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2nd ICOR-TVET (2018), HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

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‘Leveraging TVET’


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Contents

Message from the CEO of IPN Education Group ii

Message from the Director General of DPCCE iii

Message from the Director of Research and Innovation Centre iv

Message from the Co-Chairman of the Programme v

Organizing Committees vi

Conference Venue vii

Event Schedule ix

List of Abstract xx


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Main Organizer

Message from the CEO of IPN Education Group

TVET Studies. ICOR-TVET 2018 is a collaboration between Malaysian Polytechnic and IPN

Education Group.

IPN Education Group engaged in promoting and enhancing dialogue in education among the

institution in the field of Business, Art, Social Science, Management, Education, Science,

Technology, Engineering and any other related field. Through IPN Education Group, we bring

together institutions, bodies and organizations from different countries of the world for

discussion and cooperation.

Working with Malaysian Polytechnic is an opportunity not to be missed as it will provide an

excellent platform for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and information. It is believed that

this event could help to promote or foster cooperation between these two parties. I would

like to add my best wishes for great success for the conference.

Dato’ Syed Azuan Bin Syed Ahmad Al-Idrus D.I.M.P

Chief Executive Officer

IPN Education Group


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Message from the Director General of DPCCE

First, I would like to personally welcome each of you to the 2nd

International Conference on

Research in TVET Studies (ICOR-TVET 2018). Definitely, It is an exciting time for studies in

TVET community as we continue to grow and adapt, remaining always adaptable, motivated and

responsive towards the revolution of TVET throughout the region. Our organisation is

confronting a time of many changes and we are meeting these changes during a time of larger

nation-wide and global change. The world of TVET studies is an exciting area in which to work

and study, and we will continue to meet and bring inspired people together in reputable

conference like this, to ensure our Department of Polytechnics and Community College

Education (DPCCE) remains at the cutting edge.

We are transforming the way we operate to improve continuously our ability to innovate and

enhance latest technologies, engage with reputable industries partners as well as improve life

via the utilisation of technologies relevant to TVET. Besides DPCCE, our strategic partners such

as IPN Education Group as well other relevant institutions and organisations have continued to

meet the challenges of our field and to excel despite setbacks. We should all be very proud of

where we are today and excited about where we are headed.

Finally, I would like to thank each of your for attending our conference and bringing your

expertise to our gathering. Each and every one of you, as technologists, academicians,

researchers, scientist or engineers, have the vision, the knowledge, the wherewithal and the

experience to help us pave our way into the future. You are truly our greatest asset today and

tomorrow, and we could not accomplish what we do without your support and leadership.

Throughout this conference, I ask you to stay engaged, keep us proactive and help us shape the

future of TVET studies. My personal respect and thanks goes out to all of you.

Prof. Dato’ Ts. Dr. Mohd Ismail Bin Abd. Aziz

Director General

Department of Polytechnics and Community College Education

Ministry of Education Malaysia (Higher Education)


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Message from the Director of Research and Innovation

Centre

Assalamualaikum and a warm welcome to the 2nd

International Conference on Research in

TVET (Technical Vocational Education and Training) Studies (ICOR-TVET 2018). This

conference continues to be hosted by collaboration between IPN Education Group and

Polytechnic Malaysia. It is organized to respond to demands from policy-makers, educators and

other stakeholders for global debates, knowledge and experience sharing, and changing ideas, in

line with ‘Leveraging TVET’ via the Malaysian Polytechnic Education System.

Globally, TVET is a well-known concept. In realizing our vision to be the leading-edge TVET

institution, it is important that we seek the best ways to improve the educational and training

opportunities for our youth through our TVET system. Hence, TVET signals the importance of

integrating formal education with practical training as we need to achieve the link to the labor

market and industry. The world of work requires new skills; not only job-specific skills but also

creative entrepreneurial and digital skills. Ensuring that our youth is not left behind must remain

at the heart of our TVET education and training policies.

I am confident that this Conference will provide a unique platform for knowledge and experience

sharing, reflection and debates on redesigning the landscape of TVET as it invites TVET

scholars, practitioners, decision makers and stakeholders from all parts of society throughout

the world. It is hope that the Conference results significant outcomes that will contribute to

regional and global educational development that will be driven by TVET.

Best wishes for a successful conference. I look forward to welcome all participants to the

Conference in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Thank You.

Dr. Ishak Bin Mohamad

Director

Research and Innovation Centre

Department of Polytechnics and Community College Education


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Message from the Co-Chairman of the Programme

Assalamualaikum w.b.t

It gives me great pleasure to welcome all of the distinguished speakers and participants to the

2nd International Conference on Research in TVET (Technical Vocational Education and

Training) Studies (ICOR-TVET 2018). I would also like to welcome all colleagues and friends of

the organizing committee in cooperation between IPN Education Group and Polytechnic

Malaysia.

ICOR-TVET 2018 is hoped to provide spaces for sparking new ideas and innovation efforts. It is

an absolute necessary to improve our educational and training opportunities for our young

generations, which are critical to our national development. With the arrival of the Industry 4.0,

we must advocate for rethinking and redesigning TVET to enhance its role in developing more

advance and fitting societies.

As Co-Chairman, I hope that the Conference will be able to provide a forum platform for

knowledge and experience exchange. The Conference will hope to bring TVET scholars,

practitioners, decision makers, and stakeholders from all parts of the world to share their

knowledge, ideas and critical analysis with both their local and international peers.

Welcome to the 2nd ICOR-TVET 2018 and have a great conference!

Dr Mohd Zahari Bin Ismail

Director

Shah Alam Polytechnic


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ORGANISING COMMITTEE

Patron Prof. Dato‟ Ts Dr Mohd Ismail Bin Abd Aziz Director General, DPCCE

Advisor Ts. Dr. Mohammad Naim Bin Yaakub Deputy Director General

(Planning), DPCCE

Chairman Dato‟ Syed Azuan Bin Syed Ahmad Al-Idrus CEO of IPN Education Group

Co Chairman Dr Ishak Bin Mohamad Director, Research &

Innovation Center, DPCCE

Dr Mohd Zahari Bin Ismail Director, PSA

Mr. Abdul Malek Bin Hassan Director, PTSS

Mr. Zairon Bin Mustapha Director, PUO

Mr. Mohd Noor Bin Shahudin Director, POLIMAS

Dr. Norhayati Binti Zakaria Director, PBS

Mr. Mohd Fisal Bin Haroon Director, PBU

Deputy Co

Chairman

Cs Dr Saifuddin Kumar Bin Abdullah Deputy Director, Research &

Innovation Center, DPCCE

Mdm. Roseliza Binti Dato‟ Shaari C.A.(M) Deputy Director (Academic),

PTSS

Mr. Muhammad Zubir Bin Mohd Hanafiah Deputy Director (Academic),

PUO

Dr. Norhayati Binti Ibrahim Deputy Director (Academic),

PSA

Secretary Mdm. Hawariyah Binti Rahim Head of RnD Unit, PTSS

Members Dr. Salmi Binti Che Meh Head of RnD Unit, PSP

Mdm. Syamsiah Binti Hussin Head of RnD Unit, PBU

Dr. Syaiful Baharee Bin Jaafar RnD Unit, PTSB

Mdm. Nurolhuda Binti Mohd Noor Head of RnD Unit, POLIMAS

Mdm. Nurul Faezah Binti Ismail IPN Education Group


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Definition of Key Terms:

* DPCCE – Department of Polytechnic and Community College Education.

* MOHE - Ministry of Higher Education.

* PTSS - Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin..

* PSA – Politeknik Shah Alam

* PBS - Politeknik Banting * PBU - Politeknik Balik Pulau. * PUO – Politeknik Ungku Omar

* PSP - Politeknik Seberang Perai.

* POLIMAS - Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu‟adzam Shah.

* PTSB - Politeknik Sultan Sultanah Bahiyah.

* KK - Community College.


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ABOUT ICOR-TVET

The International Conference on Research in TVET Studies (ICOR-TVET) is an annual event

organized by IPN Education Group in collaboration with the Department of Polytechnic and

Community College Education (DPCCE), and is being held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam this

year.

ICOR-TVET is a unique platform for technologist, researchers, educators, engineers

and postgraduate students from across the globe to share their ideas, experiences, and research on

Technical Vocational Education and Training. It also provides a venue for the discussion of

practical challenges faced in TVET as well as the possible solution that can be adopted.

CONFERENCE VENUE FOR ICOR-TVET 2018

Equatorial Hotel, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam,.

Registration desk – foyer

Conference room (parallel session) :

i. Ballroom

ii. Room No. 1

iii. Room No. 2

iv. Room No. 3


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EVENT SCHEDULE

DATE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2018

DAY: MONDAY

TIME: VIETNAM TIME

TIME TENTATIVE LOCATION

7.30 am – 8.00 am Registration of Participants

Foyer

8.30 am – 10.30 am Paper Presentation 1 - Parallel

session

Ballroom

Room No. 1

Room No. 2

Room No. 3

10.30 am – 11.00 am Coffee Break

11.00 am – 12.30 pm

Opening Ceremony

12.30 pm – 2.00 pm Lunch

2.00 pm - 4.00 pm Paper Presentation 2 - Parallel

session

Room No. 1

Room No. 2

Room No. 3

4.00 pm – 4.30 pm Coffee Break

4.30 pm – 6.00 pm Paper Presentation 3 - Parallel

session

Room No. 1

Room No. 2

Room No. 3


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PAPER PRESENTATION SLOT 1 (Parallel Session 1) 8.30 am – 10.30 am

Venue: Ballroom Session Chair: Dr. Nurul Ajleaa Abdul Rahman

(12 minutes present & 3 Minutes Q&A)

No Paper ID Presenter 1 029-icortvet The 4th Industrial Revolution: The Potential of Web 2.0 Technology to

enhance English Proficiency among Polytechnic Students in TVET Program

in the 21st Century Skills

Nurul Ajleaa bt Abdul Rahman, Zainah bt Othman and Ahmad Azlan bin Ab.

Aziz

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Selangor, Malaysia

2 032-icortvet Determinant Factors of Islamic Financial Literacy Among College Students (Malaysian Polytechnics)

Sazana Ab Rahman, Ziehanie binti Shafiai and Zakiah bt Shafie

Politeknik Ungku Omar, Perak Malaysia 3 023-icortvet Study on the Extensive Use of Multimedia Element in Teaching Materials

Among Lecturers in General Studies Department

Nor Fa’alina Binti Abu Hassan, Rozalita Binti Saupi

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis Malaysia

4 011-icortvet Honoring the Teaching Profession: The Untold Story of Oppression and

Dissatisfaction of Technical and Vocational Education and Training

(TVET) Instructors

Muhd Khaizer Omar, Abdullah Mat Rashid, Mohd Hazwan Mohd Puad, Ady Hameme Nor Azman

Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia 5 038-icortvet Web Designers’ Opinions on Visual Elements in Educational Website

Hafizah Abdullah@Ali, Ruziana Mohamad Rasli and Haizatul Akma Hazali

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Perlis Malaysia

6 039-icortvet IR 4.0 Readiness: Big Data Sources, Issues and Challenges

Mime Azrina Jaafar, Husniza Husni, Yuhanis Yusof


7 056-icortvet Integrating Cash Waqf : Collaboration Between Bank Muamalat Malaysia

Berhad (BMMB) And Perbadanan Waqf Selangor (PWS)

Zainora Bt Hayari, Nur Riana Bt Abd Rahim and Multazimah Bt Md Daud

Politeknik Ungku Omar, Malaysia


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Venue: Room 1 Session Chair: Dr. Aziam Mustafa


No Paper ID Presenter 1 051-icortvet Factors Influencing Business Performance among Mega Farmers’ Market

Traders

Aziam Mustafa, Zalina Ismail, Tuty Kamis, Muhammad Hashim Ahmad, Norlaila Hassan and Siti Azura Abu Hassan

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Malaysia

2 021-icortvet In consistenciesin NQF of SAARC Countries

Engr. Zahed Ahmed Chowdhury

Polytechnic Institute, Bangladesh

3 001-icortvet Women Directors in Malaysian Boardroom

Hafizah Abd-Mutalib, Nurul Huda Yahya, Roseliza Shaari

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah, Malaysia

4 054-icortvet Halal Logo Understanding and Social Factors to Food Product Purchase for

Diploma in Food Services and Halal Practices Students at Tourism and

Hospitality Department Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis,

Malaysia

Azhan Bin Nawi and Juwita Binti Mohd Johan


5 009-icortvet Quality and Tourists’ Satisfaction of Penang Delicacies in Predicting

Tourists’ Revisit Intention

Y. Atikahambar, A.Zainal, M. Rahayu

Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah (UniSHAMS),

Malaysia

6 049-icortvet The Effect of Marketing Strategies on The Performance of Travel

Insurance

Aziam Mustafa, Azura Mohd, Rohayah Adiman, and Khadijah Yusof, Ainiza

Silim, Maziharita Mohamood


7 047-icortvet The use internet of things (IOT) among Diploma games art students of

Selayang Community College

Nor Huzani Khamis, Raazizah binti Hussain

Kolej Komuniti Selayang Selangor Malaysia


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Venue: Room 2 Session Chair: Dr. Segar Rajamanickam


No Paper ID Presenter 1 004-icortvet Investigation on Mutual Coupling of Aperture Coupled Cylindrical

Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA)

Segar Rajamanickam, Rasammal Rasappan, Noazri Bin Bakhari

Politeknik Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang Malaysia

2 006-icortvet 28 GHz Microstrip Patch Antennas for Future 5G

Safpbri Johari, Muhammad Abdul Jalil, and Shaifol Ifrad Ibrahim

Politeknik Ungku Omar, Perak Malaysia

3 018-icortvet Measurement of Dielectric and Thermal Properties of Leucaena

Leucocephala Bio composite substrate with Different Composition Mixture

Azlan Aziz, Azizi Mursyidi, Rozimah Tahir and Nurul Ajleaa Abdul Rahman


4 003-icortvet Effect of Alumina and Halloysite clay on Electrical tree growth in Silicone

Rubber Nanocomposite

M. Hafiz, C.M.Salmi, M.Kamarol, M.Mariatti

Politeknik Seberang Perai, Pulau Pinang Malaysia

5 040-icortvet The Effectiveness of Graphic Design Guideline Mobile Application for Designing Visual Artwork

Haizatul Akma Hazali, Hafizah Abdullah @ Ali, Ruziana Mohamad Rasli


6 035-icortvet Development of Visualization System of Knowledge Necessary for Solving

Mathematical Questions

Akira Nakamura, Tomoshige Kudo and Keita Nishioka

Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Nonoich, Japan

7 075-icortvet Solar Tree

Madya Mastika binti Ahmad and Amirah binti Mohd Arif


8 068-icortvet Skills and Knowledge That a Manager Should Have to Be More Competent

within today’s Environment

Wan Hasbullah Bin Wan Mohamed, Ahmad Syarifuddin Che Abd Aziz

Politeknik Sultan Azlan Shah, Malaysia


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Venue: Room 3 Session Chair: Dr. Ahmad Razimi Mat Lazim


No Paper ID Presenter 1 083-icortvet The Study of Safety and Health Culture of Construction Project through

Academic Institution in TVET Platform

Nazamuddin Bin Ahmad Razali, Prof Madya Dr. Abdul Mutalib Bin Leman,

Mohd Khairulhazlan Bin Mohamed Zam & Ahmad Razimi Bin Mat Lazim

Politeknik Nilai, Malaysia

2 070-icortvet Analysis of Machining Pit by using Electrical Discharge Machine Die

Sinking

Md Razak Daud, Wan Nor Shela Ezwane Wan Jusoh, Syahrullail Samion

Politeknik Tuanku Sultanah Bahiyah, Malaysia

3 079-icortvet The Design and Analysis of Innovative Automatic Portable Document

Carrier

Amirah Mohd Arif and Madya Mastika Ahmad

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Azizi Shah, Malaysia

4 069-icortvet Yield Improvement Study on a Reduced Size Blank Metal Sheet for

Stamping Product

Izwan Hamid, Sharuddin Mohd Dahuri, Syed Fahmi Syed Putra


5 076-icortvet To Determine the Noise Level at the Wood Based Technology Workshop in

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah Alam, Selangor.

