MTM 2020

November 11th 2020

An interesting key note by Randi Zuckerberg and her interview with Surina Shukri.

Among interesting points derived from these sessions are:-

  • entrepreneurial skill is an art of creating something from nothing
  • company culture sets a different tone to the outcomes
  • diverse voice to gain more input

 

 

Malaysia Tech Month 2020

November 10th, 2020

Interesting sharing session for Day 1 MTM 2020.

Indonesia is one of the big market

Phillipines and Vietnam – large young population

  • are the locals feeding their own hunger
  • eating their own food
  • investing in your own local company – government effort

Keynote Address: ‘Beyond Digital Government’
Taavi Kotka, Entrepreneur & Former Chief Information Officer of the Estonian Government

  • beyond digital government
  • internet is the backbone

 

ZOOM
In Conversation: Zoom-ing into the Future

Raymond Siva, Chief Marketing Officer, Malaysia Digital Economy Officer (MDEC)
Harry Moseley, Global Chief Information Officer, Zoom Video Communications, USA

  • motivated by a pair of couple to get intouch despite being apart
  • value proposition: every alternative in one platform, call – chat – messages – sharing screen
  • softskills
    • cultural awareness
    • well informative
    • establishing good internal circle
    • helping others to be successful , you will be successful in returns
  • Zoom provacy issues
    – stepping up upon facing issues
    – talk to customers emphatise them
  • zoom core principles
    •  easy of work (intuitive)
    •  ease of use ()
    •  reliability
    • innovating speed and scale
    • privacy and security

 

Alexander Stubb, Former Prime Minister of Finland & Vice President of the European Investment Bank (2017-2020), Finland
Keynote Speech: How 2021 Will Shape the ‘Great Reset’

Global Politics 1980’s market capitalism
Covid 19 – lockdown

Technology – Digital Revolution – AI, IoT, 3D Printing

  1. change the economy
    • Air BnB
    • Uber
    • disruptive technology – economy
    • Fintech
    • Data is the new gold
    • Cooperating with machines
      • 1 IR – labour
      • 2 IR – blue colar to white colar (information analysis)
    • Education – carrer path
    • analyze not analyze
    • mental fitness empathy – way you treat people
    • our definition of ‘cycle’ is becoming shorter
    • due
    • to flow of information
  2.  politics and how we interact
      • change the science and the human being
      • pandemics endemic
      • combine biology and technology: how far do we take this.
      • would you intervene the nature cause
      • ethical questions
      • now human are cyborg
  3. technology is the driver of the world
      • world is shifting east bound
      • starting school late – let them play
      • education is taken seriously in Finland

book: think slow, think fast

Mencanting Masa Hadapan Industri Agrotek di Malaysia

Facebook Live Session

Topic 1 : The Background of Agrotech in Malaysia

  • Prof Dato’ Dr Mortaza: The perception of agricultural sector in Malaysia: Past and present and future
  • Prof Dr Sharr: PPAM (Association of Malaysian Agro Organizations) Aspirations  in supporting the agrotech sector in Malaysia?
  • Mr. Tawfik: The role of MSD Innovation in the development of the agrotech technology industry in Malaysia
  • Dr Mazlinah: Current research trends based on agro technology in Malaysia

Topic 2: Malaysian Agortech Industry: Scenario and Challenges 

  • Prof Dr Sharr: How is modern agriculture different from traditional agriculture?
  • Prof Dato ’Dr Mortaza: The impact of Covid-19 on the agro technology industry in Malaysia
  • Mr. Tawfik: Are Malaysian ready for Urban agriculture – ‘urbanfarming’ culture?
  • Dr Mazlinah: Public awareness on the use of chemicals in agriculture in Malaysia. The effect and efficacy

Topic 3: Nurturing Future Talent to Complement Malaysia’s Agrotech Industry 

  • Mr. Tawfik: The competencies required to support the agrotech industry in Malaysia
  • Prof Dr Sharr: How dependent is Malaysian agrotech industry on foreign workers and ways to motivating more local youth get involve in the industry.
  • Prof Dato ’Dr Mortaza: The role of the university in encouraging the involvement of students / graduates in agro technology in Malaysia.
  • Dr Mazlinah: Motivating future young talent in agrotech industry.

 

BEE 4433 Antenna Theory and Propagation

Week 3 covers the topic of Electrically Small Antenna, which among the most attractive antenna structure due to it’s simplicity in the design process and compact size. However, these come with a trade off narrow bandwidth and low efficient radiancy.

For this chapter, please complete the following:-

  1. Electrically Small Antenna Video Review
  2. Complete Lab 1 on Dipole antenna design
    1. Simulate the halfwave dipole design
    2. Observe the following items and:-
      • describe the operating frequency of the dipole antenna,
      • describe the radiation characteristics of the antenna,
      • what are the influencing design parameters,
      • estimate the dimensions of a dipole antenna that will radiate at 1.8 GHz
    3. Submit your answers in a 2-page journal article format.The anatomy /structure of a journal article is explained here:-

 

This Lab assignment contributes 5% to the course works marks.

 

Video for class today is as follows:-

Class Video

 

BEE 3233 – Electronic Systems Design

Another subject that I’ll be facilitating this semester is Electronic System Design.

 

Learning outcomes of this course are as follows:-

  1. The first outcome is targeted into establishing a solid understanding in design concepts for digital electronics. This include being able to
    • Differentiate different digital implementation technologies available – covering from programmable logic arrays, PLD, PAL and FPGAs,
    • The concepts of Arithmetic Logic Units – which covers from the basic adders, carry look ahead adders and multipliers, as well as
    • Finite state machines and its design techniques
  2. The second outcome aims in developing students ability to design, simulate and implement digital design onto an FPGA. Here, not only is the simulation ability is reflected via
    • FPGA programming using Verilog language,
    • Implementation of the systems onto an FPGA, as well as
    • Analyze and evaluate the performance of the design experimentally
  3. The final outcome touches on a skills that is essential for all engineering graduates – communication both verbal and written skills.Specifically for this course, we’ll look into these two domain:-
    • Review journal articles
    • Convey engineering design ideas and experimental results via scientific reporting

The knowledge content of this course can be charted out in these 3 main domains:-

  1. Implementation Technologies
    • Fixed logic solutions,
    • template based
      • The conventional PAL, PLA and CPLD
    • Look up table
      • FPGA technologies
  2. An arithmetic logic unit (ALU) is a digital circuit used to perform arithmetic and logic operations. It represents the fundamental building block of the central processing unit (CPU) of a computer. Modern CPUs contain very powerful and complex ALUs. In this course, ALU include:-
    • Adders
    • Multipliers, and
    • ALU
  3. And finally, the Finite State Machines. A finite–state machine (FSM), is basically a mathematical model of computation. It is an abstract machine that can be in exactly one of a finite number of states at any given time. Throughout the course, we will look into 3 main concepts in FSM which are:
    • mealy
    • moore
    • mealy moore machine