Microstructural Engineering

"Recovery, Re crystallization and Grain Growth"

Sharpest Lives

Well it rains and it pours
When you're out on your own
If I crash on the couch
Can I sleep in my clothes?
'Cause I've spent the night dancing
I'm drunk, I suppose
If it looks like I'm laughing
I'm really just asking to leave

This alone, you're in time for the show
You're the one that I need
I'm the one that you loathe
You can watch me corrode like a beast in repose
'Cause I love all the poison
Away with the boys in the band

I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

There's a place in the dark where the animals go
You can take off your skin in the cannibal glow
Juliet loves the beat and the lust it commands
Drop the dagger and lather the blood on your hands, Romeo

I've really been on a bender and it shows
So why don't you blow me a kiss before she goes?

Give me a shot to remember
And you can take all the pain away from me
A kiss and I will surrender
The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead
A light to burn all the empires
So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be
In love with all of these vampires
So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

(My Chemical Romance)

Get thee to a Nunnery

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in. What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? We are arrant knaves, all. Believe none of us. Go thy ways to a nunnery.

Where’s your father?

OPHELIA

At home, my lord.

HAMLET

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house. Farewell.

OPHELIA

O, help him, you sweet heavens!

HAMLET

If thou dost marry, I’ll give thee this plague for thy dowry. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go. Farewell. Or, if thou wilt needs marry, marry a fool, for wise men know well enough what monsters you make of them. To a nunnery, go, and quickly too. Farewell.

OPHELIA

Heavenly powers, restore him!

HAMLET

I have heard of your paintings too, well enough. God has given you one face and you make yourselves another. You jig and amble, and you lisp, you nickname God’s creatures and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I’ll no more on ’t. It hath made me mad. I say, we will have no more marriages. Those that are married already, all but one, shall live. The rest shall keep as they are. To a nunnery, go.

-  tengok Hamlet sambil buat research on psychoanalysis-

Third Year 2014

Third Year Materials Engineering Plan of Action

Manufacturing in Materials Engineering(3)

Prof: Cockcroft, Steven (3/5)

Manufacturing processes from a materials perspective; metal casting, heat treating processes, forming processes, machining and joining. Role of manufacturing in microstructure and material properties development and on component performance.

Strategy: Do the assignment yourselves, review notes right after the lecture

Mechanical Behaviour of Materials(3)

Prof: Sinclair, Chadwick W.(3.4/5)

Polycrystalline and single crystal deformation; dislocation theory; strengthening mechanisms; fracture mechanics; fatigue; high temperature deformation mechanisms.

Strategy: Never miss his class and his lecture notes

Phase Transformation(3)

Prof: Militzer, Matthias (Dofasco Chair in Advanced Steel Processing)

Solidification and solid state transformations; nucleation and growth processes; segregation and structure in castings; phase changes in steel; transformation diagrams; diffusion equations.

Strategy: Do assignment yourselves and review the lecture right after class

Structure and Properties Laboratory(1)

Prof: Azizi-Alizamini, Hamid

Structure and properties of ferrous and non-ferrous metals; heat treatment; hardenability; metallography; age hardening.

Ceramics(4)

Prof: Troczynski, Tom

Fundamentals of engineering ceramics focusing on raw materials, forming, sintering and properties, characterization, and design with ceramics.

Strategy: Make your own notes regarding the ceramics analysis, have a file for a proper lecture notes

Engineering Technical Communication(2)

Prof: Derksen, Ruth(4.1/5)

Written and oral technical communication. Report preparation and oral presentation of technical information.

Polymers and Polymer Matrix Composites(4)

Prof: Ko, Frank (Canada Research Chair Professor (Tier I) in Advanced Fibrous Materials)

The structure and properties of polymeric materials, reinforced polymers and polymer matrix composites with emphasis on their engineering properties and applications.

Strategy: Perform analysis on polymers and Composites,Have a proper lecture notes

Medic,Engineering and Materials

Back to the 2006, I had already made my own choice to be a medical doctor. Being a doctor is perceived to provide me with more promising future with higher salary and better social status. However, everything changed in 2007 when I took an engineering class that required me to learn about heat engines and its constituent’s processes. Even I had the chance to watch a demonstration on engine operation and got inspired by the class to learn more and do my own investigation on the heat engine.

One year later, I decided to get into the science stream and took physics class in order to master my understanding on physical world mainly on mechanics and Newton’s laws. My passion kept growing when I participated in the Formula One in School National Competition where we were grouped in a team and manufactured a miniature racing car using Computer Aid Design (CAD) software for designing the prototype and built the miniature car using the Computer Aid Manufacturing (CAM) according to the CAD specification.

I graduated from high school in 2010 and I obtained straight A’s in which guaranteed me to acquire government scholarship for my post-secondary level. A year later, I was offered to study engineering at The University of British Columbia. My first year was a bit tough where there was a shift to a new kind of environment and different kind of curriculum. I was expected to be independent and think critically especially in the case of problem solving. Before completing my first year, I had a chance to join a seminar on materials engineering. This seminar exposed me towards understanding materials and their impacts towards the devices performance. Later, my curiosity grew when I attended a lecture on Boeing 787 where composite is used for the aircraft fuselage. From there, I started making more researches on Boeing 787 and kept reading news and articles about the Boeing and their new kind technology involved in the aircraft operation.

Finally, I made my decision to study in materials engineering as I want to get involved in the manufacturing industry primarily in the aircraft industry or maybe in the automobile industry. Everything becomes more interesting while doing the analysis the material’s production, inspection and maintenance. Therefore, I am looking forward to specialize in manufacturing stream in fourth year.

Want to unleash your true potential and be a critical thinker? Go for engineering!

Seroja dan Laskar Pelangi

Mari menyusun seroja
Bunga seroja ah... ah...
Hiasan sanggul remaja
Puteri remaja ah... ah...

Rupa yang elok
Di manja jangan dimanja ah... ah...
Puja lah ia oh saja
Sekadar saja

Mengapa kau bermenung
Oh adik berhati binggung
Mengapa kau bermenung
Oh adik berhati binggung
Janganlah engkau percaya dengan asmara
Janganlah engkau percaya dengan asmara

Sekarang bukan bermenung zaman bermenung
Sekarang bukan bermenung zaman bermenung
Mari bersama oh adik memetik bunga
Mari bersama oh adik memetik bunga

Mari menyusun seroja
Bunga seroja ah... ah...
Hiasan sanggul remaja
Puteri remaja ah... ah...

Fact : The movie, set in the 1970s, opens on the first day of the year at a Muhammadiyah elementary school on Belitung. The school needs 10 students but is one short until near the end of the day, when a straggler fills out the ranks for their teachers, Muslimah and Harfan. Muslimah dubs the children "The Rainbow Troops" (sometimes translated as "The Rainbow Warriors") and the movie traces their development and relationships with the teachers.(Wikipedia)

The Last Day of Class

Hey guys,

                Currently, I am the musolla, waiting for the Asr and after this we gonna have the MSA event. Today is the final day of the class before the final exam. After the Juma'ah prayer, Gindo and I met Nasir Zulkaply, the fellow mechanical graduate who is currently working as the mechanical engineer around this Vancouver area. After that, I rushed to the UBC and we were having the meeting wuth our TA, Jing Qi and he explained to us a little bit about the final report. Yeah, I needed to complete my part on the shape factor and the hybrid calculation. After having the meeting, I rushed to the Kaiser building to complete my heat transfer assignment which is due today. I managed to complete those assignments right before 4pm just before the office was closed.

                     This semester is quite different from the last semester as the last semester just focused more on the theory part where I needed to master the foundation on the material science, thermodynamics and solid mechanics. However, this semester is a semester where I need to apply those theory in the practical mode where I need to apply those solid mechanics theory in the design project, the thermodynamics concept in the pyrometallurgy labs and calculus calculation in the statistic class. When we talk about the design project, I needed to play my key role towards the shape factor calculation where I needed to find the optimum shape factor that could fit our design criteria.

                 I also needed to research on the composite materials which were the best among all where they satisfied both constraints in our material charts. I got the good news where Daniel teammate had managed to get the progress report 4 which achievement of A- and that has astounded me. Therefore, I needed to quickly complete my parts in the final reports,  maybe tonight while I still have the free time as next week I have to final exams to go through. I have exams on the statistics and materials design next week and yeah I need to perform the best for both papers.

                     This semester was more tedious than before, where I had the design project, 3 labs every week and those assignments that kept me busy throughout semester. Regarding the labs, we had conducted two metallurgy labs where we solidified the iron, steel and copper through aluminothermic reduction process and those labs took about 3 hours to complete everything and yeah Estelle was my teammate. The labs seem interesting where we lighted up the iron mixture and the solidification occured within a few seconds. Yeah, currently I know on how to make up the fireworks by just using the KCl and Aluminum. While every two weeks I had the testing labs where we conducted a test on metals, polymers, composite, ceramics and others.
                     I still remembered on how we conducted the Charpy's test and using the short gun to distinguish between  the brittle fracture and ductile fracture. Some materials exhibited both properties like the polymer where they undergo the ductile-brittle transition phenomena in which each property depends on the surrounding temperature. Tensile testing? It was the best testing I ever had as I needed to set up the materials on the tension mode of failure. Then we collected the data from the computer and analysed its tensile strength, yield strength, failure strength and calculate the Young modulus. A little bit interesting over this stuff. I still remembered when the TA conducted the hot-cold working process where they softened and hardened both samples to obtain its final properties and textures.

                      Lets talk about the pyrometallurgy. The goal of learning this course was iron-making, steel-making and the copper-making. I needed to go through the material balance, heat balance, metallurgical reactions like reduction, roasting, oxidation,oxygen dissolution, decarburization, smelting, refining and the Boundouard reaction. While, we need to get familiar with the roaster, iron blast furnace, basic oxygen furnace, laddle metallurgical furnace, sand casting and even the electroplate platform. While the heat transfer was my favorite subject as I had the awesome TA, Faisal who is from Jordan, a clique who is doing Phd in materials engineering.

That's my second semester of the second year UBC