Rozimah Tahir and Maitlili Sivakumar


6 073-icortvet Automatic Meat Slicing Machine

Nor’ain Senin, Noorhidayah Ramli, Mai Noor Asiah Tan Zalilah


7 067-icortvet The Deposition of Airborne Brake Wear Particle Emissions to the Effect of

Brake Friction Performance

Ahmad Razimi Mat Lazim, Mohd Zin Bin Hassan, Abd Rahim Abu Bakar and

Mohd Kameil Abdul Hamid


8 072-icortvet Students’ Satisfaction Through the Usability of 2d Virtual Agent

Multimedia Quiz App

Vicneas Muniady, Ahmad Zamzuri Mohamad Ali

Sultan Azlan Shah Polytechnic, Malaysia


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PAPER PRESENTATION SLOT 2

(Parallel Session 5) 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Venue: Room 1 Session Chair: Dr. Fadhilah Mohd Nor


No Paper ID Presenter 1 048-icortvet A Knowledge Sharing Initiatives Model for Quantity Surveying Firms in the

Malaysian Construction Industry

Mohd Nor. F, Othman Mohamed, Mahanim Hanid, Maznah Othman, Kho Mei Ye

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Selangor Malaysia 2 044-icortvet Employability Skills Through Industrial Training: Employers’ perspective

Mohd Fadhli Ahmad, Mazrul Hisyam and Masniza Yusof


3 014-icortvet Practices of Managing Tax Records Keeping among the Academic Staff

Elyn Mohd Ridzwan, Hasnida Ibrahim

Politeknik METrO Johor Bahru, Malaysia

4 019-icortvet TVET Program in Malaysian Polytechnicwith Stuffle beam Cipp Model: A Case of Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (PTSS)

Bustamam Bin Bonari, Norul Huda Abdul Razak, Nur Iliza bt Misnan, Nurzakiah Bt Mohamed Bakhari

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perli,s Malaysia

5 033-icortvet The effectiveness of Using Geo Gebra Software in Teaching Angle in Circle

Syamsiah Hussin, Jasni Mohd Yusoff, Siti Salamah Mustaffa and Dr. Nurazlina

Mohamed Mokmin

Politeknik Balik Pulau, Malaysia 6 007-icortvet The Validation of Halal Awareness and Halal Practice Instrument among

Halal Restaurant Food Handlers

Rose Faida Ahmad Zabidi, Mazlina Jamaludin


7 060-icortvet E-Learning in TVET Institution: A Survey

Juhaidie Zamani Bin Jamaludin, Muhammad Zubir Bin Mohd Hanifah


8 065-icortvet The Relationship Between Social Media and The Productivity among

Government Servants

Moriza binti Fikri, Wan Mustaffa bin Wan Yusoff , Amierah binti Aziz



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PAPER PRESENTATION SLOT 2 (Parallel Session 6) 2.00 pm – 4.00 pm

Venue: Room 2 Session Chair: Dr. Muhamad Sani bin Buang


No Paper ID Presenter 1 024-icortvet Investigation Effect of Spring Back on Bending Test of (DP590) Dual Phase

Steel

Muhamad Sani bin Buang, Zalaida bt Talib, Dr Norhayati bt. Zakaria, Dr

Shahrul Azam bin Abdullah, Hashim bin Abdullah

Politeknik Banting, Selangor Malaysia

2 008-icortvet An Investigation on Benefits and Future Expectation of Industrialised

Building System (IBS) Implementation in Construction Practices

Hassan Ismail, Zainal Abidin Akasah, Sasitharan Nagapan & Azme Khamis

Politeknik Melaka Malaysia

3 012-icortvet Polynomial Interpolation in Matlab

Siti Hawa Aziz, Zuliana Bt Abdul Mutalib


4 037-icortvet Investigation and Failure Analysis for Camshaft

Abd Halim Bin Mahat, Mohamad Hafiz Bin Saleh and Mohd „Akashah Bin

Fauthan

Politeknik Melaka, Malaysia

5 015-icortvet Exploring Engineering Students’ views on Learning English for TVET

using MOOC

S. Thivviyah Sanmugam, Liyana Ibrahim

Politeknik Banting Selangor Malaysia

6 010-icortvet Effect of Windscreen Glass Waste Powder (WGWP) Mortar on Water

Absorption

Nik Anisah Nik Ngah, Mohamad Awang, Kartini Kamaruddin

Kolej Komuniti Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Malaysia

7 017-icortvet Introduction to Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): The Issues and

Challenges Using MOOC as A Teaching and Learning Method in

Malaysian Polytechnic

Rozilawati Shaari, Yusdi Ismail dan Roseline Anak Koki

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis, Malaysia

8 066-icortvet The Effects of Pad Wear on Disc Brake Squeal

Ahmad Razimi Mat Lazim, Mohd Taufik Rezza Bin Mohd Foudzi, Abd Rahim

Abu Bakar and Mohd Kameil Abdul Hamid



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Venue: Room 3 Session Chair: Dr. Dzulkarnain Musa


No Paper ID Presenter 1 013-icortvet Market Orientation Practices among Micro-Sized Enterprises: A

Descriptive Evidence using MKTOR Scale

Dzulkarnain Musa, Muhd Zaki Mustapha & Azrul Nizam Abdul Aziz


2 027-icortvet Factors that Influence Anxiety in Learning English Speaking Skills Among

PTSS Students

Siti Nurfirdaus Mohd Nasir, Nur Hartini Harun


3 005-icortvet A study of APACC Integrated Management System (AIMS) in planning,

implementing and reviewing for continously improvement in preparation

for the APACC accreditation audit

Normah Cheman, Munawira binti Saharani, Zaiton bt Arifin

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah, Kedah Malaysia

4 053-icortvet Industry Participation in Assessing Work Based Learning (WBL) Students of Diploma in Video and Film Study (DDV)

Azizah Siron

Politeknik METrO Tasek Gelugor, Malaysia

5 045-icortvet Students Perception to Aero Intel Mobile Application in Learning Aircraft Airframe

Norisza Dalila Ismail

Politeknik Banting Selangor, Malaysia

6 052-icortvet Employment Trends of Graduates in Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic

Ruziana Mohamad Rasli, Azmiah Aziz, Emy Hazlinda Muhammad Ridzwan, Roznim Mohamad Rasli

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Perlis Malaysia 7 063-icortvet Gamification in Programming: Does Gamification Increase Student’s

Motivation?

Rosmawati Jaafar and Noor Hanim Ismail


8 071-icortvet The Development of A Power Recycling Prototype for Renewable Energy

Using Dc Motor

Wan Nor Shela Ezwane Wan Jusoh, Md Razak Daud, Mohamad Sulhi Bin

Mohamad



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Venue: Room 1 Session Chair: Dr. Syaiful Baharee Jaafar


No Paper ID Presenter 1 055-icortvet Are Soft Skills Required for Accounting Students in Future Career?

Syaiful Baharee Jaafar


2 043-icortvet Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Malaysia

Mahirah bt Rafie, Saiful bin Mohamed Shuib


3 020-icortvet English for Occupational Purposes: The Needs and Expectations of The

Technical Instructors at A Malaysian Polytechnic

Santhy Subbarau

Politeknik Banting, Selangor, Malaysia

4 046-icortvet Using Game and Constructivist Approach to Improve Students’ Mental

Model in Programming

Hawariyah Rahim, Halimah Badioze Zaman, Azlina Ahmad, Nazlena

Mohamad Ali


5 041-icortvet The Effectiveness of Active Learning among Information Technology

Student in Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic

Ruziana Mohamad Rasli, Mime Azrina Jaafar, Hafizah Abdullah @ Ali


6 082-icortvet Promoting Entrepreneurial Competencies via Education: Is Malaysian

Polytechnic Entrepreneurship Education Effective?

Asliza Yusoff



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Venue: Room 2 Session Chair: Dr. Ahmad Firdaus Mohd Noor


No Paper ID Presenter 1 030-icortvet The Elements of Interpersonal Skills Practiced by Excellent Lecturers of

Islamic Education in Support of the Implementation of TVET in

Polytechnics

Ahmad Firdaus Mohd Noor, Amir Fariz Che Man


2 059-icortvet Students’ Achievement in Technical and Vocational Education and

Training (TVET) Learning Outcomes for Dpb5023 Introduction to

Research Methodology Course

Nurul Huda Binti Yahya, Noorashikin bt Harun @ Che Ani, Multazimah binti

Mat Daud

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah, Malaysia

3 042-icortvet Nurturing Creativity in Tourism Project – A Case in PTSS

Norlili Juwita Arshad


4 064-icortvet The Importance of Takaful (Islamic Insurance) Among Commerce

Department Staff In POLIMAS

Multazimah binti Mat Daud and Noorashikin binti Harun

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah

5 050-icortvet Innate Factors: The Importance on Earnings Quality in Malaysia

Laila binti Musa and Azizee bin Aziz

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Malaysia 6 074-icortvet User Perceived Sustainablity Performance of Black Air Gun (BAG)

Zarinah Binti Zaini, Tuty Binti Kamis, Dr Faudzi Bin Muhammad



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PAPER PRESENTATION SLOT 3

(Parallel Session 10) 4.30 pm – 6.00 pm

Venue: Room 3 Session Chair: Dr. Akira Nakamura


No Paper ID Presenter 1 061-icortvet Open Educational Resources (OER): Implementation in Graduate

Employability Skills Training

Muhammad Zubir Bin Mohd Hanifah and Jamri Bin Kasim

Politeknik Ungku Omar, Malaysia 2 062-icortvet Design and Development of Gunung Lang Temperature and Humidity

Monitoring System using LoRA Technology

Hasnim Harun and Shazarin Ahmad Zainuddin


3 031-icortvet Pneumatically Powered Toolbox (PPT)

Amaluddin Salihin bin Muhamad, Ibrahim bin Burhan and Rosmawati binti

Othman

Politeknik Banting Selangor Malaysia

4 078-icortvet Premier Polytechnics Brand Image: A Cross-Sectional Study

Noordini binti Abdullah


5 084-icortvet Development of E-ACTIVETRANS for urban cycling

Bibie Sara Salleh, Zalina Ismail

Polytechynic of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah

6 058-icortvet Investigation on vegetable growth using artificial sunlight for indoor

farming

Kesavan Ulagnathen, Mu Azzrol B. Manohar, Mohd Sharizan B. Mokhtar,

Ahmad Nizam B. Mohd Jihan, Nur Azlyeza Bt Rahman

Politeknik Sandakan Sabah, Sabah, Malaysia


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List Of Abstract

Num Title Page

1 The 4th Industrial Revolution: The Potential of Web 2.0 Technology to Enhance English Proficiency among Polytechnic Students in TVET Program in the 21st Century Skills

1

2 Determinant Factors of Islamic Financial Literacy Among College Students (Malaysian Polytechnics)

3 Study on the Extensive Use of Multimedia Element in Teaching

Materials Among Lecturers in General Studies Department, Politeknik

Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis

1

4 Honoring the Teaching Profession: The Untold Story of Oppression

and Dissatisfaction of Technical and Vocational Education and

Training (TVET) Instructors

2

5 Web Designers‟ Opinions on Visual Elements in Educational Website

2

6 IR 4.0 Readiness: Big Data Sources, Issues and Challenges

3

7 Integrating Cash Waqf :

Collaboration between Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad (BMMB)

and Perbadanan Waqf Selangor (PWS)

4

8 Factors Influencing Business Performance among Mega Farmers‟ Market Traders

4

9 Inconsistencies in NQF of SAARC Countries

5

10 Women Directors in Malaysian Boardroom

6

11 Halal Logo Understanding and Social Factors to Food Product Purchase for Diploma in Food Services and Halal Practices Students at Tourism and Hospitality Department Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis, Malaysia

6

12 Quality and Tourists‟ Satisfaction of Penang Delicacies in Predicting

Tourists‟ Revisit Intention

7

13 The Effect of Marketing Strategies on the Performance of Travel Insurance

7

14 The Use Internet of Things (IOT) among Diploma Games Art

Students of Selayang Community College

8


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15 Investigation on Mutual Coupling of Aperture Coupled Cylindrical

Dielectric Resonator Antenna (DRA)

8

16 28 GHz Microstrip Patch Antennas for Future 5G

9

17 Measurement of Dielectric and Thermal Properties of Leucaena Leucocephala Bio composite substrate with Different Composition Mixture

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18 Effect of Alumina and Halloysite clay on Electrical tree growth in Silicone Rubber Nanocomposite

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19 The Effectiveness of Graphic Design Guideline Mobile Application for Designing Visual Artwork

10

20 Development of Visualization System of Knowledge Necessary for

Solving Mathematical Questions

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21 Solar Tree

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22 Skills and Knowledge That a Manager Should Have to Be More

Competent Within today‟s Environment

11

23 The Deposition of Airborne Brake Wear Particle Emissions to the

Effect of Brake Friction Performance

12

24 Analysis Of Machining Pit by using Electrical Discharge Machine Die

Sinking

12

25 The Design and Analysis of Innovative Automatic Portable Document Carrier

13

26 Yield Improvement Study on a Reduced Size Blank Metal Sheet for

Stamping Product

13

27 To Determine The Noise Level at The Wood Based Technology

Workshop in Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah

Alam, Selangor.

14

28 Automatic Meat Slicing Machine

14

29 The Study of Safety and Health Culture of Construction Project

through Academic Institution in TVET Platform

15

30 A Knowledge Sharing Initiatives Model for Quantity Surveying Firms

in the Malaysian Construction Industry

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31 Employability Skills Through Industrial Training: Employers‟ 16


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Perspective

32 Practices of Managing Tax Records Keeping among the Academic

Staff

16

33 TVET Program in Malaysian Polytechnic With Stufflebeam Cipp

Model: A Case of Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (PTSS)

17

34 The effectiveness of Using GeoGebra Software in Teaching Angle in Circle

17

35 The Validation of Halal Awareness and Halal Practice Instrument

among Halal Restaurant Food Handlers

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36 E-Learning in TVET Institution : A Survey

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37 The Relationship between Social Media and the Productivity among

Government Servants

19

38 Investigation Effect of Spring Back on Bending Test of (DP590) Dual

Phase Steel

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39 An Investigation on Benefits and Future Expectation of Industrialised Building System (IBS) Implementation in Construction Practices

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40 Polynomial Interpolation in Matlab 20

41 Investigation and Failure Analysis for Camshaft

21

42 Exploring Engineering Students‟ Views on Learning English for

TVET using Mooc

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43 Effect of Windscreen Glass Waste Powder (WGWP) Mortar on Water

Absorption

22

44 Introduction to Massive Open Online Course (MOOC): The Issues and

Challenges Using MOOC as A Teaching and Learning Method in

Malaysian Polytechnic

22

45 The Effects of Pad Wear on Disc Brake Squeal

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46 Market Orientation Practices among Micro-Sized Enterprises: A

Descriptive Evidence using MKTOR Scale

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47 Factors that Influence Anxiety in Learning English Speaking Skills

among PTSS Students

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48 A study of APACC Integrated Management System (AIMS) in 24


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planning, implementing and reviewing for continously improvement in preparation for the APACC accreditation audit

49 Industry Participation in Assessing Work Based Learning (WBL) Students of Diploma in Video and Film Study (DDV)

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50 Students Perception to Aero Intel Mobile Application in Learning Aircraft Airframe

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51 Employment Trends of Graduates in Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin

Polytechnic

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52 Gamification in Programming: Does Gamification Increase Student‟s Motivation?

27

53 The Development of a Power Recycling Prototype for Renewable

Energy using Dc Motor

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54 Are Soft Skills Required for Accounting Students in Future Career?

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55 Public Private Partnership (PPP) in Malaysia

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56 English for Occupational Purposes: The Needs and Expectations of the

Technical Instructors at a Malaysian Polytechnic

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57 Using Game and Constructivist Approach to Improve Students‟ Mental Model in Programming

29

58 The Effectiveness of Active Learning among Information Technology

Student in Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic

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59 Promoting Entrepreneurial Competencies via Education: Is Malaysian Polytechnic Entrepreneurship Education Effective?

30

60 The Elements of Interpersonal Skills Practiced by Excellent Lecturers

of Islamic Education in Support of The Implementation of TVET in

Polytechnics

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61 Students‟ Achievement in Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) Learning Outcomes for Dpb5023 Introduction to Research Methodology Course

31

62 Nurturing Creativity in Tourism Project – A Case In PTSS

32

63 The Importance of Takaful (Islamic Insurance) among Commerce

Department Staff in Polimas

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64 Innate Factors: The Importance on Earnings Quality In Malaysia 33


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65 User Perceived Sustainablity Performance of Black Air Gun (BAG)

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66 Open Educational Resources (OER) : Implementation in Graduate Employability Skills Training

34

67 Design and Development of Gunung Lang Temperature and Humidity Monitoring System using LoRA Technology

34

68 Pneumatically Powered Toolbox (PPT)

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69 Premier Polytechnics Brand Image: A Cross-Sectional Study

35

70 Development of E-ACTIVETRANS for urban cycling

36

71 Investigation on Vegetable Growth using Artificial Sunlight for

Indoor Farming

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72 Students‟ Satisfaction through the Usability of 2d Virtual Agent

Multimedia Quiz App

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The 4th industrial Revolution: The Potential of Web 2.0 Technology to Enhance English Proficiency among

Polytechnic Students in TVET Program in the 21st Century Skills

Nurul Ajleaa bt Abdul Rahman, Zainah bt

Othman and Ahmad Azlan bin Ab. Aziz

Polytechnic Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah

Persiaran Usahawan, Shah Alam, Selangor.

