22 August, Johor Bahru – The online structured course entitled “How To Extract Data From Graph Image Files Using Graph Grabber?” was successfully organized by Postgraduate Student Society of School of Electrical Engineering (PGSS-SKE) at 2:30PM on 22 August 2022 (Monday). Assoc. Prof. Ir. Ts. Dr. Michael Tan Loong Peng, who is an associate professor in School of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, was invited to share his professional knowledge. A total of 62 participants attended the course.

The course aims to demonstrate: –

-how to use the Graph Grabber software to extract data from published graphs for comparison or benchmarking purposes

-how to plot the data using MATLAB to produce high-quality graphs for publication

The Cisco-Webex meeting was opened at 2.00PM to allow the registration of participants. The course started at 2.30PM and the moderator introduced the speaker. Afterwards, the speaker started the presentation. The presentation was divided into two sections, which are explanation of the digitization of data using Graph Grabber software, and graph plotting using MATLAB software. The session is followed by a questions and answers session. The online course ended at 3.40PM after taking group photos with participants.

The feedback from the participants are positive overall. Some of the comments on the presentation include educative, informative and helpful.