Malaysia learning

In previous lives, before his career as a restaurateur, Mr. Wong worked with Penthouse magazine, when it tried unsuccessfully to publish in China. Mr. Wong, who is Chinese-Malaysian, speaks Chinese. He has also worked at the United Nations with the World Meteorological Organization. He learned how to cook from his mother, who cooked for the workers at his father s lumberyard company on the east coast of Malaysia. 

In Malaysia, a paste of leaves is applied to sore legs, and a decoction of the leaves is drunk as a protective remedy given after childbirth. To date, the pharmacological potential of F. fulgens (Hk. f. et Th.) Merr. is unexplored. It would be interesting to learn whether further study on this medicinal plant disclose any aporphines of chemotherapeutic interest. 

The advancement of RREE in Malaysia really took off with the advent of PhD in engineering education programs. The increasing number of research activities as well as funding and the positive outcomes from the research conducted managed to attract engineering academics to not only participate in the research teams but also properly learn educational research methods and the related grounding theories. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to be done, especially in terms of journal publications. 

Liew, C. R, Puteh, M., Mohammad, S. (2014). Best practices in Washington Accord signatories With reference to the accreditation criteria, systems and procedures. 2014 International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Computing and Engineering, 9-12 April 2014, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. 

Mulop, N., Mohd-Yusof, K., Tasir, Z. (2013). The performance of students learning thermodynamics through an online courseware. Proceedings 5th Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2013, Putrajaya, Malaysia, Paper Session 2.3, July 5-6, 2013. ISBN 978-967-0194-35-6. 

Kathirgamanathan, T., Wong, T.K. 2005. Behaviour Based Safety - Implementation, learnings and results of loss prevention system in ExxonMobil Malaysia . Proc. SPE Asia Pacific Health, Safety and Environment Conference and Exhibition. Malaysia. 19—20 Sep. 2005. 

Dhindsa, H. S., Chung, H. (1999). Motivation, anxiety, enjoyment and values associated with chemistry learning among Form 5 Bruneian students. Paper presented at the MERA-ERA joint conference, Malacca, Malaysia. 

In the early 2000s, when I started to change the way I teach to help students in my class learn better, the university management was willing to support me to go to conferences and workshops in Malaysia or Singapore, provided that I train other academic staff when I afterwards. Well, the best way to learn is to indeed implement what we learned and teach others. Providing training to other academic staff allowed... 

This work has been carried out during the Problem-based Learning of 4 Year Laboratory at Medical Electronics Laboratory, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. 

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