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• Nandana, W. and de Mel, W. Asian Association of Open Universities Journal, 2016;11(1):13-23.
• http://www.eac.org.my/web/document/EAC-ETAC%20CovidGuidelines.pdf. Access date: 15^th of April 2020
• Wasserman, S. https://www.engineering.com/Education/EducationArticles/ArticleID/6806/An-Online-Experiment-of-Online-Experiments.aspx. 2013. Access date: 2nd of April 2020.
• https://www.slideserve.com/hester/online-automation-and-control-an-experiment-in-distance-engineering-education. Access date 15th of April 2020.

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 Today (30th of April 2021) is the last for Adha as Research Officer at Metal Forming Lab. After about a year, his contract ends today and we wish him good luck for his new journey. His contributions is countless and many delayed projects (that involve fabrication) completed by him. He also assist many postgraduate and undergraduate students in their fabrication works. 

Based on the recent paper published in Jurnal Kejuruteraan by Zeki Cinar and the team (Zeki Cinar, Mohammed Asmael, Qasim Zeeshan & Babak Safaei, Effect of Springback on A6061 Sheet Metal Bending: A Review, Jurnal Kejuruteraan 33(1) 2021: 13-26), recognized USM as the leading institution on the study of springback in sheet metal specifically AA6061 and our members as the top researchers. This is based on SCOPUS database search. Congratulations to all. USM - WE LEAD

He made it at the first attempt. Alhamdulillah....Congratulation. Hoping that it would motivate him to complete the study and the other members of MFRL.