ISO 9001:2015 Awareness Briefing for our Chemical Engineering Faculty

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ISO 9001:2015 Awareness Briefing

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All the staffs are trying hard to understand the implementation and concept of ISO 9001 in education context

After intense EAC and other exercises, our faculty has taken a new step to upgrade and implement ISO 9001 in our faculty. The briefing which took place on 17th January 2016 (Sunday) at 14.30 hours were attended by both academic and support staffs. This ISO 9001 implementation could be a challenging one as we will attempt to integrate it with what we have in EAC efforts. Although I have some experiences in ISO as an implementer and internal auditor when I worked as an engineer few years back, I can say that this one will be a tough one. Anything new will be a tough one. From nothing to having it implemented and applied exclusively in the faculty. I personally think it is a massive and great effort but will take several years. Hopefully it can be fast and smooth one.

Main scheduled tasks for week #3 2016 (17 – 21 Jan)

17th Jan 2016 – Sunday :

(1)Introduction to Engineering Mark Assessment Meeting

(2) ISO Awareness Meeting @ Faculty (2.30pm – BMF)

 

18th Jan 2016 – Monday :

(1) First Stage MKK examinations (as examiner)

(2) First Stage MKK examinations for my student

(3) GCMS-Head Space/Pyrolyzer installation and set up

 

19th Jan 2016 – Tuesday :

(1) GCMS-Head Space/Pyrolyzer installation and set up

(2) MKH Subject Meeting @ Center of Hydrogen Energy (CHE)

 

20th Jan 2016 – Wednesday : 

(1) CRR Meeting/Training (Dr. Wan Rosli system)

(2) GCMS-Head Space/Pyrolyzer commissioning and training starts today

(3) Unofficial meeting with analytical lab staff

 

21th Jan 2016 – Thursday :

(1) Safety Audit Preparation Meeting – N05

(2) GCMS-Head Space/Pyrolyzer commissioning and training starts today

2015 UTM Highlights : Contributing and Progressing Towards Universal Prosperity

This 5 minute video simply highlights and summarizes UTM’s contribution and progress last year. It’s worth watching to see 🙂

Prepared by:
UTM Office of Corporate Affairs
UTM Centre of Information & Communication Technology

 

Main scheduled tasks for week #2 2016 (10 – 14 Jan)

10th Jan 2016 – Sunday :

11th Jan 2016 – Monday : Perhimpunan Bulanan NC Jan 2016. Monthly Meeting with Vice Chancellor (Jan 2016)

12th Jan 2016 – Tuesday :

13th Jan 2016 – Wednesday :

14th Jan 2016 – Thursday :

 

NIOSH Training to Trainers (TTT) Course

The Faculty of Chemical & Energy Engineering (FCEE) has instructed 20 academicians to undergo the NIOSH Training to Trainers Course. The course was conducted from 29-31th December 2015 and 5-6th January 2016. It’s a long 5 days course but it was unbelievable to see the commitment of all the academicians.

The training was conducted at Pusat Latihan Universiti (PULAU), UTM. The venue is suitable and comfortable. Food was luxuriously prepared for us (3 times a day). If I am not mistaken, the course fee was RM1500 per person.

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Our faculty participant for TTT

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Prof Kamarul doing his presentation. Top student 🙂

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Dr. Tuan Amran acting as a practical student for Dr. Mimi’s presentation

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Prof Rozaini doing the demonstration assisted by Prof Kamarul

My 2 cent:

The training was really informative, beneficial. However, all of us agree that the 3 different NIOSH trainers were not that consistent in guiding us with the information on what we should prepare for the presentation. Nevertheless, the discrepancies were minimum,but affected our preparation a bit.

Evaluation of MKH Master Safety First Stage Project

Today, first of the morning was fully occupied with intense brain focus to evaluate the MKH Master Safety project (9am to 1pm @ Bilik Dokumentasi). 7 students were evaluated by me and Dr. Kamarizan. At the same time, in parallel, 4 more MKH session were conducted in other venue.

