Alhamdulillah, saya diberi kepercayaan untuk menjadi J/K Penilaian Dana PPMU bermula dari 2 Mei 2025 sehingga 31 Disember 2026. Terima kasih atas kepercayaan yang diberikan.

Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
Alhamdulillah, saya diberi kepercayaan untuk menjadi J/K Penilaian Dana PPMU bermula dari 2 Mei 2025 sehingga 31 Disember 2026. Terima kasih atas kepercayaan yang diberikan.
Pertama kali rasanya 1 Rejab overlap dengan 1 Januari. Suatu kebetulan atau ketentuan Allah. Allah Maha Mengetahui.
Tahun baru biasanya permulaan suatu yang baru. Permulaan azam baru. Permulaan semangat baru. Walaupun tahun-tahun lalu tampak berlalu bak angin bayu meniupkan segala catatan dan rahsianya. Biarpun azam tahun lalu bertaburan, berterbangan meninggalkan lompong vakum yang takkan kembali.
Semalam, bengkel BTSS RMC berlangsung di Pulau UTM dengan kekuatan 27 pegawai. Berbekalkan 7 slide powerpoint yang disediakan oleh rakan sejawat ESS, aku berusaha memberi penerangan kepada team RMC.
BTSS amat penting untuk merakam, mencatat, merekod segala tugasan utama hakiki dan juga tugasan sampingan. RMC adalah hot seat, sentiasa dalam radar sebuah universiti berstatus RU. Staf RMC semuanya menggalas tanggungjawap kritikal dan penting demi memacu pengurusan dan kejayaan penyelidikan di UTM. Tak ramai yang mengetahui kesukaran dan tekanan yang RMC hadapi sebagai front liner dalam usaha kami menyediakan perkhidmatan sebaik mungkin.
Tapi bukan fokus aku untuk berbicara soal itu di sini. Fokusku adalah kepada tanggungjawap yang sentiasa meningkat seiring waktu dan umur.
TANGGUNGJAWAP
Tanggungjawap itu amanah. Tanggungjawap ada banyak. Tanggungjawap perlu di galas penuh kejujuran dan keikhlasan.
“Tanggungjawap lebih banyak dari waktu”, itulah salah satu ungkapan Imam Syahid Hassan Al Banna, seorang ulama jemaah muktabar dari Turki.
Ungkapan itu aku telah rasai dari dulu. Tapi kini kian mencengkam sanubari jiwa raga. Tanggungjawap dari pelbagai sudut geometri kehidupan fana’, di dunia tempat kita semai amalan untuk bekalan akan datang.
RESOLUSI TAHUN BARU
Sasaranku seperti mana tahun-tahun lalu adalah untuk menjadi seorang insan seimbang dunia-akhirat. Dengan frasa mudah, aku recycle resolusi aku. Dalam pada itu aku harus juga perlu sentiasa memperbaiki diri. Tapi aku ada juga sasaran lain juga yang aku tak rasa nak kongsi di sini, buat masa ini. Nanti lah.
2025 aku antisipasi bakal membawa sejuta cabaran baru, lagi unik. Adakah aku bersedia, ianya kekal misteri. Namun aku perlu merancang strategi padu. Detik masa yang dipinjamkan Allah cuma 24 jam. Dalam waktu yang terhad itu lah kesemua tanggungjawap perlu digalas dan dipenuhi.
InsyaAllah. Kita cuba, kita usaha, Moga Allah permudahkan segala urusan. Amin.
Pada keheningan Khamis petang lalu (29 Ogos 2024), Program Pemantauan Projek R&D MOSTI- UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA (UTM)( TDF12221651) -” In Vitro and In Vivo Investigation of Bioabsorbable Carbon Nanofiber Reinforced Mg-Zn Composites as Orthopaedics Implant” (Milestone 1) telah diadakan seperti ketetapan berikut:
Tarikh : 29 Ogos 2024 (Khamis)
Masa : 2.30 petang – 4.30 petang
Tempat : Bilik Mesyuarat 1, Aras 2, Blok F54, Pusat Pengurusan Penyelidikan (RMC), 81310 UTM Skudai, Johor
Saya telah mempengerusikan sesi pemantauan tersebut. Alhamdulillah, pemantauan Milestone pertama telah berjalan lancar. Ini juga kali pertama saya bertemu dengan ahli panel subject matter expert baru, iaitu Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Hj. Solehuddin Shuib dari UiTM Shah Alam, pakar dalam bidang Kejuruteraan Mekanikal.
