Day 83 Task – Plant Design Project Meeting Via Zoom

Earlier today, I had a discussion with Dr. Azizul on how to conduct the Interim presentation for Plant Design Project (PDP) since we cannot have physical meeting in the university due to Covid-19. He suggested to use Zoom application, which subsequently after that, I tested Zoom straight away with him. It was my first time and i found using it quite user friendly and easy.

Since I have attempted using Zoom, I straight away invited my PDP students to have our first Zoom meeting session, since we have not done a meeting yet this week. Last week we had a meeting on a Tuesday, during the EAC Audit Meeting.

In short the one hour session that started at 3pm to 4pm was successfully executed. All Wei Chi, Yogenathan, Sabrina and Intan were visibly there and we were interacting and discussing. The design and simulation was smoothly shared for everybody to view.

It seems like we are going to have multiple Zoom sessions in future not only for PDP meeting but for other official meetings as well. Bravo.

 

Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/

Day 82 Task – FRGS Correction and Finalizing METE1153

I thought my FRGS initial correction was fine, but I received a message that it still require some touch of correction. Well, that’s fine. I just spent some time to view and scrutinize the part that require corrections. I uploaded more quotations on the research materials as well as corrected some part of my V29000 descriptions. Nothing major. Luckily i managed to complete the correction and resubmit the FRGS proposal once again.

On top of the FRGS improvement efforts, I also redesigned the Course Information for Occupational Safety for Energy Systems (METE1153). This is course is going to be designed in such way that Micro-Credential (MC) will be integrated together with the course offered. I found this interesting and it ended up that I reshuffled all the originally designed weekly plan of the course. I am happier with the outcome. Alhamdulillah.

 

Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/

Message From UTM Vice Chancellor Day 4 – Work From Home

Day 4 (21 Mac 2020) – Sabtu

Assalamu’alaikum, Salam Sejahtera Warga UTM,

Pertamanya saya mendoakan semoga seluruh warga UTM, ahli keluarga kita, sahabat handai dan seluruh warga Malaysia dan lain-lain negara yang menghadapi ancaman COVID19 terpelihara dari musibah. Hari ini hari ke 4, Perintah Kawalan Pergerakan (PKP) dan UTM sedang melaksanakan perintah ini.

  1. Pertamanya mohon semua warga UTM terus mematuhi PKP.  Kita semua maklum, laporan yang dikeluarkan oleh KKM, keadaan masih sangat kritikal. Kita boleh berperanan memutuskan rantaian jangkitan ini insyaAllah, dengan mematuhi PKP. Seperti mana pesan YAB Perdana Menteri, ‘stay where you are’
  2. Bagi makluman bersama, team PKU UTM masih bekerja keras menguruskan kes yang ada risiko kepada UTM. Risiko masih besar sekiranya kita tidak bertindak pantas. Saya kongsi di sini betapa sukarnya menguruskan sesuatu kes. Supaya kita memahami kesukaran dan cabaran team PKU. Dan betul2 mendisiplinkan diri kita mematuhi segala arahan Kerajaan.
  3. Saya bersama mereka setiap hari dari hari pertama UTM mengendalikan COVID19. Pada peringkat awal COVID, kita membuat tindakan pencegahan mengendalikan pelajar dari negara China dan warga UTM yang pulang dari negara berisiko. Ketika itu pengurusan lebih mudah. Membuat pemeriksaan dan setiap mereka ini perlu diletak dibawah ‘home surveillance (HS)’ selama 14 hari-untuk pelajar antarabangsa di S47, dan bagi staf di rumah masing-masing. Ketika HS ini pelajar dipantau setiap hari sebagaimana SOP KKM.
  4. Apabila timbul gelombang kedua, UTM juga ada kes ‘close contact’ dan perlu diuruskan dengan kaedah HS dan perbersihan tempat2 dimana mereka yang dalam kategori PUI berada. Cabaran besar ialah menguruskan kebimbangan warga UTM dan memberi informasi yang tepat dan telus. PKU terpaksa mencari mereka yang dalam kategori ‘close contact’ untuk dibuat pemeriksaan dan jika perlu menjalani HS.
  5. Apabila timbul cluster Sri Petaling keadaan lebih membimbangkan dan pengendalian kes berkaitan masih berjalan di UTM. Kita telah maklumkan satu kes positif pelajar PhD dan lanjutan kes ini seorang HS telah menjalani HS di rumah selama 14 hari. Dan alhamdulillah telah tamat tempoh 14 hari tanpa ada symptom. Pembersihan bilik-bilik terlibat juga telah dibuat.
  6. Saya berkongsi maklumat ini bagi menyedarkan kita semua betapa sukarnya mengendalikan risiko COVID19 di UTM. Team PKU terpaksa berhempas pulas mengendalikannya bagi mempastikan tiada risiko yang berlaku kepada warga UTM.
  7. Kita boleh bayangkan kesukaran dan cabaran yang dihadapi oleh team KKM dalam mengendalikan kes COVID19 ini. Dan kita maklum team PKU UTM adalah kecil berbanding bilangan staf dan pelajar yang perlu dikendalikan. Dan mereka juga terdedah kepada risiko yang tinggi berdepan dengan pesakit yang berkunjung ke PKU.
  8. Kita hanya perlu lebih berdisiplin, bertanggungjawab, sentiasa berhati-hati dan mematuhi sepenuhnya arahan Kerajaan dan SOP yang disediakan. Jangan ada sikap mengambil mudah sehingga akhirnya menyusahkan semua pihak termasuk keluarga dan sahabat handai kita sendiri.

