NAJAT ZAKIYAH BINTI ZAINUDIN

Group Company: Safe and Secure Construction sdn bhd

Our group is doing Case Study on the Chemical Dumping in Sungai Kim Kim’s Pasir Gudang and the Union Carbide’s plant in Bhopal. Both cases above involved on the ethical issue towards chemical substance. To understand further regarding the case study on the chemical dumping in Sungai Kim Kim, our group went and interview the firefighter who was on duty during the incident.

For the Case Study regarding the Chemical dumping in Sungai Kim Kim in Pasir Gudang, it was reported that the chemical waste was being dumped under a bridge connecting Taman Pasir Putih and Taman Kota Masai. Although the chemical waste was initially just thrown into the river, once the water in the river begins to evaporate, the evaporate gas will turn into chemical gas. Because of this, about 5, 848 victims both adults and children were affected by the chemical waste. Upon further inspection, one of the chemicals found in the chemical waste was benzene and methane which were highly flammable chemical. Based on the investigation, the police have currently managed to arrest around 9 suspects. In order to cut cost in dumping the chemical waste, the upper management of the company ignore the proper SOP for chemical dumping and use an alternative of throwing the chemical waste in the river instead. Aside from this, it also shows how the CEO of the company abuses his power by ordering his employers to dump the chemical waste in Sungai Kim Kim instead of dumping the chemical waste the proper way.

On the other hand, for the case study of the Union Carbide’s plant in Bhopal, a tank contained 10,000 gallons of methyl isocyanate (MIC) had leaked and had sent a toxic cloud of gas over the slums of Bhopal, resulting in the death of over 2,000 people, and injuries to over 200,000 more. The gas leakage was reported due to water that had been accidentally added to the MIC making the chemical to heat up and produce a chemical gas. Although the tragedy occurred was due to an accident, upon further investigation it was determined that the tank containing the MIC itself was faulty. In other words, this incident might be avoidable if the tank functioned as it was supposed to. Hence, from the case study, it shows the common issue with the hazard and toxic contamination industry who is always trying to compete in the Global Market in order to fulfill their own benefit and profit while2 ignoring the quality and safety of their equipment and working environment.

FYP Title: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Assisted GSM Base Station for Emergency Coverage

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Leow Chee Yen

When Natural Disaster occurs most of the Base Station would be down or destroyed creating a limitation of the spectrum and cellular coverage. Because of this, victims usually are unable to call for help making their rescue to be delayed as the rescuers have a problem in locating them. Aside from this, in a crowded area, the number of users trying to connect to the same base station would be overwhelming for the spectrum. Because of this, some users would not be able to access the network at all. To solve this issue, researchers are looking into possibilities in implementing a UAV aerial base station. However, some researchers are implementing LTE femtocell and picocell which requires a much more big and powerful drone to improve its performance. Aside from that, there is also not a lot of studies being conducted on the air-to-ground measurement for UAV aerial base station. Because of this, for this FYP project, a UAV GSM aerial base station is proposed. The GSM Base Station proposed would be made using a Raspberry Pi B, USRP B200mini and OpenBTS and later integrated into a Quadcopter. Aside from this, the air-to-ground measurement between the UAV GSM aerial base station and the user device would also be investigated using RSSI measurement. The RSSI measurement would be recorded using a Net Monitoring Lite app. The project would start by installing the UHD driver and OpenBTS into the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi would then be used to control the USRP to create a working GSM base station that would be integrated into a drone. Then to determine the best coverage area the air-to-ground measurement of the UAV aerial base station would be investigated. From this project, the expected outcome would be to be able to make a working GSM base station that would enable users to make voice calls and SMS. Other than that, is to be able to study and investigate the Air to Ground channel propagation between the user and the GSM UAV Base station to determine the best maximum coverage.

Date: 16/4/2019

Time: 2.30pm - 5.00pm

Venue: P19 DK6

Talk: Engineering Employment Challengers

PM.IR Juraimi Massod is the general Major Project Integration Port of Tanjung Pelepas where he is the head of the project integration department that is responsible in the planning, construction, test as well as the delivery of the various packages within the Port development plan. Aside from that, he also went into various management transformation with different management styles with different CEO’s. He is also a specialist in the Electrical System concept and design and also have possession of 132kV competency certificate from the Energy Commission of Malaysia and is currently holding the 132kV system within the port.

Because of his experience in the industry on 16/4/2018 he had given a talk on the engineering employment challenges. While he was sharing his journey as an engineer, he explained the one thing that is important for every engineer is the safety of their projects. He pressed the fact that for all project being executed the safety aspect holds always be a priority and taken into careful consideration. Aside from that, he also shared that an engineer should always have good communication skills as the job assigned always requires us to talk with customers, clients, and consumers. Aside from that, he also shared that one part of our job is to also prepare the documentation of the project like for example, the project’s SOP, protocol as well as the development. Aside from the skills mentioned, he also mentioned that an engineer should always understand the basic electrical design as all major design is based on this.

Because of the skills mentioned above, he focused on the fact that as an engineer we should not only limit ourselves with electrical knowledge but instead we should also gather more knowledge like financing and business management to help us develop a better project. He also explained how important is for an engineer to develop new ideas as well as be innovative to produce solutions that might help to increase the company revenue and sales.

Aside from that, he also shared the challenges of employment of fresh graduate. According to him, normally all fresh graduate always expects their company managers to be supportive as well as always guiding them in the company. However, on the contrary, the managers always have a different view where they feel that these employees have unrealistic compensation, poor communication skills and is always distracted.

There are a few expectations that employees expect from fresh graduates. Firstly, is that they should be able to function effectively in a group as a leader or effective team members, the ability to apply knowledge of engineering fundamental, able to communicate efficiently with colleagues and the community at large. They should also have in-depth technical competency in engineering techniques, ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution, having social awareness and sustainable development, ability to utilize system approach to design and evaluate operation development and lastly, the ability to analyze and interpret the data.

Aside from this, he also mentions that the future of work will change with time, as continuous learning is essential in our career. Because of that, he mentioned how important it is to be adaptable to the changes with work. This is because we should be able to adapt to any changes in management style, project management, and others. He also mentioned that we should know our behavior preference like for example promoting, supporting, directing and analyzing. The behaviors preference would give to the employee a brief idea on which department they are meant to be.

Lastly, he also shares on the engineering ethics that is needed to apply ethics or system of moral principle in our practice of engineering. Engineering ethics tells us about the obligation of engineers to society, clients and their profession. He also mentioned that unlike most profession, engineering mistakes will always be remembered.