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  • Leadership Programme 2018 - Innovation

    Heading into the 2018 IET Leadership Programme, I had already gained some experience working on team-based projects throughout my university studies and engineering vacation programs. I was expecting something similar throughout this Leadership Programme with IET, where I would leverage and build upon the same skills I had been developing throughout university and perhaps improve on some skills which I was lacking. Whilst this program definitely made use of many skills I already had, I found that the skills I mostly used were skills which I had not considered the significance of and importance in the industry, prior to this. We were initially 5 strangers, set the task of the DIY Engineering project. The title of this project was defined at the start as: Using kinetic energy to power a GPS tracking…

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  • Leadership Programme 2018 - Canstruction

    I started the IET Leadership Programme in March 2018, along with many other participants from different universities and professional fields. The Leadership Programme aims to help participants develop their leadership and project management skills, and for me it truly did. The program requires participants to execute the allocated project with the help of carefully designed workshops and experienced mentors. There were a total of 6 workshops which focused on personality types, project management, developing and leading successful teams, interviews, transition from university to full-time employment, and project presentations. Each workshop was unique in its own way. I learnt a lot in these workshops since each was more of an interactive session than a typical lecture. People were always there…

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  • Is Northern Ireland home to the UK’s best engineering innovation?

    The Royal Academy of Engineering is encouraging applications to the coveted MacRobert Award from Northern Irish business, as it looks to find example of great innovation throughout the UK for the award's 50th anniversary year. The Royal Academy of Engineering is encouraging applications to the coveted MacRobert Award from Northern Irish business, as it looks to find example of great innovation throughout the UK for the award's 50th anniversary year. Applications for the award are now open and will close on 31 January 2019. The MacRobert Award, which was first presented in 1969, is the UK’s longest running and most prestigious prize for engineering innovation. It recognises outstanding engineering innovation combined with proven commercial success and tangible social benefit. In celebration…

    Eoin McGread
    Eoin McGread

  • IET Malaysia Events 2015 - 2016

    Serious Fun : The Oxbridge Engineering Workshop Technical Visit To ABB Malaysia University-Industry Engagement & Professional Registration Instrument Development And Professional Registration Turbo Machinery Remote Monitoring & Diagnostic – Oil & Gas Application Routes To Professional Registration 7 February 2015

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  • IET Brunei Network YPS Committee 2019

    Tay Shieh Cherng, Chairperson Jevons Penaflor, Vice Chairperson Nadzuan Bin Narawi, Secretary Pg Mohd Abd Aziz Pg Hj Hassan, Committee Member Ong Boon Hing, Committee Member Sham Neng Cong, Committee Member Nur Hazwani Nadirah Ramli, Committee Member

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180720 Life Skill Workshop - Fundamental Of Project Management

    Date 20th July 2018 Time 3.30pm - 6.00pm Venue Function Room 2, Level 11, Block E, UCSI University Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus Trainers Mr. Michael Yong,  the past chairman of IET YPS Malaysia Local Network Attendance 24 participants Objective To teach the students the basic principles of project management and the structure that every successful project needs To introduce on how to turn a “good idea” into a project which can be planned, managed and executed Details The students will register first before the event starts. The registration duration is 15 minutes. Chairman will then introduce the speaker, and invite him to speak on "Fundamentals of Project Management" for 1.5 hours. The speaker will then share his experience in working and also IET YPS. He will then explain more about IET to…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180712 Site Visit To Malaysia Meteorological Department

    Date 12 July 2018 Time 2:00pm - 5:30pm Venue Malaysia Meteorological Department, Petaling Jaya Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus Trainers - Attendance 39 students Objective To expose students to radar and satellite technologies which are used to detect and predict the weather. To understand and learn the workings on how the weather can be read, monitored, and displayed in real-time. To understand how predictions and forecasting is done to prevent or minimize casualties. To witness the working of equipment. To get a glimpse of career possibilities as a Communications major. Details The event begins by gathering and registering the students at Block A lobby and will travel to Malaysian Meteorological Department by bus. The  estimated number of participants is 40. Upon reaching the destination, the…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180630 AutoCad Workshop

    Date 30 June 2018 Time 9am-1pm Venue 203, Block K, UCSI University North Wing Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus Trainers Tai Kar Wai, Chong Ying Hai and Pang Kah Hoe Attendance 15 students  Objective To provide the students a platform to learn AutoCAD software. To ease students in doing their project design using AutoCAD software. To explore students with the possibilities and shortcuts of AutoCAD software. Details The event take place in UCSI University North Wing. The registration will start from 9am till 10am. Then we will start off by teaching the students the basic drawing of AutoCAD and the hotkeys at the same time. After the teaching session, we will provide them some practices to do. There will be tutors there to guild them on how to finish the practices we gave. Lastly, we will take a photo…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180629 Site Visit To MCMC Cyberjaya

    Date 29th June 2018 Time 9am-1pm Venue MCMC Cyberjaya Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus Trainers - Attendance 28 students and 6 lecturers Objective To learn about MCMC as a government agency responsible for regulating the implementation of policies in relation to communication, multimedia sector. To expose students to the Digital Lifestyle Malaysia (DLM) Experiential Learning Space. To explore about our world of a Connected Smart Digital Malaysia where ICT drives innovation and transformation in many aspects. Details The participants will need to arrive in UCSI University for registration at 8.15am and will depart at 8:30am and arrived at MCMC Cyberjaya at 9am. The person-in-charge of our visit in MCMC Cyberjaya will bring us to walk around the place and introduce us the myMaker IoT Lab. The time…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180602 IET's Faraday Challenge

    Date 2 nd June 2018 Time 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Venue Kolej Tuanku Ja’afar international school, Seremban Organizer Organized by IET Young Professional Session Malaysia and supported by Gieption Sdn. Bhd. and UCSI IET Trainers Koh Jia Shun(Leader), Tai Kar Wai, Chong Ying Hai, Low Jia Wei, Pang Kah Hoe, Jordan Lee Syuen Zhen and Chin Lit Pern Attendance 57 students Objective To encourage students to develop their interest in STEM field. To allow the students to know briefly about 4 th Industrial Revolution Details The workshop start with the primary student. While Koh Jia Shun was teaching, the others tutors were guiding and ensuring the primary student get to follow the flow of the workshop. We can see that the kids are enjoying themselves while learning the micro::bit. Some of them are quite fast…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180314 Pi-Day

    Date 14 th March 2018 Time 9:00am – 4:00pm Venue Block E level 4, UCSI University South Wing Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus Attendance 30 students Objective To develop participants' critical thinking skills while doing calculation problems. To honor pi as this special constant shows up in many disciplines, including chemistry, physics and mathematics. To engage participants with pi day so that they can remember this very meaningful day in the future. Details The students were given 9 questions that  was related to pi. The questions were made in such a way that they would learn more about pi. Their last question or task is to memorize the pi value as much as they can. Many students manage to memorize 10 digit long. While participating in this event, students were tested for their critical thinking…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180309 Present Around The World (University Level)

    Date 9 th March 2018 Time 2:00pm – 5.00 pm Venue Block K208, UCSI University North Wing Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus Trainers - Attendance 4 participants Objective To provide a platform for young engineers and technicians to develop their presentation skills. To improve the communication skills and interpersonal skills which are essential for future career. To build connections with fellow participants around the globe. To allow participants to take initiative to learn more about current technology Details Emcees welcome the judges, audiences and participants. He gave a short brief about the rules and regulations of this competition. After every presentation, the judges gave some feedback on their presentation. After all the participants have finish their presentation, the judges discussed…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180307 IET's Faraday Challenge

    Date 7 th March 2018 Time 10:30 am – 11:30 am Venue Block E level 4, Design Project Studio E&E Laboratory, UCSI University South Wing Organizer Head of Department (E&E) & IET YPS Chairman, Dr. John Tan, Dr. Susan Tiang, Dr. Lim Wei Hong & Mr. Manickam and supported by UCSI IET On Campus student committee members Trainers Tai Kar Wai (leader), Chong Ying Hai, Pang Kah Hoe, Yang Jen Bin, Ngo Kah Lock, Koh Jia Shun and Low Jia Wei Attendance 30 secondary students Objective To encourage students to develop their interest in STEM field. To allow the students to know briefly about 4 th Industrial Revolution Details The workshop was kick started by Dr. John Tan, the Head of Electrical  and Electronic Engineering Department. He gave a brief idea on what is  an engineer, the 4th Industrial Revolution…

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  • [UCSI IET OC]:180210 Arduino Workshop

    Date 10 th February 2018 Time 8:30 am – 5.30 pm Venue Block K207, UCSI University North Wing Organizer UCSI IET On-Campus supported by UCSI IEEE-HKN Mu Alpha, UCSI Robotic Club and Gieption Company Trainers Mr. Voon Yoon Nam and Committee Member of UCSI IET On-Campus and UCSI-HKN Mu Alpha Attendance 17 students Objective To encourage young engineers and technicians to develop their presentation skills in this fun and friendly environment. To improve the communication skills and teamwork among the participants which are essential for future career. To expose student in exploring the endless possibilities of Arduino for the application of Electrical and Electronic (E&E) sector To build up the Arduino programming community To uphold everyone can programming core value in publicizing programming…

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  • [IET-USM OC]:181212 Technical Sharing - Exploratory Data Analytic In Graphical View

    Synopsis of Workshop: Data visualization using graphics and plots at the beginning stage of analytics can help researchers to observe the pattern of data distribution and hence suggest the possible analytic strategies. In fact, there are a few guidelines that can be followed to produce a good graph which is capable to convey the message effectively. At the end of the day, audience will be able to choose and plot the right graph by looking at the size, properties and the types of data.

