Latihan Industri - Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar - Terkini

Pagi tadi baru sehaja menerima satu panggilan daripada Pejabat Kejuruteraan tingkat 2. Pelik juga bila ada perempuan menghubungi kita pada awal pagi. Rupa-rupanya saya sendiri yang memberikan kad nama pada beliau untuk memberitahu perkembangan kod subjek latihan industri bagi pelajar Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar.

Setelah apa yang diberitahu, beliau menjelaskan bahawa ada sedikit kekeliruan berlaku. Jabatan Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar sendiri tidak pasti berkenaan kod subjek yang tepat. Walaubagaimanapun, pelajar-pelajar Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar tidak perlu risau kerana proses pertukaran kod subjek (bagi yang tersilap isi kod subjek) akan dibuat secara automatik. Sekiranya sebelum ini kod subjek tersebut mempunyai jam kredit yang silap, pertukaran automatik ini akan dibuat dan membetulkan jam kredit yang diterima oleh para pelajar Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar.

Selamat berlatihan industri!

p/s: Sekiranya ada apa-apa permasalahan lagi sila berhubung terus dengan saya di sini. Terima kasih.

UM helps International Students brush up skills

Updated 26th May 2008 : I got an SMS from Mr Apandi Khalib after I messaged him my appreciation. He told me he also had been telling the same issue in the "Bahagian Pengurusan" meetings. Thanks, Mr Apandi!

Yesterday, I went to see Prof Dr Kaharudin Dimyati regarding my letter to the faculty. It was a tiring process, because before I get to the latest news yesterday, I have already discussed with the dean, then go to the HEP and then back to the dean's office. It's not cool to clean up other people's mess, I know, but there is certainly someone in UM care enough to get things where they belong.

The problem is, as I have been briefed by Mr. Tariq, (a prominent figure of Yemenis engineering student) is that more and more of his friends could not catch up with the learning process in the university. They excelled in their motherland, but here in Malaysia, it seems like everything is wrong. Some of them do not know what HEP is, some of them do not know UMISISWEB and PerdanaMail. It is very worrying to know such development is occuring in the university.

The root cause? They come from not-English driven education system. Another one is the agreement between governments that make UM allows students direct from High School without prior foundation knowledge. To make it worse, an unfriendly environment in UM. One of them said to me, " I swear to God, I would have killed him if he is not my lecturer". Some lecturers took these students for granted and made them wait a long time before meeting them, and some also shoo away these students like animals. But they admit, there are a few lecturers who care for them too.

Cutting it short, Prof Dr Kaharuddin Dimyati said that the matter has already being discussed by the Yemeni government with the university. Now, the UMCCed will be the one who's in charge with the program. It is good to know that finally the university gave them the foundation knowledge that they need. Finally we will not only be seen as going after the money without taking care of the real core business we were supposed to take care of.

What matters most is our attitude. Thanks to all who share this common goal. Special thanks to Prof Dr Kaharudin and Mr Apandi Khalib. Also, to AKIUM YDP, Mr Faruqi Razali who went with me to gather information from the students and go all out to discuss with the dean.

Latihan Industri : Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar

Dalam pada kesibukan saya berlatihan industri, saya sempat menjengah ke pejabat fakulti untuk menanyakan beberapa hal. Bagus juga menjalani Latihan Industi di fakulti, boleh saya jalankan kerja-kerja wakil pelajar sementara mengisi kekosongan.

Beberapa hari sebelum ini, ada beberapa rakan menanyakan tentang hal latihan industri mereka. Secara spesifik daripada Jabatan Alam Sekitar. Saya pun membawakan isu tersebut ke pejabat untuk bertanya. Ternyata terdapat sedikit kesilapan berlaku apabila jumlah jam kredit pada buku panduan dan pada pendaftaran online berbeza.

Saya diberitahu akan ada pembetulan di buat. Sempat saya tinggalkan kad untuk mereka hubungi saya sekiranya perubahan telah dibuat.

Bagi pelajar-pelajar Jabatan Kejuruteraan Alam Sekitar batch 2005/06, selamat menjalani latihan industri!

p/s: Kepada mahasiswa/i UM (khususnya pelajar Kejuruteraan), Sekiranya ada apa-apa masalah yang ingin disampaikan bolehlah beritahu saya. InsyaAllah, saya akan cuba bantu. Mungkin saudara saudari sekarang sedang bercuti dan jauh daripada kampus, saya akan gunakan kedudukan saya (lokaliti, bukan pangkat) untuk cuba membantu saudara/i sekalian.

p/p/s: Keputusan peperiksaan bagi Keusahawananan, Analisa Vektor, Pengurusan Projek sudah pun keluar!