ABSTRACT

The aim of this study was to examine the level of

communication apprehension among first year

engineering students in Polytechnic Malaysia.

Moreover, this study investigated the potential of

the Web 2.0 technology to enhance English

Proficiency among Polytechnic students in TVET

program with the 21st century skills. Web 2.0

technology can be used as an instructional tools

in teaching and learning especially in the TVET

classroom. It provide a tool that has a great

potential to change the existing teaching methods.

To this end, data were collected from the first

semester engineering Polytechnic students in

Selangor. The study design was quasi-

experimental between traditional (control) and

Voki technique (experimental) groups. The

findings indicated that the students perform better

in the post-test compared to the pre-test after the

inclusion of Voki technique in the English

classes. The outcomes from this study presented

that the positive effects of the web 2.0 using Voki

technique. This study revealed that learners can

benefit from web 2.0 technology activities

provided that they are related to their needs and

interests. The findings of this paper represented

that web 2.0 technology allows the lecturers to be

more creative and more effective in their teaching

and it motivates learners to be engaged in the 21st

century especially in TVET classroom activities.

The impact of this studies can be beneficial for

both lecturers and students. The results of this

study showed that students considerably

improved their English proficiency skill and

reduced their communication apprehension.

KEYWORDS: Web 2.0 technology, English

Proficiency, TVET, 21st Century

Determinant Factors of Islamic Financial Literacy among College Students

(Malaysian Polytechnics)

Sazana binti Ab Rahman, Ziehanie binti Shafiai

and Zakiah bt Shafie

Commerce Department, Ungku Omar

Polytechnic

Jalan Raja Musa Mahadi, 31400 Ipoh, Perak,

Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The global financial crisis during 1997 affects

many countries to progressively promoted

financial literacy as an essential financial skill

through numerous global initiatives and became

part and parcel of national strategies of financial

inclusion. The need to increase financial literacy

is important as the economy continues to change.

The importance of financial literacy not only

among adults but also youth or students in order

for them to make significant financial decision as

they transition into adulthood. Previous studies

report that financial literacy levels among

respondents of surveys were alarmingly low in

many countries. The 2008 Great Recession

aftermath, numerous studies were undertaken by

academic researchers in analyzing the factors

affecting the financial literacy of individuals.

Previous studies revealed that financial literacy

among the young was low and strongly related to

socio-demographic characters and family

financial sophistication. In view of these

concerns, this concept paper focused on

suggesting the determinant factors of Islamic

financial literacy among college/university

students such as Polytechnic. Thus, this paper

aims to develop the constructs for Islamic

financial literacy and its determinants, namely

financial knowledge, financial behavior and

financial attitude.

KEYWORDS: Financial Literacy, Islamic

Financial Literacy, Students Financial Literacy


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Study on the Extensive Use of Multimedia

Element in Teaching Materials among

Lecturers in General Studies Department,

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis

Nor Fa’alina Binti Abu Hassan and Rozalita

Binti Saupi

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin,

Pauh Putra, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

The development of technology and multimedia

has had a great impact in education. This study

aims to evaluate the use of multimedia materials

for teaching materials among lecturers in General

Studies Department , Politeknik Tuanku Syed

Sirajuddin (PTSS), Perlis. To achieve this goal,

two objectives were identified; identifying the

extent of multimedia elements used in T&L

materials among lecturers in General Studies

Department and identifying the positive impact

on students' interest in T&L using multimedia

elements. There are 6 multimedia elements

evaluated namely text, graphics, audio, video,

animation and interactivity. The proposed

methodology for this study is the ADDIE model.

The sample of this study were 10 lecturers of

General Studies Department and 50 PTSS

students which were randomly selected. This

study uses questionnaires that was distributed to

the lecturers and students. The findings revealed

that the use of multimedia elements in T&L

among the lecturers was moderate.

KEYWORDS: teaching and learning,

multimedia elements

Honoring the Teaching Profession: The

Untold Story of Oppression and

Dissatisfaction of Technical and

Vocational Education and Training

(TVET) Instructors

Muhd Khaizer Omar1, Abdullah Mat Rashid2,

Mohd Hazwan Mohd Puad3, Ady Hameme Nor

Azman4 1Department of Science and Technical Education,

Universiti Putra Malaysia; [email protected] 2Department of Science and Technical Education,

Universiti Putra Malaysia; [email protected] 3Department of Science and Technical Education,

Universiti Putra Malaysia; [email protected] 4Inspiora Resources;

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Currently, Technical and Vocational Education

and Training (TVET) is one of the most

discussed educational fields. In fact, TVET has

been included in the nation‟s budget especially

for the development of facility and policy

making. Notably, TVET has recently underlined

the significance of teachers‟ preparation program

with regards to the issue of teaching job

dissatisfaction. Purposefully, a mixed-method

design was employed by adopting a convergent

parallel design where both qualitative and

quantitative data were combined in a single

instrument. Results from the narrative

interpretation were derived from the open-ended

qualitative questions. In particular, Qualtrics, an

online-survey form was utilized to collect the

research data. For this study, the target population

comprised of Malaysian training instructors at

TVET educational institutions. Next, a thematic

analysis was employed using the Atlas.ti software

to determine the TVET instructors‟

dissatisfaction factors. Accordingly, six themes

were highlighted: (1) burdened with

administrative tasks, (2) forced to manipulate

students' achievement documentations, (3)

improper planning of TVET programme

implementation, (4) student factor, (5)

inconducive working environment, and (6)

unstable TVET system. Although it was hard to

grasp the essence of the existing scenario, it is

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strongly believed that the findings will spark

much interest from the educational stakeholders,

especially at the TVET division level to modify

the current policy and plan a comprehensive

teachers‟ preparation program. Primarily, the

findings of this study are objectively constructive

to motivate TVET instructors towards creating a

positive image of teaching, besides discarding

any negative conceptions or misaligned goals,

especially in the TVET field.

KEYWORDS: Technical and Vocational

Education and Training (TVET), teacher

retention, job satisfaction, teacher

professionalism

Web Designers’ Opinions on Visual

Elements in Educational Website

Hafizah Abdullah@Ali, Ruziana Mohamad Rasli

and Haizatul Akma Hazali

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, 02600 Pauh

Putra, Perlis, Malaysia ABSTRACT

Visual elements in web design is about applying

the principles to design elements and effectively

brings the elements together in a way that makes

sense. The purpose of this study is to investigate

educational website designer‟s opinions about the

visual elements on the website. In this paper, the

data was collected among the experts and

lecturers which involves in website design. The

data was collected by the structured interview

technique with close ended questions. Sampled

respondents are drawn from northern region

polytechnic of Malaysia that offers information

technology course. Besides, this study analyze on

four main topics which are the importance of the

visual elements‟ in designing educational

website, the problem that web designers faced in

design of visual element, their consideration

properties and their suggestion related to

designing educational website based on visual

elements. This study found that designers agree

that some deficiencies in some aspects of design

elements, but most of web designers agree that

design elements are very important in web

design. This study can be a guideline to design an

educational website which will assist web

designers, educators, and people who are in the

field to gain more knowledge on visual element

in web design.

KEYWORDS: Visual elements, educational

website, web designer, web design

IR 4.0 Readiness: Big Data Sources, Issues

and Challenges

Mime Azrina Jaafar1, Husniza Husni2, Yuhanis

Yusof3 1Department of Information Technology &

Communication, Politeknik Tuanku Syed

Sirajuddin,

Pauh Putra, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia. 2,3School of Computing, Universiti Utara

Malaysia, 06010 Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Industry revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0) is focus on

transforming all individual processes in

computing. Data digitalization in IR 4.0 allows

production to monitor performance, workflow,

management of all machines and access company

record remotely using diversity of electronic and

smart devices like smart phones, tablets, laptops,

TVs and smart watches. Yet, preparing IR 4.0

platform in an industry is very challenging and

requires management to prepare all the nine IR

4.0 components including Big Data. Big Data has

been leads from tremendous growth of data

directed from the increasing number of

communication devices every day. This data

perceives meaningful information that can be

utilized by the industry to improve their product

quality, sales and services. Mostly, Big Data was

aligned in unstructured format and entails

expertise and powerful facilities to decode them.

Hence, a questionnaire has been distributed to 29

respondents which represent IT educators at

PTSS to measure their readiness toward IR 4.0 in

the aspect of Big Data sources, issue and

challenges. This study has proven that there were

variety of data sources can be accessed for data

analytic but private data might cause limitation in

data gathering process as it required access rights


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from data owner. Therefore, encouraging data

sharing between organizations and staffs would

create new ideas and opportunities for future

research on Big Data

KEYWORDS: IR 4.0, Big Data, Unstructured

Data, Visualization

Integrating Cash Waqf :

Collaboration Between Bank Muamalat

Malaysia Berhad (BMMB) and

Perbadanan Waqf Selangor (PWS)

Zainora Bt Hayari, Nur Riana Bt Abd Rahim and

Multazimah Bt Md Daud

Commerce Department, Premier Ungku Omar

Polytechnic,


Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

This paper discusses the collaboration between

Bank Muamalat Malaysia Berhad (BMMB) and

Perbadanan Waqf Selangor (PWS) in integrating

cash waqf management for the maslahah

especially Muslim in Malaysia. It also examines

how these two organizations jointly collaborate

for the purpose of managing Cash Waqf relating

the roles, objectives, issues and challenges and

the sustainability of jointly management

committee between BMMB and PWS. This

successful effort gives a chance to public who do

not have any assets or properties to make cash

contribution in waqf. The respondents of the

study comprised executive and management level

from each organization and institution. The

research focuses on the future planning and

sustainability of BMMB and PWS in ensuring the

continuous increment of the cash waqf fund. This

research was based on qualitative method and the

data was collected directly from the key person in

each organization and institution. The implication

from this study shows that, there is a need for an

effort and plan to ensure the sustainable success

of BMMB and PWS in managing the cash waqf.

The study proposes that either BMMB or PWS

and also industry player should make a

continuous promotion to enhance the public

knowledge to always sustain and increase the

awareness of Cash Waqf.

KEYWORDS: Cash Waqf, cash waqf

management, continuous increment,

sustainability

Factors Influencing Business Performance

among Mega Farmers’ Market Traders

Aziam Mustafa1, Zalina Ismail2, Tuty Kamis3,

Muhammad Hashim Ahmad4,

Norlaila Hassan5and Siti Azura Abu Hassan6

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah,

40150 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

[email protected]; ,

[email protected],[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected], [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Mega Farmers‟ Market do not only sell basic

products in this age, even most traders are

producing and selling goods that are more

appealing to customers in aspects of uniqueness

of each product sales. This is due to the

competition in attaining the desired profit return.

This research focuses on determining the factors

affecting the business performance among Mega

Farmers‟ Market traders in Selangor. The factors

are evaluated according to identified personality

characteristic: financial resources, consumers‟

preferences, product demands, starts up capitals

and number of employees stimulating the

business performance of Mega Farmers‟ Market

traders. 215 traders were selected from two areas

of Mega Farmers‟ Market in Selangor and the

results presented that financial resources and

number of employees hold the greatest impact

upon Mega Farmers‟ Market traders‟ business

performance. Thus, as a Mega Farmers‟ Market

traders, they are required to present high level of

performance for their business at Mega Farmers‟

Market. This proves despite of successful sales

product; the success of business is difficult to be

attained in the absence of financial resources and



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number of employees in running any business.

Nevertheless, there is no exclusion of other

factors contributing to business success in direct

and indirect effects. For future researches, a

proposition of sampling in other areas is advised

for expansion of traders and gaining a more in-

depth view in the significance of factors affecting

the success of Mega Farmers‟ Market in

Malaysia.

KEYWORDS: performance, financial resources,

consumers’ preferences, product demands, start-

up capitals, business life span

Inconsistencies in NQF of SAARC

Countries

Engr. Zahed Ahmed Chowdhury

Email : [email protected]

Chief Instructor & Head of the Department

Department of Computer Technology

Dhaka Polytechnic Institute, Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT

The South Asian Association for Regional

Cooperation (SAARC) comprises the eight

countries of South Asia, i.e. Afghanistan,

Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, The Maldives, Nepal,

Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It is an Association based

on the consciousness that in an increasingly

independent world, the objectives of peace,

freedom, social justice and economic prosperity

are best achieved in the South Asian region by

fostering mutual understanding, good neighborly

relations and meaningful cooperation among the

Member States which are bound by ties of history

and culture. But there are great inconsistencies in

National Qualification Framework (NQF) of

SAARC countries. A NQF is a modern

measuring instrument for the Employer to

measure the quality and performance of the

Employee. In all of the SAARC countries, the

NQF is represented by different numbers of NQF

levels, different number of NQF level in TVET

sector, different numbers of NQF levels in

Tertiary education sector, etc. which makes it

difficult for the regional and international

Employer to judge the Employee‟s quality and

performance depending on the NQF levels. This

could be made easier for the Employer when a

common NQF is followed by all countries of a

continent or subcontinent which is now essential

for SAARC countries. For instance, European

Qualification Framework (EQF) is a popular

NQF in Europe which is followed by the different

member countries of EU and Australian

Qualification Framework (AQF) is another

popular qualification framework in Australia.

Similarly, ASEAN Qualification Reference

Framework (AQRF) is a resent established NQF

reference framework for ASEAN countries which

is same as the EQF and Scottish reference model.

So that, an regional or international Employers

can easily measure or understand the quality &

performance of Employee depending on the NQF

levels and facilitate worldwide mobility of

workers. However, unlike Europe, Australia or

ASEAN countries, SAARC does not follow a

common NQF standard for all SAARC countries.

So the SAARC public has considerable

limitations for world-wide jobs. Therefore, it is

necessary to create a common NQF for SAARC

countries which will make easiness to understand

by the Employers of Employee quality &

performance and facilitate worldwide mobility of

SAARC peoples. This paper represented the

inconsistencies in NQF of SAARC countries with

proposed an idea to establish a common NQF for

SAARC countries, named SAARC Qualification

Reference Framework (SQRF).

KEYWORDS: NQF, SAARC, AQRF, SQRF.



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Women Directors in Malaysian Boardroom

Hafizah Abd-Mutalib 1, Nurul Huda Yahya 2,

Roseliza Shaari 3 1 Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of

Accountancy, Universiti Utara Malaysia, Kedah,

Malaysia 2 Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah,

Kedah, Malaysia 3 Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis,

Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The issue of women in boardroom has become

an important agenda in corporate world, and

extensively discussed by academics and

professionals. In Malaysia, the emphasis to have

women directors in Malaysian public listed

companies (PLCs) has started in 2010, where the

Malaysian government announce that PLCs to

have at least 30% of female board members by

the year 2016. The purpose of this study is to

examine the level and the profile of the women

directors in Malaysian PLCs in year 2016. The

results suggest that women directors only account

for less than half of the expectation, and almost

40% of the sampled firms do not have a single

women in boardroom. By separate industries,

none of the industry comply with such

announcement. The presence of women is seen

only to fulfill the government‟s requirement, but

not to empower them with decision making and

monitoring role.

KEYWORDS: Gender diversity, Women

directors, Board of directors, Malaysia.

Halal Logo Understanding and Social Factors to Food Product Purchase for Diploma in Food Services and Halal Practices Students at Tourism and

Hospitality Department Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin,

Perlis, Malaysia

Azhan Bin Nawi and Juwita Binti Mohd Johan

Tourism and Hospitality Department, Commerce

Department,

Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic, Arau,

Perlis, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

The study was conduct to determine the level

of student retention for semester 1, 3 and 5 in

Diploma Food Services and Halal Practices

against halal logo food and social factors. It also

aims to identify students understanding for the

food with halal logo, to assess the factors that

are emphasize in the selection of food, and to

identify the difference between pure and fake

halal logos. Total 179 respondents from

semester 1, 3 and 5 students were involved in

this study. The set of questionnaires consisting

of 16 items were distribute to respondents and

was analyze descriptively for frequency,

percentage and mean values using Statistical

Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 22.0.

Overall, the results of the study showed that the

respondents gave positive perceptions to the

aspects studied. The findings also show that

"student perceptions on the importance of

products with halal logo" are the highest while

for the "students will purchase halal logo

products other than JAKIM halal logo", was the

lowest. At the end of the study, the researcher

has presented several suggestions to be address

to the problems studied. Further studies are also

propose for future research.

