Day 290 Task – Getting Ready for Next Week’s New Semester Class

The new semester will be kicking of next week. In the morning I checked my AIMS and also eLearning. I now know that I have 30 students in my SETK1523-05 Introduction to Engineering (ITE) and SETK1511-05 Industrial Seminar & Profession (ISP) … [Continue reading]

Day 289 Task – Exploring Discord for Teaching and Learning

The conventional teaching that we are used to apply could no longer be implemented due to the pandemic and academician in universities have no choice than to implement and be creative in implementing tools for online learning. One of the tools that … [Continue reading]

Day 288 Task – Virtual Meeting| IEEE TALE 2022

Today, beside continuing the 2nd Day of Part 3 OBE workshop with UNS, I would like to highlight the Virtual Meeting to discuss IEEE Tale 2022 project. I'm totally new to this and am not sure what to expect. Tale is if I am not mistaken a very grand … [Continue reading]

Day 287 Task – OBE Assessment Online Workshop with UNS

Today is the Part 3 of the Online OBE Workshop with UNS. We had our Part 1 and Part 2 few weeks ago. The first day of the Part 3 session went smooth, Alhamdulillah. I am in charged of the Chemistry Break-up room and we had an amazing discussion on … [Continue reading]

Day 286 Task – Check Draft of Project Description for a Consultation Project

Today, we work from home because of the covid quarantine. As an academician, working from home does not mean we cannot be productive. Alhamdulillah, I managed to work on several tasks. But the one that I would like to highlight here is my task in an … [Continue reading]

Day 285 Task – Emailed a Journal Editor Proposing to Submit a Review Paper

I spent roughly nearly 2 hours today to write and prepare required information to submit a review paper to a journal. Before this I have submitted a review paper to a journal when I was doing my PhD. It was not easy as was only accepted on my 4th … [Continue reading]

Day 284 Tasks – Process Control Mathwork Meeting with other Universities

It's an off day for me as Friday emerged. But that did not stop us from having this meeting to discuss the realization of preparing and launching a real industry problem to be presented in the Process Control class, not only in UTM, but USM and … [Continue reading]

Day 283 Task – Providing Support for My PA Students

The new semester is around the corner and students are busy registering for their course. I am one of the Academic Advisor for my students (20 of them). Many of them contacted me today to consult for their registration. Since it is Covid-19 Pandemic … [Continue reading]

Day 282 Task – My Student Presented at ICCME2020 Conference, UNDIP, Indonesia

I could not believe this. Last week, I was just involved and directly involved in RCEE2020, as organizer, chairman, participant etc. This week, the International Conference on Chemical and Material Engineering (ICCME2020) appeared and we participated … [Continue reading]

Day 281 Task – Working in the Lab – GC Resurrection

I recently was given with this GC by a very generous academician. This GC-TCD/FID is an Agilent made model 6890N. It was a 2002 built. It has not been used for many years and now it is under me. My challenge now is to get it up and in operation. Off … [Continue reading]