Day 5: Chairman/Panel for Undergraduate Research Presentation + Plant Design Project Coordination Meeting

Posted on January 5, 2020 ·

Today is a very full pact day. First hald of the day was the final presentation for Undergraduate Research Project. Two of my students presented in this event. At the same time, I am one of the panels and also the chairperson for my session. This event took place from 9am to 12.30pm, followed by the announcement ceremony for the best presenters from each session. Surprisingly one of my students, Nasyitah won the best presenter in the Modelling and simulation session. Congrats!!!

Second of the day was the Plant Design Project Coordination meeting. We have to plan for the coming semester. There will be about 150 students going to pursue this course and there are a mountain of tasks in terms of planning and coordination work to be done. This was from 2.30pm to 5.10pm at Bilik Mesyuarat Dekan.

 

Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/

 

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Sambutan dan Jamuan Raya Aidilfitri SKT

Posted on June 27, 2019 ·

Jamuan Raya Aidilfitri di adakan pada 27 Jun 2019, bersamaan Khamis, iaitu hari Khamis terakhir bulan Shawal. Majlis di adakan di Dewan Kuliah 1, Blok N11a. Ini pertama kali majlis di adakan di sini. Sambutan dan hidangan amat menarik. Pelbagai juadah yang lazat, menarik serta enak sama-sama dikongsi.

Antara juadah yang disediakan bersama adalah kambing golek, laksa johor, sate, ice cream, cendol, pelbagai kuih, nasi minyak dan sebagainya.

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Want to study Chemical Engineering, but not sure how…?

Posted on February 15, 2019 ·

I have received many inquiries via Facebook secondary school students / high school students all around the world asking how can they learn and enroll to Chemical Engineering course.

To make it easy, I have written a special post to answer just that. You can read it here: http://chem-eng.online/2019/01/31/what-you-need-to-enroll-to-a-chemical-engineering-course/

Feel free to share this article with friends, relatives and your love ones, who are interested in Chemical Engineering.

 

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My Chemical Engineering Experiences #1

Posted on August 2, 2016 ·

A student asked an experienced engineer a question: “From your years of experience, what is the worse problem that you have encountered?”

The engineer answered, “I cannot specify one because there are too many problems, but I can say that 90% of the problem is from/when dealing with human/people”.

This implies that many problems are not from the technical or engineering aspects but originates from human. Think about it…

The source.

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Congratulations William for your Masters Defence

Posted on July 29, 2016 ·

William is a master student from Kenya. I first met him when I was lecturing Plant and Chemical Safety for Masters. He is also an academic staff from a university in Kenya.

Fast forward to yesterday (28th july 2016), I was his examiner for his Chemical Engineering Master Dissertation. It should be a fast Master defense examination since he is in the Chemical Engineering Mixed-Mode program. However, the examination was stretched to 3 hours. That’s quite long for a Mixed-Mode program. It was not because the quality of work that is not good. It is in fact due to the fact that he has done SO MUCH WORK, and presented such a huge amount of result in his dissertation. All of us thought that he has done a work almost similar to a full time master student or even more than a full time master student. If he add few more elements into his work, it can be a Ph.D quality.

From left: Dr. Arif, Dr. Tahir, William, Dr. Ramli & me

I can just say WELL DONE! You should continue to do your Ph.D. Keep up the good work.

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A Surprise Visit …

Posted on July 28, 2016 ·

Today, we were lucky to host Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Didi Dwi Anggoro, my colleague from Universiti Diponogoro (UNDIP), Semarang, Indonesia (and his family). He was in Johor since yesterday for his daughter’s convocation in Marsah, Johor Bahru. It’s not his (and his family) first visit to our humble house. They have been here in several occasions for the past few years.

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Who is Didi Dwi Anggoro?

He is a very nice friendly guy whom which when I was doing my Chemical Engineering Masters Degree, he did his Ph.D. We were in the same research group – Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG). We were both supervised by Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin (Now Prof. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin @ Prof NASA). That era which we were in was betweeen 1999 – 2003. His research areas are applied catalysis, reaction engineering and biofuel.

Some info about Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Didi Dwi Anggoro : Click here.

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3rd Game – UTM Inter-Deparment Badminton

Posted on July 27, 2016 ·

We just played our 3rd game tonight, which is the first in this knock-out stage. This time we battled Faculty of Science. Surprisingly, I was asked to play single. Hesitated, I obliged with the decision by our team leader / manager (Prof. G). The game started.

If you just read this post, you should read 2 earlier post here and here, to know the complete overview of our game.

Result:

(1) 1st double (PM Dr. Asnizam & Ahmad MPRC) – we LOST unfortunately.

(2) Single (ME) – surprisingly I won (YES)! I was lucky I guessed 🙂 God helped me! And it was a straight set. My opponent was exhausted and slightly heavier than me. That’s some advantage for me.

(3) 2nd double (Prof G. & Roslan Jas) – the decider – again, we lost unfortunately.

OVERALL – We LOST and will not proceed to the quarter final tomorrow.

Well, it’s ok. It’s just a nice game. I treated it as an activity for me to exercise (but during the game, it can turned out to be very tense!)

InsyaAllah, we’ll try next year 🙂

Go FCEE!

 

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