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KW Lee once Schedule at MysEnVarsity

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Lee Kok Wah (Mr.) (C&C Engineer) (C&C: Computer Communications)

Email: kwlee@mmu.edu.my

URL: http://www1.mmu.edu.my/~kwlee/

Tel: 606 - 2523320

Fax: 606 - 2316552

Notes on Academic Working Hours

Exclusively written by Kok-Wah Lee

An updated version is at the author’s another personal web space here, outside the MMU university server.

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[1] For the working career in academia, this is a mixture type of industrial economy for teaching job and knowledge economy for research job.

[2] The universities, for being able to do mass production of undergraduate students, have in some ways been replacing the traditional type of master-apprentice training relationship. This is a form of industrial economy, where the books are the machine-like tools and about 40 books, each with three credit hours, to form a bachelor degree course at 120 credit hours.

[3] To produce the books, then the authors have to produce novel copyrighted literary works through study, review, research, and development. This is a form of knowledge economy, where the professors produce by oneself or adopt books from the others for skill training and job specialization for the undergraduate and postgraduate students.

[4] The word of “professor” means a person offering special training or a particular skill, often one which is respected because it involves a high level of education.

[5] In the industrial economy, the amount of weekly working hours at about 40 hours inclusive of rest time is a universally acceptable industrial labour guideline and standard.

[6] Working as an academician at a university is a very demanding job, as can be observed from the requirement to own a doctorate degree (aka PhD degree) to prove capabilities to study, research, and teach high level skills in one’s specialization(s).

[7] For knowledge economy, the job is more on problem solution, and working hour is not that clear. For example, one who is smart may independently spend two weeks to finish digesting a normal book and another month to solve the problems in the book. However, for one who is less smart, more time is needed, and may be teaching guidance as well.

[8] Hence, for academia, its working hour is flexible because the preparation to teach university subjects in the courses is of type knowledge economy.

[9] In short on selection of career path for academia or industry, if one being an academician needs more than 40 working hours per week and the annual salary is not much better than those working in the industry in average, then it is advised to work for the industry. This is to ensure that at least there is no over-working and we have time efficiency achieved.

[10] For corporate sector, it can be of (mainly) industry nature or knowledge (or research) nature. The number of 40 working hours per week is again a good guideline.

[11] For academic sector, writing copyrighted book as a machine-like tool for the mass production of university students is the best way of incomes for an academician, in which a full professor will normally do to pass one’s knowledge to the future generations.

[12] Meanwhile for learning to write book, each university degree normally requires a book, specially called as “thesis”. In other words, the university degree trains a student in writing a special book to pass knowledge around.

[13] For industrial economy portion of academic sector, it generates the fixed monthly salary income paid to the teaching academicians.

[14] For knowledge economy portion of academic sector, the income is normally in the forms of royalty from intellectual properties (IP) like patent and copyright. In case there exists a mutual agreement, this royalty may be shared among the academician, university, and funding agency.

[15] On industrial economy portion of academic sector, the terms and conditions of employment contract are normally quite fixed and stable like a template after centuries of industrial age experience.

[16] On knowledge economy portion of academic sector, its experience is still quite new for at about three decades old since the Bayh–Dole Act (or University and Small Business Patent Procedures Act) in the USA in year 1980. For the share distribution of ownership and royalty over the created intellectual properties (IP), it normally depends on a separate mutual agreement based on the invested commercial capital like cash, trade secret, labour, land and building, machinery tools, materials, etc.

[17] For costly patent protection, then an academician will normally try to get the full financing from the university by reducing one’s share amount. Nevertheless, as in tradition for economical copyright protection, the academician, especially experienced full professor, will normally own the whole copyright independently, sell or transfer (as a gift) the copyright to a publisher.

[18] Research is very risky. The research funding normally comes from the federal governments and large companies only. For university, small business, and non-profit organizations using the research funding of US federal government, only after the Bayh-Dole Act 1980 has been enacted, they are allowed to become the patent owner. Before Bayh-Dole Act 1980, for all the US federal government funded research, the ownership of its research outputs is in the hands of US federal government, in which those patent rights are normally licensed free of charge. This is because by rights the US government shall not involve directly in the commercial activities.

[19] In short, there are many stages for the progress of science and useful arts (or knowledge advancement/progress in general) into two main groups, i.e.

(a) Process: (a.1) study (from books to understand the conceptual meanings), (a.2) review (from conference proceedings, journals, or patents, to investigate the boundary of prior arts), (a.3) research (to output novelty), and (a.4) development (to advance further the territory of novel outputs); and

(b) Result: (b.1) comments, (b.2) problem modeling, (b.3) methodology (i.e. analytical/statistical/experimental hypotheses and proofs/solutions), (b.4) improvement (through enhancement by adding, or refinement by removing), (b.5) discovery, (b.6) innovation, (b.7) invention, (b.8) enablement (i.e. practical applications and typical examples) [Note: Technology is the applications of Science.], (b.9) efficient function-cost optimization, (b.10) quintessence (i.e. for most typical examples as basic commercial entry packages), (b.11) standardization, and (b.12) recycling.

[20] There are four major sub-groups of science relying on different proving methodology mainly, i.e. (a) Mathematics on analytical proof; (b) Physics on analytical proof; (c) Chemistry on experimental proof; (d) Biology on statistical proof; and (e) Computing on analytical proof. Hence, do select one’s career path for future better advancement according to one’s strength. Yup! One can be a solo, duo, trio, quartet, or also quintet for single or mixed disciplines.

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Time Allocation for Lecturer Job

[1] If you don’t know how to do accounting, please go to learn it yourself, or pick a book, or get a teacher to be a student, or get a master to be an apprentice.

[2] However, in this Internet era, some have chosen to become a computer hacker or a thief to steal the prey’s secrets.

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NB: Nota Bene

Lecture: Yes/No/Maybe/Dunno = Yes

Tutorial: Yes/No/Maybe/Dunno = Yes

Laboratory: Yes/No/Maybe/Dunno = Yes

Lecture (Lecturer): ECP 1036 Computer Programming

Tutorial (Tutor): ECP 1036 Computer Programming

Laboratory (Lab Demonstrator): ECP 1036 Computer Programming

CSLT: Consultation Hour(s)

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Email here : kwlee[a]mmu.edu.my | E96LKW@hotmail.com

Created on 14 June 1999

Ended-1 on 03 June 2013

Ended-2 on 26 August 2013

Ended-3 on 10 January 2015

Updated on 21 September 2021 （八月十五日·中秋节）