Amanat Tahun Baru

Majlis yang dinama Amanat Tahun Baru Dekan diadakan pagi ini. Panggilan memaklum majlis akan mula jam 8.30 tetapi ia bermula lewat 30 minit. Hadirin sebenarnya berpandangan majlis ini ialah mesyuarat fakulti. Namun turut dijemput hadir ialah semua staf sokongan maka ia bukan lah mesyuarat fakulti. Agendanya cuma dipenuhi dengan taklimat semua pentadbir dari Dekan,TD, KJ dan seluruh teamnya.

- - - - -

Mesyuarat Jabatan Geoinformasi

Mesyuarat diadakan pada pagi ini bermula jam 9. Mesyuarat yang pertama sejak KJ sekarang memegang jawatan.

- - - - -

Geoid School Meeting (No 3)

A meeting among the geoid school local organizing committee was held today. This was the third meeting on geoid school and we discussed about the work progress so far and the next plan of actions.

Some of the attendees

- - - - -

PSM Progress - Kamarul

A PSM student of me - Kamarul is working on Sarawak levelling heighting project. Among his tasks was to evaluate all the three datum points used at present. We try to answer the question which datum point to be suitably chosen to be used as constraint height datum in levelling adjustment.

Discussing Sarawak levelling network

- - - - -

Taklimat Proses Permohonan e-Science

Petang ini diadakan taklimat tentang urusan permohonan geran penyelidikan e-Science. Taklimat disampaikan oleh Sr Samsudin Ahmad selaku ahli panel penilai geran e-science. Kehadiran sekitar tidak lebih dari dua puloh staf sahaja.

Kebetulan hari ini merupakan tarikh tutup permohonan untuk cycle pertama.

Sebahagian peserta yang hadir

- - - - -

Amanat Tahun Baru oleh NC

Pagi ini berkesempatan hadir ke program Amanat Tahun Baru 2016 oleh NC. Amanat diisi dengan menjelaskan beberapa perkara dari agenda tahun baru yang terkandung dalam buku khas yang telah diterbitkan oleh Penerbit UTM. Buku dijual pada harga Rm30 untuk sebagai sumbangan kepada Tabung Endowmen. Majlis yang bermula pukul 8 pagi berlanjutan selama dua jam.

- - - - -

Mesyuarat Khas Geoid School

Satu mesyuarat khas pengendalian Geoid School diadakan pagi ini. Mesyuarat hanya melibatkan AJK dikalangan pelajar postgraduate seramai enam orang. Fokus perbincangan ialah tugas untuk menyediakan website yang akan menghebahkan program Geoid School. Antara perkara penting yang perlu dimuatkan ialah borang pendaftaran, urusan penginapan dan cara untuk menuju ke kampus UTM terutama untuk informasi peserta dari luar negara.

- - - - -

Seminar on Regional Geodynamics at G&G

A one-day seminar on regional geodynamic was held today at G&G Lab. The seminar was attended by about thirty participants majority of them from UTM. Five participants came representing Jupem and one from Angkasa. A total of five speakers presenting their works on geodynamic of SE Asia monitored by GPS. The presenter were;

Mr Wim Simons (TU Delft), Assoc Prof Irwan Meilano (ITB) Dr Effendy (UTHM), Wan Anom (UTM) and Asrul (UiTM Arau).

- - - - -

Taklimat Sistem Online Claim

Satu taklimat khas mengenai sistem tuntutan pembayaran atas talian (Online Claim) diadakan pagi ini. Pihak Bendahari UTM akan melaksana sistem ini sepenuhnyabermula April 2016. Taklimat pagi ini disampaikan oleh En Tariq Rahmalan dari RMC yang menurut beliau akan perlu mengguna pakai sistem yang sama. Taklimat sepatutnya bermula jam 9 tetapi tertangguh hampir sejam kerana kehadiran yang amat sedikit. Cuma sekitar kurang dua puloh staf yang turut serta.

- - - - -

Progress Discussion - KTH 4

Today Norehan came to my office and presented her research progress. She is already started working on step 4 of the KTH approach. It is a long step with many computational tasks to be implemented. Among the objectives in this step is to get the right modification parameters to be used in Stokes integral.

Progress work on KTH 4

- - - - -

Open Talk on GGM

This afternoon I gave an open talk to a handful of G&G postgraduate students. The talk was focused on the use of GGM in geoid computation. This program initially was for Rehan to share initial results of her work  on geoid computation for Johor. Since the results shown were mainly on GGM evaluation and many questions were asked by audience whom have little knowledge on what is GGM all about I took the opportunity to explain the basic of GGM and its importance to geoid determination.

Stressing points on GGM and its importance in geoid determination

Some of the postgraduate students whom attending the talk

- - - - -

Final Exam Sghu4863

The Sghu4863 final exam was held today starts at 9am for two and a half hour. Attendance was full. Students started handing over their answer scripts after just one hour. The last to finish was fifteen minutes before exam period over.

Final exam at BK 11 B08

- - - - -