Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
It’s a hectic day today. Early in the morning I had to attend the 50th Anniversary of UTM that was officiated by the Queen of Johor who is the Vice Chancellor of UTM.
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The progress of CEE new building are presented on a monthly basis via this Site Meeting (Mesyuarat Tapak). The progress made by the contractor seems fine, based on their presentation and also questions directed to them by JHB officials. The meeting today commenced at 10am and CEE was represented by me, Izzati and Syafiq. We just hope everything will be smooth and fine. Well, what needs to be done, needs to be done.
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This is indeed our official responsibility that must be executed by citizen’s of Johor due to the State Election. Early in the morning, I drove to Taman Gembira, Tampoi, where I’m registered to cast my vote there. Unlike the past General Election, this time, I casted my vote only with my parents, the three of us. Other family members, particularly my siblings could not attend due to various reasons that include geographical location, being out of the country and positive covid.
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Mainly reviewing and commenting on Tan’s review paper and also Poh Lin’s thermo paper.
I know this topic has been consistently repeating over and over again in this weblog. This is mainly of the due date that we have to commit and because of that my focus as well as priority are on this matter. Since the targeted journal is of high quality, hence we are trying our best to get our papers up to the required standard and this is not easy task to do.
Positive Cases at home update – 3 victims. Gas cylinder story to be updated soon.
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Since there was a briefing to prepare CAR this morning, I took the opportunity to prepare all of my CAR using UTM OBE system. I can say that the timing of the briefing was spot on as it around the time that all of us have to prepare for this document.
Alhamdulillah I managed to complete all CAR for my Introduction to Engineering (SETK1523), Industrial Seminar and Profession (SETK1511) and Master Plant Management – Quality Management (MKKL1523). Yeah.. it took quite some time to prepare this report as we depend on a system that in my opinion can be improved / enhanced.
Update of the positive cases at home – 3 victims (Mummy, No. 2 and No. 3)
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Today was quite full pack with multiple activities live activities and also due date submission. In the office I have to seek for Hidayah’s and Syafiq’s assistance to focus on the Sustainability Award Briefing online. In Syaa Allah we will do our best for this award.
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I was invited more than 1 month ago to participate in GECR workshop. Today, I had the opportunity to join this global forum and I must say that I am proud to be participating in it. Let me share a brief infor about what is GECR… and the program I attended (8.30pm – 10.00pm Malaysia Time Zone).
Engineering X ‘Engineering Skills Where They are Most Needed Programme’ is considering a follow up report to the GECR 2019. To produce a better GECR 2022 that is useful to Royal Academy of Engineering, UK (RAE) audience, they run a workshop to assess whether the GECR 2019 report contained the right kind of information that is useful for our audience. The outcome of the workshop will inform the design and scope of the GECR 2022 to ensure the Review is more useful to RAE target audience.
Hence, RAE invited me to participate in a 90-minute GECR 2019 feedback collection workshop that has been held virtually on 07 March 2022 from 12:30 – 14:00 (GMT).
As a workshop participant, I was asked to read the GECR 2019 report – the PDFs of the report, methodology and dataset here.
We were asked to at least read the following sections of the report before the meeting if we do not have time to read the entire report:
Other tasks of the day:
One of the important task that many are not aware of a lecturer is his role as an Academic Advisor (Penasihat Akademik) to a group of student he is assigned for. I am not excluded. I am assigned 24 students in 2018 and now all of the students are going to graduate at the end of 2nd quarter 2022. In Syaa Allah.
However, there are always 1 or 2 students that require special care and attention. I have 2 students this semester that I have to really closely monitor. They are highly intelligent students but somehow something went wrong and we have to help, guide and monitor them accordingly so that they can graduate the chemical engineering course.
Following up to that, I squeezed my time from my hectic schedule to contact the parent of one of the student that requires help. We had a conversation and I smell and see some positive sign. I hope the student will enhance his performance soon and I really want to see him excel and graduate. I want to see the student have a bright and awesome future ahead.
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Yes, another working weekend. It has appeared to be a default setting for me. Today was really tricky. At the beginning of the day, 2 of my daughters felt sick. One tested positive another have to wait for Covid test kit as we ran out of stock in the morning. Imagine, there are so many test kids already in used in the house because there are many people in the house who have been checking their status on a daily basis (or sometimes twice a day).
I have a scheduled Focus Group Discussion (FGD) for Engineering Deans in Malaysia under Malaysia Council of Engineering Deans (MCED) research program that takes place from 9am to 1pm. My role was as a note taker in the second group. Well, I have to take note as accurate as possible although we also have the session zoom recorded, but having it written will be easier to refer after that.
At the same time, at 9am, I have to attend the first Malaysia Zeolite Association (MyZA) Annual Grand Meeting. It’s so tricky to be in 2 virtual meetings, but luckily MyZA meeting ended slightly after 10am. Alhamdulillah, So then after that I can focus on the MCED FGD meeting.
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