2021 Day 182 Task – Checked RADIS and Submitted Research Grant Progress Reports & CV Update

Posted on July 2, 2021 ·

After going through my research grants in RADIS UTM system, I realized that it’s time for me to submit quite a number of grant progress reports. I have completed and submitted a progress report for a research grant that has ended last 2 months. However I forgot to check about my other research grants.

But honestly, most of the time was actually focused on improving and enhancing my CV. I realized that my CV was not super complete in terms of all the tiny details. Don’t be mistaken. I do have my CV and the CV is in decent condition and also updated. I just wanted to update one that is updated to the fullest detail, that means up to all the conferences that I presented and attended, all the students and topics of the master presentations, all the details of the research grants and all the details of the publication and others.

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2021 Day 180 Task – Submission of 2 Manuscripts

Posted on June 30, 2021 ·

Today was quite tough. I submitted 2 manuscripts to 2 different journals. The detail preparation for it was quite brain and energy consuming. I submitted to Environmental Pollution journal and also Material Today Proceeding Journal. Not much activity today apart from the above and also trying to update my CV bit by bit.

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2021 Day 179 Task – Miscellaneous Research Activities Matter

Posted on June 29, 2021 ·

I have no special heavy weight activity that can be highlighted as of today because all of them are normal small scale activities. Among them are checking my PSM and Master students progress / updates, checking and preparation for Materials Today Proceeding journal and others. I was looking as well at some of CEE and RCEE2021 activities and planning too.

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2021 Day 178 Task – PSM Mock Presentation

Posted on June 28, 2021 ·

I allocated some time after lunch to conduct a PSM Mock Presentation of my 5 PSM students who will be presenting their proposal this coming Thursday. In overall the PSM Mock presentation was generally very good. I already checked the students PSM presentation slides before, so there were not much to be corrected, accept for some minor comments for improvements.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Completed SCEE RAE week tasks in one single day. This week tasks was released today and it must be done before our official tasks on Thursday. Alhamdulillah
  • Checked MATR paper.
  • Improved CV.
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2021 Day 177 Task – Monitoring Publication Progress – Empower Your Students

Posted on June 27, 2021 ·

I have several publication projects under my belt. Most are being written by my undergraduate and master students, under my guidance and mentorship. I tabulated all the project in a spreadsheet and to my surprise, there are more than 25 publication projects that are currently in progress.

I’m sorry I am not going to reveal my publication planning and list here. It’s just important for you to empower your students, to coach, guide, mentor them to write and contribute to the scientific community of the world. Just imagine if you have 5 students undergraduate students, and all of them work dedicatedly to write, then you are actually training and helping them.

They can improve their critical thinking skills, writing skills, management skills, and eventually publish a journal or present in a conference before they graduate. That’s something the student can look for and be proud of. Imagine you in the context of an undergraduate student. You graduated and at the same time your name is as a first author in a reputable publication. Imagine the “pahala” that can keep on going.

The keyword here are coach, guide, mentor and inspire your students.

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2021 Day 176 Task – CEE Coffee Table Book Project

Posted on June 26, 2021 ·

This is a wonderful Saturday and I took the opportunity to complete my CEE Coffee Table book write up for my part which is my Bio-Profile and also my Opening Words as CEE Director. It’s hope that soon the CEE Coffee Table Book will be finalized and published and hence can be a strong marketing tool for CEE UTM. InsyaAllah.

Bio-Profile of Ir. Dr. Ts. Zaki Yamani Zakaria

Zaki Yamani Zakaria has been with the School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) since 2008. He acquired his first degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Bradford, UK in 1999; Chemical Engineering Master Degree & PhD from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in 2004 and 2013, respectively. His main research interests are in engineering education, catalytic reaction engineering, and safety, health & environment (SHE). Before joining the faculty, he has been practicing as a Project/Chemical Engineer (2003-2005) and Process Engineer (2005-2008). Dr. Zaki became a Professional Engineer (BEM) and Chartered Engineer (IChemE) in 2010. He was appointed as a Professional Technologist in 2018 by Malaysia Board of Technologist (MBOT). He was appointed as Research Fellow under Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) in 2019 and in February 2021, he was appointed as the Director of CEE. He has actively been involved in engineering education since 2014 in the area of Active Learning (AL), Cooperative Learning (CL) and Problem-Based Learning (PBL). Dr. Zaki has been involved in numerous AL, CL, PBL courses and workshop as co-trainer and facilitator since 2017. He is also an Editor for ASEAN Journal for Engineering Education (AJEE) and a member of Society of Engineering Education Malaysia (SEEM) since 2020, besides once in a while delivers talk related to Engineering Education Experiential sharing.

Dr. Zaki presently supervises more than 10 postgraduate students and mentors several lecturers and engineers for professional development program. He has published his research works in various reputable journals, international conferences, book chapters (including Wiley Publisher) and others. In 2018 he published his own book, “Ramblings of a Chemical Engineer”, which has been well received by fellow chemical engineers from Malaysia and around the globe. Dr. Zaki actively shares chemical engineering related information in his Chemical Engineering Facebook Page (facebook.com/ChemicalEngineeringWorld/) which up till now has 44k followers. His first blog, Chemical Engineering World (chem-eng.blogspot.com/), was selected as the Top 10 Chemical Engineering Blogs in the internet in 2019. He was with CEE team that won Gold Medal in 2019 International Conference and Exposition on Invention by Institution of Higher Learning (Pecipta 2019) in UTHM, Gold Medal in New Academia Learning Innovation (NALI 2019) and Best NALI 2019 Award in UTM for various innovations in student-centred-learning approach. In the context of engineering education research (EER), Dr. Zaki has deep interest in exploring the development of engineering identity among engineering students.