Khabar dari Korea

Bersama saudara Faruqi di Pejabat Dekan Fakulti Kejuruteraan, UM semasa temujanji bersama dengan dekan.

Beberapa hari lepas, saya berpeluang untuk berkomunikasi bersama sahabat saya yang juga merupakan YDP Angkatan Kejuruteraan Islam Universiti Malaya (AKIUM) yang kini berada di Korea dalam satu program pertukaran pelajar.

Sempat kami bertukar-tukar pandangan tentang beberapa perkara. Faruqi banyak membantu saya menyelesaikan isu pelajar asing yang inginkan kelas "foundation" untuk membantu mereka memahami dengan lebih baik matapelajaran Kejuruteraan di sini. Sekarang, saudara Faruqi sendiri yang menjadi pelajar asing di negara orang. Harapnya, YDP AKIUM kita ini akan lebih berpengalaman dan matang bila pulang semula ke tanah air kita nanti.

Sempat juga saya meminta gambar-gambar mereka di Korea. Sekadar berkongsi kegembiraan dan pengalaman baru mereka yang kini sedang menyesuaikan diri dalam keadaan suhu yang berbeza.

Keadaan di sana yang sejuk khabarnye menyebabkan saudara Faruqi dalam keadaan batuk-batuk. Faruqi beritahu pada saya berkenaan suhu di sana, "kalau letak susu kat tepi tingkap pun takpe, macam peti sejuk dah."

Bersama rakan-rakan lain di Korea

Sempat lagi berposing walaupun katanya dalam kesejukan



Saudara Faruqi dan Shafiq

Sempat juga saya mengingatkan tanggungjawab azali sebagai seorang khalifah kepada saudara Faruqi. Saya doakan semoga semuanya berjalan lancar dalam mereka menimba pengalaman baru di sana.

Special Convocation in UM

As I passed through the PJ gate I saw many Jordan flags being put on the lamp post along with our Jalur Gemilang. Then I recalled some news a few days back in BernamaTV about a special convocation held today in DTC. So, I went to the Bank Islam in BP to take a look on the DTC (and of course, draw some money)

I wanted to be a part of the ceremony but I have to go to my office. So I took a few pictures to commemorate the event.

I got this from UM website.

	Special Convocation - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
	Title: Special Convocation - Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah, Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan Date: 16 May 2008 Time: 9:30 am Venue: Dewan Tunku Canselor Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah Official Website: http://www.queenrania.jo/

And here a some photos:I took a quick picture and off I go. If I am not working today, maybe I would take pictures of the event itself.

There are some sounds being made in front of the DTC because we have these wonderful music makers around.

UM a 5 Star university?

Last night as I was about to sleep, I receive a SMS from a friend who said that today the minister will announce UM as a 5 star university. Also, he said about other universities that managed to get4 stars and 3 stars. And this year, only UM has that 5 star recognition

Let's see whether this is true.

UPDATED: I asked my friend on the information because of my late Industrial Training prevented me from doing much research on the information. He replied that the announcement should be out come Monday. Let's wait.

Blog School?

I give you simple equations here:

Student + School of Engineering = Engineer
Student + School of Medicine = Doctor
Student + School of Business = Businessman
Student + School of Law = Lawyer
Student + School of Blogging = Bloggers?

Now, what do you think of Dip. Blog? Or Professional Bloggers?

I read this on Rocky's Bru:

UiTM wants to produce ethical and professional bloggers.

"Currently, we do have blogging studies in our curriculum and this will be enhanced further by introducing a course on blog writing. I feel that the Communication and Media Studies Faculty is ready to conduct the course and I fully support this move (to introduce blog writing course) as it is time for us to help produce bloggers who are not only professionals, but with ethics," (UiTM vice chancellor Prof Ibrahim Abu Shah) told a media conference after opening a seminar on Media and the 2008 General Election, here Monday.

In Malaysia, blog has currently being seen as a political tool rather than the original online diary where you can rant about almost everything. Now, if we take blog at its very pure form, it will be the same as writing. Well, there are courses in writing and journalism already. Why bother do a course in blogging if you can create a blog by reading step by step instruction on Blogger.com?

