LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN MEKANIKAL
UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA
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FINAL YEAR PROJECT PROGRESS REPORT
PROJECT TITLE
OPTIMIZATION OF SOLAR PANEL FACING ANGLE AND DIRECTION ON THE
PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR PANEL USING RSM
MUHAMAD AMIRUL
HAFIZ BIN JAILAN
NO: 970202015751
STUDENT ID: 2018468796
SEMESTER 08 SESSION 2021
LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
FINAL YEAR PROJECT
BACHELOR ENGINEERING (HONS) MECHANICAL
STUDENT INFORMATION
Semester/Session: 8/2021
Student Name: MUHAMAD AMIRUL HAFIZ BIN JAILAN
UiTM ID: 2018468796
IC No: 970202015751
Email: amirullhafiz5@gmail.com
No Tel/HP: 0177657463
Address: PP93, KG PARIT PULAI, SEROM SUNGAI MATI,
84410, MUAR JOHOR
Project Title:
OPTIMIZATION OF SOLAR PANEL FACING ANGLE AND DIRECTION ON THE
PERFORMANCE OF SOLAR PANEL USING RSM
Supervisor(s):
Halim Bin Ghafar
019 - 221 6417
LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
MEETING DATE BETWEEN STUDENT AND SUPERVISOR
Freq.
Week
1
1
1
2
1
3
1
4
1
5
1
6
Meeting
Date
Summary of Discussion
Supervisor
Signature
Present the planning and work progress to the supervisor
12/03/2021
through virtual meeting. Conduct the experiment of PV
(Semester break) panel based on DOE for the first trials in Sagil, Johor on
12 March 2021.
Presents the experimental progress to the supervisor
15/03/2021
through virtual meetings. Continue conduct the
(Semester break) experiment of PV panel for another 3 trials on 15,18 and
19 March 2021.
23/03/2021
Presents the experimental progress with the supervisor
(Semester break)
through virtual meeting. Continue conducts the
experiment for another 3 trials on 23, 24 and 25 March
2021.
Present all the data collected to the supervisor through
30/03/2021
virtual meeting. Calculate the value of maximum power
by using the equations of fill factor.
05/04/2021
12/04/2021
1
7
19/04/2021
1
8
26/04/2021
1
9
03/05/2021
1
10
18/05/2021
1
11
24/05/2021
1
12
08/06/2021
Discussion session with the supervisor on the
procedure/step that need to be carried out on the
confirmation runs proposed by the numerical optimization
Presents and discuss all the data collected from the
experiments to the supervisor. Initially, discuss the step to
do the ANOVA analysis and results that need to come out
in the Chapter 4
Learn to observe and analyze the response in ANOVA by
observing the statistical parameters with the supervisor.
Encouragement by overview the writing style from the
other papers/journal/article.
Discussion on the response model terms. No backward
elimination required since the predicted R squared and
adjusted R-squared were approximately high and the
response models were significant.
The supervisor encourages to make some corrections on
research background. There were several lacks supporting
points especially the research gap.
Discuss on the arrangement of subsection analysis results
in Chapter 4. Encourage to read other results from
journal/paper that related for the significant for lack of fit.
The findings must be explained why, how, what
The supervisor checks all the explanation methodology in
Chapter 3 and give some feedback. There was some
correction especially on flowchart of RSM. Submit the 1st
draft thesis to supervisor for checking purpose.
Comment from supervisor on the 1st draft thesis. A lot of
improvement should be made by making the major
correction especially in Chapter 4.
HALIM BIN GHAFAR
Pensyarah
Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Cawangan Pulau Pinang
halim4346@uitm.edu.my
04-3823156
LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:12/03/2021
WEEK 1 (Semester Break)
Personal Action Taken
1) Find the suitable location to conduct the experiment.
2) Oil palm estate that has been felled near at Gunung Ledang, Sagil Johor has been selected to
conduct the experiment of PV panel.
