Remembrance

Prof Zaidatul

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En Ahmad Rizan the CEO

I had two groups under my supervision. They have done a good job for the project.

I wish them all the best for future their en devours.

It was a great training where they shared industry based theory and practical approaches.

This is a very great opportunity to learn about all facilities that MIMOS offers.

I would like especially to thank Mr. ____ (will update later) for a very good presentation and teacher. jazakallahu khairan. I rate him 5 stars for a very interesting approach and deep knowledge.

Attended the training was me, Dr Anis, Dr Rosmizauin, Dr Jannah, my student Anati, and other UG students.

The Prof shared his experience in supervising PhD students and tips of how to submit papers to IEEE journal especially transaction industrial electronics. I went there with Dr Salmiah, Dr Fauziah and Arfah.

The visit includes presentation from three speakers. The first speaker, Mr. Khairi Mazwan talked about the overview of Wafer Fabrications. The second speaker, Mr. Mohd Rofei Mat Hussin talked about the overview of MIMOS Semiconductor Process and Device Technology for IC Fabrication by. The last speaker, Mr. Soon Y. H. explain briefly about MIMOS activities and the opportunity to be engaged to MIMOS.

We went there by IIUM bus, the driver was flexible enough to have some stopovers before we reach MIMOS. It is a good exposure to the students and more networking for me.

Half day workshop on the introduction of using SPENVIS.

Dr Jannah and myself went to MIMOS to discuss possibility to do industrial training

ASA presented in front of PETRONAS people on flood related projects. We are hoping to hear back from them to sponsor some of the research projects. From IIUM, Prof Faridah, Prof Fauzan, Dr Siti Fauziah, Dr Amani and myself went on behalf of ASA.

Dr. Siti NoorJannah has arranged for us (Dr Anis, Dr Farahidah and myself) to visit ADTEC in Taiping. The aim of the visit is to see the facilities there especially the clean room and packaging facilities. They have very good facilities for semiconductor fabrication packaging which in total cost more than 5 million ringgit.

They have accepted us with a warm welcome by the director of ADTEC himself. Hoping that we can have further collaboration after this.

The workshop was held in Akademi Sains Malaysia's office in the MATRADE bulding. The workshop aims to discuss the details for the STEM apps challenge involving the previous winners of I am a scientist competition. The detail of the challenge will be shared in the future.

Dr Siti Fauziah Toha and myself met En. Azli Yaacob an officer at the AADK to discuss potential research collaboration. We hope that we will able to collaborate to help AADK and Malaysia to eradicate illegal drugs in Malaysia.

All the best to all.

Anati Syahirah, Munirah, Amirah, Aqilah, Athirah dan Ella.

I went with Dr Jannah for industrial attachment for 3 months here. It is a fabless IC design company. Throughout the attachment I learned to use different TCAD software such as ATHENA, ATLAS, GATEWAY and SMARTSPICE. At the end I investigated the SEU effect on 6T and 10T SRAM circuits.

On the left are the staff there, Syahidah, Intan, Che'e Azliza, Usha (all at the back) and in front is Kak Siti.

This is a photo when the company invited us all for an annual lunch at Aunty Annie's restoran in Dengkil. It was nice of them to include me and Manzar to the lunch. Very delicious masak lemak tempoyak kepala ikan :)

This is Encik Abdul Rashid, the CEO of the company.

The forum was organised by MIGHT and muslimscience.com task force under the ministry. It was interesting to hear what are the other muslim countries concerns regarding the teaching of science.

The key speaker was Prof. Bruce Alberts (USA) who is now the USA science ambassador to Indonesia to improve science teaching there.

An interesting note by him, the reason why we want to promote science education is so that society can gain from the way science people think, with clear methodology and logical thinking and hence develop a better community.

We would like to thank PERINTIS for visiting us at KOE, IIUM. The roadshow is primarily to promote the association to the kulliyyah members so that we can work together. The main objective of PERINTIS is to bring science to our community.

