SYNOPSIS

This talk will give you an overview on the use of the iPad. Many of us have an iPad, however, mostly for games, browsing and entertainment. There are many benefits of the iPad and also a lot further that are not being explored. iPad benefited us as early as wake-up the morning, pray, exercises, and prepare to go to work. In the working hour, only a small percentage of us use the iPad in their jobs, especially engineers. iPad can help, facilitate, improve and lead us to higher levels of productivity. This talk will change your prospectus on having iPad. To anyone who is interested in the development of apps, the iPad opens opportunities for starting a business can be beneficial.


BIODATA OF SPEAKER

Ahmad Kamal Ariffin is a Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, UKM.  He graduated with a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering from UKM in 1990.  He then worked as an engineer before joining the Dept. of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, UKM and continued his studies in 1992.  End of 1995, he received his PhD from University of Wales Swansea under the Mechanical Engineering Department and Institute of Numerical Methods in Engineering.  Prof. Ahmad Kamal Ariffin teaches Mechanics of Materials, Computational Methods in Engineering and Finite Element Methods.

His specialty is in computational method in engineering under the area of powder mechanics, fracture mechanics, friction, corrosion, finite element/discrete element and parallels computations.   He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Malaysia, founder of Malaysian Association of Computational Mechanics and also member of International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM).