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The engineering education at tertiary level began in Malaya in 1956 at University of Malaya. Nowadays, the engineering education has evolved and spurring myriad of engineering courses offered by Public University and privates institution. During 1990's when the economy was booming, Malaysia facing a shortage of engineers. The demand for more engineers has lead to actions by several public university to shorten the duration of study from 4 years to 3 years albeit approval problems from the Board of Engineer of Malaysia (BEM). The duration was fully revised back to 4 years in year 2000. The country trying to create two streams of engineers: the conventional research or scientific-oriented engineer who is sound in design theory and analysis and the practice-oriented counterpart. The BEM has been a signatory of the Washington Accord since 2009 which resulted to the recognisation by member countries include Australia, Canada, Taipei, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,

The advent of new technology breakthrough leads to the creation of new level software: Natural Language Programming (NLP). According to Stephen Wolfram, creator of Wolfram Alpha and CEO of Wolfram Research, the essence of NLP is to facilitate the conversation between the human and computer from a daunting computer language to a mere human languages. For instance, you wish to capture a picture with a focus on the face or you want to regroup all your pics under one particular folder. All this can be achieved with the advancement of NLP. The starters will be the Apple's voice-controlled Siri. The missing link for the above mentioned NLP is in terms of where the data sits. The typical process when you wrote a program, it would connect to database that has the data you are trying to manipulate. However, it can be improved by wrote a programming that already has the data embedded in it. Nowadays, programmers can write a piece of programming in five minutes compared to a mon

The inter-state water transfer scheme was conceptualised in 1990s, with the completion target will be 2014. The scheme aims to convey raw water at 1,890 millions litre per day from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor. The raw water will be transferred via a 44.56 km long, 5.2m diameter tunnel, with gravity flow to the water treatment plan.  The project progress currently at 60% completion and 3% ahead the schedule. Technically, the project make use of surface runoff from Sg. Bentong, Sg. Telemong and Sg. Kelau with a reservoir in Sg. Kelau.  The abstaction point is at the intake at. Sg. Semantan and then the raw water is pumped to a connecting basin at the tunnel inlet. From this connecting basin, the water is transferred to an outlet connecting basin through the tunnel by gravity flow and distributed to receive basins of the treatment plant via gravity pipelines.  The tunnel excavation was undertaken by using Tunnel Boring

The gruesome and horrible attacks in 9/11/2001 still lingers and haunted the affected families. My heart all goes to the victim's families. It was heartbreaking and sad, thinking about the trauma endured by them. After 10 years of the tragedy, there are still many doubts and unanswered call pertaining to the issues. I have no intent to add more grief to the deceased's  families and friends. This article only pin point the circulated conspiracy theorist around the tragedy for us to ponder. In most of the people mind, anything huge and mind-blowing cases require a big reason or cause. One of the famous sources is the 911 Truth Movement (911truth.org). The website enlist some 40 reasons on why the official version of the attack is dubious. Below are some of the queries in the list: 1) Why did the third building, WTC7, collapse although it was not hit by a plane? 2) How come there was suspicious trading in American Airlines and United Airline     stocks right before the a

The radiation incident involving one the most developed countries had sparked an aggressive sentiment through out the whole world regarding to the quality of standard safety measures of nuclear energy plant. Rare earth (RE), even though not as risky as the actual uranium ores, still deemed as a threat to the local people. A heated debate lingers in Gebeng, state of Pahang, Malaysia.  In terms of quantity, the material was abundant in the earth's crust. However, only few places in the world have the most high quality  RE ores such as Lynas's Mount Weld in Western Australia. For decades, China has become the most prominent RE producers in the world with 80% reserves of RE in the world (Y.Zhang, Q.J.Meng & N.Zhou, 2007) The RE waste disposal procedure are a vital concern to scientist as it pose a serious threat to the food chain. RE ores and commodities, including the by-product and waste materials resulted from RE processing are naturally radioactive due the presence of

In postgraduate studies, there are two main program which is taught Masters and research Masters . Taught master emphasize more on the specialization of broader learning themes covered in undergraduate study. It involves mainly on coursework, presentation, experiments and exams which need to be passed in order to qualify a Master degree. As for research Masters, the student will carry out their research under the supervision of a senior academician and there are no exams in the final phase of study. The peak moment will be the viva-voce stage, a defend stance of the research in front of a panel of experts in their field. There are a simple advice to whom eager to pursuit their Master' degree.The study is more intense than the undergraduate level. Lacking of commitment will resulted to hard struggle to complete the program in time.