KEYWORDS: understanding of halal

logo, social factors, food product purchase


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Quality and Tourists’ Satisfaction of

Penang Delicacies in Predicting Tourists’

Revisit Intention

Y. Atikahambar

Kulliyyah of Hospitality and Creative Arts

Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Sultan Abdul

Halim Mu’adzam Shah(UniSHAMS)

Kuala Ketil,Kedah. Malaysia

[email protected]

A.Zainal

Faculty of Hotel and Tourism Management

Universiti Teknologi MARA,

Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

[email protected]

M. Rahayu

Jabatan Pendidikan

Kolej Komuniti Malaysia

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Penang foods become one of the attractions for

the foreign tourists to visit Penang. This study

focuses on the relationship between quality and

tourists‟ satisfaction of Penang delicacies and

revisit intention among foreign tourists. 82%

response rate or a total of 328 questionnaires

were completed by international tourists who

visited Penang Island. The results revealed a

positive relationship between quality, tourists‟

satisfaction and revisit intention. This study

contributes to the literature on the relationship

between quality, satisfaction and revisit intention.

From the practical perspectives, Penang Tourism

Board and local authorities could use this finding

as a means of enhancing the quality of Penang

foods, hence attracting more tourists to visit this

paradise island. Furthermore, business

organizations and marketers could spend more

resources on advertising Penang food, culture and

ethnic events and community interactions.

KEYWORDS: quality, satisfaction, revisit

intention, Penang food

The Effect of Marketing Strategies on the Performance of Travel Insurance

Aziam Mustafa1, Azura Mohd2, Rohayah

Adiman3, and Khadijah Yusof5,

Ainiza Silim5 , Maziharita Mohamood6


40150 Shah Alam,.

[email protected]; [email protected];

[email protected], [email protected];

[email protected],

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Travel Insurance is a trade of complexity

involving variety of independent components

such as hotels, transports, tour operators, travel

agents, various governments and private bodies.

Hence, the demand for travel insurance is

influenced by various factors: economy,

institution, society and demographic. The

objective of this research is to discern the effect

of marketing strategies upon travel insurance

services in Malaysia. Organizations own a

marketing department that is responsible for the

progress of sales volume, development of new

products and adequacy of customer satisfaction

and maintenance of market share. This

department establish marketing strategies to

attain the objectives of organization. Thus, the

study is attempting to identify the effect of

marketing strategies on the efficacy of travel

insurance companies. Marketing strategies are

referred to the 4Ps: product, place, promotion

and price. The study is commenced at Ace

Jemeh Insurance Bhd, Tune insurance company,

Etiqa Insurance and Takaful Insurance in Shah

Alam involving majority of the staff body. The

results presented a significant relation between

marketing strategical factors (product and sales

promotion) and achievement in terms of sales

volume, cost management, innovation and

creativity and customer satisfaction of travel

insurance company.

KEYWORDS: Retirement Planning Behaviour,

Financial Knowledge, Social Influences,

Demographic





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The Use Internet of Things (IoT) among

Diploma Games Art Students of Selayang

Community College

Nor Huzani binti Khamis


e-mail: [email protected]

Raazizah binti Hussain


e-mail: [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Internet of Things (IoT) means a system of

interrelated computing devices, mechanical and

digital machines, objects, animals or people that

are provided with unique identifiers and the

ability to transfer data over a network without

requiring human-to-human or human-to-

computer interaction. Internet of Things has

advantages such as information transmission,

automation processing, data performance,

security and time-saving. The use of some IoT

applications has gained considerable attention

from both industry and academia in recent years.

Due to the rapid development of educational

technology, IoT is increasingly being used in

Malaysian education. In the learning and teaching

(PdP) method, the Selayang Community College

Diploma Games Art student has been exposed to

this technological advancement. Therefore, this

study aims to identify the level of IoT usage that

has been used in Pdp by the students of the

Selayang Community College Diploma Games

Art. Overall, the results of the study show that

students have agreed on the level of IoT usage

used by lecturers for teaching and learning.

KEYWORDS: Internet Of Things (IoT), PdP

Investigation on Mutual Coupling of

Aperture Coupled Cylindrical Dielectric

Resonator Antenna (DRA)

Segar Rajamanickam

Electrical Department, Politeknik Seberang

Perai,

13500 Permatang Pauh, Penang, Malaysia.

email: [email protected]

Rasammal Rasappan

Mathematcs,Science and Computer Department,

Politeknik Balik Pulau,

Pinang Nirai Mukim, Kampung Permatang

Tengah,

11000 Balik Pulau, Pulau Pinang


Noazri Bin Bakhari

Electrical Department, Politeknik Seberang

Perai,

13500 Permatang Pauh, Penang, Malaysia.


ABSTRACT

In this research, study on mutual coupling of

aperture coupled cylindrical DRA and its

influence on return loss, radiation pattern

including the directivity, gain and bandwidth was

computed and illustrated. The DRA was excited

by a micro strip line with aperture coupled slots

where the slot locations were calculated using the

characteristic of standing wave ratio over a short

ended micro strips. Small dielectric resonator

antenna was designed using high permittivity

dielectric material with permittivity the substrate

of 3.38. The diameter of the dielectric resonator

is 12mm with the height of 4.2mm. The element

spacing that been investigated for the effect of

mutual coupling was at 0.5λ, 0.75λ and 1λ with

maximum of four DRA been used. The final

result shows the effect of mutual coupling is

decreased with three DRA element with the gain

measured at 5.948GHz frequency is about

8.619dB with high directivity measured at

11.4dBi. This shows that the proposed DRA with

three 1λ spacing DRA elements exhibits an

enhancement of the gain and directivity in

comparison with a single pellet DRA. Hence, by

increasing the level of isolation between the two

identical DRAs to 1λ it actually helps




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electromagnetic interaction to attract and further

increase the directivity and effective area.

KEYWORDS: Antenna, DRA, Electromagnetic,

Mutual Coupling

28 GHz Microstrip Patch Antennas for

Future 5G

Safpbri Johari, Muhammad Abdul Jalil, and

Shaifol Ifrad Ibrahim

Department of Electrical Engineering, Ungku

Omar Polytechnic,

Jalan Raja Musa Mahadi, 31400, Ipoh, Perak,

Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Recently, the industry and academia there is

significant activity in research and development

towards the next generation micro and Pico

cellular wireless Networks (5th generation). This

paper presents, a structure design of microstrip

patch antenna array operate at the central

frequency of 28 GHz waveband is proposed. The

patch antenna array consists of four elements

with rectangular patch and uniform distribution.

It has a compact size of 26.51 x 20.37 mm with

operating frequency at 28 GHz. The inset feed

technique is used for the matching between

radiating patch and the 50Ω microstrip feedline.

The proposed 2x2 antenna array successfully

improve the antenna gain up to 8.393dB compare

to existing CRLH TL CPW antenna with 2.99

dB, wideband antenna with 7.1 dB and 3.7 dB for

broadband elliptical-shaped slot antenna. As a

conclusion, the directivity of 10.13 db and

efficiency is higher than 80% considered as a

potential candidate for the 5G wireless networks

and applications.

KEYWORDS: Microstrip antenna, array

antenna, 5G, directivity, radiation pattern, S

parameters, 28 GHz

Measurement of Dielectric and Thermal Properties of Leucaena Leucocephala Bio

composite Substrate with Different Composition Mixture

Azlan Aziz, Azizi Mursyidi,Rozimah Tahir and

Nurul Ajleaa Abdul Rahman

Center of Research and Innovation (CRI)


Shah Alam, Selangor

ABSTRACT

The measurements of dielectric and thermal

properties for bio composite substrate conducted

between the mixture of polypropylene (PP) and

saw dust filler Leucaena Leucocephala (150μm).

The high temperature Agilent 85070E dielectric

probe and Quickline 30 Thermal properties

analyser used as an instruments to measure the

dielectric properties (εr) and handling

temperature of the substrate for frequency range

of 1GHz to 20 GHz that are suitable for radio

frequency applications. The effect of increasing

wood filler indicated that it will raise the DK

value from 1.84 to 2.49 and decreases the thermal

conductivity behaviour from 0.2 to 0.11w/m.k for

all 5 mixture fabricated substrate (PP100,

PB9010, PB8020, PB7030 and PB6040). In this

research the composition of PP must be greater

than the sawdust filler due to PP act as laminating

and hold the composite structure. The result

presented on this research will useful for planar

antenna and microwave filter substrate up to

frequency 20 GHz and it could support the

technical and vocational education tanning

(TVET) learning process that hybrid the

knowledge among different field.

KEYWORDS: Leucaena Leucocephala;

Dielectric constant, Loss Tangent, Thermal

conductivity, Bio composite


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Effect of Alumina and Halloysite Clay on Electrical Tree Growth in Silicone Rubber

Nanocomposite

M. Hafiz and C.M.Salmi

Seberang Perai Polytechnic,

13500, Seberang Perai, Penang, Malaysia.

M.Kamarol

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Universiti Sains Malaysia,

Penang, Malaysia

M.Mariatti

School of Materials and Mineral Resources

Engineering,

Universiti Sains Malaysia

Penang, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Nowadays Silicone Rubber (SiR) is

recommended in high voltage cable accessories

fabrication as it offers excellent electrical and

mechanical properties. Electrical tree is one of

the phenomenon which contributes to the main

factor of SiR insulation breakdown. Recently, a

new approach has been applied in order to

enhance the insulation strength properties by

introducing nano filler in undoped material. Thus,

this paper presents the influence of nano-alumina

and halloysite nanoclay on electrical tree growth

in SiR at 0, 1 vol%, 2 vol% and 3 vol%

concentration. The electrical tree growth was

investigated at 8kVrms after tree inception

voltage (TIV) within 30 minutes under room

temperature. The results show reductions of

electrical tree growth speed and accumulate

damage (%) up to 2 vol% nano-alumina and up to

3 vol% halloysite nanoclay. Nevertheless the

presence of 3 vol% nano-alumina in SiR leads to

the faster electrical tree growth rate and the worst

accumulate damage within 1 minute of electrical

tree growth process.

KEYWORDS: Tree growth rate; accumulate

damage; nano-alumina; halloyste nanoclay

nanocomposites

The Effectiveness of Graphic Design Guideline Mobile Application for

Designing Visual Artwork

Haizatul Akma Hazali, Hafizah Abdullah @ Ali,

Ruziana Mohamad Rasli

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, 02600 Pauh

Putra, Perlis, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

This study focuses on the effectiveness of using

graphic design guideline mobile application

among users for designing visual artwork. „I Am

Designer‟ application was developed using

ADDIE model. Due to the effectiveness of

mobile application compared to printed books or

notes, this application was developed focusing on

guideline on graphic design. There are several

advantages of this mobile application which user

can save more time in finding graphic design

guidelines, user friendly, marketable and lastly it

implements all-in-one concepts However, to

prove this, a survey was given to 35 users who

used this mobile application. The results gathered

that, by using this application, users gave positive

feedback which make them learn about the

guidelines, easier, faster and in simple manner.

KEYWORDS: mobile application, mobile

learning, graphic design guideline, ADDIE model


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Development of Visualization System of

Knowledge Necessary for Solving

Mathematical Questions

Akira Nakamura, Tomoshige Kudo and Keita

Nishioka

Mathematics and Science Academic Foundations

Programs

Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Nonoich, Japan

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

We developed a new visualization system which

shows knowledge necessary for solving

mathematical questions by using network graph.

This development is based on the previous

visualization system of knowledge structure of

mathematics. Mathematics exercises are

incorporated into our mathematical e-learning

website. This visualization system assists learners

in accomplishing a challenging task to solve

difficult questions by themselves as it offers

useful information to them. The visualization

system is applied to print materials for self-

adaptive learning materials.

KEYWORDS: e-learning; network graph;

hyperlink; knowledge structure; mathematical

question

Solar Tree

Madya Mastika binti Ahmad and Amirah binti

Mohd Arif

Mechanical Engineering Department, Politeknik

Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah,

Persiran Usahawan, Seksyen U1, 40150 Shah

Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT In this day and age, with the ever-growing

population and energy demand, we should take

the renewable option route in our energy source.

We should also keep in mind that said energy

should not cause any lasting environmental

damage, one of the perfect example being solar

energy. A country that is hot and sunny all year

long is the perfect contributor to solar energy,

case in point, Malaysia. With that in mind Solar

Tree is designed and developed to facilitate

consumers who need electric power at any place,

anytime, anywhere. The objective of this study

is to assess a mini project in the likes of Solar

Tree that can generate electricity without

harming the environment, despite the weather.

Being a mini project, it is understandable that

electricity generated is limited, with only up to

500W in total. As a trial, two electronic devices

were tested, specifically a mobile phone and a

laptop, as both devices are used almost every

day. The data collected is then tabulated and

analysed. It was concluded the solar tree

developed proved efficient in charging both

devices and will continue to do so given enough

sunlight.

KEYWORDS: renewable energy; solar PV;

sustainable energy; solar energy; Malaysia

Skills and Knowledge that a Manager

Should Have to be More Competent within

Today’s Environment

Wan Hasbullah Bin Wan Mohamed Mechanical

Engineering Department Politeknik Sultan Azlan

Shah, Behrang Stesyen, 35950 Behrang, Perak.

[email protected]

Ahmad Syarifuddin Che Abd Aziz Mechanical

Engineering Department Politeknik Sultan Azlan

Shah, Behrang Stesyen, 35950 Behrang, Perak.

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

In recent years, several scholars have discussed

the characteristics of an excellent or successful

manager within this age of fast and challenging

environment of business and management. It is

argued that knowledge and skills are becoming

more crucial in deciding the success factors of a

manager. In fact, knowledge and skills are what

that sets apart between an average manager and a

competent manager. Consequently, an

organization success hangs mainly on the

identification and selection of the utmost efficient

manager. The significance of analyzing critical




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qualities of a manager could determine the impact

of the company accomplishment.

Famous discussions by scholars and business

leaders today is mainly about, “How can a

company brace themselves to successfully

compete in the super competitive, complex,

international environment of the 21st Century?”

The answer to this is by having a well-developed,

knowledgeable management team at the helm, or

in other words, experienced, well prepared

executives with the right skills and knowledge.

This paper aims to explore the knowledge and

skills of a competent manager through literature

review.

KEYWORD: Manager, Skills, Knowledge,

Business Management

The Deposition of Airborne Brake Wear

Particle Emissions to the Effect of Brake

Friction Performance

Ahmad Razimi Mat Lazim 1, a, *, Mohd Zin Bin

Hassan 1, b, Abd Rahim Abu Bakar 2, c and Mohd

Kameil Abdul Hamid2, d 1Politeknik Nilai,

Kompleks Pendidikan Bandar Enstek, 71760

Bandar Enstek, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, 2Department of Automotive Engineering, Faculty

of Mechanical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi

Malaysia, 81310 UTM Skudai, Malaysia

a*[email protected],

[email protected] ,


*Corresponding author

ABSTRACT

Brake squeal is a very complex phenomenon and

remain a challenging issue to vehicle

manufacturers due to its complicated interaction

between structural dynamics and tribological

behavior. Brake squeal has turned out to become

an active brake noise research topic. It involves

numerous disciplines such noise and vibration,

friction composition, friction layer, wear, thermal

effect, third body or wear debris and

environmental issue. Despite massive

information related to brake squeal has been

presented and highlighted, there is still lack of

knowledge on the main source or mechanism of

brake squeal generation particularly on the

tribological aspect. In fact, there is no

information available in the open literature on the

contribution of airborne particles such as road

sand and debris particles on brake squeal

occurrences. This paper attempts to examine the

effect of airborne wear particles on brake pad

surface topography and subsequently its

correlation with squeal generation. In doing so,

road grit particles with the size of 100-500 μm

will be used and fed into the disc brake end

corner. Surface topography of the NAO (Non-

Asbestos Organic) brake pad with airborne wear

particles will be analyzed and compared with the

authors' previous work using scanning electron

microscope (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray

analysis (EDX)

KEYWORDS: Brake squeal, Brake Pad,

Airborne particle, Non Asbestos Organic

(NAO), Surface Topography and Squeal

Generation

Analysis of Machining Pit by Using

Electrical Discharge Machine Die Sinking

Md Razak Daud*1 , Wan Nor Shela Ezwane Wan

Jusoh2,Syahrullail Samion3 1 [email protected], Politeknik Tuanku

Sultanah Bahiyah, Mechanical Department,

09000 Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia. 2 [email protected], Politeknik Tuanku Sultanah

Bahiyah, Mechanical Department, 09000 Kulim,

Kedah, Malaysia. 3 [email protected], Universiti Teknologi

Malaysia, 81310, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

This study investigates metal removal rate

(MRR) of the biomaterial by using discharge

machine Neuar CNC A50 Electrical Discharge

Machine Die Sinking (EDM DS). The purpose of

this study is to compare machining curvature cup

for material SKD 11 and stainless steel with

shape curvature cup acetabular. The result

showed that electrode wear is higher when high

current is applied. For each applied current 0.5A





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and 3.0A could result electrode wear of 0.236

mm, 0.246 mm and 0.269 mm respectively. Mean

time of complete discharged for each pit with

0.3mm depth with supply 0. 5A is 6.51 minutes;

1. 5A is 3.54 minutes and 3A is 1.52 minutes.

