2021 Day 75 Tasks – Refinery and Petrochemical Technology First Class This Semester

Posted on March 17, 2021 ·

It’s the first week of the new semester and I held my first Refinery and Petrochemical Technology today starting from today for every Wednesday. The class was great and I was glad to have great internet line. There were all together 32 students in my class.

Other Highlighted Tasks:

  • AJEE system successfully set up under Penerbit UTM. Alhamdulillah. Need to explore the system tomorrow.
  • Check Raihan’s final draft
  • Class preparation.
  • Learned how to use Break up room in Webex and also also made Personal Student form using Google Doc

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2021 Day 74 Tasks – Meeting, Meeting, Meeting

Posted on March 16, 2021 ·

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.

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2021 Day 73 Tasks – CEE Coffee Table Book Discussion

Posted on March 15, 2021 ·

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.

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2021 Day 72 Tasks – First MKKK Plant Safety and Health Class

Posted on March 14, 2021 ·

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.

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2021 Day 67 Tasks – Rehearsal for the Coming Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS)

Posted on March 9, 2021 ·

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.

During the dry run session today.

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
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2021 Day 65 Tasks – Entering CEE Director’s Office for the 1st Time

Posted on March 7, 2021 ·

I was officially appointed to be the new Director for CEE, UTM on the 1st of February 2021. But then, it was the pandemic era and we are asked to work from home and because of that I have not been to my new office. However, the permission to WFH has been lifted on the 5th of March 2021 and all UTM staffs have to come to workplace for work.

So here I am at my new office. I did a little bit of cleaning and arranging which took 30 minutes or so. Subsequently I continued to work.

Other highlights for today:

  • Preparing of SCEE RAE Documentation
  • Working on Consortium grant keyword project
  • Checked Raihan’s thesis
  • Checked Abdelrahim’s Chapter 1
  • IJET Corrections

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2021 Day 64 Tasks – Mock Presentation 1st Stage MKKK for my Master Student

Posted on March 6, 2021 ·

Today in the morning I arranged for this mock presentation with my master dissertation student from Libya. Various research management matters to be completed and reported at the end of the day. InsyaAllah. Stay tune

Other highlighted official tasks of the day:

  • Checked Efa’s Master Thesis corrected version for the last time, hopefully and signed her thesis.

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2021 Day 63 Tasks – Miscellaneous Post Graduate Students Matters

Posted on March 5, 2021 ·

The fact that it is a Friday allowed me to relax a bit today. After all, I have been working very hard, almost non-stop since since several weeks. I need some break and once in a while breaking my daily pattern. I did not immediately work in the morning as usual, but I pampered myself with waking up a bit late… haha…

After that, I woke up and strategize my day. I started by listing down tasks to do for today while waiting for my laptop to stabilize after I switched it on (it’s a 7 year old laptop and it takes time for it to get ready after i pressed the on button).

I checked Efa’s (my full time research master student) abstract again, after my other half corrected it yesterday. It looked simple but it really is not that simple. Need to carefully check both English and Malay version of the abstract. After completing it I emailed it back to Efa.

Other highlighted official tasks of the day:

  • Checked Wirda’s paper for the 3rd time (Pak didi’s student).
  • Checked and commented ABSI’s (my Master Mixed-mode student) presentation slide since he’ll be presenting his 1st stage this coming Sunday).
  • Fast scan AbdelRahim’s (my Engineering Education PhD student from Egypt/Sudan) Chapter 1 draft, but still need to read in great detail tomorrow.
  • Passed Ammaru’s thesis to Sham for references on the analysis part.
  • Communicated with Anwar Hazeem (my ex-MKKH master student from 2017) on his new manuscript project.
  • Hosted Zaqwan who visited us at our home after Friday prayers. He wanted to consult about IEM Mentorship.
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2021 Day 62 Tasks – CEE C09 Building Renovation Meeting

Posted on March 4, 2021 ·

Hopefully this will be the last meeting for us that will allow us to meet the budget after sacrificing numerous needs for CEE. The meeting date and time was earlier set since last week between me and Aizat from Jabatan Harta Bina (JHB) UTM and Alhamdulillah we managed to get together in a virtual meeting at 2pm and ended nicely at 3.10pm. Among CEE reps that were present apart from me were Prof Khairiyah, Dr. Fadzil, Dr. Noraini, Dr. Effiyana and Izzati.

Other highlights of the day:

  • Consortium keyword meeting – 8am-9.30am via skype.
  • RCEE Meeting #1 – 3.30pm – 4.30pm.
  • Following of on SCEE RAE stuffs.
  • Prepared and completed CRR for ISP course.
  • Prepared and completed CRR for ITE course.
  • Prepared and completed CRR for Environmental Management MKKH course.
  • Checked and dealt with Efa’s correction of master thesis.

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2021 Day 61 Tasks – Koperasi Surau Bestari Meeting

Posted on March 3, 2021 ·

Today, as usual, my schedule is packed with numerous activities. But the main activity that I want to highlight for today is the Koperasi Surau Bestari Meeting that was conducted around 9pm evening. I am the Chairman of the Ahli Lembaga Koperasi (ALK) for Koperasi Surau Bestari Berhad.

Other activities highlighted for today:

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