"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great." -- John D. Rockefeller

Dr Mohd Arif Rosli has conducted a short course on ‘Basic for Modelling of Experi-mental Adsorption Isotherm on October 20th 2017, at Bilik Tutorial 3, FKAAS, UTHM. The main aim of the short course is to enhance research quality by using basic modeling of adsorption which in-cluded of three models; Langmuir Model, Freundlich Model and Brunaeur, Emmett, Teller (BET) Model. All these model are tailored to the needs of scientists and en-gineers. The difference between this

three models are each of them had own specialty in terms of adsorp-tion models which they ease user to construct model and collect data

#13rd Knowledge Sharing Session entitled ‘My Journey to an Academic Ca-

reer’ by Dr Adel Ali Saeed. A long journey from Postdoctoral Staff turns into

Senior Lecturer in Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, FKAAS. The

price of his hardwork and perseverance. Despite all the obstacles, he thankful

to Allah because he managed to going through it and settle everything from

communication problem up to a fulfillment to be an academic staff. He shared

that in every problem we need a good strategy in order to solve the problem

especially in communication and research which inspired others to be as en-

thusiasm as him. After all, congratulations Dr Adel!

VOL.4 [OCT - DEC 2017]

EDITORS:

Dr Mohd Hairul Khamidun

Prof Hj Ab Aziz bin Abdul Latiff

Assoc Prof Dr Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed

Nor Haseken Bt Mohd Doni

Nur Atikah Ahmad Latifi

"All progress takes place outside the comfort zone." - Michael John Bobak

Young Researchers for Water and Environmental Engineering Symposium

(YRWEES 2017) and Short Course

This is the first symposium organized by Micro Pollutant Research Centre (MPRC), held on

21st October 2017 at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia under the chairmanship of Associ-

ate Professor Dr. Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed. The symposium was declared opened

by Associate Professor Dr Norzila Binti Othman who is the Deputy Dean (Research, Develop-

ment and Publications), Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Universiti Tun Hus-

sein Onn Malaysia.

In her opening speech, Assoc. Prof. Dr Norzila Binti Othman congratulated the organizers and

participants for actualizing the symposium. She stressed the need for participation of postgrad-

uate students in extra-curricular activities such as this symposium which could give them upper

hand in their future endeavours’. She further explained that, participation could improve re-

search skills and indicates a clear interest of research and knowledge dissemination among

young researchers. YRWEES 2017 was conducted in two sessions, session 1 was short course

while session 2 was oral paper presentations.

The short course was attended by forty (40) candidates, the followings courses were studied:

-How to write a research paper and get it published by Dr Adel Ali

-Thesis writing format & Getting started with Mendeley by Dr Ahmad Rizal Alias

Twenty seven papers were presented during the oral presentation session at three parallel sessions chaired by Dr Siti Nazahiyah

Binti Rahmat, Dr Nor Amani Filza Binti Mohd Kamil and Dr Paran Gani.

The best paper award under Environmental Engineering was awarded to a paper titled “Indoor fungal growth on variable

antifungal at different wall finishing on plasterboard” authored by N.M.Sunar,M. Subramaniam, N.F. Zulkifly, U. K. Parjo, C. M.

Er, A. M. Leman, A. Khalid, R. Ali, E. Zaidi and A.T.S. Azhar. The best presenter for

Environmental Engineering category was awarded to ER

Chin Ming, he presented a paper titled “Indoor And Outdoor

Surface-growing Fungi Contamination at Higher Institutional

Buildings”. For Water Resources papers, the best paper award

was given to a paper titled “Treatment of Shallow Groundwa-

ter Quality for Non-potable Use: A Case Study of Parit Raja,

Batu Pahat, Johor” authored by Fitryaliah Mohd Shahli, Siti

Nazahiyah Rahmat, Syafiqa Ayob and Ernieza Hazlin Mohd

Hata. The best presenter award in this category was also

awarded to Fitryaliah Mohd Shahli.

In her closing remarks, YRWEES 2017 chairperson Associate Professor Dr Radin Maya Saphira Radin Mohamed who is also the

Director Micro Pollutant Research Center thanked and congratulated the participants for the success of the symposium. She also

congratulated the award winners and wished others for their turn in future events. The chairperson advised the participants to fully

utilize the knowledge acquired during YRWEES 2017.