The biggest mean parameter of the pit is 0.356

mm, with 3A of current is applied. From this

study, it can be concluded that low current set

may give lower electrode copper wear. The

experiment will help a researcher to discharge

biomaterial types of metal with small size of

copper electrode use of EDM DS Neuar for

discharge multi hole or micro pit.

KEYWORDS: Electrode Wear, Electrical

Discharge Machine Die Sinking, Pit

The Design and Analysis of Innovative Automatic Portable Document Carrier

Amirah Mohd Arif and Madya Mastika Ahmad

Department of Mechanical Engineering,

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Azizi Shah,

Persiara Usahawan, Seksyen U1, 40150 Shah

Alam.

ABSTRACT

This project is design to help people to load and

unload documents for convenience used. The

concept is similar as the conventional trolley with

purpose to assist people in carrying the loads.

From the observation, most of the time, people

are facing with a problem in maneuvering the

heavy documents in location namely narrow

space, office, hangar and many more. The CAD

software known as SolidWorks are prescribed in

the designing and analysis stage. The deployed

steps involved followed by part modelling,

detailed drawings, assembly modelling and

assembly drawing. In the fabrication stage,

aluminum alloy based material is used as the main

body of the product. Next, the assembly process

involved in using rivet as main joint mechanism.

Meanwhile, screw joining mechanism is used to

assemble the scissor lift. The product is tested

based on its stability in supporting excessive

weight with a view in ergonomic wise. The

weight used for test purposed is set to be in the

range of 2-10 kg. Observation and monitoring

approach is taken during the test conducted. The

results showed excessive vibration once the

weight exceed more than 2 kg.

KEYWORDS: Trolley design, CAD,

ergonomic

Yield Improvement Study on a Reduced

Size Blank Metal Sheet for Stamping

Product

Izwan Hamid, Sharuddin Mohd Dahuri, Syed

Fahmi Syed Putra

[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected]

Mechanical Engineering Department

Politeknik Sultan Azlan Shah, Behrang Stesyen

35950 Behrang, Perak

ABSTRACT

This paper is about the reduction of the overall

size of metal blanking sheet that is being used to

form a stamping product or car body panel of a

car manufacturer in Malaysia. The current

blanking sheet produces extra waste which will

be recycled and does not contribute to increase

productivity but increases inventory cost. The

reduction in the blanking sheet size will lead to

the reduction of raw material hence reduced the

production cost. However, the reduced size of

blanking sheet could affect the yield strength of

the product. The study of the yield strength and

yield improvement of the product are done by

simulating stress analysis by using CATIA

software. The results show that the new

proposed size of the metal blanking sheet

provides accuracy of the product dimension as

well as maintaining the yield strength of the

product and it reduced a significant amount of

metal scrap which is nearly 9% of total material

size and save around 10% of inventory cost.




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To Determine the Noise Level at the Wood

Based Technology Workshop in Politeknik

Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, Shah

Alam, Selangor.

Rozimah Tahir and Maitlili Sivakumar

Civil Engineering Department (Building Services

Engineering) Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul

Aziz Shah , Shah Alam.

ABSTRACT The Wood Based Technology workshop in PSSAAS has all the machines needed to train students to be skilled wood based workers in the future. It is well known that machines in the wood processing industry create high frequency noise which has the significant impact on human being‟s sense of hearing. A survey was carried out to identify user‟s knowledge of the noise level in the workshop and their awareness on the effects of noise. 85% of the respondents in the survey had a strong basic knowledge on the sound. 84% agree to the noise negative and 34% disagrees that their work palace (workshop) is comfortable. Based on the survey results, the sound/noise level data was collected to determine the noise level of the machines in the workshop. The Radial Arm Saw, Circular Arm Saw, Air Compressor and Thickness Planner were found out to produced loud noise of96dB (A), 96 dB(A), 92 dB(A) and 107dB (A) respectively. Then the factory and machinery (Noise Exposure) Regulation 1989 permissible noise level was used to identify users to identify users exposure limits and found out that 107 dB( A) Thickness Planner allowed 46 minutes exposure limit while 92 dB (A)Air Compressor allowed 6 hours of exposure limit. The exposure were contiguous and below regulations limit however noise pollution though it is not dangerous at the time, can cause permanent damage if duration of the exposure is prolonged. KEYWORDS: noise level, wood based

technology workshop, noise impact,

Automatic Meat Slicing Machine

Nor’ain Senin1, Noorhidayah Ramli1, Mai Noor

Asiah Tan Zalilah1

Politeknik Sultan Azlan Shah, Behrang Station,

35950 Behrang, Perak, Malaysia

nor’[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected]

ABSTRACT A new innovation has been created which is

called AUTOMATIC MEAT SLICING (AMS)

MACHINE. The main purpose of the machine

creation is to replace the old-style method in

slicing the chicken meat to modern method.

BABARITTOS DELIGHT supplies Tortillas

Wrap to the latest trend of Food & Beverage

(F&B) business called Food Truck. The main

ingredient of Burritos is slices of boneless

chicken meat, where each slice is approximately

has to be 5 mm thick. Formerly, the slicing

procedure used a normal cutting knife and its

production rate was truncated as the demands of

the Burritos are going higher by days. This

method requires 3 to 4 workers to team up to

complete the 30 kg boneless chicken meat to be

cut into roughly 5 mm per slice within one and

half hour. The AMS machine is predominant to

help the company to grow the output of sliced

meat and at the same time can reduce the number

of workers. The usage of AMS machine is only

required one worker for the operation and the

output can be up to 30kg per 30mins, which is

actually can end up almost 3 times quantity of

output and 3 times labor cost-saving. Meanwhile

the quality of the sliced meat is much enhanced

as most of the slice meat is precisely 5mm thick.

The AMS concept design is cutting the meat

using several circular cutting blades, where the

chicken will be put on the moving conveyor and

finally will fall onto the hygienic tray.

KEYWORDS: machine, slicing, meat, circular,

blades




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The Study of Safety and Health Culture of

Construction Project Through Academic

Institution in TVET Platform

Nazamuddin Bin Ahmad Razali1,a,*, Prof Madya

Dr. Abdul Mutalib Bin Leman2,b, Mohd

Khairulhazlan Bin Mohamed Zam1,c & 1Ahmad

Razimi Bin Mat Lazim1, d 1Politeknik Nilai, Kompleks Pendidikan Bandar

Enstek, 71760 Bandar Enstek,

Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia, 2Universiti Tun

Hussein Onn (UTHM), 86400 Parit Raja, Batu

Pahat Johor, Malaysia

[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected],

[email protected],


ABSTRACT

As an important organizational concept, safety

climate is regarded as the product of collective

sense-making in which members assess their

organizational safety environment. In

construction projects, the participation of

multiple stakeholders increases the complexity of

the sense-making process because the safety

climates in these participant organizations are

iterated. Employers of work organization were

optimistic that TVET institution would be able to

mould their students to be skill full and

knowledgeable of work they had always dream.

Competence indicates sufficiency of knowledge

and skills that enable someone to act in a wide

variety of situations. Thus, having some type of

thinking skills benefit workers to assure the work

progress of whole organization duties going on in

timeframe although unexpected trouble

interrupted but solve effectively. It would be

helpful to know thinking skills, how effective

thinking skills will thrive in work. This helps

TVET institution to decide the curriculum that

best fits their students. By using the collected

quantitative data analysed by factor analysis (FA)

and partial least squares (PLS), the objective of

this research is to investigate the effect of safety

and health culture on decreasing occupational

accident and to evaluate the influence of TVET

academic institution on developing and

improving skill of workers.

KEYWORDS: Safety and Heath Culture, Safety

Climates, Construction Project & TVET

A Knowledge Sharing Initiatives Model

for Quantity Surveying Firms in the

Malaysian Construction Industry

Fadhilah Mohd Nor ¹, Othman Mohamed²,

Mahanim Hanid³ 1Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Polytechnic,

Persiaran Usahawan, Sec. U1, 40150 Shah Alam,

Selangor, Malaysia.

Email: [email protected] 2 Faculty of Built Environment , University of

Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Email : [email protected] 3Faculty of Built Environment , University of

Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Email : [email protected]

ABSTRACT

Knowledge sharing initiatives (KSI) are

approaches/events/mechanisms/programmes for

the purpose of formalisation and for sharing best

practice and experiences within an organisation.

However, there is a paucity of research that has

investigated the nature of the different

approaches to improve the effectiveness of

knowledge sharing, the appropriate organisational

factors at play for knowledge sharing to be fully

exploited; and the knowledge sharing benefits

derived by QS firms in Malaysia. In this paper,

knowledge sharing initiatives (KSI) are an

organisational approach to managing knowledge

that includes human (soft) and system (hard)

components. The discussions of the paper are

based on findings of a mixed methodology

approach, i.e. combination of qualitative and

quantitative methods. The data sets obtained from

mixed methods were subjected to rigorous

qualitative and statistical analyses. A

comprehensive model for implementing

knowledge sharing initiatives (KSI) in QS firms

is presented in this paper. The developed model is

clear, cohesive and can be well understood by all

quantity surveyors. The model has identified four

main areas which are knowledge sharing

initiatives; implementation of knowledge sharing









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initiatives; Quantity Surveying Firms and

Performance Measurement. For each of emphasis

area the paper have discussed the conceptual

framework used and summarised the empirical

research results. The successful implementation

of this model, however, needs careful

consideration of a host of challenges, which can

impinge on staff and process performances. The

contribution of this research is, therefore, to add

to the body of knowledge on KSI by providing

evidence from a Malaysian construction industry

perspective.

Employability Skills through Industrial

Training: Employers’ Perspective

Mohd Fadhli Ahmad*, Mazrul Hisyam Mat Ali

and Zulkifli Sulaiman

Mechanical Engineering Department, Politeknik

Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin,

Pauh Putra 02600 Arau Perlis, Malaysia.

[email protected]*

ABSTRACT

Soft skills among the students are essential and

crucial in entering the work environment.

Therefore, it is essential for Higher Educational

Institutions to distinguish the knowledge and soft

skill levels of their students so that strategies and

intervention could be implemented to rectify their

capabilities. The main purpose of this study is to

evaluate the knowledge and soft skills

competency from the employer‟s viewpoints on

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin (PTSS)

engineering students participating in the

industrial training programme. A total 159

employers from different industrial backgrounds

had participated in this study. A questionnaire

was utilized to collect data and was analyzed by

using SPSS 23.0. The results of this study

indicate that the employers were satisfied with

the knowledge and soft skills competency

portrayed by PTSS engineering students in

preparing themselves for the real work

environment. The employers were very satisfied

with students‟ performance in all dimensions of

soft skills measured. At the same time some

comments were given by the supervisors about

the weaknesses of the students in certain soft

skills.

KEYWORDS: Industrial Training,

Employability Skills, Employers Perspective

Practices of Managing Tax Records

Keeping among the Academic Staff

Elyn Mohd Ridzwan1 Hasnida Ibrahim2

Jabatan Perdagangan, Politeknik METrO Johor

Bahru,

Taman Putera 81100, Johor Bahru, Johor,

Malaysia

ABSTRACT

This study was carried out in order to investigate

the level of awareness among the civil servants

(academic staff) on the practice of tax records

keeping management for IRB‟s audit and tax

investigation purposes. A total of 200

respondents from 10 educational institutions have

been involved in this study. The implemented

research design was based on quantitative survey

that use questionnaire as research instrument. The

data were analyzed using SPSS (Statistical

Package for The Social Science) software version

2.0 in order to determine the mean score. The

result obtained from this study shows that the

public awareness among the academicians on

record management is still low.

KEYWORDS: Tax records management, tax

evasion, academic staff, Inland Revenue Board

(IRB)


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TVET Program in Malaysian Polytechnic

with Stufflebeam Cipp Model: A Case of

Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin

(PTSS)

Bustamam Bin Bonari

Department of Tourism and Hospitality

Polytechnic Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin ,02600 Arau

,Perlis , Malaysia

Email: [email protected]

Norul Huda Abdul Razak

Department of Information Technology and

Communication


,Perlis , Malaysia


Nur Iliza bt Misnan

Department of Commerce


,Perlis , Malaysia


Nurzakiah Bt Mohamed Bakhari

Department of Tourism and Hospitality


,Perlis , Malaysia


ABSTRACT

TVET System in Malaysia is divided into three

streams i.e. higher education, technical and

vocational education and vocational skills

training. Vocational and technical education

starts at junior secondary level, which lies under

the purview of Ministry of Education (MoE).

This quantitative study was used an individual as

a unit of analysis. Data was collected from the

population of lectures at 1 polytechnic at

Malaysia which is Politeknik Tuanku Syed

Sirajuddin, Perlis, using stratified sampling

technique. Through this technique, the population

of 80 lectures was grouped intro strata which

includes varieties program. As derived from

Krejcie and Morgan, a total of 66 lectures were

made as sample size of the study. Instrument for

this study was adapted from various authors such

as Stufflebeam. Through the quantitative study,

descriptive analysis found that dimension of

process in Stufflebeam Cipp model was at higher

level . Besides that, results from analysis of

Pearson correlation found a significant

relationship between TVET program in

Malaysian polytechnic with Stufflebeam Cipp

model. Some suggestion were proposed for the

future study.

KEYWORDS : TVET program , Stufflebeam

Cipp model, Polytehnic

The Effectiveness of using GeoGebra Software in Teaching Angle in Circle

Syamsiah Hussin, Jasni Mohd Yusoff, Siti

Salamah Mustaffa and Dr. Nurazlina Mohamed

Mokmin

Department of Mathematics, Science and

Computer, Politeknik Balik Pulau, Pinang Nirai,

Mukim 6, 11000 Balik Pulau, Penang, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

All students of Malaysian Polytechnics have to

take Mathematics as one of the compulsory

course in Diploma level. In Mathematical

Computing course, Geometry is one of the topics

included in the syllabus. However, most students

of Balik Pulau Polytechnic have less interest in

this topic. Based on Final Exam Item Analysis,

more than 70% of students refused to answer the

question related to Geometry. To overcome the

situation, the researcher tries to adopt GeoGebra

in teaching and learning session of Geometry,

specifically related to angle in a circle. The

research objective is to determine if there is a

major difference between the achievements of

two groups. This research is a quasi-experimental

where one experimental group and one control

group underwent a pre-test and post-test about

properties of angle in a circle. There were 53

randomly selected samples of semester one

students from Diploma of Information

Technology (Digital Technology) of Politeknik

Balik Pulau. Data analysis using Statistical

Package of Social Science (SPSS) shows that

there is an insignificant difference between the

two groups. However, it was found that the

experimental group shows better learning gain

than the control group. Based on the comparison

of mean score, the experimental group gain a





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higher score than the control group. It can be said

that using GeoGebra in teaching can help to

improve students learning about the angle in a

circle. Thus, another similar research can be

carried out in a proper and comprehensive

setting.

KEYWORDS: GeoGebra, teaching and learning

method, Mathematics, an angle in a circle.

The Validation of Halal Awareness and

Halal Practice Instrument among Halal

Restaurant Food Handlers

Rose Faida Ahmad Zabidi 1 & Mazlina

Jamaludin 2 & 3 1 Department of Tourism & Hospitality,

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Malaysia 2 Department of Tourism & Hospitality,

Politeknik Sultan Idris Shah, Malaysia 3 Department of Recreation & Ecotourism,

Faculty of Forestry, University Putra Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

This study is conducted to validity and reliability

of the Halal Awareness and Halal Practice

Instrument. The instrument consists of eight

subscales namely; a) Food Handler, b) Control, c)

Food, d) Sanitation, e) Equipment, f) Waste

Disposal Management, g) Storage and h) Water

Supply System. A study was carried out among

150 food handlers from 11 “Nasi Kandar

Restaurant” around Penang Island, Malaysia. A

purposive sampling was used to obtain the

reliability and validity of the instrument.

Inferential statistics were utilized to analyzed the

data collected using Smart PLS 3.0. The

instrument achieved convergent validity and

discriminant validity. Thus, the finding of this

study appear to beneficial and can be used and

tested for other halal foodservice elsewhere.

KEYWORDS: Validity, Realibility, Halal

awareness, Halal practice

E-Learning in TVET Institution : A Survey

Juhaidie Zamani Bin Jamaludin, Muhammad

Zubir Bin Mohd Hanifah

Politeknik Ungku Omar,


Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

Information and Communication Technologies

(ICT) are increasingly viewed as a vital

infrastructure for all sectors. ICT in education

and training introduce various e-learning platform

for the educators and students to access

knowledge both in theoretical and technical

training. Technical Vocational Education

Training (TVET) who plays an important role in

producing the human capital with respective

skills for industries also not excluded and may

improve educational practices, technical quality

and research into pedagogy; facilitate technical

improvements and improve mechanisms for

accreditation and external endorsement. . The

adaptation of e-learning in TVET education

provide anytime access to course materials and

related resources. This creates a major impact on

students and lecturers in TVET institutions. The

purpose of this paper is to identify the technology

acceptance in integrate IT tools and experience in

applying these tools in the teaching and learning

process. The importance of ICT facilities

provided in TVET institution is also been

reviewed to ensure the teaching and learning

quality, contextual relevance and longer

operational life to sustain the educational process.

