Day 206 Task – Completing the review of Education for Chemical Engineer (ECE) Manuscript

Posted on July 24, 2020 ·

 

The paper that I reviewed today was the revised version of the manuscript that I have reviewed earlier. It was a very interesting manuscript about safety course that is being introduce to the bachelor of chemical engineering curriculum in one of the European country. The manuscript which was earlier quite OK has now became a very lengthy and valuable interesting great article. I am glad to be part of the reviewer who provided some of the inputs and comments to make the manuscript at its present state. Well, that’s part of our job, as a critical reviewer in the engineering education sector, particularly in the chemical engineering niche.

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Day 205 Task – UMS Chemical Engineering PDP Viva Session

Posted on July 23, 2020 ·

As shared yesterday, today I will be the evaluator / assessor for Team 1 and Team 8 for the Final Year Chemical Engineering students of Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS).  The first session started at 9am, which is the session with Team 1 while 10.45am was the session with Team 8. The session which took place in Google Meet was smooth and fruitful. I did asked many questions and also in some areas helped clarify few things to the students.

At 2.30pm, a special session involving invited assessors, supervisors and students were held, also in Google Meet. I was given the opportunity to comment and give suggestions on the session held in the morning. Other assessors also commented as well.

Overall it was a very good session. I learned a lot from the program, even though I was the assessor. I learned how they handled / conducted the program. It is good for me since I am the Coordinator for PDP in the Chemical Engineering program in UTM.

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Day 204 Task – Reviewing UMS Chemical Engineering Plant Design Project Pre-Recorded Presentation

Posted on July 22, 2020 ·

I was invited to evaluate Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Chemical Engineering Plant Design Project (PDP) for their Final Year Student. It was my first time to be invited for this program and I have earlier agreed. Since the program will take place tomorrow and the pre-recorded presentation have been given to me 2 days ago, I spent basically almost the whole day watching tentatively to this presentation. It is not like the PDP that we have for our chemical engineering PDP in UTM.

For this, I was assigned to be the evaluator for 2 teams, which were Team 1 and Team 8. Each team have a general pre-recorded presentation and each members will also have their own pre-recorded presentation. The allowed time for each individual presentation in 15 minutes maximum. Each team have 5 students. Just imagine the time spent to view the presentation, and also to understand it, plus jotting down questions to be asked.

Luckily I managed to complete all videos by the end of the day and have all my questions ready for tomorrow. Wish me luck for tomorrow.

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Day 203 Task – Miscellaneous Tasks

Posted on July 21, 2020 ·

Today, I am not going to specify a special official task. I will be sharing a few that I will do today and that include:

  1. Improving and making correction for ICLCA manuscript after receiving comments from reviewers few days ago.
  2. To do review for Education for Chemical Engineer (ECE) journal.
  3. To work on my Master student research paper.
  4. To follow up on my PhD students job progress – Four of them at the moment which I am the main SV.
  5.  To work on HTGYE book.
  6. To check and review my task as External / Industrial Panel for UMS Chemical Engineering Plant Design Project this coming Thursday.

OK, let’s just see at the end of the day if I managed to complete all of it. If I can complete more than half of the list, that’s still good enough, good progress for me.

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Day 202 Task – Finalizing Plant Design Project Marks

Posted on July 20, 2020 ·

Yesterday I focus on finalizing Master Safety marks. Today, my prime goal is to once again check the final marks for Plant Design Project (PDP). There are so many marks, so many data, so critical and no room for mistakes as the credit marks for PDP is huge. It was very challenging, really, and at one point I have to seek help from Dr. Azizul to double check / audit the marks that I have finalized. Alhamdulillah, he pointed out one part which was not correct and after that all the marks were fine.

Bottom line, in this particular task, i learned that we need to be very careful, meticulous, detail, patient, when handling student marks which could be a critical point that direct the faith of their live direction. This is no joke. I don’t want to be making silly or careless mistake in deciding an important grade for this capstone subject. There’s no wrong to seek some assistance from our team to double check our work. It shows that we have integrity, nothing to hide, no personal agenda and no ulterior motive.

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Day 201 Task – Finalizing Master MKKH Marks

Posted on July 19, 2020 ·

Today, after getting the marks from Dr. Norzita, I checked, combined the marks and finalized it. The final marks result was not as usual but it was just fine for the 9 students under us. Though the final marks are ready, I have not yet key it into the system. I will probably do it in this coming few days as I want to focus on triple checking the Plant Design Project (PDP) marks which have so many data. Imagine having 14 Course Learning Outcomes for PDP and each weak there’s like 1 CLO to cover. Wish me luck.

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Day 200 Task – Taking Break

Posted on July 18, 2020 ·

Today, I decided not to deal with anything related to official work. It’s not because it was the 200th day and I needed a celebration. It was just an impulse decision. I just wanted to free myself from academic and research related activities for a while.

Hence, I just did other home activities, home stuffs such as cutting the grass using our new lawn mower, cleaning this and that in the house, a bit of home chores etc. Sometimes we need to do things differently to right?

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Day 199 Task – AJEE Management

Posted on July 17, 2020 ·

This is one task which I have to monitor and handle from time to time and it’s proven quite challenging. But it is OK. I’m up to the challenge which I have taken since the beginning of MCO Covid 19. If I am not mistaken it has been about 3 or 4 months since I took over handling this AJEE journal from Prof Fatin. Alhamdulillah we have managed to published Volume 4 Issue 1. Now I am working on to publish Volume 4 Issue 2. InsyaAllah, please pray for us to make AJEE a scopus indexed journal soon.

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Day 198 Task – A Session with my IEM Mentee

Posted on July 16, 2020 ·

Eversince I became a Professional Engineer around 2011, I had a lot of request for a formal IEM mentorship to be a Professional Engineer, a similar one which i had 13 years ago. My IEM Mentor was Ir. Hj. Tunai Shamsidi who worked at Minconsult Sdn Bhd, Petaling Jaya. That time there only 2 Professional Engineer specilizing in Chemical Engineering in Johor Bahru. Unfortunately both of them could not take me as a mentee and as a result I have to search one which is out of JB.

Today I had my first session as an official mentor to a female chemical engineer graduated from UTM around 2013. She seems a very driven and motivated person. I never known or seen her yet until our first Whatsapp video meeting. I briefed her what to do, what to expect, a few strategies and so on. Looking at her passsed experiences, I have no doubt that she can be a professional engineer by the end of 2022, insyaAllah.

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Day 197 Task – Application to Purchase a Chemical Engineering Software from my Research Grant

Posted on July 15, 2020 ·

I have always wanted to purchase one particular chemical engineering software for my research work. It is quite a simple but very good software to perform various chemical thermodynamic operations, equilibrium composition, and many more. Due to more stringent budget constraint since 2013, it was very difficult for me to include the budget to purchase the software in all my research grant.

However, since the pandemic hit us badly this year, there’s no way of us travelling anywhere for conference. Hence, I took this opportunity to use the travelling budget to appeal and justify for the software purchase.

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