Process Engineer at RENESAS

Every morning I need to retract the bin 6 and bin 8 CDA analysis result from the the system and payout all the good products to the confirmation area. I need to record and report all the holdback lots and arrange all the analysis either having the manual test or performing X-Ray or bunkai removing the microchip package so that we can observe the pellet and wire. Then I need to record all the test time index for all four SOWA machine for test program improvement. The shorther the time index, it would be great for the production. All the CDA analysis needed to be key-in into the data sheet so that we can observe and monitor the overall CDA analysis for the whole month. This result would be presented in the Department of Integrated Circuit quality forum. 

At 9.00 in the morning, me and my boss would chair the meeting, checking all the holdback materials, TVI rejection trend, CDA results, machine shutdown trend and all the action items for that day. Then, I would print out all the meeting minutes and sent the email to all members and the bosses including the senior director of RSK. After 10.00 am breakfast, I would start my action item for that day as discussed in the previous meeting either arranging the Critical Defect Analysis, monitoring the machine and checking the test programs. I even need to check my email if there is any new instruction from my boss or the managers.

I would normally stay in the line up till 5.31 pm but however my plan for this year is to go back at 6.30 pm as I would be reading books for an hour to enrich my intellectual capacity

Bachelor of Applied Science in Materials Engineering specializing in Materials Manufacturing and Performance (Corrosion and Nanotechnology)

Spring 2015

1)      MTRL 475 - Microstructure Engineering (MILITZER, MATTHIAS)

-          Follows the production of metallurgical products, focusing on process design models used to describe solidification, recrystallization, and precipitation.

-          Comment:

This course is very interesting but you have Militzer who is very strict while marking the exams. If you have another instructor, you can still consider you clique who can discuss with you regarding the assignment and Modelling Project

-          Modelling Project: Attend all lectures, print lecture notes, write notes during lecture, ask question, GO TO OFFICE HOURS

2)      MTRL 456 – Environmental Degradation of Materials

-          Fundamental aspects of environmental degradation of metals (corrosion), ceramics, and polymers, with an emphasis on aqueous environments.

-          Comment: This course is really interesting if you gonna work in the oil and gas industry, print the lecture notes, write the notes during lecture, ask question, make sure you score 90% on all assignments and 80% in the midterms and GO TO OFFICE HOURS.

3)      MTRL 478 - Electronic Materials (XIA, GUANGRUI)

-          Materials and physics aspects of semiconductor, optical and magnetic devices: energy bandstructure, crystal structure, crystal defects and impurity effects, relationship of material characteristics and physical properties; production of electronic materials and devices: single crystal growth, epitaxy, metallization, ion implantation, lithography and etching; characterization techniques: X-ray diffraction, photoluminescence.

-          Comment: You have Maggie as you prof,she can be my referee for my Master’s application. Print lecture notes, write notes during lecture, ask questions, GO TO OFFICE HOUR

-           

4)      MTRL 458 – Hydrometallurgy II (ASSELIN, EDOUARD)

-          Leaching, purification, precipitation, regeneration; thermodynamics and kinetics of separation steps; electrochemical applications.

-          Yah, you have Edouard as you prof, a super easy prof. Write notes in the class, attend all lectures, ask question, GO TO OFFICE HOURS. He can be my referee for my Master’s application. Make sure I got him for my FINAL YEAR PROJECT.

-          Make sure 90% for all assignments, 80% for midterms

5)      MTRL 471 – Nanofibre Technology (BAHI, ARDESHIR)

-          Introduction to nanomaterials in the form of fibres and composites, including processing, structure, characterization methods, properties, and modeling. Credit will only be given for one of MTRL 471 or MTRL 571.

-          This course is all about reading, The thing is I need to attend all lectures and write the notes, ask question and GO TO OFFICE HOURS

6)      MTRL 494- Composite Materials (ZOBEIRY, NAVID)

-          Understanding the properties and the mechanical behaviour of composite materials with emphasis on analysis, design, and manufacturing. Credit will only be given for one of MTRL 494, 594

-          This course is a hard course because it involves manufacturing, write notes, attend all lectures, ask question and GO TO OFFICE HOURS

7)      MTRL 467 – Engineering Design Project II

-          ASSELIN, EDOUARD (Hydrometallurgy and electrochemistry) EASY

-          COCKCROFT, STEVEN (Manufacturing, casting and heat transfer) HARD

-          FERNLUND, GORAN ( Mechanical Behaviour of Polymers) MODERATE

-          MAIJER, DAAN (Modelling)HARD

-          POURSARTIP, ANOSHIRAVAN ( Manufacturing polymer matrix Composites) EASY

o   Just follow the Chad’s final year project plan.