The approach was very effective for assessing

and evaluating various functions and suitability

of the digital tools for teaching and learning. The

findings were proposed to further improve the

management and quality of the training program.

KEYWORDS: ICT Infrastructure, Learning

Strategies, Problem based Learning, Computer

and System, Web Based Learning


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The Relationship between Social Media

and the Productivity among Government

Servants

Moriza binti Fikri 1, Wan Mustaffa bin Wan

Yusoff 2, Amierah binti Aziz

3

1Moriza binti Fikri, Politeknik Tuanku Sultanah

Bahiyah, Jabatan Perdagangan, Kulim, Kedah 2Wan Mustaffa bin Wan Yusoff, Politeknik

Tuanku Sultanah Bahiyah, Jabatan

Perdagangan, Kulim, Kedah 3Amierah binti Aziz, Universiti Malaysia

Sarawak, Fakulti Ekonomi, Kota Samarahan,

Sarawak

ABSTRACT

On this new era, the changes of technologies has

changed the way of human interact. Through out

of the decades, the revolution of the

telecommunication process is becoming more

efficient especially when delivering the

information across the nation. Most of the

business company used this medium as an easiest

tool to promote their product to the higher level.

Social media such as networking on websites is a

technological innovation that cannot be ignored

anymore especially at the workplace. The focus

of this study is about the relation between social

media and productivity among the governments

servants. The objectives concerned in this study

are the most popular types of social media, the

main purpose of usage on social media and their

impact towards the productivity. In order to

accomplish the objectives, the methodologies

involved in this study are in the Frequency Mean

test, Correlation test and Anova Test. The data

collections were target on the government sectors

in Kota Samarahan area. Next, 250 of

questionnaire are going to be distributed to meet

the 246, 782 of population in Sarawak area with

95% of level of confident meanwhile the margin

error is reduced to 5%. The finding has achieved

the second objectives where most of the

respondent agreed that the social media has been

used for the purpose of communicating and as a

function on getting information. Meanwhile for

the third objectives there is a significant level in

the type of social media (communication) and

purpose of usage.

KEYWORDS: Social media, technologies,

communication, networking, productivity,

government servants

Investigation Effect of Spring Back on

Bending Test of (DP590) Dual Phase Steel

Muhamad Sani bin Buang1*, Zalaida bt Talib1, Dr

Norhayati bt. Zakaria1, Dr Shahrul Azam bin

Abdullah2, Hashim bin Abdullah3 1 Politeknik Banting Selangor, Jalan Sultan

Abdul Samad, 42700 Banting, Selangor,

Malaysia. 2 Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam,

Selangor, Malaysia. 3 Oriental Summit Industries Sdn. Bhd. Seksyen

28, 40400 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

The use of advanced high strength steels as a

metal in sheet metal forming in automotive

industry currently has been increased where

Advanced High Strength Steel (AHSS) especially

Dual Phase (DP590) Steels have gained a great

attention due to a combination of high strength

and good formability. However, one of the major

constraints in forming AHSS is the occurrence of

high spring back caused by elastic relaxation after

loading, which causes illness-fitting in part

assembly and geometric deviation of the intended

design. Spring back is the main problem of defect

that occurs at sheet metal after the bending

process which creates problems for the parts

during the assembly. This paper presents an

investigation the effect of spring back on bending

test of Dual Phase Steel (DP590). Punch travel

and thickness are among factors affecting the

spring back behavior. Various parameter value;

punch radius (5mm), die radius (5mm), die gap

(70mm), thickness of specimen 1mm and 2mm,

punch travel/stroke (25%, 50%, 75%, 100%)

from 20 mm depth, punch speed (2mm/min) and

Orientation of sheet cutting, which is in


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and

. From the analysis of V-

bending test punch travel, thickness and

orientation of sheet cutting are significant factor

that affecting the spring back phenomena. The

result form this experiment could be useful for

design engineers and manufacturing engineers to

make improvement of predict the spring back

behavior and also to understanding the material

properties of AHSS in order to eliminate spring

back and achieve good final product.

KEYWORDS: DP590, Dual Phase Steel, Spring

Back, Bending Test, Punch Travel, Orientation of

Sheet

An Investigation on Benefits and Future Expectation of Industrialised Building

System (IBS) Implementation in Construction Practices

Hassan Ismail1, Zainal Abidin Akasah2,

Sasitharan Nagapan3 & Azme Khamis3 1 Department of Civil Engineering, Politeknik

Melaka 2Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Universiti Tun Hussien Onn Malaysia, Parit

Raja, Johor 3Faculty of Science,Technology & Human

Development, Universiti Tun Hussien Onn

Malaysia, Parit Raja, Johor

ABSTRACT

Industrialised Building System (IBS) is well

known in many developing countries due to the

benefits that can be derived from its applications

in construction projects. However, the low

percentage of IBS usage may be due to lack of

awareness and knowledge about IBS among

many professionals. There may be factors that

contribute to a lack of interest from the client

towards IBS. The aim of this study is to improve

the application of IBS particularly in private

construction projects in Malaysia by determining

the benefits and expectation on application of

IBS in private construction projects. This study

adopts a quantitative method using questionnaires

that were sent to 35 construction firms as a

sampling frame. Finally, the finding of this study

hopefully could assist professional parties in

construction industry in providing a better ground

knowledge for improving decisions making to

achieve the success of IBS construction projects

implementation and also this study will achieved

the project objectives in terms of predetermined

objectives that are mostly within the time,

specified budget and standard quality.

KEYWORDS: Industrialised Building System

(IBS), Client Perspective, IBS Application,

Private Projects, Success Criteria

Polynomial Interpolation in Matlab

Siti Hawa Binti Aziz and Zuliana Bt Abdul

Mutalib

Mathematics, Science & Computer Department,



Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

The problem of constructing such a continuous

function is called data fitting. Many times, data

given only at discrete points. With interpolation,

we seek a function that allows us to approximate

f(x) such that functional values between the

original data set values may be determined. The

process of finding such a polynomial is called

interpolation and one of the most important

approaches used are Lagrange interpolating

formula. In this study, researcher determining the

polynomial interpolation by using Lagrange

interpolating formula. Then, a mathematical

modelling was built by using MATLAB

programming to determine the polynomial

interpolation for a given points using the

Lagrange method. The result of the study showed

that the manual calculating and the MATLAB

mathematical modelling will give the same

answer for evaluated x and graph.

KEYWORDS : Data fitting, Polynomial,

Interpolation, Lagrange interpolating formula,

MATLAB


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Investigation and Failure Analysis for Camshaft

Abd Halim Bin Mahat1, Mohamad Hafiz Bin

Saleh1 and Mohd ‘Akashah Bin Fauthan2 1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Melaka

Polythecnic

No 2 Jalan PPM 10, Plaza Pandan Malim ,

75250, Melaka, Malaysia 2Machine Design Section, Sirim Bhd

1, Persiaran Dato' Menteri, P.O. Box 7035,

Section 2, 40700 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

The main objective of writing this report on the

failure of crankshaft is to investigate the

characteristic of crankshaft after experienced

complex of loading in a long period of services.

Crankshaft is an important engine component of

internal combustion engine with complex

geometry which is subjected to fluctuating or

cyclic loads often resulting in fatigue failures.

The sudden failure of crankshaft made

researchers and academia to investigate the

problem. Accurate investigation of fatigue life is

very important to insure safety of components

and its reliability. This report presents an

investigation on crankshaft by performing

important experimental techniques. Hardness of

the camshaft and bending test has been done to

get the some characteristic of the camshaft. Last

but not least, by using scanning electron

microscopy, the microstructure of the fractured

camshaft had been investigated. Discussion on

preventing from failure on camshaft is also

presented in this report.

KEYWORDS: Crankshaft, Failure, Bending

Test, Hardness

Exploring Engineering Students’ Views on

Learning English for TVET Using Mooc

S. Thivviyah Sanmugam and Liyana Ibrahim

General Studies Department, Politeknik Banting

Selangor,

Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad, 42700, Banting,

Selangor, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

This study aims to explore engineering students‟

views on learning English for TVET via MOOC

in a Malaysian polytechnic. Specifically, the

study explored engineering students‟ views

related to MOOC instructional elements namely

course resources, active learning, monitoring

learning, meaningful connection, interaction and

intended perception. A total of 102 engineering

students participated in the study and they were

asked to respond to a 32-statement questionnaire

using Google Docs. The results of this study

highlights the importance of understanding

students‟ views on MOOC instructional elements

that may influence educators‟ motivation to

utilize and develop constructivist MOOCs

KEYWORDS: MOOC, English for TVET,

engineering students’ views


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Effect of Windscreen Glass Waste Powder

(WGWP) Mortar on Water Absorption

Nik Anisah Nik Ngah 1, Mohamad Awang2 ,

Kartini Kamaruddin3 1Kolej Komuniti Kuala Terengganu, Jalan

Tengku Ampuan Mariam,

20200 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Darul

Iman, Malaysia.

2School of Ocean Engineering, Universiti

Malaysia Terengganu,

21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu Darul

Iman, Malaysia. 3Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti

Teknologi Mara,

40450 Shah Alam, Selangor Darul Ehsan,

Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Diverting waste material from landfill sites has a

big implication for the creation of new markets

and has environmental benefits through offsetting

the need for the extraction of raw materials.

Besides, the major attention especially in

construction industry is the problem to make

natural resources sustainable for three to four

decades in future. However, in this study finely

glass powder with pozzolanic properties is found

to be a partial replacement for cement and can

acts as filler in the microstructure of a mortar

block. Thus, a study was conducted to see the

effects of various proportions of windscreen glass

waste powder (WGWP) in determining the

degree of water absorption on mortar

incorporated with WGWP and to determine the

optimum replacement to the ordinary Portland

cement (OPC) with WGWP. Several

compositions of WGWP (0%, 5%, 10%, 15% and

20% by cement weight) of mortar cube sample

were prepared and cured at 7, 28 and 60 days to

undergo a water absorption test. From this

research, it shows that the use of WGWP was

found to be the best features pozzolanic enough

to use as a partial replacement for cement and it

can reduced the pores of mortar by blocking the

large voids in the hydrated cement paste through

pozzolanic reaction. In the term of water

absorption, the lowest reading was achieved in

15% and it can be said that 15% replacement is

the optimum replacement of OPC.

KEYWORDS: cement replacement, windscreen

glass waste powder, pozzolanic, absorption.

Introduction to Massive Open Online

Course (MOOC): The Issues and

Challenges Using MOOC as A Teaching

and Learning Method in Malaysian

Polytechnic

Rozilawati Shaari¹, Yusdi Ismail² dan Roseline

Anak Kok³

Jabatan Pelancongan dan Hospitaliti, Politeknik

Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin,

[email protected], [email protected] and

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

The flipped classroom concept of teaching and

learning is very important nowadays

characterized by online education. Massive Open

Online Course (MOOC) is one of the platforms

that able to upgrade more systematic and

entertaining teaching, and learning methods for

having components such as forum space,

activities, e-notes and videos. Freedom to follow

the courses found in MOOC makes this platform

unlimited globally. Thus, this study carried out to

give an introduction on the functions (MOOC),

issues and challenges arising in developing the

course using the MOOC platform at Polytechnic

Malaysia. Therefore, this paper is able to

enlighten the use of MOOC in assisting the

Teaching and Learning (T&L) process more

effectively in line with the latest technological

developments. The result of the study expected to

be a reference and suggestion to Malaysian

Polytechnic instructors using the MOOC as a

teaching tools aid that is relevant to the 21st

century learning with the aim of cultivating

blended learning and flipped classroom through

the implementation of the Technology-Enable

Collaborative (TeCC) classroom.

KEYWORDS: Massive Open Online Course,

teaching and learning, online learning.





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The Effects of Pad Wear on Disc Brake

Squeal

Ahmad Razimi Mat Lazim 1, a, *, Mohd Taufik

Rezza Bin Mohd Foudzi1, b, Abd Rahim Abu

Bakar 3, c and Mohd Kameil Abdul Hamid 3, d 1Politeknik Nilai, Kompleks Pendidikan Badar

Enstek, 71760 Bandar Enstek, Negeri Sembilan,

Malaysia, 2Department of Automotive

Engineering, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, 81310 UTM

Skudai, Malaysia a*[email protected],

[email protected],



ABSTRACT

Squeal can be a major problem in the

development of an automotive disc brake system

and large efforts have been made to reduce the

squeal tendency. Brake squeal is a noise

emanating from car disc brakes that excites due to

one or more mechanisms such as mode coupling,

stick-slip, hammering and sprag-slip. In the

effort to satisfy customer expectation on minimal

noise and vibration, high and stable friction and

low wear rate at pad and disc, this paper

investigates the effects of brake pad wear on

squeal generation. The squeal experiment will be

held on a high frequency of squeal which up to 10

kHz. Four pairs of a non-asbestos organic (NAO)

brake pad will be tested on a brake dynamometer

test rig. The wear behavior of the brake pad will

be analyzed through microscopic techniques

using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM),

Field-Emission Scanning Electron Microscope

(FESEM) with EDX, and X-Ray Diffraction

KEYWORDS: Squeal, brake pad, wear,

SEM, FESEM, EDX, XRD

Market Orientation Practices among

Micro-Sized Enterprises: A Descriptive

Evidence using MKTOR Scale

Dzulkarnain Musa¹ & Muhd Zaki Mustapha² &

Azrul Nizam Abdul Aziz³

¹³Department of Commerce, Polytechnic Tuanku

Syed Sirajuddin, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia

Email: ¹[email protected],

³[email protected]

²Department of Student Affairs, Polytechnic Port

Dickson, 70150 Port Dickon, Negeri Sembilan,

Malaysia


ABSTRACT

Previous studies have found that market

orientation practices were important in benefiting

the continuity of the business firms. In this

regard, the study tries to focus on the market

orientation practices using MKTOR scale

including customer orientation, competitor

orientation and coordination between functions.

The survey type of study was carried out among

136 micro-sized enterprises in Perlis and grouped

into four major towns using stratified random

sampling technique. Results from the descriptive

analysis were shown that the mean value for the

three market orientation constructs was at

medium high level. The issue gives an overview

of moderate market orientation practices amongst

such enterprises. This finding provides useful

enlightenment to micro-sized enterprises and

related parties in developing the business in the

future. Some implications to the related parties

and future suggestions were discussed.

KEYWORDS: Market orientation, MKTOR

scale, micro-sized enterprises.



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Factors that Influence Anxiety in Learning

English Speaking Skills among PTSS

Students

Siti Nurfirdaus Mohd Nasir and Nur Hartini

Harun

General Studies Department, Politeknik Tuanku

Syed Sirajuddin, Pauh Putra, 02600 Arau, Perlis

ABSTRACT

This study intended to identify factors that

influence anxiety in learning English speaking

skills among PTSS students. The study focused

on the factors in learning English as a second

language and was conducted in order to answer

24 items related to the topic. 30 students were

given a set of questionnaire to determine the

students‟ tendency towards the target factors. The

descriptive analysis showed the highest

percentage was where the students start to panic

when they have to speak without preparation in

language class (78%). However, it was a surprise

when the least number of students answered they

felt more nervous in their English language class

than in other subject classes (28%). Finally, there

are several actions to be taken by the researchers

mentioned in this research to overcome language

anxiety among DHK students

A Study of APACC Integrated

Management System (AIMS) in Planning,

Implementing and Reviewing for

Continously Improvement in Preparation

for the APACC Accreditation Audit.

Normah bt Cheman

Department of Mechanical Engineering

[email protected]

Munawira binti Saharani

Department of General Studies

[email protected]

Zaiton bt Arifin

Department of Electrical Engineering

[email protected]

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah,

Jitra, Kedah

ABSTRACT

Asia Pacific Accreditation and Certification

Commission (APACC) is a particular

accreditation used for TVET institution. The

achievement of obtaining Level III-Gold status

by a TVET-based educational institution directly

proved that the polytechnic system has been able

to achieve international standards. It also proven

that graduates of polytechnic system are able to

compete in the global market. The achievement

also coincided with polytechnic planning to

achieve the fourth successive of 2015 Education

Blueprint (Higher Education) in producing high

quality Technical Education and Vocational

Training (TVET) graduates. Hence, POLIMAS

has built a comprehensive and applicable

planning model. In this regard, this quantitative

and qualitative study is conducted to evaluate the

effectiveness of APACC Integrated Management

System (AIMS) in planning, implementing,

reviewing and performing enhancements in

preparation for the APACC accreditation audit.

