Typical Engineer Story

When it comes to nuclear, the gruesome incident such as Chernobyl and the deadly wars of Hiroshima and Nagasaki will always haunted the ordinary people including me. I'm not going to explain in details on what is nuclear and the process involved. The main argument here is whether the technology is viable and served as the best energy solution to mankind particularly to Malaysia. Recently in Malaysia, the government had put a great effort into introducing the mechanism and the great benefits of nuclear power plant. The campaign set off quite drastically as to educate people not to rely much on fossil energy as a main nation's energy resources. Malaysia can be considered as lagging behind compared to other asian countries in terms of nuclear energy application. However, this technology already establish in Malaysia since 1972 and was called Centre of Application of Nuclear Malaysia (CRANE) before it was named as Tun Ismail Atomic Research Centre. It was converted to Nuc

I do have obsession with the university rankings :). The results of much awaited, the Times Higher Education for 2010 has been released. Each year, most of the university in the world aimed for the best rankings. Although the methodology used being criticized by some of the university's academician , it is evident that the result has been well accepted by the international community, hence to determine the best university to invest with. Before we go through the rankings, understanding the  indicators used to gauge the universities performance will be advantageous: 1) Instutional Indicators = 30% They gauge the learning environment by ratio between staff and students, the ratio of doctoral students to undergraduates, the ratio of successful doctoral degrees awarded per staff member, institutional funding indicator and lastly the results from the academic reputation survey for teaching. 2) Research Indicator = 30% The number of research papers per staff member, research fu

A significant names which spearheading the advent of information technology in Malaysia. Welcome to Western Digital (WD). To layman, the company is known as the manufactures of the computer hard drives, contents, external storage and consumer electronics product. The main headquarter lies in Lake Forest, California. To date, the company employs 27,000 people worldwide. The areas of suitable career will be in Electrical/Electronic Engineering , IT, Mechanical Engineering and Social Science and Skills in C++ and Robotics.  In Malaysia, the company already established since 1973 with an investment amounted to RM 1.6 billion for the past 35 years span.  The average starting salary is RM2,500(USD 811) per month. There are also other fascinating  employment package. Imagine going for an overseas assignment which is the starting point of an international exposure. An engineer may be sent to US headquarters for training. Damn! that's awesome :) . However, for local graduates they may h

This will be my first paragraph of introduction. Hmmm...well this blog is not only describe on typical engineer's life story but also includes my hobby, favorite books, travels etc. I'm going to spend some time to write in more articles relating to my works, putting all pictures and tons of more cool stuff. Damn...it's nearly 12.00 a.m. Huarghhhh...good nite