CREG members: Dr. Tuan Amran, Mahadhir, Zaki and Huda traveled up to PJ last Wednesday to attend a 3 hour workshop on control instrument and software – Labview which was provided by National Instrument. The workshop was very good but as usual it cost money to buy this equipment. Maybe, for the time being, we shall stick to manual control of our experimental rigs. However, when the budget is there, we shall fully automize our experimental rigs…

A secret farewell party was organized and executed today for Linda, our CREG research officer who have served the research group for 2 and half years. The simple but meaningful ceremony was attended by all CREG members including lecturers, Ph.D students, Master students, and PSM students.

The ceremony which took place on a beautiful afternoon at CREG meeting room was chaired by me. Then I invited Prof. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin to give her speech and inside her speech, she highlighted almost all jobs/tasks as well as contribution that Linda has made to CREG. Then, Linda was invited to deliver her speech, but she was speechless!!! She could not say anything because she was so supprized with the ceremony and never expected it to happen. She cannot say anything, accept thanks. After that, Mahadhir, one of the PhD student recite doa and all of us enjoyed the meal.

The special meal presented was Nasi Serai. I haven’t tasted Nasi Serai before. It was marvelous…

Pictures will be uploaded soon from Yani’s camera… Please be patient…

Special thanks to Naz and Yani to help to plan and organized this event. Also, special thanks to all who have contributed in whatever means to make this ceremony happen.

Great news!

CREG is searching for new masters and/Ph.D student for the coming semester. We are searching candidates with excellent academic results, strong computer modeling knowledge and impressive dedication.

If you are the person, you will join a dynamic research group consisting of numerous undergraduate, masters and pH.D students. Please explore this website to learn all about the potential research work that you can work on with.

For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin at:

07-5535588 (office) or 012-7165490 (hand phone) or email: noraishah@fkkksa.utm.my.

Attention to all CREG members:

This week, we will have our 2nd “CREG seminar”

The CREG seminar ’s schedule as follows below:

Date      :   21 January 2010 (Thursday)
Time      :   9 – 11 am
Venue    :   BMF

On that day, we have two presenters and they will present their PhD research:-

Dr Norzita Ngadi
“Mechanisms of molecular brush inhibition of protein adsorption onto stainless steel surface”

Dr Tuan Amran
“Hydrogen Production from the catalytic Ethanol Reforming in Supercritical Water”

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Here is the list of undergraduate students with CREG this semester. The students are supervised under Prof. Dr. Nor Aishah Saidina Amin. However, each and every student has their own co-supervisor to guide them with their research.

1) Izyan Zafirah bt. Abdul Rahman
Co-Supervisor: Javaid
Research title: Preparation of activated carbon from empty palm fruit bunch.

2) Noor Aina Bt Mohd NAzri
Co-Supervisor: Zaki Yamani
Research title: Effects of reactant and catalyst bed dilution on conversion of glycerol to olefin

3) Nurul Jannah binti Arsad
Co-Supervisor: Maryam
Research title: Preparation a toolbox for methane reformaing

4) Nur Aainaa Syahirah Bt Ramli
Co-Supervisor: Nazlina
Research title: Ionic liquid treatement in biomass conversion

5) Siti Fatimah Binti Mohamed Razak
Co-Supervisor: Wan Nor Nadyaini Wan Omar
Research title: Heterogeneous catalyst for biodiesel production.

Nur Shafizah bt Ishak and Nor Sharina bt Anwar are 2 Master students from Centre of Excellent of Catalysis Science and Technology  (COMBICAT) UPM. They has joined CREG for 16 months starting from 13th January 2010 until 13th April 2011. They will carry out their research using the high pressure reactor.

For those who are interested to learn about STATISTICA software, a class will be conduct by Yaani on this Thursday, 14th January 2010.

The proposed place will be at CREG meeting room (2nd floor) or else will be notified later.

