Thesis Writing Workshop

Thursday, May 5, 2011











A thesis writing workshop held on 27 April 2011 and fully organized by CEFM (Centre of Excellence for Facilities Management) was a great success! 76 participants (including staffs and students from all faculties in UTHM) involved in this 5 hours workshop. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Mat Deris, senior lecturer in Faculty of Multimedia and Information Technology is one of the IEEE journal reviewer was appointed as a speaker for the workshop. Hall 3, Block A3 in University Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia was selected for this programme’s venue.

The workshop started with welcoming speech from Mrs. Masitah, on behalf of CEFM Committee members. The workshop then was divided into 4 sections; Preliminary, Introduction, Literature Review and Proposed Methodology. The participants were given several samples on how to write a good literature review and proposal for PhD candidates. Q&A sessions were engaged with questions regarding to thesis title, improper problem statement and how to pick correct references for the research.

This accomplishment is attained because of the participants’ involvement during the event. In general, most of the participants involved in brainstorming session and helping each others to amend the mistakes. Seeing the positive feedbacks from students and staffs, CEFM decided to organize a next seminar concerning to High Impact Journal Writing expected to be held next month.