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  • [IET-USM OC]:181205 Technical Sharing - Experimental Design Concept

    Synopsis of Workshop: Experimental design is a process of planning a test, which collects the right amount and types of data to answer a question of interest. In engineering, experimental design is useful for analyzing failure, tuning design parameters, optimizing system performance, validating system design etc. This sharing aims to provide audience the basic principles of experimental design and step-by-step procedures to obtain more statistically results from experiments and hence improve the quality of the work. Reported by: Tan Earn Tzeh

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  • [IET-USM OC]:181128 Bonding Day & Life Skill Workshop

    In   order to strengthen the bond of committees of USM OC, the members had a bonding day on 28 Nov where we gathered to have a workshop “ How to Write Courteously ”, conducted by Dr. Goh Hui Weng  from 2.00 pm - 4.30 pm . Dr. Goh is a certified trainer by HRDF Malaysia & Singapore Workforce Skills Qualifications and indeed we have a very fruitful workshop. After the workshop, all of the members had a wonderful barbecue session together. We believe we are now able to work even well together to make USM OC better in future. Synopsis of Workshop: Writing is one of the most important skill in our learning journey. It helps us to convey our idea and deal or interact with people more effectively. In fact, most of the first introduction we have with a person is through the written medium and sometimes…

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  • [IET-USM OC]:181019 Twinning Program with UNITEN OC

    IET-USM OC did a collaboration with UNITEN OC during the Faraday Challenge organized on the 20th Oct where their volunteers came over to give their support and assistance to make that event a success. The committees from both sides bonded really well together and we had exchanged ideas about IET. Other than that, we also have a great badminton session. Thanks to Mr. Alvin Chua for arranging the visit and we definitely look forward to having more collaborations in the future.  Reported by: Tan Earn Tzeh

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  • [IET-USM OC]:181017 STEM Talk

    IET-USM OC had traveled to three schools in Penang (Jit Sin High School, Chung Ling Butterworth High School & Heng Ee High School)  on  17 Oct  to introduce to the students on the upcoming IET Faraday Challenge that is happening on 20 Oct at USM Engineering Campus. At the same time, we also give a simple workshop to the students on how to do coding on BBC micro:bit .  Reported by: Tan Earn Tzeh

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  • Are You Attending 5G - The Advent?

    The IET’s event on 5G is nearly here and we have an exciting line up of speakers scheduled for the day    Wednesday 30 January 2019 IET Savoy Place, London, UK Register here Dr Reza Karimi Dr. Karimi is Director at Huawei Technologies’ Corporate Strategy Department, with focus on technology standards and spectrum regulation. Until recently, he was Technical Policy Director at the UK communications regulator, Ofcom, with responsibilities in a range of spectrum management initiatives, including a review of the UK’s licence exemption framework, the auction of spectrum for 4G mobile communications at 800 MHz/2.6 GHz, and database-assisted access to TV white space spectrum. Previously, Mr. Karimi was with Bell Laboratories at Lucent Technologies, and Motorola GSM Products Division. He is the author…

    Former Staff Member
    Former Staff Member

  • YPCC Meeting December 2018

    I had a wonder meeting with our YPCC Committee in London last December 2018, it was a very engaged and effective meeting with volunteers around the world. we started our meeting with a sweet and short team building led by Imran, follow by a list of agendas to complete. We had a great discussion on the like The Future of Membership, The Future of PEI and The Future of EC. I am enjoyed the brainstorming idea and providing our opinions for respective topics. At the second day, I had presented our Asia Pacific updates on the CC Market Stalls. The concept is each CC-YP Reps prepared their updates on a A2 paper. After the market stall, CC-Reps also present their plan on how to promote the Engineering Open House goes Global to YPCC committee. We ended our meeting at 3.30pm, I feel that YPCC meeting…

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  • Get A GRIP Of Your Handbook (IET London Network)

    “SME's are great for project progression, however a SME that can articulate technical complexity and risks based off experiences with working with all GRIP levels is more likely to understand that hazard logs are not a place to park issues" discussed Ivan Lucic Engineering Systems Director of Network Rail, at the Bob the Builder of the Railways: Systems Integration to the Rescue? event organised by the IET London Network held at the IET Savoy place. The skilled system integrator can produce an argument for and against technical-debt and justify what the risk actually is so your handbook has a truer reflection on systems integration.  From an assurance perspective, the 8 stages of GRIP ensures pre and post implementation success, as it lets you asks burning questions such as, what happens after…

    Rimesh Patel
    Rimesh Patel

  • IET Merseyside And Western Cheshire Events Newsletter - January 2019 to September 2019 Is Now Available As An On-line Flip Book

    IET Merseyside and Western Cheshire Events Newsletter - January 2019 to September 2019 is now available as an on-line flip book, please click the link  On-line flip book. The newsletter is also attached to this blog as a pdf file, the file size is 1.8Mb.  Twice per year, the Merseyside and Western Cheshire Local Network publishes an events newsletter.  The newsletter contains news about free events to attend, articles on past events and contact information for the local network.  The newsletter is available in hard copy, online flip book and pdf file.

    Rob McDonald
    Rob McDonald

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