{"id":9170,"date":"2025-07-31T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/?p=9170"},"modified":"2025-08-01T00:08:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T16:08:42","slug":"productive-public-holiday-eif-proposal-submitted-and-thesis-review-completed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/2025\/07\/31\/productive-public-holiday-eif-proposal-submitted-and-thesis-review-completed\/","title":{"rendered":"Productive Public Holiday: EIF Proposal Submitted and Thesis Review Completed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-36.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-36-1024x439.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-36-1024x439.png 1024w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-36-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-36-768x329.png 768w, https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/865\/2025\/07\/image-36.png 1423w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Today is Thursday, but it\u2019s an official holiday in Johor in conjunction with the Hol celebration. I took this opportunity to focus on academic work, especially finalizing my <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eifgrants.org\/\">Engineering Information Foundation (EIF)<\/a> proposal draft<\/strong>. Fortunately, I had already completed about 70% of the proposal earlier, so today\u2019s task was mostly about fine-tuning the details. Alhamdulillah, I managed to submit the proposal by <strong>6:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time, my EIF project is titled:<br><strong>&#8220;Enhancing Communication Skills Through Multi-Mode Presentations in an Introductory Engineering Course.&#8221;<\/strong><br>The project aims to embed structured communication training into a CPBL-based curriculum for first-year engineering students, a topic I feel strongly about and have been working on for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the proposal, I also spent time reading through my <strong>engineering education student\u2019s thesis<\/strong>. Alhamdulillah, the research work is nearing completion, and it\u2019s rewarding to see the progress made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a meaningful and productive holiday\u2014proof that a day off can still be fulfilling when spent on things that matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#20242025 Day 031<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is Thursday, but it\u2019s an official holiday in Johor in conjunction with the Hol celebration. I took this opportunity to focus on academic work, especially finalizing my Engineering Information Foundation (EIF) proposal draft. Fortunately, I had already completed about 70% of the proposal earlier, so today\u2019s task was mostly about fine-tuning the details. Alhamdulillah, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13504,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[720,1,275,277],"tags":[2008,2009,2010],"class_list":["post-9170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-activity-1-day","category-research","category-publication","category-supervision","tag-eif","tag-eif-grant","tag-eif-proposal","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13504"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9170\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/zakiyamani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}