Attended from the PERINTIS side was Prof Zainuddin Manan (from UTM, third photo) and Assoc Prof. Salwani Mohd Daud.

The opening remarks was given by Prof Mohamed Ridza Wahiddin, the deputy Rector of Research and Innovation. (second photo)

It was a two day lecture and also discussion on how to integrated islam in teaching science and engineering. It is well collaborated effort of Dr. Zuraida Ahmad and team. It covers the topic of what is education, how does the previous people relate science with islam and how to go forward.

I hope that more discussion like this can take place and more awareness can be made. Congratulations to all the members who made the event a successful one.

First photo : Dr. Zahurin, me, Prof Rosnaini (expert in Education), Dr Zuraida and Dr Suriza.

Alhamdulillah managed to arranged a short lunch with my ex-collegues in MyMs Sdn Bhd. Two staffs in particular who is still there is Farah and Kak Nani. Also there is Kak Siti who is now working with ICMIC. I am very happy to meet them and wish them all the best in this dunya and akhirah.

Alhamdulillah managed to attend a viva session of a master by research on VLSI topic. In the photo are the student (chinese), the supervisor Dr Yusmeeraz Yusof and the internal examiner, Dr. Suhaila Isaak.

It was a nice opportunity and would like to visit them in the future for further discussion.

Kulliyyah of Engineering, under the ECE Department has conferred Tan Sri Shamsuddin Abdul Kadir (founder of Sapura Holdings) for the honorary doctorate.

I am one of the representative of the kuliyyah to be able to witness the occasion. This is my first time attending a convocation in IIUM and also in Malaysia. I really like the selawat sung during the convocation, very melodious and soothing. It is a different feeling when you actually stand on the stage not to receive the degree but to be part of the university conferring the degree. To be able to see the hall full with proud parents hoping that their sons and daughters will be a successful person one day. It hits on me how important the role of teacher and lecturers to ensure the graduates produced are good quality person with high moral standing.

Here is a photo with my friends from KICT, Dr Mira and Dr Ema.

Here is a photo with ECE representatives, Prof Othman (HOD) and Prof Shihab.

Memoribilia at IRIIE. We only managed to submit one poster by Dhiyauddin. Alhamdulillah we received a bronze medal, congratulations to Din for securing the medal.

Hope that he will submit his thesis soon.

Prof. Zahirul Alam, Dr. Sheroz, Dr Teddy and myself visited ENSIL, the Engineering College under the LImoge University in France. The objective of the visit is to start research collaboration and student mobility to strengthen the ties between the two universities. We were warmly greeted by Prof. Vahid Meghdadi who arranged us to visit their research facilities in XLIM in Limoge University.

XLIM has a good size clean roon and many characterisation facilities which I am very happy to know of. The staffs there were really friendly and we thank them sincerely with the hospitality given.

We look forward to send our students over there and hope more collaboration in the future.

Below are some of the photos taken during the visit and also our trip to Paris.

Alhamdulillah, manage to attend the radiation material talk by a Professor from Oxford. However, when arrived realised they are talking on non electronics material with specialisation on cracks etc. Thanks you Ayu for accompanying me and Din for driving the car.

Dr. Zuraida, Dr. Salmiah and myself went to Institut Hadhari in UKM to meet Prof Dato Mohd Yusof to invite him as a keynote speaker for an islamization engineering education conference. His specialization is in Physics and solar cell. He is a very friendly person with masyaAllah lots of knowledge in science and Islam. He even gave us three of the books that he has wrote on the science and Islam subject, which we thank him very much. I am really honored to meet him and make doa do that many muslim scientist will be like him inshaAllah.

Dr. Fauziah and I attended the talk given by Karabuk University in Senate Hall IIUM. Arrived there quite late, but in the end managed to ask the Prof (in peach hijab) more detailed issues.