3) Conduct experiment and collect the experiment data of short circuit current, open circuit voltage
and the irradiance level based on design matrix experimental plan.
Table 1: DOE design matrix
Accomplishment
1) Able to take 1 trial only
2) Fill in the data collected into Design Experiment matrix in Design Expert software.
Problems encountered
1) Found that one 1 trials insufficient thus some average collected data was needed to minimize the
systematic error.
2) Plan to do other experiments trials for the following weeks.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:15/03/2021
WEEK 2 (Semester Break)
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting (Google Meet)
1) Present the work progress to the supervisor.
2) Discussion session about the experiment’s outcome (data collected) from the previous week.
Personal Action Taken
1) Continue conduct the practical experiment at Gunung Ledang, Sagil Johor for another trials.
2) Collect the experiment data of short circuit current, open circuit voltage and the irradiance level by
based on design matrix experimental plan.
Figure 1: Set up PV panel
Accomplishment
1) Able to take another 3 trials on
2) Fill the average data collected into Design Experiment matrix in Design Expert software.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:23/03/2021
WEEK 3 (Semester Break)
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting (Google Meet)
1) Present the work progress and further planning to the supervisor.
Personal Action Taken
1) Continue conduct the practical experiment at Gunung Ledang, Sagil Johor for another trials.
2) Collect the experiment data of short circuit current, open circuit voltage and the irradiance level
based on design experimental plan.
Accomplishment
1) Able to take another 3 trials
2) Fill the average data collected into Design Experiment matrix in Design Expert software.
3) Set the criteria in optimization process for confirmation runs.
Table 2: Complete DOE Results
Signature
LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:30/03/2021
WEEK 4
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting (Google Meet)
1) Discuss on the data collected from the experiment that has been conducted.
2) Seek for opinion and suggestion from the supervisor for the next step taken. What is the
governing equation to calculate the maximum power?
Personal Action Taken
1) Identify the optimum tilt angle and direction in optimization process which need
2) Calculate the fill factor by observed the specification of solar panel
3) Calculate the maximum power by using Pmax equation and the fill factor value. I use Microsoft
excel to ease the calculation tasks for other runs. The equation below is the sample for maximum
power for Run 1.
Accomplishment
1) Generated full accomplishment value of Pmax for all DOE runs.
2) Successfully completed collect all the experiments data of irradiance level, open circuit voltage,
short circuit current and the maximum power
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE: 05/04/2021
WEEK 5
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting (Google Meet)
1) Present the progress work of practical experimental to the supervisor
2) Discuss on the limitation of PV system practical experiment. How to overcome the problems
3) Discuss on the research background with supervisor. How the results of previous study on RSM
towards PV system implementation. This should be discussed in research background in Chapter 1
4) Present the procedure/ steps to conduct confirmation analysis/ runs
Personal Action
1) Conduct confirmation runs after the optimization process and take the average by following the
confirmation location (proposed by Design Expert) in Table below.
2) Generally, analyze the significant model terms for irradiance, open circuit voltage, short circuit
current and maximum power.
3) Set up experiment again in Sagil Johor for confirmation runs
4) Collect all the response data
Table 3: Confirmation Runs
Signature
LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE: 12/04/2021
WEEK 6
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting (Google Meet)
1) Presents progress and planning for FYP2 journey to supervisor.
2) Presents the experiment data collected to the supervisor for evaluation.
3) Every method in thesis must have flowchart and must be explained.
4) Focus on making result analysis for Chapter 4.
Personal Action
1) Observed the complete data collected for analysis of variance
2) Identify modify the suitable flowchart for ANOVA.
Accomplishment
1) Updated flowchart of DOE and developed flowchart of ANOVA analysis.
2) Do research findings on analysis of variance from previous paper, journals, article
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:19/04/2021
WEEK 7
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting
1) Presents work in progress and planning for completing the thesis.
2) Learn how to format the paragraph, heading, sub heading and others for thesis format
3) Learn how to observe and analyze the parameters in ANOVA.