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This student presented modeling on risk factor study

Main scheduled tasks for week #1

3th Jan 2016 – Sunday :

4th Jan 2016 – Monday : MKH Master Safety Evaluation,

5th Jan 2016 – Tuesday : TTT Niosh Evaluation,

6th Jan 2016 – Wednesday : TTT Niosh Evaluation,

7th Jan 2016 – Thursday :

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2 Certificates in 1 Week

chem-eng-certificateIt’s good to have some surprises once in a while rather than facing the same daily, weekly and monthly routine. Earlier this week on Sunday, I attended Citra Karisma 2015 where I became the finalist for the Webometric Award (Individual Category). There was no intention of winning since I started writing on this site since December 2014. It’s a rather young website to be regarded as finalist in this category. I am just happy to be one of the finalist and I was awarded a certificate of appreciation on my contribution for the Webometric Award. Yes, the winner was someone else. Still, I left Dewan Sultan Iskandar a happy guy.

Then today, arriving early at work, I found another certificate in my pigeon hole. This time it’s a nice colourful beautiful certificate in front of me – “Malaysia TRIZ Certificate Practitioner”. It’s really great feeling getting all those certificate although in actual fact it is actually not a big deal. The cert is given to me after successfully passing the 1st level of TRIZ training in March 2015.

These 2 certificates will be later united with my other compilation of certificates. I may want to consider hanging some of them on the walls. What do you think?

5th International Conference of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology 2015 (ICFCHT2015)

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Check this out. I highly recommend you to participate in this conference… I have submitted my abstract. How about you?

As one of the most versatile energy solutions ever invented, fuel cells are able to generate clean, efficient and reliable power for almost any device requiring electricity and because of that, it has significant roles to play in a number of energy end-use sectors from electric vehicle to power plant. In the near future, fuel cell will power our cars with hydrogen replacing the petroleum fuel that is used in most vehicles today.

Believing in the bright future prospects of hydrogen and fuel cells, we take a great pleasure to organize and to cordially invite you to attend the 5th International Conference of Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Technology 2015 (ICFCHT2015) on 1-3 September 2015 at UTM Kuala Lumpur.

For more details regarding the conference, please visit the conference website. Those interested to present a paper in the icfcht2015 are required to submit a softcopy of an abstract by uploading the abstract in the REGISTRATION FORM no later than 15 May 2015. For the preparation of your abstract please use the abstract template.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. Your presence at this conference is important to us. We look forward to seeing you there.

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Link for you to see: http://www.icfcht2015.utm.my/

TRIZ Level 1 Workshop

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The Center Of Engineering Education (CEE), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has recently conducted a very excellent program, “2-Day Level 1 TRIZ workshop and Forum on Complex Problem Solving from Industries’ Perspective“. It was conducted from 30 March to 1 April 2015.

What is TRIZ?

TRIZ  is “a problem-solving, analysis and forecasting tool derived from the study of patterns of invention in the global patent literature”. It was developed by the Soviet inventor and science fiction author Genrich Altshuller and his colleagues, beginning in 1946. In English the name is typically rendered as “the theory of inventive problem solving”, and occasionally goes by the English acronym TIPS.

Following Altshuller’s insight, the theory developed on a foundation of extensive research covering hundreds of thousands of inventions across many different fields to produce a theory which defines generalisable patterns in the nature of inventive solutions and the distinguishing characteristics of the problems that these inventions have overcome.

An important part of the theory has been devoted to revealing patterns of evolution and one of the objectives which has been pursued by leading practitioners of TRIZ has been the development of an algorithmic approach to the invention of new systems, and the refinement of existing ones.

The theory includes a practical methodology, tool sets, a knowledge base, and model-based technology for generating new ideas and solutions for problem solving. It is intended for application in problem formulation, system analysis, failure analysis, and patterns of system evolution.

Source Wikipedia.

Outcome from the Level 1 TRIZ Workshop

It was a very interesting 2 days workshop. I must admit all of us who attended learned massively a lot. Most importantly, we were given the Level 1 TRIZ test to measure and evaluate our fundamental knowledge on TRIZ. The good thing is I passed the Level 1 TRIZ test… 🙂

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Dr. Yeo T.S., our very experienced trainer for the 2 days TRIZ wokshop. He is one of the TRIZ master in Malaysia

Should there be a level 2 TRIZ that I can attend, I will surely attend and if I passed the Level 2 TRIZ, I can become a Level 1 TRIZ trainer.

The 3rd day of the program, a very productive forum, Forum on Complex Problem Solving from Industries’ Perspective, was held at T02 CEE building. Numerous panels from industry were present to share inputs and ideas with regard to complex problem solving and its relation to university graduates capabilities and how to improve our graduates skills in solving industrial complex problem. In overall, it was a very good program indeed and such program must be conducted annually and to proceed with higher levels of TRIZ workshop.