Part of the duty of us academic staffs in a university is to supervise, motivate, encourage our postgraduate (PG) students so they will be focus and driven to do their work. I made it a point to once a week follow up with them especially in this MCO period where everyone is secluded at home, working alone with family or little children or nobody. My PG students are presently scattered in various locations, among them in JB, Batu Pahat, Rawang, Penang and UAE. It’s important to be in touch with them so we can know their progress or help them with anything that we can within our capacity.

Note: The picture is to symbolize post graduate students only. I have not taken any photos with them, yet.

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SKT had a special briefing for Penasihat Akademic (Advisory Panel) about the Extra-Curricular Experiential Learning which was delivered by Dr. Adilah. Since I am the PA for Year 2 students at the moment, I need to understand this well, to be able to give the support and advice to my students. If student misses completing 3 comprehensive reports, they could not take the EXCEL course and that will not look good for the student and me. I have communicated with my students via Whatsapp and hopefully all take note on this and will take massive action.

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Today is the beginning of the week and I am very optimistic to accomplish several tasks. As usual, there are several tasks that I need to accomplish, such as marking the GSA students assignments, manage AJEE journals as well as read/comment the progress report of my 2 PhD students.

These Phd Students are my #2 and #4 which are located in UAE and Penang, respectively. They are further apart, very far from me, but we communicated few times a month. The progress of both of them are very good and promising, that  I strongly believed they will successfully complete their doctorate degree. InsyaAllah.

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It has been quite sometime that the Surau Committee haven’t had a meeting due to MCO. Since Ramadhan is just around the corner, there are few things that we need to discuss. Among the agenda was the distribution of dry food packs to asnaf and needy people around our vicinity. We also discussed on Solat Berjemaah and terawih at surau issue and also Kuliah Online. The meeting which started at 8am ended at 9.07am.

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I have several papers that need to be checked in the pipeline.

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Most of the PDP Interim Presentation took place on this Tuesday afternoon. I am not accepted. I hosted Team 6, 7, and 8 which started at 2.20pm. The panels were me, PM Dr. Norasikin, Dr. Saharuddin Haron and Dr. Hashim Hassan. It was the first time ever the interim presentation and I can say it was a success. We are not used to doing such online virtual presentation but when we need to do, we have to do it.

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Today is a busy day. My daily checklist task is quite pack and full. I need to complete all or almost all the task one by one. Among the heaviest task today is to review the IRSPBL2020 Manuscript which is a Scholarly Engineering Education Research paper and the authors are from German. The manuscript is quite long and detail consisting of refreshing activities on trans-disciplinary engineering.

IRSPBL2020 is actually the 8TH INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM ON PBL organized in Aalborg University, Finland specially catering on Problem Based Learning.

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