Day 33 Task – RCEE Committee Meeting

Today, after checking and improving slide for TRGS presentation tomorrow, and also after checking chapter 3, 6 and 1 of Nazlina’s PhD thesis, I joined the RCEE conference meeting at CEE, T02. Today we discussed progress of the conference preparation as well as finally discusing about Summer School program which I need to head. 

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Day 32 Task – Checking & Reading My PhD Student’s Thesis

After returning back from the 3 day engineering education workshop, I rest a bit and then continue my work to check and read my PhD Student’s thesis, Nazlina’s. Not only read and check but also proof read the work too as well. It’s going to be a mountain of task for this coming few days.

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Day 31 Task – Rigourous Research Engineering Education (Part 3)

Today is not a working day but I still have to come for this workshop, which is Part 3 out of a total of 4 workshops for engineering education research. Today we learned about the theories and methods to perform qualitative analysis. It is more complicated to compared to the quantitative analysis which was covered yesterday.

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Day 30 Task – First Meeting with Mr Abdelrahim, My New PhD Student from UAE/Sudan

Today, my new PhD student whom will be doing engineering education research under Center of Engineering Education registered. He just arrived from America and will be here in UTM until Saturday. Prof Dr. Khairiyah Mohd Yusof and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fatin Aliah Phang are the co-supervisors. This is my first engineering education research student. I hope Mr. Abdelrahim PhD journey will be smooth. Amin.

Other Tasks for the day, despite this one being a very full packed day:

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Day 29 Task – Implementation of UTM Future Ready Educators Program

 

Today we had this talk at BMU delivered by PM DR. Nazihah, from Curriculum Innovation & Development Unit (CIDU), UTM.

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Day 28 Task – Interview Session with A PhD Student Session

Interview session by PhD candidate, Hamidah Kamar Den on her PhD research about integrated palm oil plant. She’s supervised by Dr. Kamarizan Kidam and Prof Haslenda Hashim. I gave few of my insights based on my knowledge and experience.

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Day 27 Task – Updating my UTM RADIS System

There has been numerous activities in my UTM RADIS System. I have received new grants, applied for new activity as well as waiting for claim for activities. Today, I am checking out and trying to update my Radis. One grant will be ending this 31st January and I need to prepare a report for that grant. Then, managed the other grants as well. All the best to me 🙂 . One of my grant has been just activated.

Other tasks:

  • Updating CAR for my courses.
  • Checking and update for MPC project.

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Day 26 Task – Familiarizing with the Erasmus Project Discussion

Today is the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. We are presently at Atlantis Residence, Melaka. Soon we will be going to De Villa Bungalow neat Klebang area to be united with my extended family. There are not much official task going on today because we are fully pack with plenty of activities, meeting up with my parents and siblings + family. However, I just need to be keep updated with the progress of Erasmus Project which started few days ago. I was added to the group on Thursday, the day before CNY. It is a huge mega project and many academicians from various universities in Malaysia are involved. I was one of them, thanks for the recommendation from my mentor. For now I will just keep on with the progress and help on in any area I can and I am asked to.

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Day 25 Task – Filling Up Course Assessment Report (CAR) for my subject course

Today is the Chinese New Year Day. Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends!

Although we are on a short family break, I still wanted to complete the Course Assessment Report (CAR). In overall I need to complete 5 CAR. I have done 3 of them and left with 2 which are for the Introduction to Engineering course. Unfortunately there was some problem. The system stated 5 of my students to be unknown! I will sort this out soon. I already reported this to the Head of Program for further action.

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Day 24 Task – Patent Search for TRGS

Today is a holiday, tomorrow is the Chinese New Year. But today is the deadline for TRGS Research Grant. Hence, almost the TRGS grant form are almost done, but the new requirement which is to include patent search is still not done yet. Hence we need to do that first, today… or if not, we cannot submit TRGS. All the best to us.

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