Dr. Salmiah, Dr. Fadzil and I went to ATSB for discussion on potential collaboration. The meeting was attended by a personnel from ANGKASA, En Sharizal and a few of ATSB staff. Also attended the meeting was the senior vice president of the company, EN. Hj Norhizam bin Hamzah. It was an interesting discussion where I learned more about the problems with satellites and radiation. Hope that I can gain more knowledge from them in the future. Also thanks to Dr. Salmiah for accompanying me there for the moral support :)

In the photo are En. Sharizal (ANGKASA) and En. Zulkifli ABdul Aziz (Project manager from ATSB).

My students and I went to ANM to visit their field supervisor, Dr. Yusuf Abdullah in the Industrial Technology Department. This is the first time we met face to face, many thanks to Dr. Yusuf for hosting us. Dr Yusuf was kind enough bringing us to visit the non destructive testing lab to venture if we can use the facilities or not. I really appreciate his effort.

After the progress presentation.

I also met Dr. Ruzalina in the sinar gamma, to discuss possible collaboration. Alhamdulillah, managed to arrange some work to do. Thank you Dr. Ruzalina for having us there and learned about rambutan and gamma ray ! :)

Here are all the students of semiconductor course for this semester. Youssef, Manzar, Shukry, Fakheer, Umi and Souad. It was nice getting to know them and their countries. I wish all of them success in this world and hereafter.

Sr. Esma Yenel a PhD student from Istanbul University, Turkey came to our group for 3 months of research. She is from chemistry background and currently doing research on colloidal ZnSe quantum dots for solar cell application. During her stay in ECE Department, IIUM, I was fortunate to be her supervisor. I am glad to know her and I wish her all the best for the future. Hope to meet her again in Turkey.

Alhamdulillah, I managed to present the final report for MTSF at UM. There were interesting people over there, including Prof Chia who I will contact later as he has collaboration with Taiwan University. Although generally, the hypothesis was not able to be proven, however I learned a lot with working with MTSF. I wish to express my gratitude for awarding me the grant money.

I met Dr. Suriani from UPSI there. She was in a rush, did not have time to talk to her.

I also met Sr. Nini from CUCMS. A masters student with medical degree. Hope to work together in the future.

Alhamdulillah I was chosen as the best library partner award for KOE. Not sure what I have done to deserve this...Nonetheless I would like to express my gratitude to the library, especially the person in charge for the kulliyyah, Sr. Norzelatun for their appreciation.

I received a book on fluent english, malay and arabic and also a power bank.

The photo shows Prof. Ridza Wahidin awarding me the presents.

Photo taken with my first masters student graduated, Iffah. I am very happy for you and I wish you all the best in this dunya and akhirah. You have done a very good job during your masters and I hope you will rethink about my proposition :)

Congratulations to your parents as well for their support on your studies.

Alhamdulillah, at last the PL/EL setup has arrived! Now we can do optical characterisation on top of electrical characetrisation on semiconductor devices.

In the photo is Mr. Felix (the senior person) an engineer for HORIBA giving us the training on how to use the equipment.

The setup is able to measure from visible wavelength up to 1700nm. We currently do not have a laser, but inshaAllah looking forward to buy one.

I would like to thank Kulliyyah of Engineering and specifically to Electrical and Computer engineering department for their kind consideration. Hoping to do more research for the benefit of the world, inshaAllah.

Anyone in the university or anybody outside who would like to collaborate are welcome to contact me. We will find the best way for the utilisation of the equipment.

Alhamdulillah, I participated in an online reality programme called ' I am a scientist, Get me out of here', the first ever organised by Akademi Sains Malaysia. The programme is about educating young Malaysians on science and promoting this field to them. There were 4 schools and all together 5 scientist participated, Prof Wong, Dr. Pike See, Dr. Michael, Dr. Afznizanfaizal and myself.

Dr. Faizal and me were representatives from PERINTIS (Persatuan Saintis Muslim Malaysia). In the end, one scientist was voted by the school children as a winner to win RM5000 to make a project with students. And guess what, shockingly, all praise to Allah, I was announced as the winner!

