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Creating Interactive Content for Online Learning

My philosophy in engaging students to the class has always involve 3 aspects; the trainer/lecturer, the students and the content. With education being affected to the new norm, thanks to covid-19, the content of a class/lecture is where I spent the most of my time as to assure attention span of students is maintained throughout the online session. There are still plenty to be done, but it is surely something that is I’ve always looked forward into.

In this sharing session, Dr. Ahmad Salahuddin Mohd Harithuddin, a Senior Lecturer from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) creatively deliver useful tips and techniques as well as  resources to create engaging session. Here are some of the snapshots of the session.

 

UMP STEM Lab Online Class – Arduino Programming Session 1

November 23 – 24th

Arduino Programming via TinkerCAD is an online class organised by UMP STEM LAB.

The main focus of this class is to give an overview, basic introduction to the physical computing – digital making skills – on the Arduino Microcontroller platform. TinkerCAD offers an alternative that enables students to program and visualize the microcontroller (hardware) responses.

Day 1

 

Day 2

 

SBEE Electronic Systems Design

November 11th, 2020

Third online class of part time course – Electronic System Design, which emphasize on the topic of Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU) and Finite State Machine (FSM). ALU is a core built of the CPU – that basically made up a computer. Understanding the fundamental of how these units operates digitally plays an important part in developing the competencies for electronic system designers. the topic begins with a simple structure of a half adder and later transits to full adder, ripple carry adder and carry look ahead adder.

The second part of the class focuses on FSM, which elaborates on the two well known concept – Moore and Mealy machines. The concepts of counters and its variabilities were revised and later build up with the two machines mentioned previously.

Webinar on Block Chain Technology

November 17th 2020

An interesting discussion on Block Chain and Malaysia’s stand towards this  technology.

BChain is disruptive to 2 main aspects:-

  1. trust
  2. audit

As for Talent development, we should focus on generating graduates who are:-

  • self taught
  • the use of github
  • Python – widely used
  • certification is still open

BKIM – ICoN Engagement Meeting

November 18th 2020

Discussed on several item related to ICoN’s UMP activities over the past 2 years which include Industry Academia Collaboration, CEO Faculty Programs and the recent U4s.

University – Industry linkages is a challenging topic, often due to the need and aspiration mismatch between the university and industry. As an academia, it is our ultimate aim to prepare graduates that are able to address the requirements and competencies as required by the industry. However, with the rapid advancement of technology, achieving a balance between laying a solid fundamental knowledge and ability to cope with the sophistication of technology has always been a hot debate.

One thing for sure, Malaysia is in need for pool of talent. Building up a k-economy or even a k-society foundation is a must and collaboration between university and industry is a way forward.

That being said, with the recent outbreak of Covid -19, everyone need to be creative and agile to grab opportunities that strike.

BEE 4433 Antenna Theory & Propagation

Week 5 – Revisit on antenna parameters, electrically small antenna, resonant antenna and antenna simulation.

It is a must for an antenna designer to be equipped with antenna modelling and simulation skills. From simulation results, the behavior of an antenna could be estimated hence giving a sense of confidence to pursue to the next stage of antenna design – fabrication and measurement.