the debut of the award in Citra Karisma.
For Faculty level, if I remembered correctly I won twice. Lets see how my luck is this time around at 2021 Citra Karisma Award.
I also viewed the webminar about ProctorU that was presented by Dr. Nihra from UTMlead. While viewing the video, I also signed up ProctorU account. I still have plenty of things to explore and learn with regard of ProctorU.
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The highlight for today is the Plant Design Project Briefing that I will be the supervisor beginning next week. It’s kind of ironic because I was the Head Coordinator for this Capstone Course for 2019 and 2020. But then since I was recently appointed as The Director for CEE, I was lifted from becoming the Coordinator for this 4-credit course.
Other selected highlighted tasks:
I was officially appointed to be the new Director for CEE, UTM on the 1st of February 2021. But then, it was the pandemic era and we are asked to work from home and because of that I have not been to my new office. However, the permission to WFH has been lifted on the 5th of March 2021 and all UTM staffs have to come to workplace for work.
So here I am at my new office. I did a little bit of cleaning and arranging which took 30 minutes or so. Subsequently I continued to work.
Other highlights for today:
Today in the morning I arranged for this mock presentation with my master dissertation student from Libya. Various research management matters to be completed and reported at the end of the day. InsyaAllah. Stay tune
Other highlighted official tasks of the day:
The fact that it is a Friday allowed me to relax a bit today. After all, I have been working very hard, almost non-stop since since several weeks. I need some break and once in a while breaking my daily pattern. I did not immediately work in the morning as usual, but I pampered myself with waking up a bit late… haha…
After that, I woke up and strategize my day. I started by listing down tasks to do for today while waiting for my laptop to stabilize after I switched it on (it’s a 7 year old laptop and it takes time for it to get ready after i pressed the on button).
I checked Efa’s (my full time research master student) abstract again, after my other half corrected it yesterday. It looked simple but it really is not that simple. Need to carefully check both English and Malay version of the abstract. After completing it I emailed it back to Efa.
Other highlighted official tasks of the day:
Hopefully this will be the last meeting for us that will allow us to meet the budget after sacrificing numerous needs for CEE. The meeting date and time was earlier set since last week between me and Aizat from Jabatan Harta Bina (JHB) UTM and Alhamdulillah we managed to get together in a virtual meeting at 2pm and ended nicely at 3.10pm. Among CEE reps that were present apart from me were Prof Khairiyah, Dr. Fadzil, Dr. Noraini, Dr. Effiyana and Izzati.
Other highlights of the day:
Today, as usual, my schedule is packed with numerous activities. But the main activity that I want to highlight for today is the Koperasi Surau Bestari Meeting that was conducted around 9pm evening. I am the Chairman of the Ahli Lembaga Koperasi (ALK) for Koperasi Surau Bestari Berhad.
Other activities highlighted for today:
Today, we are scheduled to do the presentation of our own Student Advisory Performance (Penasihat Akademik (PA)) to our Head of Department. My PA students now are in the 3rd year and there are numerous patterns of result. I realized that I need to follow up and check on several of my students that have dropped their points.
Other miscellaneous selected tasks of the day to be shared here:
Today, we started another online training which is the continuity from the 1st RAE Training for Indonesian Lecturer. This will be a 3-days workshop that will help clarify the lecturers about Active Learning (AL). Apart from the Indonesian lecturers, there are 4 lecturers from SCEE UTM who participated as well.
