Third project, Home-garden – SBEL1404

On 7th November 2016, 41 SBEL1404 students did their inventory at six residences in Bandar Dato Onn, Taman Mutiara Rini 2 dan Taman Pulai Perdana. This is third project, Home-garden, of studio Basic Landscape Design. It was their first project dealing with real clients, the home owners. The purpose of the project is to learn how to design home-garden turning the residence and its garden to an abode to live, play and rest for the residents

Project Home Garden

On 27 October 2016, 41 students from SBEL1404 visited the garden of Puan Mega Suria Hashim at Setia Tropika Residence. This field visit is part of precedent study on a project HOME GARDEN. The tropical outlook of the garden is composed of a variety of flowering trees, shrubs and climbers. Accent feature is a cluster of lotus in a large urn positioned beside the living room of Mega’s residence. The gate is crafted with stainless steel with distinctive Monstera leaf motif. It was designed and constructed by Ayob Ismail.

FBE Researchers Won One Gold and One Silver Medal in INATEX 2016

Two FBE researchers won two medals at Industrial Art and Technology Exhibition (INATEX) 2016 held from 4th October till 6th October 2016 in UTM, Skudai, Johor Bahru Malaysia.

INATEX is an annual event organised by UTM to promote the latest innovative inventions, products and technologies, and a platform for interacting and promoting partnership in R&D developed by UTM researchers to the public and the industry.

Sr. Dr Sarajul Fikri Mohamed who has developed i-FLOOD (Intelligent Flood Management System) has won the Gold Medal Award in this competition. The i-FLOOD is an integrated building assessment model (incorporating of damage pattern, RFID technology & cost evaluation) designed to enable engineers to adopt systematic and efficient actions for distribution of emergency relief and fund allocation for building damage.

Dr. Mohammadamin Azimi won Silver Medal Award for his research project titled Lock Block Multi-Functional Green Interlocking Mortar less Concrete Block. LOCKBLOCK, is a multi-functional green interlocking mortar-less concrete block which design through finite element simulation, shape optimization process with the aims of increase of construction productivity, reduction in construction duration and labour and reduced construction cost.

Sr. Dr. Sarajul Fikri Mohamed Won Gold Medal Award at the International University Carnival on e-Learning (IUCEL 2016)

Johor Bahru, 22nd September 2016:   Sr. Dr. Sarajul Fikri Mohamed from  the Department of Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) has won GOLD medal award  at the International University Carnival on e-Learning (IUCEL 2016) held on 20 and 21 September 2016 at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru Malaysia.

International University Carnival on eLearning (IUCEL) 2016 permits academician and students to showcase their product on teaching and learning innovation and compete in the Invention, Innovation and Design on e-Learning (IIDEL). In the IIDEL competition, there are 156 participants from various higher learning institutions.

Dr. Sarajul Fikri developed an innovative and systematic online teaching approach using Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) system to enhance students’ understanding and engagement in the classroom activities. This course is inherited from common Mechanical & Electrical Works Measurement (SBEQ3213) course that conducted using project-based learning approach. Currently, there is 910 students enrolled in this course and in addition, 259 registered students are international students, who have come from 52 countries.

For further information about this course please feel free to visit openlearning.com/courses/SBEQ3213x.