Personal Action
1) Perform the analysis of variance (Anova) in RSM.
2) Start writing for Chapter 4 discussion
3) Put all the results graph, figure, and desired information into the thesis report from the Design
Expert software results.
4) Decide the section for chapter 4 discussion
Accomplishment
1) All the result being analyze successfully.
2) No transformation was made for all the response model terms.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE: 26/04/2021
WEEK 8
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting
1) Presents the work progress and planning
2) Discussion on the response model terms. No backward elimination required since the predicted R
squared and adjusted R-squared were approximately high.
3) Discussion on comparison between experiment results with predicted results. How much the error
difference happens?
Research Findings
1) Lack of fit significant- This occur when the pure error is very low compared to the residual. It
shows that there are some issues in the model.
2) Try to use narrow ranges of variable if want insignificant
Tasks Accomplishment
1) Update and add on several findings on the literature review based on the new findings from
article/journal
2) Compare the results obtained with the other papers/journal.
3) Observed the models’ terms for all responses that were significant and insignificant.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:03/05/2021
WEEK 9
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting
1) Present thesis progress and future planning in completing the thesis draft
2) Discuss on the importance of model fit summary in ANOVA.
Abbreviation
Irradiance
Current
Voltage
Power
Mean
St. Dev
R2
Adj.R2
Pre.R2
C.V
A. P
PRESS
1087.49
32.54
0.9806
0.9968
0.8676
2.99
19.5717
50687.29
2.55
0.0167
0.9983
0.9971
0.9899
0.6539
62.5563
0.0116
21.24
0.0391
0.9711
0.9504
0.8873
0.1841
18.1242
0.0418
40.73
0.2610
0.9986
0.9976
0.9913
0.6408
68.4827
2.9
Tasks Accomplishment
1) Do some corrections on research background. There were several lacks supporting points especially
the research gap.
2) Import the graph, figure, and other desired results from Design Expert software into the thesis.
3) Do some corrections on citation and formatting equation for the whole chapter.
Tasks to do before next meeting
1) Update the discussion writing on Chapter 4
2) Make sure the feedback or outcome from meeting discussion with supervisor has been taking into
point and improve the writing skills
Signature
.
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:18/05/2021
WEEK 10
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting
1) Present the work progress with supervisor in virtual meeting (google meet)
2) Discuss the workflow subsection in Chapter 4. The subsection arrangement must be neat and
orderly.
3) Discuss the other papers/ journals results that related for the significant for lack of fit. The findings
must be explained why, how, what?
4) The literature review citation must be properly insert at the end of the sentences
Task accomplishment
1) Successfully decide and arrange the section, subsection in Chapter 4 for all the responses.
2) Elaborate the results discussion for irradiance, open circuit voltage, short circuit current and
maximum power responses.
3) Changes the unsuitable words/ sentences with the new ones for proper understanding.
Tasks to do before next meeting
1) Update and continue writing the results discussion in Chapter 4
2) Paraphrase the sentences/ words in Chapter 2 to reduce plagiarism.
3) Calculate the difference of percentage error of predicted results from RSM and observed results for
all the responses.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:24/05/2021
WEEK 11
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting
1) Present the work progress with supervisor in virtual meeting (google meet)
2) The supervisor checks all the explanation methodology in Chapter 3 and give some feedback. There
was some correction especially on flowchart of RSM
3) Discussion on identify the writing errors in thesis by review the student thesis
4) Learn to cross references figure, table and equation properly by following the guidance provided by
the faculty.
Task Accomplishment
1) Adding the new flowchart of multimeter procedure in Chapter 3
2) Writing discussion results and analysis for irradiance and short circuit current response in Chapter 4
3) Update the logbook weekly
Task to do before next meeting
1) Make sure discussion writing on irradiance response has been fully finished
2) Modified and update the major correction
3) Send the first draft thesis to the supervisor for checking and evaluation purpose.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:8/06/2021
WEEK 12
Discussion topic in Virtual Meeting
1) Present the work progress with supervisor in virtual meeting (google meet)
2) Comment from supervisor on the first draft thesis. A lot of improvement should be made by making
the major correction especially in Chapter 4.
