Reflections
Title: Car Free Day in UTM
Purpose: To study the effectiveness of Car Free Day
Objectives:
1. To study the approaches to enhance Car Free Day.
2. To study the benefits of Car Free Day.
3. To study the disadvantages of Car Free Day.
Car Free Day in UTM:
The "UTM Car Free Day" program is one of the university's effort in campus sustainability program. The target of this initiative is to reduce air pollution, to promote a healthy lifestyle and to improve environmental awareness among campus community. Car Free Day in UTM is set to be implemented on one chosen day in every month and will involve the roads inside the Lingkaran Ilmu area from 8am to 5pm. Hence, with this survey, we will be able to study the effectiveness of Car Free Day in UTM whether or not it will provide more benefits to the staffs and students or does it provide more harm instead.
Link to Survey Questionnaire.
My final year projects aims to realize of a water quality monitoring system for Aquaponics system. The device is mainly used to monitor the water quality for both plants and fishes in an Aquaponics system. The main purpose of this project is to propose a reliable idea on developing a water quality monitoring system for Aquaponics purpose which can be monitored by the user at anytime, anywhere. The quality of water plays an extremely important role in the system of aquaponics. Hence, this project includes the concept of integrating several essential sensors suitable for aquaponics monitoring such as pH sensor to monitor the pH value (pH), temperature sensor to monitor temperature, and the electrical conductivity sensor to monitor the conductivity of the water (EC) which indirectly measures the health of the entire system. In this research, the microcontroller proposed is the Arduino series controller which is easy to manipulate and control. The processing of data executed by Arduino Uno and C programming language is to create data acquisition program as well as data viewing for users. Each sensor will be properly programmed into Arduino IDE to analyze the parameters detected by the sensors respectively. The sensors will be integrated into a simple module suitable for water monitoring. At the same time, Wi-Fi module will be used for communication between the Arduino and the mobile application for monitoring purpose. Wi-Fi module will be programmed and data from the Arduino will be transferred to cloud for storage. Blynk app is built for android and IOS operating system to act as a platform to retrieve data from cloud storage for monitoring. The result of the data will indicate the overall health of the Aquaponics system to the user.
On the 17th of April 2018, an industrial talk seminar was held for all final year students from Electrical Engineering Faculty. The purpose of this seminar was to expose student with the BEM code of professional conduct. This talk was conducted by Ir. Juraimi Masood from PTP Tanjung Pelepas. Ir. Juraimi Masood is the head of integration department in PTP (project division). He studied at the University of Hartford and worked as a trainer in Telecom. After that, he proceeded to become a project engineer in Sime Darby Engineering. As an engineer with immense experience, he emphasised on the importance of safety.
As much as RM 1.3 billion was allocated for the project involved in Port Tanjung Pelepas (PTP). The number of engineers especially civil engineers involved at the base increase as production became higher. This indirectly increased the cost because expenses were used for buying cranes in which each crane can cost up to RM 40 million. A total of 8 cranes were purchased.
Next, Ir. Juraimi Masood explained that engineers have positive outlook of their managers. They believe that their managers are capable of providing experience, wisdom and are willing to mentor. Ironically, managers on the other hand, have negative view of their employees(engineers). Managers believe that employees have unrealistic compensation expectation, poor work ethics as well as short attention span.
Lastly, Ir. Juraimi Masood advised on several aspects that we as future engineers should prepare in order to fulfil employers' expectation. This includes the abilities to function effectively, acquire and apply knowledge, communicate effectively, undertake problem identification, formulation and solution, analyse and interpret data, awareness on sustainable development and most importantly technical compensation.
To wrap up, Ir. Juraimi Masood advised fresh graduates to be willing to face new challenges and always be prepared to fail and come back stronger and better. Overall, the objective of the seminar was achieved. Students were able to learn so much from Ir. Juraimi Masood.