This study also gives importance to the

organization to achieve its objectives. The basic

objective of assessment is to identify the

effectiveness of media use through the accuracy

of time management of APACC activities and to

compare the achievements group works. The

result shows the concept of AIMS which includes

TQM, Deming and the use of ICT as a medium of

information and communications delivery has put



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POLIMAS at the GOLD status accreditation.

KEYWORDS: APACC, AIMS application, TQM,

Deming theory.

Industry Participation in Assessing Work

Based Learning (WBL) Students of Diploma in Video And Film Study (DDV)

Azizah Siron

Department of Visual and Communication,

Politeknik METrO Tasek Gelugor, 13300 Tasek

Gelugor, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Having a knowledgeable and highly skilled

human capital is a crucial factor for Malaysia to

transform its economy towards achieving high-

income status by the year 2020. Currently,

Malaysia government policy towards the

globalization era which will cover four programs

namely; investment literacy, Malaysia Women

Made, Impact 4 Humanity and Industrial

Revolution 4.0. Recognizing that need, the

government continues to strive to increase the

number of students enrolment in local public

institutions of higher learning in all areas and

level of study. However, the increasing number of

graduates is insufficient without completing them

with current skills required by industry and

employers. Therefore, studies on graduate

marketability from employer's perspective are

important to enable local public and private

institutions of higher learning to understand the

current needs of the industry. This study

conducted to identify the level of students‟

achievement in pursuing study through Work

Based Learning. A year attachment in industry

actually to gives real exposure and experience to

the students in order to create job creator

compared to job seekers among politeknik

graduates. Entrepreneurship program conducted

towards the students in politeknik helps students

to foster their interest to be a job provider or

entrepreneur. This study is conducted on the

industry partner who has been appointed as a

supervisor to Politeknik METrO Tasek Gelugor

(PMTG) students, who undergo practical training

in Work Based Learning (WBL) Mode. Students

are attached to the local production company, and

education institutions related to the video and

film studies disciplines. The industrial partner

will supervise the students for a year. Tools used

by industry to evaluate students who undergo

WBL was distributed by PMTG and industrial

panel will monitor students‟ performance while

completing their WBL. The respondents of this

study consist of 16 commercial production

company, 8 government institution/organization

and 8 from local broadcasting company. 30

students of Diploma in Video and Film Study

(DDV), the first PMTG cohort who are currently

undergoing WBL training from November 2016

to September 2017. Result shows 58% of the

students gained 3-4 marks on professional ethics

and impression. 30% students gained 3-4 marks

on achievement in communication skills. 50%

students gained 4 marks for safety practicing

during WBL. And 48% students attained 4 marks

for personnel and social skills. Lecturer should be

prepared professionally so they can serve well the

students to increase number of satisfaction among

industrial partner especially on communication

and language proficiency. Therefore lecturer

itself should increase their social skills because it

proactively help students, develop greater social

competence, and help to ensure positive short and

long term academic and personal outcomes for

students. Therefore, polytechnic as a higher level

institution can achieve beneficial teaching and

archive work satisfaction among academic staff

in producing good product to meet the industry

requirement. So then the target of higher

education ministry can be fulfilled.

KEYWORDS: Video and Film study,

Work-Based Learning, Industry

Assessment


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Students Perception to Aero Intel Mobile Application in Learning Aircraft Airframe

Norisza Dalila Ismail

Aircraft Maintenance Department, Politeknik

Banting Selangor, Persiaran Ilmu, Jalan Sultan

Abdul Samad, 42700 Banting, Selangor,

Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

Aero Intel mobile application (mobile app) is an

interactive learning application which is specific

to aircraft airframe providing information to help

aircraft maintenance engineering students. The

objective for this study is to investigate students‟

perceptions towards Aero Intel mobile app.

Quantitative study using questionnaires have

involved 78 respondents of semester 1 students of

Diploma Engineering of Aircraft Maintenance

from Politeknik Banting Selangor. The

questionnaires constructed about ownership of

smartphone, frequency use of type of apps, are

they interested to download educational app and

most importantly, students‟ perceptions after

exploring the Aero Intel mobile app. All

respondents owned smartphones and 97.4%

interested to use apps for academic purposes. The

data obtained were analyzed using Statistical

Package for Social Science (SPSS). The finding

results revealed the students have positive

perception towards Aero Intel mobile

application. Thus, the use of this application

is expected to help students‟ understanding in

aircraft airframe and various feedbacks given

to encourage educator as the developer to

explore and improving development of

mobile app for diverse needs in teaching and

learning.

KEYWORDS: Aero Intel, Mobile Apps,

Aircraft airframe, Students’ perception

Employment Trends of Graduates in

Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic

Ruziana Mohamad Rasli and Azmiah Aziz


Communication


Pauh Putra, Arau, Perlis, Malaysia

Emy Hazlinda Muhammad Ridzwan


Communication

Balik Pulau Polytechnic

Pinang Nirai Mukim 6, 11000 Balik Pulau,

Penang, Malaysia

Roznim Mohamad Rasli

Faculty of Art, Computing and Creative Industry

Sultan Idris Educational University

35900 Tanjong Malim

Perak, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

The main purpose of this paper is to analyses the

employment trends of graduates in Tuanku Syed

Sirajuddin Polytechnic (PTSS) in 10 years. There

are several elements that will be discussed in this

papers such as the number of graduates from

2007 to 2017, graduates‟ gender, programs,

employment status, employment groups, wages,

and the reasons why some of the graduates are

unemployed. For this research, the data was

downloaded from Graduates Tracer Study

(www.graduan.mohe.gov.my). Based on the data

downloaded, SPSS was used to analyze the data.

For 10 years, (PTSS) had produced a total of

9077 graduates and based on the data, 6152

graduates (67.68%) had been employed within

the time they completed their studies and their

convocation. It is summarized that, majority of

diploma graduates had around RM1001-RM1500

monthly wages and most of them are in

permanent jobs. Most of the students work in

private sectors, followed by multinational private

and government. This paper not only focus on the

graduates who are employed but also study on the

reasons why some of the graduates are

unemployed. Since employment is important not

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only to graduates, it is hoped that this paper can

give complete information on the employment

trends in PTSS. For future works, a detailed

analysis will be done on the comparison of

graduates based on their fields and departments.

KEYWORDS: Graduates’ Employment,

Graduate Tracer Study, Trends, Tuanku

Syed Sirajuddin Polytechnic

Gamification in Programming: Does

Gamification Increase Student’s Motivation?

Rosmawati Jaafar and Noor Hanim Ismail

Information Technology & Communication

Department, Seberang Perai Polytechnic 13500

Permatang Pauh, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

Commerce Department, Tuanku Sultanah

Bahiyah Polytechnic 09000 Kulim, Kedah,

Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

This study aims to investigate the effect of

gamification on student motivation for Basic

Programming course offered to Diploma of

Digital Technology‟students in one of the

Polytechnics in northern Malaysia. This study

was conducted to investigate the

students‟motivation through the approach of

gamification compared with the students‟

motivation through the existing learning method

without the application of gamification. The

design of this study was quasi-experimental and it

was divided into two groups namely the control

group and the experimental group. Student

motivation was measured using the questionnaire

adapted from the ARCS Model (Attention,

Relevant, Confidence and Satisfaction) by Keller.

The duration of treatment given to the student

was three weeks and the sample consisted of sixty

students. The results from the t-test analysis

showed that there were significant differences in

student motivation before and after receiving

treatment and students in gamified learning

approach was motivated than those in non-

gamified learning approach. Overall, this result

proves that gamification to have a good impact on

student motivation and further research is needed

to explore more on the implementation of

gamification in a classroom with longer duration

by focusing on the application of specific game

elements and investigate its effectiveness.

KEYWORDS: Gamification, Motivation,

Programming

The Development of a Power Recycling

Prototype for Renewable Energy using Dc

Motor

Wan Nor Shela Ezwane Wan Jusoh*1, Md Razak

Daud, Mohamad2 Sulhi Bin Mohamad3 1 [email protected], Politeknik Tuanku Sultanah

Bahiyah, Mechanical Department, 09000 Kulim,

Kedah, Malaysia. 2 [email protected], Politeknik Tuanku

Sultanah Bahiyah, Mechanical Department,

09000 Kulim, Kedah, Malaysia. 3 [email protected], Universiti Teknikal

Malaysia Melaka,Faculty of Electrical

Engineering, 76100 Melaka, Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

Energy consumption is an important part of life

today because without the power a work cannot

be done. The energy used today will be lost or

waste without renewable energy or power recycle

back. In reality, energy use has always had a

noticeable impact on the environment.

Overconsumption of energy is the main trigger for

the global warming that is now threatening to

cause devastation in many areas of the world.

Each year, electricity consumption in Malaysia is

always an increase. This can contribute to the

occurrence of global warming. This project will

be designed for renewable energy or recycle

power to avoid waste of energy from lost. Also,

this project consider regarding the Green

Technology without polluting the environment.

The objective is to develop a prototype or

hardware that aims to renewable energy using the

12V DC Motor as a generator which is use rear

shaft of table fan as a medium to drive the 12V

DC Motor and also to analyze the power





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consumption of table fan before and after install

with hardware. The methods used to design the

connector and DC motor holder is using a

solidwork software, then construct the circuit

simulation using a proteus software and also use a

microcontroller PIC16F877A as a controller. The

result obtained from the testing and experiments

by integrating the hardware part, electrical part

and software part. Finally, with the development

of a power recycling prototype for renewable

energy using DC Motor application, the wasted

energy can be reused from conversion to other

energy and energy can be used as renewable

energy. KEYWORDS: renewable energy; electricity

consumption

Are Soft Skills Required for Accounting

Students in Future Career?

Syaiful Baharee Jaafar

Commerce Department, Politeknik Tuanku

Sultanah Bahiyah

Kulim Hi-Tech Park, 09600 Kedah, Malaysia

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Nowadays, business is very challenging and

competitive, so it requires employers to hire

multitasking employees. Therefore, students

should be learning soft skills linked with

industrial requirements. Accounting students

should have added value, such as good soft

skills, which may lead to higher employability.

Higher education institutions need to play a role

to provide a curriculum that emphasizes soft

skills such as communication skills, time

management, and problem solving. This study

discusses these skills for accounting graduates

during their studies at higher education

institutions. Without better soft skills, it is very

tough for future accountants to be hired. Higher

employability linked with better soft skills may

enhance the public‟s perception of the

accounting field.

KEYWORDS: Soft skills, Higher Education

Institutions, Curriculum

Public Private Partnership (PPP) in

Malaysia

Mahirah bt Rafie, Saiful bin Mohamed Shuib

Jabatan Pelancongan dan Hospitaliti,

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, 02600 Arau,

Perlis

ABSTRACT

Public Private Partnership (PPP) is not a new

method of development in a country. In Malaysia,

concept of PPP had been used almost four

decades after Malaysian Incorporated Policy had

been introduced by the government. The

objectives of this present study is to scrutinize

defining the concept of PPP, the evolution of

implementation PPP, and also characteristic and

criteria of PPP based on Public Private

Partnership Guidelines. This paper also examines

the potential benefits of PPP implementation in

Malaysia based on the previous study. Last but

not least, issues and recommendation for future

study has been suggested to enhance PPP

implementation project.

KEYWORDS: Public Private Partnership,

Privatization, Benefit and Risk, PPP

Implementation, Economy, Evolution of Public

Private Partnership



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English for Occupational Purposes: The

Needs and Expectations of The Technical

Instructors at a Malaysian Polytechnic

Santhy Subbarau

Politeknik Banting Selangor, Persiaran Ilmu,

Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad, Malaysia

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

The paper addresses the English Language needs

and expectations of technical lecturers at a

Malaysian polytechnic in using English as a

medium of instruction in teaching technical

subjects. Five (5) higher management officers

and forty (40) lecturers cum instructors from two

departments were the samples to investigate their

linguistic needs and wants in order to teach

content subjects in English using a need analysis.

Questionnaires were administered on the 40

lecturers whereas interview sessions were

conducted on the 5 higher management officers

to elicit information on their expectations for the

lecturers in terms of using English for teaching.

The findings would be able provide essential

input to design and implement seemingly

appropriate training programmes for the technical

lecturers of the polytechnic.

KEYWORDS: English for Occupational

Purposes, Needs analysis, English medium

instruction, Technical Instructors

Using Game and Constructivist Approach to Improve Students’ Mental Model in

Programming

Hawariyah bt Rahim1, Halimah Badioze Zaman2,

Azlina Ahmad3, Nazlena Mohamad Ali4 1Jabatan Teknologi Maklumat dan Komunikasi,

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis,

Malaysia 2,3,4 Institute of Visual Informatics, UKM

Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Programming is a cognitively challenging

subject. Hence, good instructional strategies and

tools are important in providing the student

optimal guides and learning support. Interviews

with experts were conducted to identify major

problems in the teaching and learning

programming. The quantitative finding identifies

that problem-solving is a major problem

experienced when teaching and learning

programming language. This paper describes how

problem-solving skill can be developed by a

viable mental model to help students in learning

programming. In addition, the qualitative findings

provide information about the current methods

used to teach programming language and

recommend visualization programs and games as

learning tools to improve the current learning and

teaching methods. Furthermore, this paper

proposed a solution based on game and

constructivist approach as a tool to improve

students‟ mental model in learning programming.

KEYWORDS: Programming difficulties, problem

solving, mental models, constructivist approach,

games.



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The Effectiveness of Active Learning

among Information Technology Student in


Ruziana Mohamad Rasli

Mime Azrina Jaafar

Hafizah Abdullah @ Ali


Communication


Pauh Putra, 02600, Arau, Perlis, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

This paper will discuss on the effectiveness of

active learning among IT student in Tuanku Syed

Sirajuddin Polytechnic. A total of 81 semester

four students were involved in this research. Due

to the many advantages of active learning in

education, the student were divided into small

group discussion and were given instructions to

discuss on the ideas of their final year project.

From 81 student, around 25 small groups were

created and students were given time to prepare

on the ideas and information related to the

project. Once the groups completed the time

given, each group need to do a short presentation

discussing all the major important project

information. During this session, students are

actively involved and the instructor only monitor

the class. After the presentation session, student

is given a questionnaire to find out on the

effectiveness of the session and how do they

perform in the session. The questionnaire is then

being analyzed using SPSS descriptive analysis.

Compared to traditional learning methods, the

results gathered showed that active learning

provide positive effect on the learning process.

Students are more actively involved in the class

with better communication skills, better

cooperation within the group mate, can think

creatively and can manage time easily. In the

future different active learning activities will be

explored to find which activities provides better

performance in the IT learning process.

KEYWORDS: Active Learning, Information

Technology, Effectiveness, Small group

Discussions

Promoting Entrepreneurial Competencies via Education:

Is Malaysian Polytechnic Entrepreneurship Education Effective?

Asliza Yusoff

Department of Commerce, Politeknik Sultan

Azlan Shah, 35950 Behrang Stesen, Perak,

Malaysia ABSTRACT

Malaysian Polytechnics have been actively

participating in providing entrepreneurship

education (EE) and training to improve basic

skills and encourage self-employment among its

graduates. Sadly, a scrutiny of the available

literature suggests that Malaysian polytechnic

entrepreneurship education (MPEE) is

ineffective as it failed to inculcate

entrepreneurial spirit among the students as they

were not embedded with enterprising

knowledge, business skills and attributes during

their study in polytechnics. However, these

findings obviously demand further clarification.

First, although entrepreneurship is indeed a very

long process and cannot be created overnight,

previous studies measured the effectiveness of

MPEE by looking into students‟ readiness for

entrepreneurship. Although scholars have argued

that entrepreneurial readiness or intention is the

proximal determinant of entrepreneurial

behaviour, intention alone is not enough in

measuring entrepreneurship as it does not lead to

immediate action. Second, both studies missed

to apply the regression method in their analysis

to investigate the impact MPEE on students‟

entrepreneurial development, leaving both

theoretical and methodological gaps to be filled

by the current study. Based on this justifications,

this study proposes that the effectiveness of

MPEE can be studied by looking at how it

creates students‟ intellectual capital, which is the

asset that are garnered from an investment in

EE, and students‟ entrepreneurial behaviour via

a longitudinal design. This effort is deemed

important since understanding the effectiveness

of MPEE will bring substantial value to the

overall educational, economic, and societal well-

being in the long run. The significance of this

study lies in its effort to reveal the effectiveness


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of MPEE by investigating its impact on „the

other side‟ of entrepreneurial intention, which is

its behavioural aspect.

KEYWORDS: Malaysian Polytechnic,

Entrepreneurship education, Intellectual

capital, Entrepreneurial behavior,

Entrepreneurial competencies

The Elements of Interpersonal Skills

Practiced by Excellent Lecturers of

Islamic Education in Support of The

Implementation of TVET in Polytechnics

Ahmad Firdaus Mohd Noor1 (Corresponding

Author), and Amir Fariz Che Man2 1,2, Jabatan Pengajian Am Politeknik Ungku

Omar, Ipoh, Perak.

