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Commisioning of FCEE’s newest Computerized Sieve Shaker

Stopping by at Separation 2 Lab, witnessing the testing and commisioning of FCEE’s newest Computerized Sieve Shaker. With head of Chemical Engineering 1 Lab, Dr. Mazura Jusoh and our technical staffs, Mohammad Rafiza, Shairray Jais and Sukor.

Handover of Nuclear Engineering Lab to FCEE

Handover of Nuclear Engineering Lab to FCEE. The new Nuclear Engineering Lab is located in University Industrial Research Laboratory (UIRL), T03, UTM. My first time here and I can see this lab to grow and develop as a very important lab for the country. InsyaAllah.

In the photo Dr. Khaidzir, FCEE’s Nuclear Engineering Program Coordinator received the handover documents from the Contractor representative.

 

From old admin office to new admin office



Who says I am relaxing? I am also carrying my own furniture, well the smaller ones which I can carry alone. I also carry some of the bigger ones too.

From old admin office to new admin office


Have been doing massive carrying throughout the weekend…  🙂

Commissioning of Fluid Mechanic Experiment

We just received several sets of new experimental set-up for Fluid Mechanic teaching lab. The new ones are actually to replace the older ones. Before the students run it, the lecturer’s and assistant engineers test and commission it first. The video below showed the early moments during the commissioning for Losses in Pipe Experiment.

The gentleman inside the video is En. Mahmood, out senior technical staff in charged in the Fluid Mechanics teaching lab. Very experienced person. I personally learned a lot from him.

My Chemical Engineering Experiences #1

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.

Congratulations William for your Masters Defence

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.

A Surprise Visit …

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.