DAILY BASIS:

After lectures, get to Tim Hortons and Review all the lectures for that day for on daily basis

Leave Home by 7.00 am and get to Tim Hortons Forestry building for breakfast

Work out before sleep so you gonna get fit

Sleep every night by 10.30 am and I mean real sleep and leave all the S3 and ipod and just turn ON the alarm

Leave UBC and go home every day by 9.00 pm and better to take bus 25

FRIDAY NIGHT: Go to café or Blenz (downtown) to complete up my entire final year project tasks.

WEEKEND: Stay at UBC and do all the assignments, review the notes, better to study at UBC by Saturday and feel confident to finish all the works by Sunday

January 15 – start studying for midterms

February 9 (Monday) – Family day (utilizes the time for final year project)

February 14-22 –Reading Break: Study the Composite Materials and Nanofiber Technology

February 25- Start studying for the final exam and finalize the final year project

March – FULL TIME STUDYING AND WORK

April 3 and 6 – Holiday (STUDYING FOR FINALS)

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      

The Class of Materials Engineering

This is my classmate 

Nice to be with them throughout the year

Materials engineering always be in my heart

Petang hari di Irving K Barber Learning Centre

         Currently, I am at Irving library just completed my statistic assignment and I am still waiting for the maghrib prayer . The time is 4.31 pm and I just realized that I need to get to the village and buy some stuffs that sahli have asked me to buy. 

        At 5 pm I need to get to the Islam Awereness Week event as I am one of the volunteers that support the MSA committee conducting their events in which is intended to clarify any misconceptions about Islam towards the non-Muslims community. Yeah, meeting with the muslim brothers makes me relief and calm even I have a lot tasks to do.

         Being an engineering student requires me to organize all of my daily activities and the key fact is that I need to do reflection everyday and check whether I have done my tasks completely or not. This kind of postmortem makes me think that I should strive more in the future in term of studying and working. Yeah, I am still thinking on how are the other brothers can organize their time even they are final year students, graduate students in which they have more responsibilities and works than I am. But they can give all commitments for every event and other activities in their life as a UBC student. 

        Maybe they have a very strong connection with Allah SWT in which I am struggling to obtain that level. Allah, the Creator of the world can give strength to who ever He wants whether in term of intellectual strength and physical strength. That's why I need to improve my connection with the Creator by leaving all bad stuffs that I have been doing and get closer to Allah SWT. Allah is the One who can help me in my academic life and the One who can ease my understanding on engineering practice. 

Malam Hari di Downtown Vancouver

           The night seems dark and cold and I am still at A&W located at waterfront,downtown studying materials science. There were three Canadian women right in front of me chatting something about their life. But I am not interested to listen to their chat. Tonight is the Friday night. The awesome night where everybody will get out and enjoy their night with their friends after having through a hectic week of life as a student. Previously, I don't think that I gonna study the materials science as I am tired studying the whole night which is the night before.

           After fajr which is this morning, I quickly rushed to the bus loop taking bus 99 and straight to Granville. I woke Syrol and Sahli up for their fajr prayer and then I laid on the bed and get into sleep. A few hours later, Sahli woke me up for the Jumaah prayer and we quickly get to Vancouver Mosque, Cambie. 

           I met Uncle Hanif, the Malaysian Consulate General and Pak Indra, my last landlord. We have a chance to get the briyani and Sahli told me that he gonna get to NoFrills to buy some stuffs. As a friend, I just get to the store with him and help him carrying the bag. Then, we get to Blenz Coffee, having my favourite Hazelnut Cappucino which costed me CAD 4.00. Arriving at my house after that and I quickly picked up my engineering notes for a few hours before getting tired with that. I planned to get to sleep after that but the other housemates are playing Counterstrike and they were shouting as they were in the real war. It disturbed me till I couldn't get into sleep. Then, with anger, I picked up my notes and rushed to downtown and studying for an hour at Tim  Hortons. Suddenly the staffs told me that the cafe were closing and I walked to the waterfront station and found out that A&W restaurant was opening 24 hours tonight.

               That is why I am still here at A&W because of the anger at my housemates.Previously, they told me that if I want to study, I should keep my music's volume low but right now they are defying their own-made-law by playing computer games with a very loud sound while they knew that I was studying right in front of them. They did't have any sense of respect upon me and of course, I was very angry upon their reaction.

