Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
I have always wanted to write and publish in AJEE. It is ironic that I am now the editor for AJEE but I have not published anything yet. Hence I am drafting one that I plan to publish in the coming Vol 4 Issue 2 of AJEE.
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Yesterday I read 14 Reflection Journals of my ITE-ISP students. The writings are quite interesting compared to my previous years reading it. I have more international students compared to local students and I can see their writing style is different. They are more straight forward and directly share what they feel.
Today, I continued reading and grade the rest of the reflection journals.
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This is the very first time that I am joining a CEE Postgraduate Symposium. Before this I have not had the opportunity to join any of the session. InsyaAllah I am looking forward to learn something here today. Talking about learning something, there are too many information available to learn as at the same time now, NALI2020 is offering many interesting beneficial talks.
CEE Postgraduate Symposium 2020
Time: 10am
Date: 10/12/2020
Agenda: Monitoring student progress in research
Platform: https://utm.webex.com/meet/nfwahidah
Referring to the above matter, students are required to prepare
✅1 slide/ 1 poster presentation
✅Prepare 10 minutes presentation
✅Presentation include(title, problem statement, research methodology, pilot/findings, current status of progress & issues about the research.
Instruction:
9.00-9.10am: Opening remarks
Breakout Room 1:
9.10 – 11.00am: Breakout session presentation
Reviewers:
Breakout Room 2:
11.00 – 1.00am: Breakout session presentation
Reviewers:
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SECOND VIVA IN A WEEK
Alhamdulillah dan TAHNIAH kepada Pelajar Master Chemical Engineering saya iaitu Zarifah Zailan yang baru selesai dengan jayanya mengharungi Viva separa virtual pagi tadi. You deserved it. Cepat-cepat buat correction dan bpleh sesama konvo dengan geng satu lab nanti.
Zarifah dan External Examiner berada di daerah masing-masing manakala yang lain berada di Bilik Viva 1 School of Chemical Engineering, N01a, UTM. Sesi bermula pada 9am dan berakhir sekitar 11.40am (termasuk nak uruskan hal connectivity yang kekadang buat hal).
Terima kasih kepada Tuan Chairman Viva PM Dr. Mohd Azizi Che Yunus, External Examiner PM Ir. Dr. Siti Shawalliah, Internal Examiner PM Ir. Dr. Muhammad Abbas Ahmad Zaini. Terima kasih juga kepada Team Office PG serta Mohd Shafiq Md Hidiah (technical support).
Terima kasih juga kepada Co-SV PM Dr. Mazura Jusoh dan Dr. Muhammad Tahir atas pelbagai bantuan yang diberikan. Saya syukur dan gembira dengan kerjasama dan synergy kita. Alhamdulillah… 
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Mengambil maklum serta cakna tentang persoalan dan permasalahan berkaitan kenaikan pangkat bagi staf akademik, Persatuan Kakitangan Akademik (PKA) UTM dengan ini mengambil inisiatif menganjurkan FORUM PKA: KENAIKAN PANGKAT AKADEMIK UTM seperti maklumat berikut:
TARIKH : 8 DISEMBER 2020
MASA : JAM 10:00 AM
TEMPAT : APLIKASI WEBEX
Forum ini menampilkan 2 ahli panel yang terlibat secara langsung dalam proses kenaikan pangkat staf akademik di UTM. Mereka adalah Prof. Ts. Dr. Ruzairi Abdul Rahim yang merupakan panel penilai bagi kenaikan Profesor UTM dan Prof. Ts. Dr. Muhammad Hisyam Lee iaitu Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Pemantauan Penilaian Prestasi dan Peningkatan Kerjaya Staf Akademik UTM. Antara perkara yang akan dibincang dalam forum ini adalah:
1) Proses kenaikan pangkat Prof. Madya dan Profesor
2) Syarat-syarat utama kelayakan
3) Kriteria sanjungan akademik
4) Tip menghadiri sesi temubual
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Earlier today, we visited (ziarah) our friend Dr. Norzita because her mother passed away. Please accept our condolences.
Immediately after that, official work commenced. Among them were to submit the payment invoice for UPMU to Radis, reviewed a manuscript from a reputable Q1 journal, checked my PSM student research work progress.
One of the interesting event today was the meeting with Salman, a PhD student that I supervised. We have an online meeting at home (WFH) and the progress of this student is amazing so far. We’re pretty impressed with his awesome ideas and rapid progress. I can see that this student have a bright future ahead and can finish fast if his work rate is like that.
On a different note, at 11.15pm at night, we had a trial online mock run for Zarifah, my master student who earlier has some issues with her microphone (attached to her laptop). Dr. Mazura, her co-supervisor was very helpful, knowledgeable and skillful to troubleshoot. Believe it or not, the trouble shooting process lasted at 1.00am in the morning.
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I am fortunate that I was awarded with several research grants this year and last year. To run the projects, I have appointed my student under the GRA and SRA scheme in NewRadis roughly 1 month ago. Unfortunately, the appointment require some amendment but I receive no email to notify me about this. I only realized this when I login my NewRadis account.
Although I felt like blaming the system why no email was sent to inform me about this, I am blaming myself as well because why I am not aggressive in following up on the matter. From now on, I need to regularly login to my NewRadis account on a weekly basis, perhaps every Monday, to check on any Returned Application or Pending Application. InsyaAllah, by being more aggressive, I won’t waste time.
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Today, on this lovely Saturday, I took the time to check on the progress of some of my PSM, Master and PhD research students. I checked and commented the progress of Abdelrahim Minalla (PhD Engineering Education Research), Raihan Aulia Zaky (Master Mixed Mode), Arif Hut (PSM) and Nasyitah (ex-PSM and hopefully soon to be a PhD student that I Co-supervised). That took quite some time too.
At night, I had a Webex meeting with Arif Hut to discuss his progress and direction on his Palm Oil Sustainability and Carbon Footprint project. After having the night meeting, I realized that even though the meeting was awesome and fruitful, I should not held the meeting on a Saturday night. That is a time I need to spend with my family. I believe maybe my student also may have activities with his family or friends, but has to commit for the meeting. Another aspect for me to improve.
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Today, I am not as aggressive and active as the other days, but I just touched on this one thing, the AJEE journal that I am presently managing. Volume 4 Second Issue is supposed to be published this month, and there are several aspects that needed to be checked and taken action in order for the publication to be on track.
I hope InsyaAllah the 2nd Issue will be able to be published at the end of this month and this will marked the first time that AJEE have 2 Issues in one single year. Before this, since AJEE was published, it only has 1 issue. In the long run, we hope and pray that AJEE will be rank as high quality Scopus journal. InsyaAllah.
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Today I joined the Research Methodology Class Edu. PLPT6123. There were 2 students, but some of us, the Center for Engineering Education (CEE) Research Fellows joined in to support and give encouragement to the crowd.
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