2021 Day 206 Task – Workshop on Effective Implementation of Student-Centred Learning
Posted on July 26, 2021 ·
2021 Day 205 Task – Course Assessment Report (CAR) for Refinery and Petrochemical Technology
Posted on July 25, 2021 ·
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:
- One of the best Drs. in UTM, He delivers Knowledge in very various, interesting and exciting ways. He feels the students and treat them very kindly and professionally. I am very lucky to have him as my lecturer. ^_^
- I really hope that I can be successful similar like dr zaki.
- Dr is very good
- In overall, this class was fun and it was an honored to have an experienced senior lecturer as our lecturer. However, the assessments distribution were close to unrealistic since we have to do presentation almost every weeks. Here, we found it that we did not learned much. We were so busy preparing and being nervous for the 5 minutes presentation. Hence, we tend to show lack of interest to stay focus throughout the class. From my view. the lecturer should have variations in the teaching method.
- The lecturer is really caring towards the students.
- Lecturer is passionate in conducting quizziz. The in-class presentation is not favourable by the students to do every week. Maybe 5 times in one semester is enough. Anyways, great effort tot he lecturer by inviting a former practiced engineer to give insights on the natural gas plant.
2021 Day 204 Task – AJEE and Review Manuscript Tasks
Posted on July 24, 2021 ·
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.
- Focuses on the technical, chemical, and system aspects of the processes of biomass conversion and biorefinery.
- Operates in the topical areas of Bioengineering, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Protection.
- According to a 2019 survey, 97% of previous authors would be very likely to submit a manuscript to this journal again.
2021 Day 195 Task – MC for Green Laboratory Audit Competition Virtual Award Ceremony
Posted on July 15, 2021 ·
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.
2021 Day 189 Task – Checked Energy Conversion & Management Paper Draft
Posted on July 9, 2021 ·
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!
2021 Day 183 Task – MKKL Evaluations on A Saturday
Posted on July 3, 2021 ·
I became one of the examiners/evaluators for this Final Report MKKL Research Project today on an off-day Saturday. The session took place at 11am and ended at 2.45pm. But off course, the day started earlier because we have to read the thesis prepared by the students. The topics of the MKKL Master project are as shown below:
INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECT OF HYDROGEN FLOW ON ACETYLENE HYDROGENATION PROCESS USING ASPEN HYSYS by ANAS ZHAFRI BIN MAT RAFFEI
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Encapsulation of andrographolide loaded nanostructured lipid carrier using ultrasonication, by Logavenota A/P Pothan
2021 Day 181 Task – Sesi Engagement bersama Pengurusan TNC(P & I)
Posted on July 1, 2021 ·
Attended the meeting with UTM’s new appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation.
Other highlighted tasks of the day.
- SCEE Hub Meeting – 7.30am-8.30am
- PSM Evaluation – 8.30am – 1pm
- TNCPI Meeting – 9am – 11am.
- SCEE RAE Meeting – 5pm – 7pm
2021 Day 174 Task – SEEM Visibility and Networking Committee Meeting
Posted on June 23, 2021 ·
Under The Society of Engineering Educators Malaysia (SEEM), I am the head of the Visibility and Networking Committee. We have not had a meeting yet and I just realized this morning that we need to present activities for our committee. Immediately I created a new Whatsapp group to gather all 4 committee members, which are me, Dr. Salah from UPM, Dr. Nazatul from UM and Dr. Azlina from UiTM. We managed to had a 1 hour meeting that started at 2.30pm and came out with quite a number of detailed plan activities.
I am happy working with the new team which is from 4 different universities. It is like breathing fresh air. Getting new ideas, new dimension and new perspective.
Oh by the way, I submitted the correction for BCREC journal proof that Nazlina has completed and Alhamdulillah, the manuscript has now been published online. Feel free to download the paper here.
Other highlighted tasks of the day:
- Prepared new outline for Engineering Identity paper
- Listed and updated all my journal paper so I can keep track of all of them
- Submitted safety Noise paper to Safety Science – at 1.40am.
- Subcommittee SEEM meeting: 2.30pm-3.30pm
- Week 8 SCEE RAE meeting: 5pm – 7pm
- Plant Design Project meeting: 9pm – 10pm
- Checked master student progress.
- Prepared watermark for final exam paper.
2021 Day 172 Task – Addressing the Challenges of Design Optimization for the A&D Industry Talk
Posted on June 22, 2021 ·
Many things happened today. Some of it was stressful involving the conference that I lead, but Alhamdulillah I managed to absorb the pressure, stay composed and perhaps solve the problem with the help of many kind hearted people. Amazingly, I managed to find out how to appoint a new Chair for the Easychair conference system, which before this I honestly have no idea at all.
Today I also signed the agreement for the conference proceeding, after going through the details of the documents.
Oh yes.. I also conducted a briefing to Statik lecturer’s on how to write scholarly practice engineering education paper in the morning.
At night, 10pm I attended the Addressing the Challenges of Design Optimization for the A&D Industry Talk conducted by Ansys company.
Oh after I listed all, I realized that as a person who have to divide his mind to multiple work scope and responsibilities, I must stay calm, stay compose and be on solution mode when I come across difficult unfavorable situation.
Other highlighted tasks of the day.
- Signed Conference Proceeding Agreement
- Verified PA pre-registration course.
- Followed up on the IOP agreement.
- Undergo Week 8 SCEE RAE training (up till activity 8.14)
- Checked progress of my PSM and Masters student.
- Study EI paper
2021 Day 171 Task – PhD Engineering Education is still Relevant
Posted on June 21, 2021 ·
Of all the tasks that I have today, the sudden email from the deputy dean Academic of Engineering Faculty surprised me. It is because of the new consolidation program of the PhD program for Engineering Education specifically, and also other PhD and Master philosophy program that are offered in UTM. Luckily after a few phone calls, few whatsapp messages, I became clear of the higher purpose. Well, there’s no need to elaborate on this matter. Bottom line is that everything has been sorted out. Alhamdulillah
Other highlighted tasks of the day.
- Verified PA pre-registration course.
- Followed up on the IOP agreement.
- Undergo Week 8 SCEE RAE training (up till activity 8.4)
- Checked progress of my PSM and Masters student.
- Study EI paper