              While last night, I saw a friend of mine, cik Farhana, a chemical engineering student studying at Irving library too. Maybe she has exam today. While, I was reading the text book at Irving in order to increase my understanding on the topics covered in the lecture. Studying is part of my life throughout this semester as I am in materials engineering where I need a really good understanding on the concept of the materials.I succeeded to go through this first semester and survive all the midterms. Yeay, I know that I am at UBC, the top 30th university in the world, The lecturers have a very high expectation on the performance of the students and I know that all of my engineering lecturers are the professionals engineering, had been working in the industry and had done so many researches.

          And now, I can see a few teenagers, boys and girls having their dinner at this restaurant. Actually, I prefer to be alone to achieve this kind of calmness where I can think and plan for my future. I try to ponder my purpose of life, my purpose of creation, my life as a student, my future with my wife-to-be and my career. Too much stuffs to ponder and sometimes I just need to have a chat with my parents to share my thought and vision. Having a vision on life is  meant  for everyone. Sometimes, I try to catch a glimpse of my past moment of life, the life in high school and Taylor's College  Yeay, I am a different Harith since I reached Canada. Being open and accepting the difference within me taught me that everyone is different.That is the fact.For right now, I just need to know on how to deal with the other people of different background and fit my life within their life

The First Weeks of the Fall 2012

Salam

Currently, I am the Buchanan building and just completing my "Webwork" assignment for Multivariable calculus which is about 31 questions. I am still waiting for the next class which is Material Science and I just realized that I have quiz next week and I need to get prepared to the fullest in order to excel in this subject.

Yeah..material science is kind like the introduction to materials engineering as I have been learning about materials composition, atomic bonding, Hooke's Law, Modulus of elasticity, Tensile Strength. The awesome part is about the tensile testing where I just know that fracture of material occurs when the materials is stretched exceeding the toughness limit. Yeah...

After that, I would have the multi-variable calculus class which is mainly about calculus in 3D and how do you connects the calculus concept to the 3D Vector-Space. It is like you need to have a very good imagination on each kind of geometry for the subject. Learning about paraboloid, ellipses and sphere requires you to look at the certain functions in three dimensions.

Next, the Friday prayer would be held at Totem Park ball room and the glad thing is that I could see many new faces over there as I have just meet a Malay guy transferring from Okanagan campus and he is doing Mechanical Engineering in UBC just like Syrol and Akmal. The interesting part is that he is not from Malaysia, he is from Brunei Darussalam, the country that is popular with their wealthy economic development due to the oil and gas industry over there.

shoutul humaira

Vancouver Summer 2012

Enjoy!!!
A Must Visit Location :
Downtown Vancouver
Gastown
North Vancouver
Stanley Park
Granville Island
False Creek

Shoutul Humaira

Virgin Galactic

The Spaceship Company (TSC) is a new aerospace production company, founded by Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Group and Scaled Composites, which is building a fleet of commercial spaceships and launch aircraft with the intention of making widespread space travel a reality. TSC’s initial launch customer is Virgin Galactic, which has contracted to purchase five SpaceShipTwos and two WhiteKnightTwos. To meet Virgin Galactic’s requirements, TSC has contracted Scaled Composites to develop and build prototypes of WK2 and SS2, of which TSC started full-scale production in 2008.

SpaceShipTwo uses all the same basic technology, carbon composite construction and design as SpaceShipOne. However it is around twice as large as that vehicle and will carry six passengers and two pilots. It is 60ft long with a 90" diameter cabin which is similar in size to a Falcon 900 executive jet albeit with no floor dissecting the cabin allowing maximum room for the astronauts to float in zero gravity. Each passenger gets the same seating position with two large windows: WINDOW SIZE one side window and one overhead, so that, if you don't want to float free in space, and you'd rather just remain in your seat, you still get a great chance to see the view. No more squabbling over who has the best seat!

The spaceship can be thought of as an air launched glider with a rocket motor and a couple of extra systems for spaceflight. Just like any conventional flying machine, it requires aerodynamic forces to provide its stability and control which, clearly, it only has whilst in the atmosphere. In space it follows a purely ballistic trajectory, but here it can use small thrusters known as the reaction control system (RCS) which allow the pilots to maneuver the vehicle in space and provide a changing view for the passenger astronauts

 Source : http://www.virgingalactic.com