Nura Usman

FKAAS

Community in River (COIR) program was held in Kluang, Johor on 23rd

October 2017. The program was involved by some civil engineering

students from UTHM. Y.B Datuk Haji Ayub bin Rahmat had inaugurate

the program. The purpose of the program was to give a knowledge on

protect river and nature also ties connection between government depart-

ments, agencies, youth and communities that living close to the river.

COIR had been collaborated between Department of Irrigation and

Drainage and Youth Council of Kluang district. Assoc Prof Dr Radin

Maya and Dr Ali Saeed were in charged to manage our trip to Mengkibol

River. All are volunteered to do gotong-royong remove and collect

rubbish also help to clean area alongside the river. A big thanks to Jabatan

Pengairan dan Saliran, Kluang for organising this event and let us do our

part to clean our nature.

A visiting professor program by our principal researcher, Prof Ir

Dr Amir Hashim Mohd Kassim at the School of Science and

Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture,

Saga University, Japan on 24 October to 3 November 2017.

A lot of knowledge and new innovation been shared and discussed

during that trip. During exhibition tour in the university, their inno-

vation on water treatment system are well developed which really

care on environmental and nature. Their culture itself shown a posi-

tive impact on their environment and lifestyle.

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” – Abraham Lincoln

Our head of MPRC has given a chance to be a speaker at the Nigerian International Student's Forum Universiti Tun Hus-sein Onn Malaysia UTHM(NISFU) colloquium.

The theme of the colloquium is Sustainability in Emerging Technologies: A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective held at the Al-Jazari Auditorium, Tunku Tun Aminah Library on 7 No-vember 2017.

The idea behind this colloquium is to explore sustainability

from a multi-disciplinary perspective and give broad ideas

to students to build resilient community.

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

On November 2, #14th KSS entitled “Supervisor: Forging a Relationship” was organized. The invited speaker for this ses-sion was Mohd Khairil Anbia Chi Adam, who is PhD students from FKMP and actively involved as President of UTHM Graduate Student Associate (gsa). His knowledge and experiences in research journey was really affected by the relation-ship with supervisor which make him to share a forging relationship with supervisor. We at MPRC are grateful for his sharing and it is indeed a good sharing for oth-ers.

On 7th November 2017, one discussion on research and development collaboration was held.

Discussion of our researchers, Prof Ir Dr Amir Hashim Mohd Kassim, Dr Mohd Azlan Mohd

Yusoff and Dr Azizi Yusoff with Encik Asnawi, engineer of the Department of Irrigation and

Drainage Engineer of Batu Pahat, Johor for research and development collaboration. They

hope with this collaboration could results in a new improvement for irrigation and drainage

performance.

Program "Let's Clean Go Green" 2017 Pejabat Hutan Daerah Johor Selatan

Date: 9th November 2017 Venue: Kompartment 79, Hutan Simpan Sungai Johor

Collaboration with Lim & Lim Plantation and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malay-sia(UTHM)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Radin Maya Saphira, Dr. Sabariah, Dr Adel Gheethi and more than 60 students include postgraduate and undergraduate students have participat-ed in this meaningful program.

More than 600 of trees have been suc-cessfully planted:

•More than 200 of Rhu and Kembang Se-mangkuk. •More than 60 of Mera-wan, Bintangu Laut and Kelat Jambu.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Albert Einstein

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have." -- Thomas Jeffer-

#15th KSS entitled “Towards IR 4.0” was orga-nized on 23 November. The invited speaker for this ses-sion was En. Mohd Ba-harudin Ridzuan, who is senior lecturer at FKAAS. His shared about the indus-trial revolution 4.0 world-wide and how we can inline with the exponential change driven by technological in-novation. He shared about his passion in producing new invention to meet the marketplace.

On December 12th, 2017. A hands-on Training Work-

shop of Applying Quantitative Research Techniques us-

ing SPSS software has been conducted by Engr. Mu-

hammad Mujtaba Asad. This short course was partici-

pate by 20 students. This short course was conducted

to enhance participants in understanding more effec-

tively of data management and statistical test analysis.

MPRC 2017 YEAR END MEETING - 28th DECEMBER 2017

Its our MPRC last meeting for 2017 and reminiscing our activities for better 2018 and our end

of the year gathering. Thank you to all MPRC members and communities for your part in our

journey. We learn, we share and we never stop learning. Lets welcome the new year, cheers to

a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Congratulations Dr Noramani Filzah

Mohd. Kamil for her highest contribution which successfully conducted 12 short courses with-

in one year. Well done to everyone too and HAPPY NEW YEAR 2018!