Engineering programme structure requirements for Bologna compliance

In 1999 twenty nine European countries have signed the Bologna Declaration to establish a common European higher education system as for the year 2010. Engineering Ireland has decided that the education standard for the title of CEng and MIEI should be raised to Master Degree in engineering accredited by Engineers Ireland with effect from programmes completed in 2013”. This paper focuses on engineering programme structure in our school. Further discussions will be carried out to present the current engineering programmes in our school and the future vision to compliance with Bologna treaty

Pile Driving Effects on Nearby Building

Piles are used to support many major structures such as buildings and bridges. It is known that pile driving activity creates vibrations in the ground and may affect nearby building and structure. However, the different pile size and shape as well as installation distances factors remain as interesting subjects for studies. The effect of hammer driven piles installation were studied using laboratory scale model. Three main effects were studied in which they are the response on top and bottom of a building, the vibration creates by three different distances of driven pile and the vibration produced by two different pile sizes.It can be concluded that the effect of vibrations are higher at the bottom of the building. The result also indicates that the nearest distance of piling activity produced higher vibration. However, it is interesting to note that the smaller pile creates larger vibrations

The prediction of wake wash in the towing tank

The wash or ship-generated waves from high speed craft has become a common subject in research and development of marine transportation. Since some time now the wake wash of high speed craft has become a problem in particular on inland or confined waterways. This wake wash has an impact on safety and environment such as bank/shoreline erosion, risk to people on shore and small boats in harbors and changes in the local ecology. This paper describes the results of model test of a high speed patrol, together with theoretical prediction of wake wash

Design of experiment study of the parameters that affect performance of three flow plate configurations of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell

Low temperature hydrogen fuel cells are electrochemical devices which offer a promising alternative to traditional power sources. Fuel cells produce electricity with a reaction of the fuel (hydrogen) and air. Fuel cells have the advantage of being clean; only producing water and heat as by products. The efficiency of a fuel cell varies depending on the type; SOFC with CHP for example, can have a system efficiency of up to 65%. What the Authors present here is a comparison between three different configurations of flow plates of a proton exchange membrane fuel cell, the manufacturer’s serpentine flow plate and two new configurations; the maze flow plate and the parallel flow plate. A study of the input parameters affecting output responses of voltage, current, power and efficiency of a fuel cell is performed through experimentation. The results were taken from direct readings of the fuel cell and from polarisation curves produced. This information was then analysed through a design of experiment to investigate the effects of the changing parameters on different configurations of the fuel cell’s flow plates. The results indicate that, in relation to current and voltage response of the polarisation curve and the corresponding graphs produced from the DOE, the serpentine flow plate design is a much more effective design than the maze or parallel flow plate design. It was noted that the parallel flow plate performed reasonably well at higher pressures but over all statically the serpentine flow plate performed better

Employers’ Expectation and Preference of Graduates in Malaysia

Abstract: The objectives of this study are to examine the causes of graduates’ unemployability, preferences of employers, employer expectation towards graduates, the most essential skills and good quality graduates in terms of attitudes towards work and personality in Malaysia. Qualitative method is engaged whereby semi-structured interview is conducted among eight selected employers who are big and medium-size organizations in Malaysia. Interview data obtained are analyzed according to themes. The results show that the leading cause of unemployability of graduates is lack of soft skills especially communication skill. Type of university, whether local or overseas, is the preference of the graduate to be employed. Employers expect graduates to be equipped with social skills, whereby communication skills top the list. Good quality graduates as perceived by employers as important are emotional intelligence, long-life learning and fast learner.  Some solutions are proposed by employers to mitigate the problem. Keywords: Employability, Preference, Expectation, Graduate, Malaysi

Effect of women leadership in the organization of technical and vocational education

In a globalized world, leaders are no longer selected on the basis of gender, but based on the abilities and qualifications in managing an organization. So, the women chose to be the head of the organization. Unfortunately, they labelled as weak, emotional, rigid and do not have confidence in the management of affairs. The objective of this study was to identify the patterns of women's leadership in the organization of technical and vocational education and motivation and relationship management organization subordinate to the leadership style of women in Technical and Vocational Education organization

Food ordering system using IPad

Food Ordering System (FOS) using iPad is a management system that helps ordering in restaurants or any food business that has ordering services.The system implements the concept of electronic menus by using iPad tablet as a platform. Beautiful interface and easy to understand is the main strength of the application.The system is operated online where the data connection is done by the web services. Features of this system is location detection that help customers find the restaurants,table status that help customer to check the availability of the table,menus with picture,price and time to cook that help customer understand more about the dishes and how long should he or she wait. The manager can use the system to manage the menus.Disable the food if the supply no longer enough to make it.Manage the order without seeing the customer face by face.With this system waiter no longer needed to take an order.Customer directly order to the system and chef or cook can see the order on the kitchen directly.Order is now easy

