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CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL DETAILS Full Name MUHAMMAD HEIKAL BIN ISMAIL Title: Dr. Mykad No. / Passport No. 850113-01-5753

Citizenship Malaysia

Race Malay

Gender Male

Designation

Senior Lecturer Date of Birth 13/01/1985

Current Address Department/Faculty E-mail Address and URL Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering, UPM, Serdang, 43400, Selangor Tel: +60397694676

Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering Faculty of Engineering, UPM, Serdang, 43400, Selangor Tel: +603-97696268 Fax: +603-86567120

E-mail: heikal@upm.edu.my URL: www.eng.upm.edu.my H/P: +60183874595

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATION Qualification obtained Name of School /

Institution Year obtained

Area of Specialization

Source of Fund

PhD in Engineering Title: Investigating the Effect of Pre-treatment on the Drying Kinetics and Quality Traits of Rice Noodle

University of Nottingham

2019 Food Process Engineering

Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education

Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical)

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

2008 Chemical Engineering

Shell Malaysia Scholarship

MEMBERSHIP Name of Society Designation Number Start Date Date ended

The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia

Student 97837 26.03.2018 Lifetime

Institution of Chemical Engineers

Associate Member 99946290 16.10.2018 Lifetime

Malaysian Society of Agricultural Engineers

Member M2432 14.03.2019 Lifetime

Malaysia Board of Technologist Graduate Technologist

GT19010084 23.01.2019 Lifetime

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LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY Language Poor (1) Moderate (2) Good (3) Very good (4) Excellent (5)

English √

Bahasa Melayu √

EMPLOYMENT Employer Designation Department Start Date Date Ended

Universiti Putra Malaysia Senior Lecturer Chemical and Environmental Engineering

06.12.2018 Present

Universiti Putra Malaysia Tutor Chemical and Environmental Engineering

21.10.2010 06.12.2018

ACHIEVEMENT Name of Activity Designation Level Year Harvard College in Asia Project, Harvard University, Boston, United States

Delegate International 2007

Student Council Vice President (College)

University 2008

HONOURS AND AWARDS Name of awards Title Award Authority Award Type Year Best Student English Subject Kolej Islam Sultan

Alam Shah School 2001

Shell Scholarship Awards

Shell Scholarship Awards

Shell Malaysia Berhad National 2004-2008

Essay Writing Open Category

Hari dan Minggu Belia Negara

Majlis Belia Malaysia National 2005

Dean’s List Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical)

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

University 2005

Postgraduate Students Teachers

Professional Development

University of Nottingham

International 2018

Star Collaborator Award

2018 Helping Hands

FTA Playschool National 2018

TEACHING No. Subject Department Year Credit hours 1 Simulation and Process

Optimization Process and Food Engineering 2019 2+1

2 Chemical Engineering II Laboratory

Chemical and Environmental Engineering 2019 0+2

3 Engineering Statistics Aerospace Engineering 2019 3+0 4 Thermodynamics Chemical and Environmental Engineering 2019 3+0 5 Material Engineering

Laboratory Chemical and Environmental Engineering 2019 0+2

6 Disaster Risk Management and Emergency Plan

Master of Process Safety and Loss Prevention

2019 1.5 + 0

7 Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering

Science in Petroleum Chemistry 2020 3+0

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8 Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics

Chemical and Environmental Engineering 2020 3+0

9 Chemical Engineering II Laboratory

Chemical and Environmental Engineering 2020 0+2

TEACHING INNOVATION No. Title Competition Role Year Achievement 1 Convenient Immersive Delivery

through Macbook and Iphone Screen Recording and Screen Mirroring

Putra Innocreative Competition 2019

Project Leader 2019 Silver

2 Immersive Superpro and AutoCAD Learning in 3D Environment

Putra Innocreative Competition 2019

Project Leader 2019 Bronze

3 Best Innovative Learning and Teaching Practice for the Faculty/Centre Competition

Putra Innocreative Competition 2019

Member 2019 Finalist

SUPERVISION No. Name of Student Level Role Title Year Status 1 Khalida Aziz Master

(Research) Main Supervisor

Effect of Drying Kinetics to Food Waste Composting

2020 On-going

2 Amiza Surmi Master Main Supervisor

Analysis of Inherently Safer Design of High-Pressure CO2 Blowdown in a Cryogenic System

2019 Completed

2 Siti Hamin Master Main Supervisor

Analysis of Natech (Natural Hazard Triggering Technological Hazard) Risk Management in High Pressure System

2019 On-going

3 Viknesh Final Year Project

Main Supervisor

Synthesizing Magnetic Chitosan from Waste Prawn Shell for Wastewater Treatment

2019 On-going

4 Tharsini Amma Final Year Project

Main Supervisor

The Effect of Bio-fertilizer through the Fermentation of Food Waste and Leftovers on the Growth of Plants

2019 On-going

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Journal Since 2013 only.

Ismail, Muhammad Heikal, Law, Chung Lim and Hii, Ching Lik (2016) Transparency phenomena of flat-rice noodles (kuew teow) at drying at soaking variation, International Food Research Journal, 195-202

Books/

Monographs

Ismail, Muhammad Heikal (2019), Investigating the effect of Pre-Treatment on The Drying Kinetics and Quality Traits of Rice Noodles, PhD in Engineering, University of Nottingham.