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2021 Day 175 Task – Corrected & Improved HTGYE Book Chapter

Posted on June 25, 2021 ·

It’s a beautiful Friday and I published this post in the morning from the patio at my house. I worked on the correction for HTGYE Book chapter and I managed to make improvement for my Chapt – Chapter 7. I have submitted it to our Leader of the Author and I felt really great that I have completed my first task for the day. I hope the new addition of content I embed just now will be a good one and be useful for jobseekers out there.

Well, there are still plenty of tasks that I have listed for today. Among them are the ones listed below.

Other highlighted tasks of the day.

  • Check Paper ECM
  • Check paper MATR
  • SEEM Meeting (3-5pm)
  • Improve my CV
  • CEE Coffee Table Book
  • Edit Video
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2021 Day 174 Task – SEEM Visibility and Networking Committee Meeting

Posted on June 23, 2021 ·

Under The Society of Engineering Educators Malaysia (SEEM), I am the head of the Visibility and Networking Committee. We have not had a meeting yet and I just realized this morning that we need to present activities for our committee. Immediately I created a new Whatsapp group to gather all 4 committee members, which are me, Dr. Salah from UPM, Dr. Nazatul from UM and Dr. Azlina from UiTM. We managed to had a 1 hour meeting that started at 2.30pm and came out with quite a number of detailed plan activities.

I am happy working with the new team which is from 4 different universities. It is like breathing fresh air. Getting new ideas, new dimension and new perspective.

Oh by the way, I submitted the correction for BCREC journal proof that Nazlina has completed and Alhamdulillah, the manuscript has now been published online. Feel free to download the paper here.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

  • Prepared new outline for Engineering Identity paper
  • Listed and updated all my journal paper so I can keep track of all of them
  • Submitted safety Noise paper to Safety Science – at 1.40am.
  • Subcommittee SEEM meeting: 2.30pm-3.30pm
  • Week 8 SCEE RAE meeting: 5pm – 7pm
  • Plant Design Project meeting: 9pm – 10pm
  • Checked master student progress.
  • Prepared watermark for final exam paper.
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2021 Day 173 Task – ASSESSMENT FOR OPEN DISTANCE LEARNING (ODL) PROGRAMS Training

Posted on June 23, 2021 ·

As my name was listed in the official invitation, despite of my hectic schedule, I attended the above mentioned training (9am-1pm) that was conducted by Dr. Norah Md. Noor. Thanks UTMLead for the invitation. I learned quite a few interesting things about the assessment and evaluation of learning. Not sure what is ODL, check this link.

In lecture classrooms, evaluation of student learning is generally based on objective tests. However, objective tests may not be appropriate if an instruction is more broad-based than merely dispensing information, such as writing-across-the-curriculum endeavours, project-based instruction, or online dialogues that promote active student learning and higher-level thinking skills (Sternberg, 1994). For open and distance learning the limitations of conventional assessment should be overcome by a new paradigm for assessment design in online learning. This workshop will explain the approaches of suitable assessment for open and distance learning and how to design an assessment that is aligned with course learning outcome. Participants will also be introduced to some online tools to handle the online assessment.

Padlet tasks during the course.

Reference: Sternberg, R. J. “Diversifying Instruction and Assessment.” The Educational Forum, 1994, 59 (1), 47–52.

I attached some of the important screen shots from the training. For more information, please get in touch with UTM Lead UTM. Enjoy!

Other highlighted tasks of the day.

  • RMC management matter.
  • Correction of HTGYE book chapter – Chapter 7.
  • Checking of Noise Safety Paper
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2021 Day 172 Task – Addressing the Challenges of Design Optimization for the A&D Industry Talk

Posted on June 22, 2021 ·

Many things happened today. Some of it was stressful involving the conference that I lead, but Alhamdulillah I managed to absorb the pressure, stay composed and perhaps solve the problem with the help of many kind hearted people. Amazingly, I managed to find out how to appoint a new Chair for the Easychair conference system, which before this I honestly have no idea at all.

Today I also signed the agreement for the conference proceeding, after going through the details of the documents.

Oh yes.. I also conducted a briefing to Statik lecturer’s on how to write scholarly practice engineering education paper in the morning.

At night, 10pm I attended the Addressing the Challenges of Design Optimization for the A&D Industry Talk conducted by Ansys company.

Oh after I listed all, I realized that as a person who have to divide his mind to multiple work scope and responsibilities, I must stay calm, stay compose and be on solution mode when I come across difficult unfavorable situation.

Other highlighted tasks of the day.

  • Signed Conference Proceeding Agreement
  • Verified PA pre-registration course.
  • Followed up on the IOP agreement.
  • Undergo Week 8 SCEE RAE training (up till activity 8.14)
  • Checked progress of my PSM and Masters student.
  • Study EI paper
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