Code of Ethics For Engineer Talk to our First Year Chemical Engineering Students was delivered on a Wednesday afternoon (22nd November 2017). There was about 150 students in the DK5 hall in N11a.
Code of Ethics For Engineer Talk to our 1st Year Chemical Engineering Students
Posted on November 22, 2017 ·
Lets Donate for Philippines Muslim for this Ramadhan
Posted on April 13, 2017 ·
Lets Donate for Philippines Muslim for this Ramadhan. Donation will give happiness to 900 families. The donation will be distributed to fammilies in Maguindanao and Cotabato. Let’s do it.
Deepwater Horizon – Oh My…
Posted on October 10, 2016 ·
I have been waiting to watch this movie since March 2016, when I first knew about it and after watching its trailer. In fact, I was teaching Master Chemical Safety and also Master Safety Industrial Hygiene subjects around that time. In one slot in the class, we had a case study on the offshore accident in the gulf of Mexico in 2010. That platform where we discussed about this is actually the Deepwater Horizon platform. We did discussed about the accident in the class. And I mentioned to them about the movie – Deepwater Horizon, that will be released in the 3rd quarter of 2016.
Yesterday, I watched this movie with my other half. Once the show started, I recalled my days when I was working in the oil and gas sector. Once in a while I traveled to several Offshore Platforms located in the South China Sea. It was a recollection of memories. Nice rich experience was obtained.
Screeching Annoying Alarm in the Faculty
Posted on August 7, 2016 ·
Today’s story… (in history… 🙂 )
For me it’s historical. Never ever I had experienced this, but I am now, as I am holding this new position.
While I was attending this MKKH workshop Bilik Mesyuarat Fakulti (BMF) in the morning, the fire drill / alarm triggered. Well, it’s another noisy fire drill, I whispered in my heart. I continued my work or rather preparing for the workshop that is about to commence.
Then suddenly, someone, I forgot who, yelled to me, “Zaki, the alarm is ringing, stop it…“.
I responded, “Why me?”
He answered, “You’re the Facility Manager“…
Oh gosh! Yep… So, this is included in my job scope as well? I gulped. Well… here it goes. I checked what to do. Checked the fire alarm panel which happened to be just outside BMF. It’s a huge panel with so many LED indicators linking to so many spaces/rooms in the block (N-01). The light which was intermittently blinking signaled the source of problem was on the 1st floor. Problem is is I don’t know which part of 1st floor.
Then, I turned to the chief clerk (CC), Puan Roziah, which we all refer as Kak Gee. I asked her assistance to contact PHB to come and stop the freaking annoying alarm. Earlier, I also attempted to call the person in charge but that person could not be reached. Since I am supposed to be in the MKKH workshop, I then just asked Kak Gee’s help to keep on trying to call PHB. Then I left and started touring the 1st floor, checking if there is any fire or smoke or something that may have triggered the alarm. I notice nothing. I walked back to BMF, continued the MKKH workshop.
Few minutes after that, the alarm stopped! YES! I bounced from my sit and check out the panel. A guy casually dressed was there, about to close the alarm panel window door. I asked him, “What’s wrong…?”
He responded, it could be anything. Sometimes, due to spider… haha…
I requested that we have a key for the alarm panel door, just in case, the alarm triggered again. He gave it to me and that’s good. I passed it to the CC. So, next time, if the alarm triggered again, we can stop it earlier.
That’s a good progress 🙂 I think…
My Chemical Engineering Experiences #1
Posted on August 2, 2016 ·
A student asked an experienced engineer a question: “From your years of experience, what is the worse problem that you have encountered?”
The engineer answered, “I cannot specify one because there are too many problems, but I can say that 90% of the problem is from/when dealing with human/people”.
This implies that many problems are not from the technical or engineering aspects but originates from human. Think about it…
The source.
Semi Final – UTM Inter Departmental Soccer Tournament
Posted on July 31, 2016 ·
Yesterday, FCEE team played as per schedule versus Pendaftar (Registrar) at the SEMI FINALS 🙂 [Refer to our earlier Quarter Final match]. As usual, the game took place at KDOJ football field. The atmosphere was just like the day before, warm and dry afternoon, unlike our first game where it was gloomy and wet. We
Result
FCEE lost the match. 1-4.
I played the right back position from the kick-off. This was a no joke game. This Pendaftar team comprises of majority UTM players. We only have 1 UTM team player. Pendaftar players were fast, organized and most “young”! Imagine a 40 year old man like me chasing a 23-30 something age player running on the field. I cannot cope. I could not catch them. Eventually, both of my feet get so stressed out that I cannot run or walk properly towards the end of the first half. As soon as the half time whistle was blown, I limped slowly to our player-manager, Dr. Zainul, and requested to be replaced. I cannot run and play anymore.
What does the result means now?
Our journey for soccer success stopped. We could not proceed to the final because we were defeated by a team far better than us. It’s OK. Few years ago, we were badly thrashed 0-7 by Pendaftar. So, 1-4 is still a good result for us. Fortunately, all players will receive a 3rd place medal, since we reached up to this semi-final stage. That’s a huge and blessing relief. Never that our football team ended at the semi final.
Let’s try again and do our best next year.