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Proceedings 1. Muhammad Heikal Ismail, Law Chung Lim, and Hii Ching Lik, Effect of Pretreatment on the Drying Kinetics of Rice Noodles, Asia Pacific Drying Conference, 2019.

2. Muhammad Heikal Ismail, Mami Irie, Muhammad Izuan Fahmi Romli, Analysis of Food Waste from Different Sources by Cloud Computing Database, UC Faculty Forum, 2019.

3. Muhammad Heikal Ismail, Law Chung Lim, and Hii Ching Lik, The Effects of Different Drying Methods on the Quality of Rice Noodle, Nordic Baltic Drying Conference (NBDC) 2015, Gdansk, Poland, 2015.

4. Muhammad Heikal Ismail, Law Chung Lim, and Hii Ching Lik, The transparency phenomenon of rice noodle subjected to high temperature drying. 7th International Conference on Sustainable Agriculture for Food, Energy and Industry (ICSAFEI) 2015.

5. Muhammad Heikal Ismail, Law Chung Lim, and Hii Ching Lik, The Microstructural Effects of Rice Noodle subjected to Different Drying Methods, 8th Asia Pacific Drying Conference (ADC 2015), Kuala Lumpur, 2015.

6. Muhammad Heikal Ismail, Law Chung Lim, and Hii Ching Lik, Quality Attributes of Rice Noodles under Different Drying Methods, Faculty of Engineering Postgraduate Research Week 2014, 2014.

RESEARCH PROJECT No. Project Title Role Year Source of fund Status 1 Solar drying of different part of roselle, and

misai kucing Field Researcher

2016 NRGS Completed

2 Investigating the Effect of Pre-treatment on the Drying Kinetics and Quality Traits of Rice Noodle

Principal Researcher

2019 MOHE Completed

3 Producing Fertilizer through Food Waste Fermentation for the Community

Principal Researcher

2019 Selangor Government

On-going

4 Feasibility Studies on Application of Forward Osmosis (FO) on Concentrated Tropical Juice

Co-Researcher

2019 Putra-SEGI Matching Grant

On-going

5 Investigating the Effect of Food and Agricultural Waste on The Quality of Biogas and Bio-Fertilizer

Principal Researcher

2019 UPM-Gadjah Mada UC Seed Fund

On-going

6 Humidity Control and Shelf Life of Noodle: A Drying Perspective

Principal Researcher

2019 Putra Grant On-going

7 Knowledge Transfer of Food Waste Treatment for Lifelong Income Generation to the B40 Community in Sri Serdang

Principal Researcher

2020 KTP Grant On-going

RESEARCH ATTACHMENT Project No.

Project Title Role Location Year Source of fund

1 Low Temperature Drying Graduate Associate

McGill University, Canada

2016 U21

2 The Effects of Food Waste on the Quality of Biogas and Biofertilizer

Faculty Member

NODAI, Tokyo, Japan

July 2019 SEARCA

COMMUNITY PROJECT No. Project Title Role Year Location Status 1 Riau AgriAqua Project Leader 2019 Riau, Indonesia 5 Stars 2 Celik Classroom Project Leader 2018 KOA Kachau Luar 5 Stars 3 Asli Talent Project Leader 2019 KOA Kachau Luar 5 Stars

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4 Hutan Classroom Project Leader 2019 Kachau Jungle 5 Stars 5 The Homeless Accompaniment 2019 Kuala Lumpur Completed 6 Sri Ayesya STEM Week Project Leader 2019 Sri Ayesya School Completed 7 Little Einstein in Nature Project Leader 2019 Kachau Jungle 4 Stars 8 One Child One Book One Future Member 2019 Bintulu, Sarawak Completed

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY No. IP Title Role Issuing Body Year IP Number 1 Modul STEM Alam: Ciri-ciri

Tumbuhan Owner Intellectual Property

Corporation of Malaysia

April 2019 LY2019002281

2 Modul STEM Alam: Makanan Beraksi

Owner Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia

April 2019 LY2019002282

3 Modul STEM Alam: Pengangkutan Air dalam Tumbuhan

Owner Intellectual Property Corporation of Malaysia

April 2019 LY2019002283

EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTION No. Activity Level Role Year Status 1 Journal of Chemistry International Reviewer 2019 Completed 3 UC Faculty Forum International Forum Panel 2019 Completed 2 Malaysia’s Technical and Vocational

Education-Material Science National Advisor 2019 On-going

3 Shell Selamat Sampai Varsity Challenge

National Supervisor 2019 Top 20

4 Final Year Project Exhibition University Examiner 2019 Completed 5 Process Simulation and Optimization University Head of Examination 2019 Completed 6 PhD Viva: Adeyi Abel Adekanm University Assistant Chairman 2020 Accepted 7 PhD Viva: Nur Atiqah binti

Mohamad Aziz University Assistant Chairman 2020 Accepted

8 PhD Viva: Chen Jia Tian University Assistant Chairman 2019 Completed COURSES No. Activity Venue Role Date Status 1 National Forum on Disaster Risk

Financing and Insurance 2019 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Participant 1 April 2019 Completed

2 Disaster Education and Preparedness for Social Resilience

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Participant 25 March- 5 April 2019

Completed

SOCIAL NETWORKING Facebook https://www.facebook.com/DrMuhammadHeikal LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/drmuhammadheikal/ Researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Muhammad_Heikal_I

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