Semester 1

As you can see there, I took 7 subjects for my first semester, with total of 17 credit hours. I studied the

1. English Skills,
2. Math for Engineering, 
3. Engineering Drawing,
4. Introduction to Mechanical Engineering,
5. Statics,
6. Programming for Engineer,
7. Leadership

Let's start from below. My way.

Leadership

For leadership subject, it's for my co-curricular activity. Well, the university require us to take at least 2 credit hour of  co-curricular activity before graduating. Now I have finished 1 credit hour. Another 1 hour will I do in the third year. I hope I can finish it before focus on final year project.

In this semester, our project is to help those unfortunate people in Pahang because recently they have flood in their area. Really big. 

Picture 1: School Canteen, where people find shelter. The collected food and cloth will be distributed here.

Picture 2: Our team from the university

Picture 3: Me and friend at, cleaning the house during the post-disaster. 

It feels so good to be able lending some help to those unfortunate people. Who knows if one day we are at the bottom. We surely didn't want to be alone at that time.

Programming

In programming, I see that we need to have a plan before we do something. Input, process, output. To get a correct output, you need to have a good process, and the correct input. While the process is a protocol you need to follow, step by step, and you cannot skip even a step because it will defect your product at the output.

It is like this. You want an output. You want to create a product. You need to have the correct material. And the material afterwards need to undergo some process before it become your desired product. And the whole process takes programming-thinking knowledge. That's the simplest way to describe what is programming. It's not really the code that shape our mind. It's the step.

Unless if you want to pursue for business, you will need a reverse kind of programming-thinking. Because businessman thinks what kind of product they can have, from basic input. Less material, for more product, and more money! HAHA!

Statics

Statics is the most, simplest way of you looking at an object, in engineers eyes. You see a not-moving object, or so they called as statics, you can see, what makes it stay like that? Why didn't it flinch after some heavy wind? What makes the roof still lay-still when the rain is heavy? Statics will make you see how these things work. You put a stopper there and there, the object will stay still. It is kinda logical. But the lecturers, keep firing at us students, telling how many of the final year students still cannot draw the FBD. Free Body Diagram. The most basic knowledge a Mechanical Engineer should know already when they are doing bachelor in the first year. HAHAHA.

Easy! you identify what object you want to know it's force, you free it from any body of object, then you identify the location it receives the force. You know, when the things gets pulled or pushed. That's the force. Whether it is in tension, or compression. Then, you need to know the direction of the force, along way with the magnitude of the force. Easy kartoshka!  

Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

God... Most of this classes' subject, I slept. Man... That was a real waste. Anyway, let's talk about what it's all about. Actually, it supposed to teach me, how to think like an engineer. How to plan and survive the subject. All what matters here is the critical thinking. There are actually lots of techniques to think. You cannot simply look for a solution, when you get a problem. You need to think, carefully, not to make a mistake, or make any waste of money, energy and time. Remember about Problem Statement? Problem Definition? Hypothesis? Inference and all those things that have really critical names on it? Hahaha. It actually help us to think better. Like an engineer. You will see clearly with this. A clear pathway, before you get to the end of the searching and have the solution.

While most people think engineers just merely solve problems, we need to be creative and sustainable too.

Well, Since I didn't pay much attention to this class, I cannot tell you any more than this. wuuuuuuu *sob sob*. I'm so sad. Now I realized how much I have wasted. Later, once I learned about this, I will get back to you, okay? :) Remind me if I don't. Hehe.

Engineering Drawing

I got a B for this. I do not know where did I go wrong. I have put my very best into this. I have been invested lots of time with sketching, drawing, designing, and waste money to get the right tools to do all the stuff, I still get a B.

Dude...

I'm very disappointed with this, until I realized, screw this grading system. I learned a lot!

I learned how to look, things, from a good angle. To draw it using the correct tools. Sketching rapidly but with patience. And learn to design in the computer using the Solidwork software. You know how great it is? I make a pump! Bicycle pump! Using the computer. I'm sorry, because didn't have the proof. Now I realize that I need to backup everything. EVERYTHING! Hahaha. Pretty much everything.