Tag: Academia

An interesting sharing session in BeiDou Navigation Satellite System by The National Remote Sensing Center of China and in collaboration with Malaysia Space Agency, Universiti Malaysia Pahang and Guilin University of Electronic Technology.

 

Among interesting topics that caught my attention 🙂 in this year’s Digital Maker Fair program:-

• Non-Banking Roles in Banks: Find your way.

Panelists discuss on the impact and opportunity with data science in today’s digital banking business. Being curious, agile is important as it opens the door for expansion.

• Artificial Intelligence goes to School

Among topics in AI that could be incorporated in school curriculum are problem solving, reasoning, planning, natural language understanding, computer vision, automatic programming and machine learning. Data analysis is the essence and being analytical does help to take AI ecosystem to the the young students.

AI does sounds intimidating, well as one might imagine that there must be together with robot or some sophisticated elements. However, AI starts with a simple statistics which can grow into regression model to other complicated models.

Understanding, analyzing and manipulating data are among AI features and can be easily incorporated in school curriculum.

• Future Farm

Panelist discuss on modern farming systems targeting household market. Today, many of us are into growing our own food in our home. Precision  are the essence in indoor farming systems.

• Be Your Own Boss

Laura waked through her personal experience in making the path of her company in Gig economy. Being visible in Linkedin was her stepping stone to her successful career today. Among tips shared were to use the right #tags and make trending postings.

• E-sports in School

 

 

• Reimagining Schools

An interesting quote from the moderator was being an educator is like walking through a time machine, where by one learn in a past education system, however teach in current education setup, and are required to prepare the generation for the future education setup :).

well, isn’t that interesting!!!

 

• The 30s Pitch Challenge

We live in a fast moving era today. 30-seconds is only what it takes to be within ones attention span – the meaningful moment 🙂 .

Here, Laura and Tyler shared the tips and tricks to grab that moments, which include answering the following q’s:-

• 1. who are you?
  2. what do you do and why?
  3. what makes you different from the others?
  4.  + Energy

Visited UMP student, Rabiatul Adawiyah, who is currently in her internship period in TNB Pekan.

A walk through the electric meter reader in TNB Pekan, from the conventional analog to the current digital version.

Evaluated another intern in TKD Lambda, Phang Kha Seng, via an online meeting.

All the best everyone.

Attended 2 very informative and interesting webinars on Engineering Education and Online Teaching.

Engineering Education Rigorous Research is an area which I’ve been longing to be involved in since starting my career as a lecturer in UMP. I have yet to fully concentrate in it due to other commitments. I guess its about time to get things started, InSyaAllah.

Below are some snapshots of these interesting topic by Prof Dr Aliah Phang (UTM) and Prof Karim Alias (USM).

Analyze, Adapt and Agile.

Nothing is more relevant that those three verbs today. The Covid-19 MCO, not only has it spur changes to our lifestyle, it has as well pushed us away from our comfort zone – well, for the better 🙂 .

Today, I attended  three meetings, geographically hosted from 3 different places: Cyberjaya (MDeC – Master Training Briefing), Kuala Lumpur (EuroCham – Malaysia’s response to Covid-19), Petaling Jaya (The Star –  cXo2020: CEO Agenda for the Digital Economy). Now, if it’s not because of this new norm practices (online webinar / virtual classes), I may have to choose to attend only 1 .

Alhamdulilah, those 3 events were very informative and fruitful!

1. EuroCham – Malaysia’s response to Covid-19
   

 

2. MDeC – Master Trainer Briefing

3. cXo2020: CEO Agenda for the Digital Economy

An interesting conference by The Star on the topic of engineering from the edge of disruption.

Digitalization has indeed transformed our daily life experience. Though this topic has been talked about for quite sometime, it was only during the recent MCO – Covid-19 pandemic, the urgency to emerge in ‘digitalization’  happens. It’s either you ‘hop’ in the digitalization-wagon, or being left out.

Disruptive innovations, such as the internet, has as well became the catalyst for digitalization across almost every aspect of our life, including education, specifically engineering education. Not only are students/graduated  required to acquire the hard skills (those technical competencies), but also the  soft skills  (interpersonal skills). One must also be bold – to think out of  box or the least consistently redefining the ‘box’, in order to adapt with today’s digitalization agenda.

Looking forward to tomorrow’s – Day 2 agenda.

In the mean time, below are some of today’s snapshots:-

This semester, I’ll be continuing to teach 3 courses:-

• Antenna Design and Propagation – BEE 4433
• Electronic System Design – BEE 3233
• Robocon – UQD 2011

As the semester resumes, mode of teaching has shifted to online mode, where lectures, labs, and assessments are done online.

While the online mode is not new in UMP’s system, challenges to assure optimum learning experience do exist.

To all UMP students, welcome back. Look at this (online learning) as an opportunity – to learn beyond the limits of syllabus and classroom setup. Riding on the benefits of internet is a privilege for you, dear student. While distraction can be a big blunder of being online, staying true to your course/motivation to acquire as much knowledge/skills of a subject may help you to sail smoothly, InSyaAllah.

Online proposal defense panel for MSc projects.