Week 1 Final Year Project 1

 

Date: 1 August 2017 (Tuesday)

Assalamualaikum and good morning to all of you. Today, I want to tell a bit about what is Final Year Project (FYP). FYP is compulsory for all undergraduate programmes in UniKL. Before that, there has a Final Year Project 1 briefing on 23th August 2017.

The main objective of the FYP:
-To develop problem-solving, analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills in Engineering field. 
-To develop personal and social skills through various means:

1. Communicating with an expert from industries
2. Discussion with supervisor/lecturer and colleagues
3. Self-learning
4. Problem-solving report writing
5. Oral presentation
6. Time management
7. Self-confidence
8. Team-work     

Date: 2 August 2017 (Wednesday)

For my progress, I was read a little bit about the detection of humidity and carbon dioxide. The article is about detection of high-level carbon dioxide emissions using a compact optical fiber based mid-infrared sensor system for applications in environmental pollution monitoring. Based on the article, there is a highly compact optical fiber-based sensor system for measurement of high concentrations CO₂ gas emissions in the modern automotive exhaust is presented.

Figure 1: Optical fiber as a sensor system in automotive exhaust

The sensor system works based on the principle of open-path direct absorption spectroscopy in the mid-infrared wavelength range. The response of the sensor to high concentrations of CO₂ gas is presented and the result is compared with that of a commercial flue gas analyzer.  

Figure 2: Kind optical Fibre

Lastly, the assessments in FYP 1 is shown below: