Today marks the starting of the 1st day of OBE training out of 4 days. I am involved as one of the facilitators and also host. The half day training was smooth and successful. Alhamdulillah.

There were 100 participants from Indonesia and about 16 combined speakers + facilitators.

Among my other tasks for today:

• Submission of ICSEC2021 Extended Abstracts.
• CEE Newshub article.
• Submission of BCREC improved version manuscript, graphical abstract and payment.
• Continue working on Moratuwa project.
• Checking Myra Update progress.
• Etc etc…

It’s a new week in this fabulous February. As usual there are numerous official tasks. Among tasks completed for today:

• Second Assessment for PhD student Mohd Arif Misrol – Title of PhD is Optimization of Simultaneous Water, Waste and Energy Nexus for Eco-Industrial Park – 11am – 12.30pm.
• MKKE First Stage and Final Research presentation. Five students will present for their Part 1 Research while 1 student will present for his Part 2 Research – 2.15pm – 5pm.
• Checking my PSM students slide presentation and thesis (PSM presentation will take place on this coming Tuesday).
• Checking & monitoring IJET publication progress.
• Managing RMC claim process.
• Final check on the EIA Project Description draft.
• Continue working on the Curriculum Review Report for MOU.
• ETC … ETC …

I have written an article about the top 10 jobs for a chemical engineer. This entry will provide young generation as well as those who wants to be a chemical engineer wider scope and comprehension on available jobs for them once they graduated as a chemical engineer.

Check out the article – Top 10 Chemical Engineering Jobs here.

Yesterday I audited IBD with 3 Amtec post graduate students. Today I audited Biopolymer Lab at N29 with GREEN Research group member – Dr. Syaza.

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

The Centre for Engineering Education (CEE) is one of the reputable centres in UTM. CEE managed a lot of activities that include courses, workshops, postgraduate programs, webminars, journal publications, and others. We really manpower to help run those projects.

In view of that, we opened a new ARO vacancy which can help us with all the activities mentioned above.

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

Since I have no class and meeting today, I am dedicated to perform the grading of these 2 assignments. PTN is fine but Reflection Journal is very long and time consuming to read. Nevertheless, I need to do it and need to do it fast. I could not afford to have my pending tasks accumulated because there will be more and more tasks coming to my face.

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

There are many tasks today that needed to be completed such as conducting the ITE class together with Dr. Siti Hajjar, handling-managing AJEE journal, grading the Stage 3 assignments, and others, but since all of those has been reported as a specific tasks in previous posts, I am not interested to repeat.

Hence, I listed here something else that is new – That is preparing the list of contributors for the Industrial Profession and Seminar (ISP) SETK1511 course to prepare the certificate for them. The contributors roles were as speakers, moderators and forum panels and we need to acknowledge their significant contribution.

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

Today is an official replacement holiday for Christmas. Despite of my overloaded tasks, I think I need to do something new which is to participate in a Speed Reading Course. I am hopeful that this course can help me enhance my speed reading skills since I need to read a lot.

I can see that in the near future, I need to read journals, books, student assignments and others.

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