2022 Day 65 Task – Discussion With One of My Academic Student Advisor’ Parent

One of the important task that many are not aware of a lecturer is his role as an Academic Advisor (Penasihat Akademik) to a group of student he is assigned for. I am not excluded. I am assigned 24 students in 2018 and now all of the students are … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 64 Task – MCED FGD Meeting & Malaysia Zeolite Association Meeting

Yes, another working weekend. It has appeared to be a default setting for me. Today was really tricky. At the beginning of the day, 2 of my daughters felt sick. One tested positive another have to wait for Covid test kit as we ran out of stock in the … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 63 Task – Checked Our JCLPRO’s Paper Drafts

It's Friday today and 2 of my children are still positive. Ikhwan seems to be ending his positive streak today (this morning). Still we have to take care and manage everything in the house strategically. In the morning I had a meeting with Pouline at … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 62 Task – Presented Short Speech at DHEX 2022 Symposium – Organized by JSEE, UTMI and CEE

I spent the morning preparing for the slide that I will deliver in the speech that I was invited 2-3 days ago. It's good that I was invited as I can share the experience of CEE in terms of Academia-Industry Collaboration for Digitalization. I will … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 61 Task – Presented My Academic Student Semester Marks to Director

Today, similar as yesterday, I took an annual leave to take care of my positive children and also to curb myself from other people - to stay safe and also make other people safe. However, there are still plenty of tasks to do. The highlight of today … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 60 Task – Checked SG’s Manuscript

Today I applied for an annual leave to take care of Ikhwan who is positive (and soon late afternoon we discovered that Zara was also positive). Nevertheless, the work loads kept piling up, but I keep on settling one by one. What I would like to … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 59 Task – Filled Up INATEX 2021 Online Forms

I have to travel to UTM to fill up the INATEX 2021 online forms since the submission need to be done using UTM line and system, which can only be accessed within UTM vicinity. Two of my students Areen and Mohamed, who both of them were originally Dr. … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 58 Task – Enter Final Marks into AIMS

I have numerous small minor task for the day. But among them, the most important and critical one is the checking and entering of final ITE and ISP marks to the system. Other tasks of the day: Followed up Anis items to purchase.ITE Meeting … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 57 Task – Reviewed Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Manuscript

I felt a little bit relaxed today. Perhaps it was from the sheer stress of preparing for the Centre for Engineering Education Strategic Plan 2022, which was help yesterday (for Day 1). As I have received an interesting manuscript to be reviewed on … [Continue reading]

2022 Day 56 Task – Strategic Planning Centre for Engineering Education 2022 (SPC’22) – Online

Alhamdulillah, after a long time, finally we managed to start with first day of CEE Strategic Planning. We can only plan but Allah decides. We plan for a 3 days 2 night retreat for the strategic planning but due to sudden spike of omicron … [Continue reading]