3) Discuss on how to elaborate the discussion/ point in chapter 4
4) Overview of objective that must related to the objective
5) Overview on how to close the objectives
Task Accomplishment
1) Writing discussion results and analysis for open circuit voltage and maximum power response in
Chapter 4
2) Develop conclusions and recommendation for Chapter 5.
3) Able to identify the range of critical factors in response surface by overview the darker region
4) Update the logbook weekly.
5) Submit 1st draft thesis to the supervisor via email.
Task to do before next meeting
1) Ensure major/ minor correction has been made based on comments provided from the supervisor.
2) Modified and update for the major correction.
3) Submit the 2nd draft thesis to the supervisor via email for checking and evaluation purpose.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE: 14/ 06/2021
WEEK 13
New Research Findings
1) Found the equation of Central Composite Design (CCD) which comprises the axial point, centre
point and star point. It has been identified that 13 runs generated by the software were based on 5
centre point, 4 axial point and 4-star point.
Task Accomplishment
1) Update the flowchart general procedure for measurement of open circuit voltage and short
circuit current.
2) Update the design shape of flowchart process on analysis of variance.
3) Submit the 2nd draft thesis to the supervisor via email.
4) Develop the abstract of the thesis.
5) Make some correction on equation citation numbering.
Task plan for next week
1) Make sure all the major corrections have been made perfectly.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE: 21/06/2021
WEEK 14
Task Accomplishment
1) Continue to write and modify the conclusions and recommendation for Chapter 5.
2) Choose the desired results in software to put into the thesis
3) Develop actual format of thesis based on the guideline given.
4) Modify the abstract structure section.
5) Make some correction on equation citation numbering.
Task to do for next week
1) Make sure all the writing/ paragraph/ heading/ subheading follow all the guideline provided by the
faculty.
2) Make sure the significance of the study section has been completely made the corrections.
3) Prepare correction for 3rd draft thesis.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:29/06/2021
WEEK 15
Task Accomplishment
1) Writing discussion analysis of thesis on maximum power
2) Choose the desired results in Design Expert software to put into the thesis
3) Submit the 3rd draft thesis to the supervisor for checking purpose.
Planning for the next task
1) Elaborate more on discussion for the numerical optimization
2) Change the writing style on optimization process
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:5/07/2021
WEEK 16
Task Accomplishment
1) Change the writing style in numerical optimization
2) Update the minor correction especially the grammar words.
3) Update and make some changes on conclusion and recommendation.
4) Ensure minor correction has been made based on comments provided from the supervisor
Findings from optimization results
1) Found that the desirability of 0.977 out from 1 on numerical optimization was quite high which
illustrate the prediction of RSM on solar engineering field.
Signature
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WEEKLY ACTIVITIES RECORD
DATE:13/07/2021
WEEK 17
Task Accomplishment
1) Update and make some changes on the conclusion and recommendation in Chapter 5
2) Double check the writing thesis style for all chapter
3) Update the minor/ major correction in thesis
4) Update the logbook weekly.
To do next week
1) Submission of Thesis Final Draft and Logbook (softcopy) to the panels and supervisor
2) Prepare the desired form that need to be submitted to the panel and the supervisor.
Signature
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Progress Report Week: 1/2/3/1/2/2
Week No: Week 1 (Sem break)-Week2
PLANNING:
STATUS:
ACTION PLAN:
Describe the activities that you have been
planned for this week
(Describe the latest status of your
project progress)
(Describe the steps you should take
to achieve your goals)
WEEK 1 (Semester Break)
Conduct the practical experiments
based on experimental design plan
(DOE)-13 runs
WEEK 2 (Semester Break)
Continue conduct the experiments
based on DOE at the same place and
same time
WEEK 3 (Semester Break)
Continue conduct the experiments for
the final trials based on DOE at the
same place and same time. The
objectives to take the average data
value for 7 days.