Lawatan Tapak dan Pemantauan Projek MyLab Prof. Dr. Suhairul Hashim di kilang research partnernya di Billion Prima Sdn. Bhd., Kulai. Walaupun ada beberapa cabaran dan perkara yang perlu dibuat. Saya telah mewakili RMC UTM bersama-sama pasukan pemantauan projek dan kewangan. Alhamdulillah dipermudahkan.
Panel Mylab kali ini diketuai oleh Prof. Dr. Azlan (UKM) dan disertai oleh Prof. Dr. Widad (USM), Puan Maryatinie, En. Azlan dan lagi 2 orang staf Mylab.
Projek MyLAB daripada Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) yang diketuai oleh Prof. Dr. Suhairul bin Hashim bertajuk “Wireless Transmission System For Radiation Portal Monitoring (MyRPM)” telah diadakan pada ketetapan seperti berikut:
Tarikh : 22 Ogos 2024 (Khamis)
Masa : 9.00 – 11.45 pagi
Tempat : Billion Prima Sdn. Bhd., Kawasan Perusahaan Sri Sengkang, 81000 Kulai, JOHOR
A few months ago, I was invited to be an internal examiner for a Ph.D student under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Aishah Jalil. I received the thesis during Ramadhan month and I took quite some time to digest the thesis, which I targeted to complete during Shawal month. Unfortunately, I could not complete it due to the hustle and bustle of celebrating the festive Eid.
The past 4 days I rallied aggressively to comprehend the thesis and prepared the report to be submitted to the Post Graduate office. Today, Alhamdulillah, the VIVA proceeded smoothly and successfully. The student, Abdelrahman Hamad Khalifa Owgi, managed to defend his thesis finely.
Overall I am pleased and happy with my first session. I think I did quite well. Alhamdulillah. My report was quite detailed too. But I learned something from Prof Dato because he prepared an additional report.
More pictures of the VIVA session can be viewed HERE.
Alhamdulillah, I managed to successfully publish my latest manuscript titled Thermodynamic analysis of bio-oil model compounds to light Hydrocarbon in the Cleaner Engineering Technology Journal.
To download or read the paper, please click HERE.
Alhamdulillah! I am so grateful to Allah for this success. It all belongs to the hard work and dedication of the team and students.
Here are some news/pictures from INATEX:
4-days of super intensive Workshop on CDIO in Engineering Education trained by the GURU herself, one of the founders – Kristina Edström . Thanks so much for coming to Malaysia, just to train us.
Have a safe flight back tonight…
We learned so many strategies, information, tricks, misconceptions etc in the workshop.
Thanks to all participants, from UKM, USM, UTHM, UNS (Indonesia), MJIIT and UTM. Thanks Prof Khairiyah for all the planning.
Read full coverage HERE.
A few days ago, I have read a website and some articles about forgotten survival food. It kept me thinking if I am prepared or not if the day we live now become a chaotic scenario, havoc, crisis, emergency, or suddenly a war occurred. Are we ready? Do we have the stock food to keep on surviving?
I’m a Chemical Engineering educator and am constantly involved in research work. It made me think if I have sufficiently thought of improving the great list of survival food introduced by Art Rood. Personally, I think chemical engineers have an amazing role to play in this.
Here is what I think Chemical Engineers can do…
Chemical engineers can play a crucial role in the discovery of superfoods for survival by using their knowledge and skills to develop new methods for growing and processing food. They can also use their expertise in chemical processes to analyze the nutritional content of different foods and identify those with the highest levels of essential nutrients.
In summary, chemical engineers can use their knowledge and skills to develop sustainable food production methods, identify nutrient-rich foods, develop new food preservation techniques, optimize food processing methods and develop food fortification to help in discovering superfoods for survival.
It was indeed a historic day for many of the well deserved and chosen Post Graduate (PG) who were granted an award of excellence for their respective category. Two of my students were blessed as they was awarded best student. Dr. Sehar Taslim was awarded best student for PhD in Environmental Engineering while Ari Firmansyah was awarded Best Student for MSC in Process Plant Management. Congrats to both of them.