Ir. Ts. Dr. Zaki Yamani Zakaria Official Page
School of Chemical & Energy Engineering, Faculty Engineering, UTM
One of my Tier 2 Report granted by the University, more known as Grant Universiti Penyelidikan (GUP) has completed last year. It’s my responsibility to prepare an End Report for the grant. This grant basically supported the expenses to conduct my PhD research student, Nur Nazlina Saimon.
I was invited to TNCPI What’s Next Action Plan Workshop since last month due to my capacity as CEE Director. This is the first face to face official event under TNCPI that I attended at Pulai Spring Resort. All directors from Institute, Hi-COE, COE and other PTJ attended the workshop. We were there to be briefed and later discussed on what’s the plan for the next 3 years on UTM future.
It was a really lengthy and detail preparation to complete the Citra Karisma 2020 Teaching Award Documentation. I slept at 4am in the morning to complete it. I went to Taman University book shop to bind my Teaching Portfolio. In overall, I am more satisfied with my submission this time, compared to the previous 2 years. I submitted the official form that was signed by Dr. Hajar Alias (Head of Chemical Engineering Department), Shams Shazid Kader (my student) and Prof. Dr. Mohd Ghazali Nawawi (Chair of SCEE).
I submitted the documents at UTMLead at 2pm, accompanied by Dr. Azizul Azri, who is serving in UTMLead. Alhamdulillah, it was pure relieve submitting the documents. Now I will leave it to Allah. I’ve done the best that I could.
To identify champions in teaching among UTM academic staff
To develop community of practices in teaching
To develop talent pool for champions in teaching
I am fortunate that I was awarded with several research grants this year and last year. To run the projects, I have appointed my student under the GRA and SRA scheme in NewRadis roughly 1 month ago. Unfortunately, the appointment require some amendment but I receive no email to notify me about this. I only realized this when I login my NewRadis account.
Although I felt like blaming the system why no email was sent to inform me about this, I am blaming myself as well because why I am not aggressive in following up on the matter. From now on, I need to regularly login to my NewRadis account on a weekly basis, perhaps every Monday, to check on any Returned Application or Pending Application. InsyaAllah, by being more aggressive, I won’t waste time.
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/
If yesterday I evaluated NALI2020 by assessing some of the innovative research in education highlighted, today I am assessing PERTANDINGAN MATLAMAT PEMBANGUNAN MAMPAN ISKANDAR PUTERI 2020, which is co-organized between UTM, JPNJ and IRDA. I am honored to be invited as jury for this time. It is not my first time as I was one of the jury for last year’s program. But this year, the methodology is very different and we all just have to adapt to the new norm.
Besides this jurying process, I also has successfully submitted a review manuscript to one Renewable Energy journal. It was such a monumental task and if this submission is approved, I can say it is one of the top of my achievement and my student’s achievement for this year. InsyaAllah. Please pray for us.
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/
Work is hectic as usual, but due dates on certain task has forced me to prioritized certain tasks rather than other long due tasks. Today, I allocated the first half of my day to focus on evaluating some of the projects showcased by the educators from UTM and the rest of Malaysia.
I went through a special access to read through the documentations, extended abstract as well as view the youtube videos prepared by the participants. Honestly, it is very interesting to read the innovations and ideas showed by the participants. I’m impressed and happy to see the progress. This is what develops the advancement of knowledge and technology.
After completing this task, I am going to shift to another jurying task which is the PERTANDINGAN MATLAMAT PEMBANGUNAN MAMPAN ISKANDAR PUTERI 2020, which were organized collectively by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Jabatan Pendidikan Negeri Johor (JPNJ)and Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA). I was shocked reading the email by the organizer that just reached my inbox just now because they say that the jurying starts from 17 (today) to 19 November 2020.
I hope I can do all these tasks. InsyaAllah
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/
Today, after getting permission to enter UTM, I headed directly to C09 block, which will be the new building block for Centre for Engineering Education (CEE), UTM. It is a massive, far bigger than what I have imagined before. The renovation will be monitored by Jabatan Harta Bina (JHB). We had a meeting just now with the JHB team to finalized the details requirement for the massive renovation, covering 2 floors of C09. May Allah make this easy and smooth. InsyaAllah.
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/
I admit that it is not easy task to be a journal editor. I have to keep on managing, keeping track of the manuscript coming, reviewed, revised, camera ready and many more. But I appreciate this new experience and I am going to be there to grasp the challenge to make AJEE a Scopus Indexed journal. It is no easy task but so far, I can assure that we are on track to make that happen soon. InsyaAllah.
Today, I revisited the manuscripts and followed up several reviewers and authors. Hopefully everything will be a smooth journey.
Read all my “1 Official Task Per Day Record Challenge for 2020” —> https://people.utm.my/zakiyamani/category/1-activity-1-day/