Sekian terimakasih. Mohon doakan yang baik-baik.

‘Stay where you are’

Wahid

36, TSPP

(Day 4 work from home)

Day 81 Task – Completing Course Information for Master Energy (METE1153) Safety Program

This task was quite pending since last September last year, until the MKKE coordinator suddenly mentioned 2 weeks ago to have a workshop to complete all the course information (CI). Although we still work from home, the coordinator suggested to have an online workshop to complete the task. I have a different idea… which is just to complete the CI and stay out of the online workshop.

Day 80 Task – Reviewing My PhD student Progress and Thesis Draft

I spent the morning during this Covid-19 days to do some work that was quite pending earlier. Among those pending tasks are revisiting my PhD student progress.

Today I checked and reviewed the work of my Engineering Education PhD student from UAE (this is PhD student #4). Subsequently after that, I reviewed the Chapter 6 draft of my PhD student #1. That’s a bit progress from today.

Day 79 Task – Review Completed for a 38-page long written manuscript

Finally I managed to successfully complete my review for the long manuscript.

To be Productive, You Cannot Be to Perfectionist

Don’t Let Perfection Be the Enemy of Productivity

Productivity isn’t about getting more done. It’s about what you get done. Three aspects of perfectionism can interfere with your ability to prioritize the most important tasks.

1. You’re reluctant to designate decisions as “unimportant.”

2. You feel morally obligated to overdeliver.

3. You get excessively annoyed when you aren’t 100% consistent with good habits.

Continue Reading this article HERE.

 

 

Day 78 Task – Partial Lock Down – Cheat Day from Job

It is the first day of Partial Lock Down day that the government of Malaysia announced starting from today (18th March 2020) till the end of the month (31st March 2020). It is also declared as controlled movement where were are all asked to quarantine ourselves to just stay at home to curb the spread of lethal Covid-19 virus.

Day 77 Task – EAC Audit for Chemical Engineering Program

It is the second day for EAC Audit for Prof Lukman Chuah from UPM. This second day, he is focused on the undergraduate chemical engineering program. This include two course that I take care which are (1) Plant Design Project and (2) Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course.

Day 76 Task – Compiling Course File for Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course

Suddenly I received a message on Friday  13th March 2020 from the Chemical Engineering Program Director about the course file for Petroleum and Refinery Technology Course if I have prepared it?

Oh My God… I haven’t yet. And I haven’t actually prepared any of it for this course that I just taught since just 2018.