[email protected] /


ABSTRACT

This paper aims at discussing the type of

Intrapersonal skills acquired by Excellent

Lecturer of Islamic Education (ELIE) in

polytechnics. This study involved interviews with

six ELIE from three polytechnics in Malaysia.

Interviews were then managed through N'Vivo

version 7.0 to produce themes and matrix tables

related to the types of skills that were practiced

both during teaching and learning (T&L) inside

and outside classroom. The findings show that

there are several types of interpersonal skills that

can be practiced along T&L in polytechnics, such

as recognizing self-ability, thinking and problem

solving skills, self-motivation and achieving

personal satisfaction.

KEYWORDS: Intrapersonal skills, Excellent

Lecturer of Islamic Education, Polytechnics

Students’ Achievement in Technical and Vocational Education and Training

(TVET) Learning Outcomes for Dpb5023 Introduction to Research Methodology

Course

Nurul Huda Binti Yahya, Noorashikin bt Harun

@ Che Ani, Multazimah binti Mat Daud

Commerce Department

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah,

Kedah, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

The Technical and Vocational Education and

Training (TVET) education system in the

Malaysian Polytechnic includes course goals and

objectives as key components in all of their

syllabus. In each individual courses in its

syllabus comes with their specific course learning

outcomes (CLOs) that must be achieved by the

students. This study aims to report whether the

students who attends the DPB5023 Introduction

to Research Methodology attains the aspects of

general objectives and course learning outcomes

(CLOs) The study uses the entry-exit survey

which consist of 58 students as samples. The

study finds that the students are able to achieve

the goals and general objectives of the course.

KEYWORDS: TVET, entry-exit, goals,

outcomes


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Nurturing Creativity in Tourism Project –

A Case in PTSS

Norlili Juwita Arshad

Tourism and Hospitality Department

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin, Perlis,

Malaysia

Email: [email protected];

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this paper is to explore the

implementation of creative classroom or creative

pedagogy in assisting the tourism students to

produce a creative outcomes as part of their

assessment in campus. The research is conducted

in Tourism Management Unit of Tourism and

Hospitality Department, Politeknik Tuanku Syed

Sirajuddin (PTSS). This study explores the

implementation of creative pedagogy elements,

namely creative teaching, teaching for creativity

and creative learning. The three elements are able

to generate the creative qualities among students.

The results show that, creative pedagogy has

been implemented in the teaching and learning

process. Students are given the opportunities to

explore the resources and to express the new

ideas in producing their creative outcome.

However, students are restricted in demonstrating

their autonomy and empowerment in the

classroom.

By nurturing creativity, students are believed to

possess the creative qualities that are needed by

21st century industries and employers.

Furthermore, the creative qualities enable the

students‟ ability to think and act creatively to

generate for new ideas and hence, that will lead

to enhancement of service especially for this

case, the tourism service in Perlis.

KEYWORDS: creative pedagogy, creative

teaching, teaching for creativity, creative

learning.

The Importance of Takaful (Islamic

Insurance) among Commerce Department

Staff in Polimas

Multazimah binti Mat Daud and Noorashikin

binti Harun

Lecturer of Commerce Department,

Politeknik Sultan Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah

Jitra, Kedah

ABSTRACT

Takaful insurance has the same function as the

conventional insurance. However, both are

different in term of operation. Takaful is a type of

Islamic insurance, where member contribute

money into a pooling system in order to

guarantee each other against losses or damage

that may inflict upon any of them by contributing

as tabarru or donation in the Takaful funds.

Takaful branded insurance is based on sharia,

Islamic religious law and explain how it is the

responsibility of individuals to corporate and

protect each other. Takaful insurance is very

important for us because it is for our future.

Purchasing the insurance is the good idea. This

paper attempt to determine the importance

Takaful insurance toward people especially

parents, using Polimas staff from commerce

department as respondent. The researcher intends

to determine the importance Takaful insurance

based on independent variable; protection,

product feature, saving and services quality. It

important to make sure that their customer always

exceed their expectation toward takaful and its

product. The objective of this research is to

identify the important level of Takaful insurance

among commerce department staff, determine the

most factor that influence commerce department

staff to purchase Takaful insurance and identify

the commerce department staff expectation

towards Takaful insurance. This research is an

exploratory by using quantitative method. The

purpose of the research was designed to measure

the importance Takaful (Islamic insurance)

towards commerce department staff in Politeknik

Sultan Abdul Halim Mu‟adzam Shah

(POLIMAS). This research were analyzed by

descriptive analysis on the questionnaire that

relevant with our objective base on independent



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and dependent variable. This research employed a

population of commerce department staff were

chosen as a sample of research randomly. Total

sample chosen is based on Krejcie and Margon

table (1970).

KEYWORDS: Takaful insurance, takaful

protection, product feature, savings and

services quality

Innate Factors: The Importance on

Earnings Quality in Malaysia

Laila binti Musa and Azizee bin Aziz

Politeknik Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin,

Pauh Putra, 02600 Arau, Perlis

ABSTRACT

Innate factors are important determinants of

earnings quality of the firm. Most previous

studies have not emphasized the potential

importance of economic factors individually

towards earnings quality. Therefore, this study

aims to examine the importance of economic

factors as determinant factors of earnings quality

in Malaysia‟s different economic circumstances,

that is before and after the 2008 global financial

crisis. The data collection was made through

2,549 firm year observed data consisting of 728

listed companies in Bursa Malaysia from the year

2006 until year 2010. Data collected were

analyzed using panel data regression techniques

in determining the influence of economic factors

towards earnings quality. Measurement of

earnings quality is based on the accrual quality.

The results showed that the firm size, variability

of cash flows, length of operating cycle,

incidence of losses and investment opportunities

have a significant influence in describing

earnings quality. On the other hand variability of

sales and capital intensity proved these factors

were not significantly important in describing

earnings quality. Overall, this study could give a

significant contribution to the literature that

innate factors have their own importance as

determinant factors of earnings quality in

Malaysia.

KEYWORDS: earnings quality; innate

factors

User Perceived Sustainablity Performance

of Black Air Gun (BAG)

Zarinah Binti Zaini1

Tuty Binti Kamis2

Dr Faudzi Bin Muhammad3 1Civil Engineering Department,

2Commerce Department

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah 3Department of Polytechnic Education

[email protected], [email protected],

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Sustainability is a global aim to balance the rapid

growth of human needs and deterioration of

resources. Towards that, this conceptual paper

explores the sustainability performance of new

techniques to control sewage contamination in

order to prevent foul odors into the habitable

space from drainage network, which is important

for the healthiness and comfort of living

environment. Waste drain pipe is one of the most

essential facilities in building service engineering

and it is important to manage sewage

contamination that is normally blocked by debris

which is released without control particularly by

domestic and commercial buildings, are common

and annoying problem experienced that causes

sewage management to fail. In order to enhance

the sustainability performance of the sewage

system, this research focuses on the innovation of

a new technique to control sewage contamination

named Black Air Gun (BAG). In order to confirm

the performance of BAG, a sustainability

performance indicator is used by using perceived

sustainability performance indicators (PSPI). This

indicator shall serve as the basis for evaluating

the impact of BAG towards sewage

contamination control. Besides that, PSPI is able





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to address sustainability issues of using BAG in

sewage management. Adopting PSPI in this study

will naturally induce a sustainable development

aimed to improved people‟s quality of life for a

long term.

Open Educational Resources (OER) : Implementation in Graduate Employability Skills Training

Muhammad Zubir Bin Mohd Hanifah and Jamri

Bin Kasim



Malaysia.

ABSTRACT

In the digital era, information and

communication technologies is rapidly

changing and consequently influences the

conventional teaching and learning method.

This need to change parallel with the

technologies enhancement. In higher

education Institution (HEI), it is really

important to capture the learning needs of

the students and develop the content by

using innovative resources. Observation

from the recent situation, the Open

Educational Resources (OER) is used for

assisting technical learning and skills

enhancement program for electrical

engineering students. The students can

assess the digital educational resources

anytime and anywhere outside the campus

and supervised by the lecturers through OER

platform. From the research conducted, the

readiness and acceptance of new teaching &

learning method was obtained by conducting

a survey with a sample of 14 students and 10

lecturers who involved in this program. The

results indicated that there is a correlation

between the features of OER and student‟s

skill to handle digital resources. The success

and challenges of the OER platform has

paved the way for new methods of teaching

and learning outside the confinements of

traditional learning.

KEYWORDS: Open Educational

Resources (OER), Digital Resources, Long

Distance Supervision, Skill Enhancement,

Teaching & Learning.

Design and Development of Gunung Lang Temperature and Humidity Monitoring

System using LoRA Technology

Hasnim Harun and Shazarin Ahmad Zainuddin

Department of Information and Communication

Technology, Ungku Omar Polytechnic,

ABSTRACT

The Internet of Things (IoT) can provide services

to many areas including the environment

monitoring. This paper explores the use of the

LoRa Technology for environment monitoring,

specifically temperature and humidity at Gunung

Lang recreational park at Ipoh Perak Malaysia.

The Lora Technology is been chosen because it

can provide distance and remote monitoring

using Long Range radio frequency before

connecting to the Internet through Internet

Gateway. The system consist of end node

temperature and humidity sensor, Lora Gateway

and using The Things Network (TTN) as a cloud

services for logging and viewing data. The

system has been implemented at Gunung Lang

recreational park and was successful. The test of

the distance also been done to have understanding

of the approximation and the worakable range of

the system.

KEYWORDS: LoRa Technology, IoT,

environment monitoring


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Pneumatically Powered Toolbox (PPT)

Amaluddin Salihin bin Muhamad, Ibrahim bin

Burhan and Rosmawati binti Othman,

Department of Aircrawft Maintenance, Politeknik

Banting Selangor, Persiaran Ilmu, Jalan Sultan

Abdul Samad, 42700, Banting, Selangor DE,

ABSTRACT

The main idea of this project is to help the

maintenance personnel who is working in small

aircraft hangar where they have their own toolbox

with power source. When working away from

tool crib, they needed a toolbox that can be

equipped with precise tools and power source.

The invention of this product basically is an

improved design of the normal toolbox that equip

with built-in air compressor and power source.

The source of the air compressor is a battery,

which is charged by solar energy for continuous

power source. The solar panel compartment is

foldable to reduce the size the toolbox and ensure

the toolbox is not hot while exposed to sunlight

for battery recharging or off hangar working

period. Every tool inside the toolbox is

divided into few partitions to organize and

enable easy access to the tools that needed to

do their task. Besides that, built-in an air

compressor in the toolbox used to powered

up the air tools without using longer

pneumatic hoses which may cause hazards.

The objective of this innovation is to design

and built the PPT. PPT maximizes the use of

toolbox for minor servicing repair and also

can be implemented for education purpose.

Premier Polytechnics Brand Image: A Cross-Sectional Study

Noordini binti Abdullah

Politeknik Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah

40150 Shah Alam Selangor, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Branding is part of the promotional aspect of

marketing and is extremely important to the

image, reputation, and success of an organization

or institutions. Successful branding would help to

attract and retain students at the institution.

Polytechnics need to market themselves in order

to attract students. To compete in the current

marketplace, polytechnics management has to

find effective approaches to attract students

including adopting and practicing the culture of

quality across all aspects of their activities. As

part of strategies, three polytechnics have been

selected as the nation‟s premier polytechnics. The

three institutions chosen are PSA (Selangor),

PUO (Perak) and PIS (Johor). The three premier

polytechnics are said to focus on technical

programmes in niche fields which address the

needs of the services industry. Centres of

technology which serve as hubs of reference,

research and international collaboration will also

be established in the premier polytechnics. It is

apparent that the establishment of a premier

polytechnic focuses on developing a distinctive

image whilst maintaining the institution‟s

competitive advantage. Implicitly premier

polytechnics are formed significantly for

advancing the socio-economic progress of a

nation, particularly through its human resource

development. Furthermore, it is hoped that

premier polytechnic would become competitive

and resilient enough to be among the best

institutions in the world. This paper reports on

the perceived brand image of premier

polytechnics among students. The main

objective is to develop a model of premier

polytechnics brand image which is capable to

make polytechnics the preferred choice of

students. In addition, this research identifies key

dimensions necessary to evaluate brand image.

This study is perhaps one of the first to

investigate determinants of premier polytechnics

brand image which will provide insights on how


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the premier polytechnics could improve their

brand images

KEYWORDS: Premier Polytechnics, brand

image dimensions and model of premier

polytechnics brand image

Development of E-ACTIVETRANS for Urban Cycling

Bibie Sara Salleh, Zalina Ismail

Polytechynic of Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz

Shah

Persiaran Usahawan, Seksyen U1, 40150 Shah

Alam, Selangor

ABSTRACT

This paper presents a development of an expert

system for urban cycling as an advisory in

finding the solution to problems which are

normally solved by human experts. The E-

ACTIVETRANS is developed to help young

engineers/planners in designing a new cycle lane

and reallocation the existing lane in urban areas.

This paper focuses on the design of bicycle

facilities whereby the prototype was developed

based on data acquired from the domain experts

who are involved in bicycle facility module

design, as well as the initial text analysis obtained

during the knowledge acquisition stage. The

verification, validation and the evaluation (VVE)

of the system was performed through a

comparison of knowledge content in E-

ACTIVETRANS based on expert opinion. The

average level of acceptance is 91 percent which

validates the system and knowledge of the

experts.

KEYWORDS: Bicycle facilities, E-

ACTIVETRANS, expert system, human experts

Investigation on Vegetable Growth Using

Artificial Sunlight for

Indoor Farming

Kesavan Ulagnathen1,Mu Azzrol B.

Manohar2,Mohd Sharizan B. Mokhtar3,Ahmad

Nizam B. Mohd Jihan4,

Nur Azlyeza Bt Rahman5, 1,2,3,4,5 Politeknik Sandakan Sabah, Sabah,

Malaysia

Correspondence email: [email protected]

ABSTRACT Indoor planting or better known as indoor

farming has become more widely used method as

it is able to provide higher yields throughout the

year. Currently most of the developed country the

shortage of land for agriculture and the time is a

major factor effecting agriculture sector, it is a

global trend. In this technique, one of the most

important things is the use of artificial light

sources to replace the sun at indoor environment.

Although there is still no such light that capable

of replacing the sun completely, but sometimes

the artificial light provides better results. The use

of artificial light in plant cultivation was first

began in 1868 by a Russian botanist Andrei

Famintsyn. The use of artificial light changes

according to current technology from time to

time. The results of previous studies showed

similar outcome that were relied on the

capabilities of existing equipment at that time. In

this study, three different LED color lights, 18W

and a luorescent lamp, 36W were used. The

height or growth of the salad plant was taken for

6 weeks period. At the end of the study, the

height of the salad plant in the red LED lamp is

as high as 10.9cm, followed by the Blue, White

and Yellow Lights, 7.41cm, 7.6cm and 5.23cm.

From the studies it shows different color lights

create an impact on the height growth of a plant

or vegetable. This study is useful for researchers

that focus on indoor farming using artificial light

as a source of sunlight.

KEYWORDS: In door farming, LED lamp,

Fluorescent lamp, Height



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Students’ Satisfaction through the

Usability of 2d Virtual Agent Multimedia

Quiz App

Vicneas Muniady1,2

, Ahmad Zamzuri Mohamad

Ali3 1Sultan Azlan Shah Polytechnic, 35950 Behrang

Stesen, Perak, Malaysia 2,3 Faculty of Art, Computing and Creative

Industry, Universiti Pendidikan Sultan Idris,

Tanjong Malim, Perak, Malaysia.

[email protected],

[email protected]

ABSTRACT

Quizzes are useful assessment method to examine

overall about what has been taught. Quizzes that

created with various interactive way capable to

encourage students' to pay closer attention and

indirectly improve their understanding on the

subject. Therefore, 2D virtual agent multimedia

quiz app was developed. Particularly, 2D female

virtual agent that has native look of Malaysian

was designed to conduct the quiz in the app. The

quiz app contains 20 multiple-choice questions

with the presence of score and time taken to

complete the quiz. The quiz app operates with

different functions through various screens

namely home screen, question screen, feedback

screen, hint screen, reward screen and review

screen. The targeted participants to take this quiz

are from fourth and fifth semester students from

electrical engineering department of polytechnics

in Malaysia. The quiz app was developed based

on theories, principles and literature overview has

been done. The paper also reports the outcome of

user satisfaction through the conducted usability

test on design, functionality, ease of use,

learnability, satisfaction, outcome and system

reliability of the quiz app.

KEYWORDS: quiz; multimedia quiz app; virtual

agent; usability test


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