Jazakumullahu khairan to Perintis for the trust given and also to all the awesome students from the participated schools. It was really an excellent experience, chatting with form three students and mind you, the questions by the students, some were really tough :)

Lastly, thank you to Akademi Sains Malaysia for allowing me to participate. It is a pleasure to be part of the programme, and hope the programme will catch on for the next seasons.

If you are interested, you may go to their website to see all the questions asked and answered by the scientist here http://utarid.ias.sciencebuzz.my/scientists/

On the left excerpt from facebook of Dr. Harlina Siraj on her congratulations....thank you Dr. Har, it is an honour to have an acknowledgment from you :)

My student, Dhiauddin and me participated in the Photonics conference for the first time since I am back in Malaysia. It was a good conference, mainly the papers presented were about fibre optic. We presented a paper on leakage current on quantum dot structures.

I met Prof. Zaini from UNITEN there. I was his tutor back in 2002 when he was teaching electronics. Please to meet him again, a humble and friendly person. Also met Dr. Pin Jern, who did his PhD in Sheffield university in our research group. But forgot to take photo with them

Alhamdulillah managed to attend the ibadah camp. The talks and lectures were particularly excellent. Looking forward to next year's ibadah camp.

Here is a photo with all the female academicians...They are all great people, thank you for making the camp a memorable one.

Here is a photo when Prof. Khalid gave a talk on Islam and science.

Alhamdulillah managed to attend the colloqium. It is particularly interesting to know what projects ATSB are working on and also met their staffs such as Intan, Lily and Rushdan.

Hope to get in touch with them for future work.

Dr. Farahidah and I went to the carnival as guests from IIUM. We were allocated a booth to display the works in IIUM. It was a nice occasion , getting to know more people working in the same field.

Representing UM were Dr. Norhayati and their team.

We met En. Rizal-our Infineon's link for IIUM.

Anwar's wedding

It was held in Dewan Auditorium rimba ilmu, Universiti Malaya. It is a chance for networking and I met new colleagues there, Dr. Azmah from remote sensing Agency, Dr. Aisah from Nuclear Malaysia and Puan Norhayati from nuclear Malaysia.

Hope to keep in touch with them.

Puan Norhayati from ANM.

Dr. Azmah from remote sensing agency Malaysia.

Dr. Farahidah and I went to the carnival as guests from IIUM. We were allocated a booth to display the works in IIUM. It was a nice occasion , getting to know more people working in the same field.

Representing UM were Dr. Norhayati and their team.

We met En. Rizal-our Infineon's link for IIUM.

ECE 6317 , Semiconductor Devices class went to a lab of Telekom Malaysia Research and Development in Cyberjaya. The purpose of the visit is to expose the students to different equipments, fabrication and characterisation techniques involved in fabricating semiconductor devices. Unfortunately, last minute I could not accompany the students due to unavoidable circumstances, however, it seems that all went well.

Special thanks to Sr Khairayu and Sr Aliza for their willingness to accompany the students.

Mimi Aminah's Walimah, Keramat, 30th March 2013

The photo was taken with Mimi, her husband and also Mimi's mother. It was a happy occasion.

To both bride and groom, Barakallahu lakuma, wa baraka 'alaikuma wa jama'a bainakuma fi khayr..

Semoga berbahagia hingga ke syurga..

I went to the ISLAHI program in ISTAC with the intention of learning more about islamization. However, am a bit dissapointed as I have not fully grasp the practicality of it in engineering terms. They mentioned about ethics and akhlaq, I was hoping for more.

Talk by Prof. Khalid was very good, I wish he can give the same presentation to all IIUM lecturers in Kulliyyah of Engineering. I also like the talk by Prof. Rosnani from education. She briefs what are the obstacles in islamization which one is the background of lecturers not well versed in the quran/hadith. I wish UIA can do more on the matter.

