The quality of air in our university is too polluted. Dust can be seen everywhere.

Since Batu
Pahat is a growing industrial city, the present of the factory indirectly affect the environment of
our university. In polluted air, the concentration of carbon dioxide is greater and this will lead to
breathing problem, apart from causing environmental damage. Thus, the main purpose of this
research is to increase student awareness about the air quality and its impact to mankind. As it
can cause many type of disease, actions should be taken before it getting worst.
To UTHM, this study will likely save the environment of this university. It is because
when the pollution becomes worst it will affect the environment, the air we breathe in can cause
respiratory problem. So, when this study is taken seriously, UTHM will perform action to prevent
this problem from becoming more extreme. As example, UTHM maybe can plant more trees
and make the landscape greener in order to stabilize the concentration carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere.
Lastly, this study is to capture the attention of the authorities as well as the government
itself. We need them tackle this ongoing problem. University is the place for the where the future
leader born. Thus, it must be conducive for study process. Apart from that, our university also
attracts numbers of students from foreign country. The polluted environment will give a bad
description to our country. It will spoil the country reputation in term of environmental cleanliness
in the eyes of the of outsider.











1. Instruments

(i) Questionnaire

Since our research demand feedback from huge number of respondents, we
have decided to use questionnaire as our research main methodology. Our
questionnaire is composed of 25 questions; which is consisting of both open-
ended and close-ended questions. Averagely, there are 5 questions of open-
ended type while the rest are close-ended type. The close-ended type
questions include scaling questions, yes or no questions and also ranking
questions. The questionnaire then will be distributed to the respondent
through social network such as facebook and twitter. The estimate duration
for us to monitor the survey is 2 days. Data analysis will be done right after
we collect back all the questionnaires from the respondents.

Plus, we also set a questionnaire for student whom not studying in UTHM.
Our purpose is to gather informations about the air quality at their place and
its effect to the students life. The questionnaire consists of 5 questions make
up of 2 open-ended questions while the rest is close-ended questions.

(ii) Interview

In order to endorse our data and make it more reliable, we will also interview
some important people, such as members of Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar
(MPP), doctor or paramedic from Pusat Kesihatan Universiti (PKU) and also
lecturers from Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering. From PKU, we
are looking forward to get a valid status of students health for September
2012 may 2013.




(iii) Observation

We also will do observation to get the clearer view of the situation. We will
take some photos to be included in documentation.


2. Respondents

(i) UTHM community

We will spread the questionnaires to 200 UTHM communities randomly. We will
try our best to ensure our questionnaires are not concentrate on certain group of
community only.

(ii) Students from foreign country

We also will distribute the set of questionnaires to students whom studying
abroad. Our main purpose is to get their opinion about the importance of good air
quality to students. Our target countries are; Egypt, India, Australia, United
Kingdom (UK) and United State of America (USA).

(iii) Paramedic or Doctor from Pusat Kesihatan Universiti (PKU)
(iv) Members of Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar (MPP)
(v) Lecturers from Faculty of Civil and Environment Engineering.