With the guidance by Assoc. Prof. Ir. Dr. Mohamed Sultan Mohamed Ali and a detailed discussion, our group's assignment title has been decided as "Professional ethics and morals of students of University Technology Malaysia".

The primary objectives of the project are as below:

1. Determine general understandings of students towards the concept of professional ethics and morals.

2. Evaluate students' opinions towards importance of 6 rules of professional ethics:

• Be courteous and respectful
• Be competent and improve continuosly
• Accountability
• Always strive for excellence
• Honesty
• Set good examples

Abstract

Swiftlets are small insectivorous birds which breed throughout Southeast Asia and the South Pacific. Among various species of swiftlets, only a few are notable to produce edible bird’s nest (EBN) from the secreted saliva during breeding seasons. It is also one of the demanding food product in food production industry of South East Asia. Government looking into ways to improve this industry to boost the economy. However, one of the major difficulties faced in processing the bird’s nest is to remove its impurities, also known as dirt. Conventional way of cleaning the EBN is way too inefficient and time-consuming. Moreover, it requires large amount of labour forces in cleaning a small amount of bird’s nest. This paper presents an automated system which combines machine vision and cartesian robotic system in order to achieve better efficiency in cleaning the EBN. Prior to the system software, Microsoft Visual Studio and OpenCV libraries are implemented to process the image. For the hardware part, cartesian robotic system and ultrasonic cleaner is implemented with the aid of high resolution greyscale camera. Image processing utilises the morphology of thresholding and binarization combined with BLOB analysis to locate the locations of all the dirt. As a result, the tiny dirt present in the EBN is inspected and a cleaning mechanism using cartesian robotic system and ultrasonic cleaner are designed to clean the dirt.

Index Terms—Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN); Cartesian Robotic System; Thresholding; Blob Analysis; Binarisation; Machine Vision; Ultrasonic Cleaner.

Date: 17 April 2018

Time: 2pm - 4.30pm     

Venue: L50 DK1

Speaker Background: General Manager Development Office Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP)

The speaker is the Head of Development Department responsible for the planning, construction, test and deliver of the various packages within the Port development plan. 

Besides, he also in charge of the development of the port from white paper and has gone through various management transformation with different management styles and different CEOs.

Furthermore, he is a specialist in Electrical System Concept and Design and have possession of 132kV Competency Certificate from the Energy Commission and currently handling the 132kV system within the port.

He is invited to share his experience on qualities of current generation's engineer in order to acquire a job and excel in his career. Below are the 10 important employee expectations that are highlighted in the inspiring session:

1. Having in-depth technical understandings in a specific discipline.

2. Technical knowledge is required in getting a job but soft skills are the key to push your career further.

3. Team work ability.

4.  Ability to acquire and master knowledge of engineering fundamentals.

5. Undertake problem identification, formulation and solution.

6. Social awareness on sustainable development.

7. Utilise system approach to design and evaluate operational performance.

8. Design and conduct experiment.

9. Analyse and interpret data.

10. Systematic approach to design and evaluate operational performance.

Nevertheless, he did touch on the topic of importance of engineering ethics in the daily application of engineering. He quoted, "The field of engineering ethics examine and sets the obligations by engineers to society, to their clients and to the profession."