Egypt: Nanotechnology Comes to AUC
This article details research being carried out at the Yousef Jameel Science and Technology Research Center (YJSTRC) at The American University in Cairo (AUC), Egypt, in the nanoscience and other technology-oriented fields. AUC says their new research includes “…the development of novel diagnostic tests for sensitive detection of the hepatitis C virus; detection of cancer [...]
Why Performance Management Matters
Upstream oil and gas exploration and production is a skill-based industry made up of highly trained individuals, and its use of advanced technologies and computerization is unmatched. Yet there is pressing demand in the upstream, as in other industries, to move away from point solutions and over-reliance on spreadsheets.
This need is exacerbated for the upstream [...]
Clean up time
Day 8 (9/7/09) - Thursday
Not much research work today, but the research group cleaned up the lab. The lab is getting better and nicer. We threw away all the junks and other old stuffs.
Later in the afternoon, visited a home stay for Prof. Jahanmiri with Zura and Iman (his ex-student). The house is located in [...]
Broken quartz tube…
Day 6 (7/7/09) - Tuesday
We run the experiment using a used/old quartz reactor in a small tube furnace. Temperature was set to be at 30o Celsius. GC-TCD was already running fine, in standby mode to be injected with the gaseous from the glycerol reaction. We saw the viscous liquid moving slowly - flow rate of [...]
Experimental Rig Set Up
Day 6 (6/7/09) - Monday
It’s a new week and my jobs continue…
-Met my Prof for the first time as a Ph.D student. Discusses few things regarding faculty jobs and some research job as well.
-Met my friend Tun and Mr. Amin (the supplier) at lab to discuss about the quartz reactor we plan to use for [...]
Equipments and Experimental Rig
Day 3 (3/7/09) - Friday
It’s my third day as a student. I have read some papers (technical papers and not news papers). I was in the lab discussing and thinking how to set up my experimental rig. I’m going to use few of the parts, connections and tubings that are available in the lab. So, [...]
I’m now a Ph.D student
I’m going to dedicated this blog to record my Ph.D in chemical engineering journey. I’m doing my Ph.D in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and possibly will undergo a research attachment in Helsinki University, Finland.
Day 1 (1/7/09)
Ph.D registration at Dewan Sultan Iskandar, UTM. I never expected that the amount of student registering for post graduate study be [...]
