Day 120 Task – Finalized New Revised Undergraduate Research Topic

Originally the students and me, we have agreed on experimental type research topic and I can say the 4 of them have already their research proposal 60-80% complete. Unfortunately, since the university is not opened to public, and we cannot go to work and the students are all at their hometown, we are urged to change the research topic to a non experimental ones. I let my students to figure out or to come out with their own topic. Unfortunately, they have no idea and it ended up I gave them the research topic, as can see below:

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Day 71 Task – Done Reviewing 2 Technical Papers for ICPEAM2020

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Day 63 Task – Reviewing Extended Abstract Submitted to RCEE

Today, in the early hours, I reviewed 5 extended abstracts submitted for RCEE2020. Alhamdulillah I managed to review all of the abstracts and provided critical comments for improvements. I am hoping to soon read the improved version of the extended abstract from the authors. InsyaAllah!

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Day 42 Task – Panel for MKKK Proposal Disertation

I was on of the panel for the proposal defense of one MKKK Master Student, who did a research in the area of Rbdpo predictions based on some kind of statistical analysis. The defense was smooth and I gave some input based on my knowledge and experiences working in the palm oil refinery 13 years ago.

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Day 39 Task – Reviewing Manuscript for BCREC Journal

I spent some time to review a manuscript assigned to me by editor from Bulletin of Chemical Reaction and Catalysis (BCREC). The review was my 15th review since I started reviewing manuscript under BCREC few years ago. It is a very interesting and amazing experience since I can read other researcher’s idea in research, especially in the same research niche as myself.

One day, perhaps somewhere this year, I intend to submit a paper in this journal myself. InsyaAllah. And one day, I hope I can be an editor for this journal.

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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.

Day 31 Task – Rigourous Research Engineering Education (Part 3)

Today is not a working day but I still have to come for this workshop, which is Part 3 out of a total of 4 workshops for engineering education research. Today we learned about the theories and methods to perform qualitative analysis. It is more complicated to compared to the quantitative analysis which was covered yesterday.

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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 27 Task – Updating my UTM RADIS System

There has been numerous activities in my UTM RADIS System. I have received new grants, applied for new activity as well as waiting for claim for activities. Today, I am checking out and trying to update my Radis. One grant will be ending this 31st January and I need to prepare a report for that grant. Then, managed the other grants as well. All the best to me 🙂 . One of my grant has been just activated.

Other tasks:

  • Updating CAR for my courses.
  • Checking and update for MPC project.

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