New Paper Published for 2020 in CET – Development of Sulphonated Sago Pith Waste Catalyst for Esterification of Palm Fatty Acid Distillate to Methyl Ester

Alhamdulillah, this paper has been published in Chemical Engineering Transaction Journal (CET) 2020. This is the work performed by my Master Student, Zarifah Zailan. InsyaAllah she will submit her thesis somewhere in April 2020. Pray for her.

PM Dr. Mazura Jusoh Featured in NST About AR and VR

https://www.nst.com.my/education/2020/02/562767/bringing-learning-life

Day 35 Task – PhD VIVA Session of Shafiqah, a Student that I Co-supervised

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First Stage Proposal MKKK of my student

 

After the PDP briefing and before the TDRS presentation, I squeezed my time to be in the first stage session of my MKKK mixed mode student, Abdul Salam from Libya. We need to sit down together to improve the research project.

Plant Design Project SKKC4834 for Supervisors

I conducted a briefing together with Dr. Azizul and Dr. Zarina for all supervisors at 2.15pm. We briefed on how the PDP will be conducted this coming semester. The event went well. Alhamdulillah

 

 

Done Submitting Abstract to ICoST2020

Roughly at 11.40pm this night, I managed to submit an abstract to ICoST2020 conference via EasyChair system. This work which was done by JL Lim, my PSM student who diligently work on the thermodynamic modelling. Hopefully this abstract will be accepted for presentation and subsequently accepted for publication in any of the scopus journal under the agreement with this conference.

PhD Mock Viva Session for Shafiqah

Despite attending the engineering education Workshop Part 3, I attended the PhD mock viva for Shafiqah, a student that I co-supervised (She is supervised by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mazura Jusoh). The event took place at 2.15pm till 5pm. The session was very fruitful and hopefully she can rapidly improve her slides and presentation for next week’s VIVA session.

Day 28 Task – Interview Session with A PhD Student Session

Interview session by PhD candidate, Hamidah Kamar Den on her PhD research about integrated palm oil plant. She’s supervised by Dr. Kamarizan Kidam and Prof Haslenda Hashim. I gave few of my insights based on my knowledge and experience.

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Day 26 Task – Familiarizing with the Erasmus Project Discussion

Today is the 2nd day of Chinese New Year. We are presently at Atlantis Residence, Melaka. Soon we will be going to De Villa Bungalow neat Klebang area to be united with my extended family. There are not much official task going on today because we are fully pack with plenty of activities, meeting up with my parents and siblings + family. However, I just need to be keep updated with the progress of Erasmus Project which started few days ago. I was added to the group on Thursday, the day before CNY. It is a huge mega project and many academicians from various universities in Malaysia are involved. I was one of them, thanks for the recommendation from my mentor. For now I will just keep on with the progress and help on in any area I can and I am asked to.

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Day 25 Task – Filling Up Course Assessment Report (CAR) for my subject course

Today is the Chinese New Year Day. Happy Chinese New Year to all my Chinese friends!

Although we are on a short family break, I still wanted to complete the Course Assessment Report (CAR). In overall I need to complete 5 CAR. I have done 3 of them and left with 2 which are for the Introduction to Engineering course. Unfortunately there was some problem. The system stated 5 of my students to be unknown! I will sort this out soon. I already reported this to the Head of Program for further action.

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