MUHAMMAD BAIHAQI BIN BADRUDDIN

Hi this is my personal reflection on what i have done throughout the semester

In the present era, environmental pollutions such as water, air, soil, light and noise pollutions have become very big issues nowadays. It is very essential to monitor the sound quality level in particular areas especially in crowded places in order to keep it under control for a bright future and healthy living style. The focus of the project is to help Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) students to have conducive environment for study by giving them alert when the sound level is high or any unusual sound that happened around their hostel. Besides, this project comes with an app that will suggest the best time for students to study and to realize the goals, Internet of Things (IoT) based concept is used to monitor atmospheric conditions of environment. IoT is the best choice to help monitoring the environment because it can reduce labor works, less time consuming and cheap. In this project, noise is monitored using sound sensor. The data will be transferred into the cloud server and from there, the data is again transferred into the app to be displayed. This kind of implementation is very useful to be used for long distance monitoring system.

Report on Ethics Seminar

Name : Muhammad Baihaqi bin Badruddin

Title : Challenges of Employment in Engineering

Speaker : Ir Juraimi Masood

                On 16^th of April 2019, I attended an ethics seminar on challenges of employment in engineering. The seminar was held in School of Electrical Engineering (SEE) at P19 DK6. The program started at 2.30 pm and finished at 5.00 pm. It lasted for two and half hours and was participated by all 4^th year students from SEE who were taking the SKEE 4012 subject. There was a lot new things that I gained thru that seminar. Before I go further for this discussion, let me tell a bit about the background of our speaker. Ir Juraimi was a graduated from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia Kuala Lumpur (UTMKL). In 1974, he started his primary school at SKLKTP Pasir Raja and his secondary school at SDAK Seremban.  In 1989, he continued his studies in diploma in Electrical Communication at UTM Jalan Gurney or also known today as UTMKL.

                Ir Juraimi started his first job at Telecom Training Centre for one and half years. Then, from 1986 until 1991, he worked as management trainee ship repair estimator for Malaysia Shipyard Engineering Sdn.Bhd. After that, starting from 1992 until 1996, he worked at Sime Sembawang that involved in heavy engineering. At that company, he learned a lot about project management. There are a few stages of project management such as design, project plan, project cost, construction quality and the most important one is the safety. In 1996 and 1997, he worked at KTA Tenaga as a resident engineer. During his time at that company, he learned to deal with different types of people such as client, colleague and contractors.

                During the seminar, he listed 8 employer’s expectations based on the feedback from the industry. The first one is having in depth technical competence in a specific engineering discipline. This is the most seeking skills among other skills because it has the highest satisfactory industry rating which is 4.27/5. Secondly, the ability to function effectively in a group as a leader or manager as well as an effective team member. Next, the ability to acquire and apply knowledge of engineering fundamentals. Besides, people that can communicate effectively among colleagues and community at large are also a great skill. Moreover, the ability to undertake problem, identification, formulation and solution is also very crucial to the employer. Apart from that, having social awareness on sustainable development and ability utilize a systems approach to design and evaluate operational performance. Lastly, employers love people who can design and conduct experiments as well as analyzing and interpreting data.

                At 5.00pm, the seminar ended and actually a lot of new things I learned from the seminar. This seminar really helped me to understand better on the real life working experience and the journey that I should go through to be a successful engineer. Million thanks to Ir Juraimi Masood for sharing his great knowledge and experience and also to our lecturers who had succesfully organized this seminar. It is very beneficial and useful to help the fresh graduates or final year students like us to prepare for the working life later. I hope this kind of seminar would be frequently organized to give more exposure to students.