WEEK 4
Find the maximum power value for
all runs (13 runs) by using the fill
factor equation.
WEEK 5
Conduct the confirmation runs by
using the same place and at the same
time. This action aim to find the
difference effectiveness of predicted
optimization by RSM
Prepared by:
Signature of Student:
Muhamad Amirul Hafiz Bin Jailan
Completed
Completed
Completed
Choose the suitable locations.
Oil palm plantation that has been
felled has been selected to
conduct the experiment.
Collect all the experiments data
consist of solar irradiance level,
open circuit voltage and short
circuit current.
Collect all the experiments data
consist of solar irradiance level,
open circuit voltage and short
circuit current. Prepare excel
template to record all the data
collected.
Completed
Calculate the fill factor value by
observed the specification of PV
panel. It has found that the fill
factor of PV panel is 0.752.
Thus, 0.752 will be used with
observed collected data to obtain
the maximum power value.
Completed
Conduct experiment again at the
same place by following the
optimum tilt angle and direction
that been predicted by the RSM
on Design Expert software.
Tilt angle=17.52 degrees
Direction= 179 degree (south)
Date Received:
Signature of Supervisor:
HALIM BIN GHAFAR
Pensyarah
Kejuruteraan Mekanikal
Halim Fakulti
Bin Ghafar
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Cawangan Pulau Pinang
halim4346@uitm.edu.my
04-3823156
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Progress Report No. : 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 /
10
Week No: Week 6-Week
PLANNING:
STATUS:
ACTION PLAN:
Describe the activities that you have been
planned for this week
(Describe the latest status of your
project progress)
(Describe the steps you should take
to achieve your goals)
WEEK 6
Make some corrections on flowchart
of DOE, RSM, ANOVA and general
procedure for multimeter in Chapter
3. Doing some research findings form
other paper that related to ANOVA.
WEEK 7
Perform analysis of variance
(ANOVA) by observed the statistical
parameters value. Import all the
figure from Design Expert software
into the thesis.
WEEK 8
Analyze and compare the predicted
results with observed results. Find
out the difference percentage of these
two results obtained.
WEEK 9
Do some corrections on research
background after taking the opinion
and commenting from the FYP
supervisor. Make elaboration on the
model fit summary.
WEEK 10
Elaborate the results discussion for
irradiance, open circuit voltage, short
circuit current and maximum power
responses in Chapter 4
Prepared by:
Signature of Student:
Muhamad Amirul Hafiz Bin Jailan
Completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
Completed
Find the specific
journal/article/paper from google
scholar.
Successfully key in the average
data collected into the design
matrix of DOE. Select the
ANOVA section in the software
Generate the table of predicted
results by RSM versus observed
result by DOE. Calculate the
percentage difference errors.
Find the others references main
journal/ article that related to the
previous findings on RSM
implementation for solar
engineering field.
Decide and arrange the section,
subsection in Chapter 4 for all
the responses. Refer to other
journal/ paper/ articles for
writing style references. Identify
which graph should be imported
into the thesis.
Date Received:
Signature of Supervisor:
HALIM BIN GHAFAR
Pensyarah
Fakulti Kejuruteraan
Mekanikal
Halim
Bin Ghafar
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Cawangan Pulau Pinang
halim4346@uitm.edu.my
04-3823156
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Progress Report No. : 11/ 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 /
115
PLANNING:
STATUS:
Describe the activities that you have been
planned for this week
WEEK 11
Writing the discussion results and
analysis for irradiance and short
circuit current response in Chapter 4.
Submit the first draft thesis to the
supervisor by email.
WEEK 12
Writing the discussion results and
analysis for maximum power and
open circuit voltage response in
Chapter 4. Create the conclusion and
recommendations
WEEK 13
Make some correction based on
supervisor’s feedback from first draft
thesis. Then, submit again the second
draft thesis to the supervisor by
email.