I specifically like the tazkiyatunnafs session by Dr. Alaa Hosni Ahmed El Mozain on ar raqaiq...penyucian jiwa.

Progress presentation meeting. Last meeting with Puan Julia from ANM before she flies to Japan for her PhD. Thanking her for much of her support and wishing her the best for her studies.

This year, it was Akbar and Dhiyauddin's turn to join IRIIE. Last year, it was Iffah.

Alhamdulillah Akbar won a Bronze medal for his BJT work on radiation, congratulations.

The photo was taken in front of their posters in CAC.

Din, Zuraidah and myself went to a three day course in nuclear and particle physics in Department of Physics, University Malaya. It was interesting, learned about nucleons, hadrons, quarks, anti-matter, positron etc...but slightly too physicy for engineers like us.

The training was a joint collaboration of Akademi Sains Malaysia, Nuclear Malaysia and Malaya University.

Dr. Salmiah, Iffah, Din, Shukry and myself went to Malaysian Space Agency (ANGKASA) in Banting to discuss possible collaboration. We had a warm welcome by the officer there, Mr. Sharizal Fadlie and his colleagues.

Hoping to spark new research interest amongst us.

The officer there was explaining their new work.

Dr. Abdul Razak (KAED), Dr. Hazleen and myself went to the invention fair in Seoul last December. Alhamdulillah Dr. Razak and Dr. Hazleen won gold medals for their invention and my team, won silver medal for the general purpose irradiation chamber.

The photo on the left was taken with the medals and certificate.

This photo taken with the poster we brought. Both english and korean version poster.

This is the photo taken during the judging. The lady on the right is the interpreter. The judges are not fluent in english. The only question the judge asked was, is it safe?

This photo was taken with all the IIUM staff who went there in front of IIUM booth.

From left is myself, Dr. Hazleen, Dr. Razak, Dato' Alias (Director RMC), Madam Hasnah (RMC), Dr. Maizirwan (RMC) and Prof. Shamsul (RMC).

On the 30th of November, I went to Pusan National University (PNU) together with the RMC staff. This photo was taken with the RMC staffs, and also the PNU staffs in front of main entrance of the university lobby. The reason for the visit was benchmarking and also to start networking collaboration.

The Invention fair arranged for the participants for a visit to the Gyeongbokgung Palace in Seoul. The palace is next to their parliamentary building. We had a tour guide explaining interesting features of the palace and its history. One thing I learn from visiting the palace is that Islam is a beautiful religion. Why and how? Its a long story...

Just want to share the beautiful cabbages (kobis) available there in Korea. It looks like a flower but actually a cabbage. Not sure if it is edible or not but they are pretty. Even vegetables nowadays becomes ornaments. This photo was taken alongside a pedestrian walk.

rof. John David had a half day visit to UIA together with Dr. Siew Li Tan, just graduated from Sheffield University. Prof. John David was my supervisor during my PhD. He is currently the head of the Electronic and Electrical Department in University of Sheffield.

This photo was taken with my research team, Iffah, Dhiyauddin and Akbar.

The forum was held in KL Convention Centre jointly organised by MOSTI and Yayasan Inovasi Malaysia. The theme of the forum was inclusive innovation for transformation. It was a very good forum where experts from the engineering, economic and education field was brought forward. Basically the goverment wants to inculcate the culture of innovating amongst the citizens so that Malaysia can become a developed country with high income. I learned a lot especially how to start innovate. Basically its starts first with our utopian dreams, finding the challenges and unmet need opportunities and moves towards them.

This photo was taken outside the plenary hall with Dr. Salmiah Ahmad from Mechatronics Department.

It was held in Bandung, Indonesia from the 23-27th of September 2012. Iffah, Sabil, my husband and myself went there for the conference. Met Dr. Suriani from UPSI and discussed possible collaborations. Generally, the conference was too general in nature and it is difficult to find presentations from the same field. Alhamdulillah however, it gave new experience as it is the first time I'm in Indonesia!