Day 290 Task – Getting Ready for Next Week’s New Semester Class

Posted on October 15, 2020 ·

The new semester will be kicking of next week. In the morning I checked my AIMS and also eLearning. I now know that I have 30 students in my SETK1523-05 Introduction to Engineering (ITE) and SETK1511-05 Industrial Seminar & Profession (ISP) course. We are in Section 5. I have also a Master class which is MKKH1513-04 Environmental Management.

I got some helped from Muhammad Firdaus Bin Mahmood, one of my ITE student’s to create a Whatsapp group to make communication faster for our section (the whatsapp group picture is shown above). I also asked for assistance from UTMLead and AduIT to properly setup and update my eLearning courses. It’s now 10.50am, and we already have our Whatsapp group for ITE and ISP. I already checked that my eLearning is now updated. Soon I need to fill in content for my eLearning. I printed the list of names of students who have registered so far in my courses.

On top of that, I am the Academic Advisor for the existing 3rd year students. I must also make sure they are properly registering their courses. There are some of the students that I need to help them to adjust their courses section mainly due to clash with other course or section. That’s part of my duty.

In short today is mainly managing and preparing for the class that commenced next week.

The above photo shows the course that I will teach this semester. All together 7 credits.

Wish me luck.

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Day 289 Task – Exploring Discord for Teaching and Learning

Posted on October 14, 2020 ·

The conventional teaching that we are used to apply could no longer be implemented due to the pandemic and academician in universities have no choice than to implement and be creative in implementing tools for online learning. One of the tools that we plan to use is Discord. Apparently Discord has been actively used by teenagers and gamers and perhaps other peoples to actively communicate online.

Discord is an American proprietary freeware instant messaging and VoIP application and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities ranging from gamers to education and businesses. Discord specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel. Here is more explanation on what is Discord from Wikipedia.

Today, at CEE we had a training to explore Discord. It is very interesting and we believed it can be a very effective tool to implement our usual cooperative problem based learning in our Introduction to Engineering (ITE) Class.

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Day 288 Task – Virtual Meeting| IEEE TALE 2022

Posted on October 13, 2020 ·

Today, beside continuing the 2nd Day of Part 3 OBE workshop with UNS, I would like to highlight the Virtual Meeting to discuss IEEE Tale 2022 project. I’m totally new to this and am not sure what to expect. Tale is if I am not mistaken a very grand conference on Engineering Education platform. I have just involved in RCEE2020 2 weeks ago and the planning and execution was really massive and exhausting. If we are to host Tale 2020, I hope we will have a better plan and better team, better support, better infra. InsyaAllah.

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Day 287 Task – OBE Assessment Online Workshop with UNS

Posted on October 12, 2020 ·

Today is the Part 3 of the Online OBE Workshop with UNS. We had our Part 1 and Part 2 few weeks ago. The first day of the Part 3 session went smooth, Alhamdulillah. I am in charged of the Chemistry Break-up room and we had an amazing discussion on helping them to understand the assessment part of the PEO, PO and CO. The 2nd day will resume tomorrow.

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Day 286 Task – Check Draft of Project Description for a Consultation Project

Posted on October 11, 2020 ·

Today, we work from home because of the covid quarantine. As an academician, working from home does not mean we cannot be productive. Alhamdulillah, I managed to work on several tasks. But the one that I would like to highlight here is my task in an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Consultation Project. I’m just a member of the project which involves a paper recycling company. Working on a consultancy project like this is very interesting and fun because I am a chemical engineer, and real industrial tasks like this make us learn new technical things.

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Day 285 Task – Emailed a Journal Editor Proposing to Submit a Review Paper

Posted on October 10, 2020 ·

I spent roughly nearly 2 hours today to write and prepare required information to submit a review paper to a journal. Before this I have submitted a review paper to a journal when I was doing my PhD. It was not easy as was only accepted on my 4th attempt.

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Day 284 Tasks – Process Control Mathwork Meeting with other Universities

Posted on October 9, 2020 ·

It’s an off day for me as Friday emerged. But that did not stop us from having this meeting to discuss the realization of preparing and launching a real industry problem to be presented in the Process Control class, not only in UTM, but USM and UMP.

The Zoom meeting which commenced at 9.30am sharp require only 30 minutes and we know what we need to do. It was short, sweet and precise because we already had one or two previous meetings and all the attendees knew the idea of the project.

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Day 283 Task – Providing Support for My PA Students

Posted on October 8, 2020 ·

The new semester is around the corner and students are busy registering for their course. I am one of the Academic Advisor for my students (20 of them). Many of them contacted me today to consult for their registration. Since it is Covid-19 Pandemic era and the new norm, massive modification in terms of pre-registration and registration of course are to be implemented.

The conventional method of course modification could no longer apply.  A new method of course modification form and approach was just introduced today and as an Academic Advisor, we have to digitally and manually assist our student. Those who wanted to take credit more than 18, now must email me and later on their behalf, I need to get the Chair’s approval and subsequently submit their approved forms to the Academic Office.

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Day 282 Task – My Student Presented at ICCME2020 Conference, UNDIP, Indonesia

Posted on October 7, 2020 ·

I could not believe this. Last week, I was just involved and directly involved in RCEE2020, as organizer, chairman, participant etc. This week, the International Conference on Chemical and Material Engineering (ICCME2020) appeared and we participated in it. Luckily my student Nor Fatin Farihah Mohd Yusof has done a good job writing a paper which later will be published in a scopus indexed journal. She also prepared and presented her research titled Thermodynamic Analysis of Glycerol-Methane Steam Reforming to Hydrogen in this conference just now.

I am happy and proud that she has done a great job in this research, considering she’s an undergraduate student and given the opportunity to present in an international conference and publishing a manuscript in a journal early in the PSM2 stage. What an amazing achievement! She’s not stopping there because she has prepared a second paper that I am checking and will be published in another conference or journal soon. InsyaAllah.

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Day 281 Task – Working in the Lab – GC Resurrection

Posted on October 6, 2020 ·

I recently was given with this GC by a very generous academician. This GC-TCD/FID is an Agilent made model 6890N. It was a 2002 built. It has not been used for many years and now it is under me. My challenge now is to get it up and in operation. Off course there will be some servicing that need to be done and I have consulted with my usual GC guy. Unfortunately, I cannot meet him tomorrow due to suddenly we were asked to quarantine. Well, it is ok… InsyaAllah this GC will be up soon. I have faith.

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