Simple Act to Help, Do your Part…

Zuhair, a final year chemical engineering student from my faculty shared a simple yet informative information about 8 hazardous chemicals detected a Sim Sim river, Pasir Gudang, Johor.

He prepared the notes in Bahasa Malaysia to help dwellers in affected areas (and others) know, learn and aware about the tremendous danger from the chemicals.

What Zuhair has done yesterday was spot on when there was no proper explanation or elaboration on the 8 hazardous chemicals explained publicly in a simple version, which could be clearly understood by normal people.

His notes was shared and viraled, and detected by a local newspaper. The newspaper published his notes. It can be seen in the link below:

https://www.gpsbestari.com/…/bekas-pelajar-smk-sungai-tiram…

Well done Zuhair Ozil 🙂

For the rest of us, lets contribute whatever we can… such as…

– Solat hajat & prayers
– Donations (money, time, energy, food etc)
– Knowledge & expertise
– Volunteer work of any kind
– Advice, suggestions etc formally to authority
– or anything to help…

In short, lets hope and pray all the best for Pasir Gudang speedy recovery.

In a different note, we condemned the massive terrorist attact in New Zealand earlier today. May Allah protect us all. Amin.

#prayforpasirgudang
#chemicalengineeringutm
#safetyfirst
#chemicalengineeringworld

My Google Scholar Stats

Following is my Google Scholar Stat (as per 20th January 2019) – The actual link to be viewed – Click here.

Faculty of Chemical Engineering with Advisory Industry Panel (AIP) Workshop

The above mentioned workshop was held in Hotel Premiera, Kuala Lumpur from 7th to 8th March 2015 with an objective to improve the Chemical Engineering undergraduate curriculum. 6 Industry panels participated in the workshop alongside with the top management of the faculty as well as the head of subject panels.

It was indeed a fruitful workshop as significant improvement was agreed and made during the workshop. New chemical engineering students for intake 2016 will see a better option in the new feature that could provide extra specialization or expertise.

UTM, an Eco-Tourism University

Perhaps, many don’t know that Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), is an Eco-Tourism university. It has numerous features that we can regard it as an eco-tourism attractive place.

eco-tourism university

Just look at the beautiful yet informative infographic above… we can see a lot of interesting places and activities. Even I have been in UTM for quite a number of years, I have not personally involve with all these opportunities.

Alas,

I should have taken this advantage. Not only we can do or get involve with a lot of activities, we can also bring our family as well. For new students, or existing students, come on, check this out. Not all university have what UTM have to offer.

Let me just list down few activities or interesting stuffs or attraction that UTM can offer at the moment:

  • Boating at the lake
  • Kayaking at the lake
  • Fishing at the lake
  • Deer zoo
  • Cycling
  • Swimming pool
  • Stadium
  • Sport complex
  • Wall climbing
  • Orchard (fruit picking : durian, rambutan, pulasan)
  • Health care center
  • Student Innovation Center (SIC)
  • Festival Convocation (Fesco)
  • 3 Lakes in UTM
  • Integrated industrial training
  • Chemeca
  • Global Outreach Program (GOP) – opportunity to go oversea
  • Helpful and friendly academic advisors
  • ATV sport
  • Balai Cerap – browsing the stars using huge telescopes

… and much more… which i cannot think of at the moment… Well, UTM is indeed a great and memorable place to be in 🙂 Don’t you think so!

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My Google Scholar Stat Info (20th July 2016)

Every academicians / researchers in a university all over the world will have their own Google Scholar Account by this era. I’m included. Like other comrades, I am striving hard to contribute as much as I can to the scientific community, especially those that dwell within the regions of Chemical Engineering. My Google Scholar stat info as per shown below (If you are interested to see, just click the image below to enlarge it). This is for my personal record to see, to assess, to evaluate, to reflect later in future, how I am performing as an academician / researcher. For record, I uploaded Figure 1 and Figure 2.

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Figure 1: My Google Scholar Stats (updated till 20th July 2016)

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Summary of my Google Scholar Stat (20th July 2016) :

Citation – 112
h-index – 4
i10-index – 3
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Summary of my Google Scholar Stat 6 months ago (31th December 2015) (ref):
Citation – 84
h-index – 3
i10-index – 3
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Figure 2: My Google Scholar Stats (updated till 31th December 2015)

My 2 cents

As a new lecturer it is not easy to straight away jump and show colourful glaring Google Scholar Stat.  There are so much to do such as prepare/write/submit research proposal to get research grants, get some students (good students), supervise and monitor research, write and publish in reputable journal, participate in conferences, perhaps write 1 or 2 book chapters etc. The impact of all this hardwork will only be materialize in the next few years. Well, I just completed my Ph.D in 2013 , struggled to secure some research grants in 2014 and managed to have some good students in 2015. So, now is the time to work smart and hard. I hope my Google Scholar stats will be more decorative in the coming 2017. InsyaAllah

Research Attachment at Newcastle University

I am very lucky that during my Ph.D, I was able to do my research attachment at Newcastle University from May to June 2012 for 2 months. I was supervised by Prof. Dr. Adam Harvey and Dr. Jon Lee from the Process Intensification Unit, Chemical Engineering Department. During my 2 months stay, my goal was to work on my thermodynamic model for glycerol steam reforming to light olefins. I used combination of Aspen and Matlab software in my efforts to solve the thermodynamic problem.

 

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