I’m not interested to highlight something that has been shared previously this year, 2021. Hence, I’m will highlight something else today which is my brief meeting with a mechanical engineer who contacted me for him to register for BEM. He contacted me last week to seek my help to sign and stamp his document. The mechanical engineer has worked for 4 years and he suddenly realized to start becoming a professional engineer, which is good. When I think about his situation, I recalled myself. I am a chemical engineer and when I wanted to get the signature and stamping for my BEM registration, my beloved wife helped me and met a Prof who is a Mechanical Engineer by discipline. Hence, it seems like now I am returning the favour. Alhamdulillah.

Other miscellaneous tasks today:

Dr. Muhammad Tahir, my colleague, invited me last week to join him together in the PRGS project that he will present to KPT today. I am one of the project team member alongside with Prof NASA, with Dr. Tahir as the Project Leader. It was my first time in the PRGS presentation (9.40am-10.30am) session which lasted almost 50 minutes. The panels were very well aware of the research area and asked several detail technical questions. Fortunately Dr. Tahir managed to addressed all questions. I hope that this PRGS will be granted to us… Insya Allah.

Other highlighted tasks of the day:

• Meeting and discussion with AzriHanis, my new SPACE PSM student (8.30am-9.15am).
• Obtained signature and approval from Chair and Head of Department for the Teaching Award form (8.00am-8.30am).
• Refinery and Petrochemical Class (2pm-5pm).

Today, I have several meetings qued… will update this soon
Among the highlights for today:

• PSM meeting with new students for their PSM1 – 8am
• Meeting with Sham Shazid – 9.25am
• Plant Design Project (PDP) group 1st meeting – 11am.

I was invited to this UTM-TORCH discussion 2 weeks ago. I have no idea what TORCH is but a brief query to the PIC revealed that it is something to do with Teaching. However, the meeting was postponed 45 minutes before it started, hence I changed the Topic for today’s post as above…. 🙂

I discussed with Izzati and Faizah, both CEE staffs about the content creation of the Coffee book. InsyaAllah we already have a good plan and I’m hopeful to have this done by the end of 2 quarter.

Other highlighted task of the day:

• UTM-TORCH Meeting supposed to be held today, but postponed.
• HiCOE Keyword search project almost done.
• HiCOE Meeting @ 2pm.
• Work on ReCASE2021 conference papers.
• Abstract for CREG Book Chapter submission.

I had my very 1st class for MKKK1653 today which started at 9am. There were only 3 students, one from Lotte Pasir Gudang Johor, One from Iraq and One from Libya. The session was fine, but it was quite difficult to conduct online class such as this. I just hope in future it will be better. InsyaAllah

But my happiest moment was when I submitted the Safety Champion in Engineering Education (SCEE) Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE) application. I finally did it. It was a true struggle to squeeze my limited time to pull things together to fill up this form which synergize 3 institution like a consortium. Now I will leave my faith to Allah, after my hard work and also my collaborators hard work as well.

I was invited by Faculty Engineering Dean, Dato’ Prof. Ir. Dr. MOHAMMED RAFIQ BIN ABDUL KADIR to be the moderator for USA Professor Cynthia Atman upcoming Distinguished Lecture Series which will take place this coming Thursday. But before that, we need to perform a dry run or rehearsal to ensure the smoothness of the actual program. Wish me luck! Image above is the overlay for FE Streamyard that featured me as the moderator.

Other selected highlighted tasks:

• Read and check Abdilrahim’s Chapter 1
• Read and check Raihan’s thesis
• Micro managing some areas within CEE
• SCEE RAE matters