Ketahanan Nasional Dalam Perspektif Al-qur’an

The conclusion of this dissertation is that the concept of national resilience in the Qur'an supports the National Resilience concept of national resilience, which consists of 8 (eight) gatra, namely: geography, demographics, ideology, politics, economics, social culture, and natural resources. Besides that, through searching the words al-difa '(defense), al-amn (security), al-hifz (maintenance) and al-salam (safety in the Qur'an, this dissertation reveals 9 (nine) other gatras that support the national resilience, namely: conducive community environmental resilience, the community's physical and mental health, the quality of education, law enforcement, deliberative culture, technology, national character, leadership and faith of citizens.This disertation has different studies with Syarifuddin (2018): "Soldiers in the Qur'anic Perspective", which discusses the function of the army as guardians of national resistance in the perspective of the Koran. Thus with Muhammad Yahdi (2019): "Military in the perspective of the Koran", which discusses the mental development of the army with an approach used by Rasulullah Saw in mentoring the army as a guardian of national defense. This dissertation has the same opinion with Chasib (2015), Valentinus CP. (2014) Lotaria L atif (2017) which discusses global national resilience. This dissertation has a difference with Fitriyani from Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta (2015) entitled "Care for the Environment in the framework of national resilience", Study on the youth association of Environmental care in the Semarang area.This dissertation uses a qualitative method, whereas in interpretation, the writer uses the maudu'i interpretation method by extracting verses of the Koran as an argument to answer various reasons related to the title namely: "National resilience in the perspective of the Koran"

MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MULTIPLE BLENDED BINDERS MODIFIED CONCRETE UTILIZING LOCAL WASTE PRODUCT

Waste materials and by-products are undesirable material for the environment and these materials are eventually disposed of in landfills that are becoming scarce and expensive at the same time, leading to a waste disposal crisis. Several studies have been reported on the use of waste such as rice husk ash (RHA), silica fume (SF), PFA and microwave incinerator rice husk ash (MIRHA) as cement replacement material to produce durable concrete. The effect of the cement replacement material (CRM), when the SF, PFA and MIRHA combined together, the concrete quality have never been studied before. The multiple blended binders mix propoportions was design to be achieve certain category of concrete with respect to the strength, surface hardness, durability and cost are always important for concrete construction so that an appropriate mix is adopted for a given type of work. Selected waste products namely MIRHA, SF and PFA were used to replace ordinary Portland cement (OPC) from 0 to 28%. Several tests used conducted to monitor performance of these binders not only acting individually but also acting in combination. The performance of the concrete with the various combination of binders was determined by slump value, ultrasonic (UPV), surface hardness, tensile strength, gas permeability and compressive strength test and the test results showed that MIRHA concrete containing multiple blended binders can perform better than OPC, SF and PFA control mix. 8% silica fume, 10% pulverized fuel ash and 5%, 7.5% & 10% microwave incinerator rice husk ash (MIRHA) were adopted as cement replacement material for sixteen (16) trial mixes. Multiple blended binders concrete using waste product can still maintain the workability by utilising Sp. Even this waste material can cause a reduction in height of slump. Based on the results obtained the compressive strength reached 70MPa which is the target strength for this research and it could be concluded that multiple blended binders could produce high-strength concrete. The multiple blinded binders concrete can be used as cement hardener or a part of structure repair material. The multiple blinded binders concrete also contributes to green building and sustainability environmental. Therefore, the multiple blinded binders concrete will increase durability properties. Indirectly, the multiple blinded binders concrete will also make a pro-long life span of the concrete. A computer program was developed to identify the volume mix design with multiple blended binders for various grades and durability. Used this computer program also can be provided information in order to find out how much binders were needed to achieve a required strength and also to determine the actual price of the concrete

Optimising the laser-welded butt-joints of medium carbon steel using RSM

The optimization capabilities in design-expert software were used to optimise the keyhole parameters (i.e. maximize penetration (P) and minimise the heat input, width of welded zone, (W) and width of heat affected zone (WHAZ)) in CW CO2 laser butt-welding of medium carbon steel. The previous developed mathematical models to predict the keyhole parameters in terms of the process factors namely; laser power (LP), welding speed (S) and focused position (F) were used to optimize the welding process. The goal was to set the process factors at optimum values to reach the desirable weld bead quality and to increase the production rate. Numerical and graphical optimization techniques were used. In fact, two optimization criteria were taken into account. In this investigation optimal solutions were found that would improve the weld quality, increase the productivity and minimize the total operation cost. In addition to that, superimposing the contours for the various response surfaces produced overlay plots