Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
I didn’t realized that I accepted to review a manuscript from Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery at the end of December 2021. Anyway, I received a reminder about it yesterday and managed to complete the review just before attending my Friday prayer.
Other tasks for the day:
This was in fact multigoal workshop that focuses on the “Halatuju Program Kejuruteraan” and to revise the interview protocol for the FGD and the consortium research.Towards a better engineering, science and technology environment in Malaysia 
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Other tasks for the day:
I am already a Review Editor in Bioenergy and Biofuels, under Frontier Publication. It’s normal that I received manuscript in the niche of biofuel, bioenergy, catalysis and others to be reviewed. However, yesterday I received a totally different manuscript which is related to Education Psychology. I am not sure yet how they found me and appointed me to be the reviewer because I am still very new in the Engineering Education arena. Somehow, maybe some of the engineering education papers that I co-authored were detected by the Editor in Front. Psychol. – Educational Psychology; and also they found out that I have reviewed other Engineering Education publications.
Nevertheless, I accepted the invitation and made the review. Definitely a new experience for me. Thanks Editor.
Before receiving this invite from the Editor, I never have heard about The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (CJCE), which is part of Wiley Publication.
Here’s some information about The Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering (IF: 2.007), published by Wiley on behalf of The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering, is the forum for publication of high quality original research articles, new theoretical interpretation or experimental findings and critical reviews in the science or industrial practice of chemical and biochemical processes.
Thanks a lot for providing me the opportunity to read an interesting research work.
I spent quite some time to update SEEM Website and MyHE FB Page. I am the Head of Visibility and Networking Committee in SEEM and a committee in charge of Facebook Page for the My Higher Education Cluster under Akademi Professor Malaysia.
The above tasks are not my direct tasks as academician, but certainly something that I can contribute to the society and community. Alhamdulillah, I was given the opportunity to contribute.
Alhamdulillah I managed to complete the Course Assessment Report (CAR) for the subject that I taught this semester. The student’s performance were very good and I can foresee this from their attitude in class. All the students were awesome, very discipline, tentative, cooperative and fun.
So far this was the highest number of students I have ever had for this course. Before this it was so little. But as the time goes on, the number of students keep increasing. I’m not sure of how it would be like in the future… But I will definitely take the comments from the students to improve my class in the future. Especially if I’ll still be teaching online.
Some of the feedbacks I received for this class:
Today, Saturday, I managed AJEE manuscript that has been submitted. I hope in the near future we can come out with the new edition. In Syaa Allah.
Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery under Springer Publisher is one new journal that I have not reviewed any manuscript from it before.
Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery presents articles and information on research, development and applications in thermo-chemical conversion; physico-chemical conversion and bio-chemical conversion, including all necessary steps for the provision and preparation of the biomass as well as all possible downstream processing steps for the environmentally sound and economically viable provision of energy and chemical products.
Today, I became the emcee for this event – Green Laboratory Audit Competition Virtual Award Ceremony. The event took place at 10am today and lasted for about 35 minutes. We did rehearsed the event yesterday and it seems everything was fine. It was a great event where 14 COE and RG from SCEE participated in this event which heavily promotes sustainability.
After the program I rushed to be vaccinated at Dewan Raya Taman Universiti, Skudai. I received my 1st dosed of Pfizer. The second dose will be obtained 3 weeks from now. In Syaa Allah.
Subsequently, I rushed back home to be the examiner for MKKL Master program for 2 students that started at 2.30pm till 5pm.
My main task today was purely to check my student’s ECM paper draft which has been pending for 2 weeks. I found it tough to check the paper before this because I need to revamp the Introduction part a lot and that alone has pretty much delayed me. However, the end of today I am very pleased that I managed to stay focused and check the paper up to 90% of the content. I will complete the remaining 10% tomorrow and return the draft back to my student.
Important point: I am very impressed with my student’s work. After all she managed to prepare this 50 page manuscript in 3 months as a PSM student. Remarkable!