Or maybe the VC wants to do an Akademi Fantasi approach on their new School of Blogging? You know, the kind that you feature who can blog the best, and voters will decide on it. Maybe put it on reality TV, so that people can see what food they eat, what books they read.

If ethical means putting a stop for an unbiased review of issues in the country, then professional bloggers are worse than amateur ones.

If professional means putting a halt in freedom of speech and to report without fear or favor, then the course is of course another way to suffocate and regulate.

So, after this if you want to practice blogging in Malaysia, you got to have a certain qualification?

Blog is an abridgment of the term web log. Its something you write on when you are in the sea of information (i.e Internet) the same with the Captain's log that records his voyages. The captain decides what to write and to report on. Maybe the words used are not appropriate, nevertheless is the personal opinion of that very Captain.

Blog can be very biased because its a personal opinion. It depends fully on that person. Mainstream medias are biased too. The only difference is that the MSMs are licensed.

Leave blogs alone. Give more essay writing and assignments to students instead. Writing skills can be very beneficial to Malaysian students.

A little reminder...

I had reminded readers here about the CTES (Course and Teaching Evaluation System) before, but since there's a reasonable amount of those who forgot, the SKR (Seksyen Kemasukan, Rekod dan Perlaksanaan Dasar) finally decides to open back the online evaluation system.

Here is something I got from Mahasiswakini (in case you do not read them)

This is to inform that the online (web based) ‘Course and Teaching Evaluation’ for Semester 2, Session 2007/2008 will start from 9 June 2008 and ends on 28 June 2008.

It is compulsory for all students to evaluate the course that they have registered. Students have to log into the Course and Teaching Evaluation System (CTES) by browsing http://umctes.um.edu.my using the perdanamail account.

Please take note that students who fail to do the Course and Teaching Evaluation within the given period will not be able to register for courses in the coming semester.

Source: UMISISWEB

Please remind others. You really do not want to see them could not register for the next semester. By the way, I think the lecturers might rethink on how to mark their students' papers. If the examination results were out before the students do their evaluation, chances are high that some lecturers will gain bad ones.

I try to remind again from time to time.

More investigation took place!

I was shocked to receive a SMS from my friend, Mr. Vignesh (MPMUM) about a police investigation that he was called to attend. I was shocked because I can't see any links between the case and the person in question. What more, I was shocked that Mr Vignesh thought that I gave his phone number to the police.

But he made me realize that question for myself as well. If I was the one that gave up his number, who was giving out my number to the police?

But, after that investigation, I knew that the police have that information in store already. They have the MPMUM poster, complete with all the pictures, names, phone numbers from as high as the MPMUM YDP, to all the college's presidents.

More stories on the investigation here.

I was at the MetalTech exhibition shopping for machine inserts while I receive the message. I called Mr Vignesh and told him about the poster in the police possession and wish him good luck with his investigation.

Industrial Training @ ITEX 08

Today will be the first few days of my industrial training. And among my first few tasks in here (UM) will be to look after the 19th International Invention, Innovation, & Technology Exhibition (ITEX 08). There will be lots of things to learn, and I already running errands for lecturers to get some materials in another exhibition.

There are a lot of participating universities; UM, UKM, USM, UTM, UMP, UITM, UNIMAP, UNITEN, UIAM and lots others from other countries as well.

Yesterday, I went for the exhibition preparation. One invention that caught my attention was from Iran. A 16-year old student did something on plant irrigation. Impressive. But since it was prep day, no one was there, and I can't catch the glimpse of that very boy.

Come here at Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre and root for your university! Exhibition details here.

Investigation on UM's recent vandals work

I went to the Brickfields IPD last night to give some statements regarding the recent tragedy in UM. The night before, when I received the call to co-operate, I thought it was about the scandalous "Perutusan". But the matter is far more serious than that. I somehow have been linked with recent vandalism in Bangunan Peperiksaan and KPS. So I gave my alibi, for when the tragedy occurred in UM, I was busy at home, studying.

I went there with Shahir, MPM member who supported me in the "Perutusan" and vote of no-confidence against the MPM YDP. Quite surprised to see another two figure turned up there as well, Mr. Azlan Zainal (PMN Coordinator) and the MPMUM YDP himself, Mr Afandy. Manage to give Mr. YDP a firm handshake after my session was over. We started at 8pm, up till 11. I wanted to snap some pictures for mementos, but considering the seriousness of the matter, I decided not to.

And they say we might be called back to assist with the investigation if there is a requirement.

I somehow thought of what happened to RPK while I was writing this post.