Please confirm your attendance (simply by reply this email) or if you want to arrange another date, please to do so.

Thank you.

Best Regards,

NURUL HUDA BINTI ZAMZURI
MSc. Student,
Chemical Reaction Engineering Group (CREG),
Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering,
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia,
81310 Skudai,
Johor, Malaysia.

012-3637451/013-7021035
nurulhudazamzuri@yahoo.com

Working on a dissertation or any other major paper or article means lots of research, usually from lots of sources. Having remote means of research and remote ways of capturing information you might find inadvertently can be a tremendous help when you’re in the midst of a big paper or business project. Most of us find that we use our remote wireless devices to great advantage when they can help us capture ideas or information that might have been lost or forgotten had we waited until we returned to home or office to capture then. Here are some ways you can use your Iphone to help you research and capture information you find when you’re on the go.

1. Whiteboard Capture – This application allows you to capture the contents of a whiteboard screen easily and in high resolution, so it’s actually readable later. You’ll get a clean digital image every time. It’s a great way to capture classroom notes or assignment requirements.

2. Ishare – Allows you to share documents with other via a Virtual Private Network. Using a Pin, you can access and share documents. It’s useful for business people who travel and for groups working together on documents or research.

3. Dragon Dictation – Talk right to your phone to capture thoughts, ideas and other important information you might use in your work. Once you’ve finished dictating, you can save your dictation, email it or send it as a text message too. Want punctuation? Simply say “period” or other punctuation commands and they will be inserted. Whether you send the information to a colleague or just insert it into a paper you’re working on, having the ability to convert speech to text so easily and with such grammatical accuracy can save lots of time.

4. Aji Annotate PDF – This app allows you to mark up and annotate PDF documents. You can create bookmarks or even draw freeform with your fingers. This is a great way to edit documents or make notes as you read something while waiting in line or on a plane.

5. Googalyer – This web research tool an open-source, tabbed web browser with built-in note-taking, web-clipping, outlining and bibliographic tools. The idea is to consolidate these different aspects of web research into one application. This way you can have multiple research projects with all the relevant information kept in one place, without getting information from different projects mixed up. If you do a lot of research online, and want to be able to do it remotely, this is a good app.

New apps for the Iphone are constantly being developed, both by Apple and by other developers. As time goes on, there will be more and more open source, free applications you can download to your Iphone. Keep on the lookout for more good research and business tools. Using your Iphone to help keep track of your thoughts, ideas and research while you’re out and about is a great way to keep working on that most important project – even when you’re not supposed to be working.

This article was guess blog by my friend Phyllis Zerkle who blogs about how to choose among the best masters degree programs.

Dear fellow coleagues (CREG members),

In order to consistently maintain a clean and systematic environment for our working place a.k.a our CREG lab, we’ve come out with a system where each postgraduates are held responsible to ensure that the segmented areas define below are of well order. The spring cleaning just now was a start and after this we shall allocate 1 hour a week dedicated to clean, organize, and perform house keeping in our lab, working space and our areas of in charge. Up to today’s discussion, we are allocating every Thursday from 4 to 5 pm to be dedicated for 5S Hour. With this, we hope that we can create a better and pleasant working environment.

Following are the 5 areas with the respective person in charge.

1. Documentation (files, books, catalogs, web, posters) – Linda, Zaki, Nazlina
2. Chemicals (liquid/solid inventory/record etc) – Maryam, Jazrina
3. Keys, Tools (Fawzi, Huda)
4. Glassware and gas tanks (Jawaid, Yani)
5. Equipments (Mahadhir, Ruby)

For the 5S Hour, attendance is compulsory. Please regard this as a social activity for us rather than something that we have to do. This is a moment where we can relax for a while from research and mixed, socialize together. Don’t you think so?

However, the responsibility is not limited to the above only. Please ensure that your working place, office rooms, experimental rig etc are well organize and kept.

Zaki