WEEK 14
Make some corrections based on
supervisor’s feedback from second
draft thesis.
WEEK 15
Update the paragraph format, table
citation by follow the guideline
provided from the faculty. Submit 3rd
draft thesis to the supervisor via
email.
Prepared by:
Signature of Student:
Week No: Week 11- Week
ACTION PLAN:
(Describe the latest status of your
project progress)
Completed
Completed
(Describe the steps you should take
to achieve your goals)
Evaluate and observed the
statistical parameters in
ANOVA. Refer to other journal/
paper/ articles for writing style
references. Understood the trend
of the graph, response surface
and contour plot.
Evaluate and observed the
statistical parameters in
ANOVA. Refer to other journal/
paper/ articles for writing style
references. Understood the trend
of the graph, response surface
and contour plot. Observed the
outcome and make conclusion
Update and make corrections
based on comment/ feedback
from the supervisors.
Completed
Completed
Completed
Identify the unclearly discussion
statement. Change the unsuitable
words to proper words for more
understanding and remove
unnecessary words/ sentences.
Referring to the guideline format
of thesis provided by the faculty.
Learn from website on how to
create the proper format for
thesis.
Date Received:
Signature of Supervisor:
HALIM BIN GHAFAR
Muhamad Amirul Hafiz Bin Jailan
Pensyarah
Halim
Bin
Ghafar
Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Cawangan Pulau Pinang
halim4346@uitm.edu.my
04-3823156
LM.UiTMPP.FKM(O).09/FYP06
Progress Report Week: 16/ 17
Week No: Week 16-Week 17
PLANNING:
STATUS:
ACTION PLAN:
Describe the activities that you have been
planned for this week
(Describe the latest status of your
project progress)
(Describe the steps you should take
to achieve your goals)
WEEK 16
Ensure minor correction has been
made based on comments/ feedback
from the supervisor
WEEK 17
Double check the writing thesis style
for all chapter. Modify the minor
corrections on the conclusion and
recommendation in Chapter 5. Final
preparation before submitting the
Final Draft on 23/7/2021.
Prepared by:
Signature of Student:
Completed
Update minor corrections after
getting back the feedback of 3rd
draft thesis from the supervisor.
Completed
Double check all the citations,
section arrangement for all
chapters, grammar and
paraphrase the sentences.
Date Received:
Signature of Supervisor:
HALIM BIN GHAFAR
Muhamad Amirul Hafiz Bin Jailan
Halim Bin
Ghafar
Pensyarah
Fakulti Kejuruteraan Mekanikal
Universiti Teknologi MARA
Cawangan Pulau Pinang
halim4346@uitm.edu.my
04-3823156
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Appendix 1.0
THE POSSIBLE RECORD IN LOGBOOK
❖ Sketches/doodling
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needs/requirements
Class notes
Project objectives
Meeting notes
Action Items
Half-baked Ideas
Math calculations
Work-in-progress
Design alternatives
Vendor notes
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Research findings
Sources of ideas
Evaluation of data/results
Design reviews
Decision criteria
Design process
Rationale for decisions
Project reflections
Professional development
The possible question you can ask and answer after several project activities such as
Meeting
• What were the main outcomes of the meeting?
• Was the meeting productive, and why?
• What are your personal action items before the next meeting?
• Is the team heading in the right direction?
Brainstorming
• Which ideas seem more feasible, and why?
• Are there enough good ideas?
• How could better ideas be developed based on this session?
Engineering Analysis
• What were the governing equations?
• What were the most important findings?
• What do the results mean and how should they be applied?
Visualization
• What are the major features/discoveries and why are these significant?
• What was learned about the problem or solution possibilities?
• What problems were resolved and what still needs to be addressed?
• How does this piece integrate with the whole?
Searching
• What key information did I find? How does it help achieve the project objectives?
• Are there other sources that should be pursued?
• What new questions were generated?
Refer to www.engr.mun.ca/~sbruneau/teaching/.../logbookinstructions.pdf