Professional Engineer Q&A: Part 18

FAQs on General

Q32: Why should there be an Interview with essay writing?
Many have asked this question at previous dialogue sessions. A lot of the engineers feel that the engineering degree would be sufficient evidence to show the qualification. This issue has been discussed time and again and the IEM Council feels that there is the need to maintain and upgrade the standard of the profession and as such the interview would be able to keep the engineers aware of the importance of the standards of engineering writing.

FAQs on Membership application

Application for Student Membership of IEM
Q33: I am pursuing my undergraduate course in one of the accredited local universities. I submitted my application for Student Membership in lumped package complete with application forms and cheques via a local IEM Branch. I understand the IEM HQ did not receive the postage. What would IEM advise me or the Branch to do now?

IEM would advise the Branch to re-send the photocopied forms (with endorsement as true certified copy per original) to IEM HQ for subsequent action. The Branch has to cancel the missing cheque and reissue a new cheque with matching details. The Branch is also encouraged to ensure proper delivery via secured courier service

Event Report: Cakap-Cakap Engineer UiTM

Welcome speech by Chairman of Civil Engineering Society, Mr. Takim

On 17th November 2011, at 830pm, a membership drive conducted in UiTM held by Civil Engineering Society of UiTM. We were welcomed by the friendly committees there. It was a good response despite of bad weather. There were about 200 students attended in which it comprised of Mechanical Engineering, Civil Engineering, Electrical and Chemical Engineering students.

The crowds at the night

The row of engineer of the night who can't wait for Sharing Session

The event was started off with a speech by Mr. Hakim, lecturer of Civil Engineering Department. We were glad to know that he still remembered the names of all engineers who attended the same event last year. After that, Engr. Puvan was invited to introduce about IEM followed by Engr. Cheng Pay to introduce about Young Engineer's Section. The flow of event was controlled with the help of Engr. Navinderan.

Engr. Puvan introduced about IEM

After introduction of IEM and YES, it was a sharing session whereby engineers will share their working experience so that the future engineers will visualize their paths better. Each engineer was given only 5 minute to talk about their role in work and experience. First was presented by Engr. Aswad about his work as a service engineer in Favelle Favco. Then followed by Engr. Mei Wong as a CAD/M engineer although she was not in the actual line but moving into mechanical design. Engr. Cheng Pay elaborated his work as an Electrical Engineer which is his ambition since young. Last was by Engr. Vivek as an Electrical Engineer. He was given a good piece of advice by his boss to remember V=IR and derive everything from it.

After sharing session was over, then it was a Q&A by students. Engr. Navinderan announced to divide the crowds into respective course so that the Q&A will be directive to the specific engineers. The students were proactive in asking questions. It shows their passions.

At 10.30pm, the event was finally ended with prize giving ceremony and dinner.


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Event: Two Day Course On “Professional Business Writing Skills”

Date:3rd – 4th January 2012
Time:8.00 am – 5.00 pm
Speaker:Dr. Alistair King
Venue:TUS Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, Wisma IEM, Petaling Jaya, Selangor

COURSE OBJECTIVES

This course aims to provide participants with a set of skills and awarenesses which they can use with immediate effect. These skills and awarenesses are:
• Transferring spoken input into written material
• Understanding the progression from the beginning of the document to the end
• Knowing in which type of documents to use the Active or Passive Voice
• Using phraseology which is stylistically appropriate
• Knowing how to connect various points in order to present the best possible impact and therefore, the best possible outcome
• Knowing how to use the different past tenses in a way which promotes
accuracy and immediate understanding
• Knowing how the various components of letters and reports fit together and flow into each other

Who should attend
Anyone who has to supervise, contribute to or edit business documents.

What will they learn
Participants will learn how to write /edit / fine-tune documents which are concise, cohesive, grammatically accurate and stylistically appropriate. Grammatical forms and stylistic concepts will be introduced and practised throughout the course.

How will they learn
This course will consist of trainer presentation, individual and group writing tasks with presentations to plenary. Authentic material and case studies will form a large proportion of the course materials. If possible, documents produced by the participants should be provided so that the course materials can be customized to the participants’ benefit.

Biodata Speaker:

Dr Alistair King, who heads a team of highly qualified and experienced consultants, has had twenty years experience in education and training in several European, African and Asian countries. He has held university posts both in his home country, the United Kingdom, and in Malaysia. In addition, he has been a correspondent for International News Services, reporting on issues in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Since the mid-1990s, he has been involved in developing all levels of staff of Banks, Corporate Organisations, Manufacturing Companies and Government Departments. His extensive current client list includes many of the top performers in the corporate world, both in Malaysia and in other Asian and African countries.

If you require further details or clarifications kindly contract the IEM Secretariat at:

The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
Lot 60/62, Jalan 52/4
46720 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel No: 03-7968 4001/02
Fax : 03-7957 7678
Email Address: mizi@iem.org.my


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Event: ONE DAY COURSE ON “IMPACT/CITATION INDEXED JOURNAL WRITING & PUBLISHING FOR ENGINEERS”

Course Synopsis

This course provides the knowledge and skills to produce High Impact/Impact Factor/Citation Indexed academic/technical writing manuscripts appropriate for journal publication. The course will expose young engineers to elements of journal or academic manuscript and help them to understand the typical manuscript and strategic writing and publishing process. Some general academic/research integrity, ethics, indexing, categories of journal publications, criteria of Thomson Reuters acceptance, ‘Do’ and ‘Don’t’ tips of writing and submitting academic articles for publication will be emphasized and discussed. Participants will also have the opportunity to practice and hands-on on their own papers with some simple engineering-based technical writing skills relevant for an academic or journal manuscript. Finally, the participants will be able to plan and prepare an outline of a manuscript based on their respective research projects.

Course objectives

1. To raise the young engineers’ level of awareness of the strategic techniques in writing and publishing journal or research articles.
2. To encourage the young engineers’ level of capability in writing and publishing in impact and citation indexed journal articles.

Course learning outcomes

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Identify elements of academic manuscript in published research articles
2. Form strategies for writing quality research articles
3. Produce an initial outline or a draft for writing a manuscript



Speaker's Profile:

Prof. Dr. Kamaruzaman Jusoff a Kelantanese had his childhood education in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia. He received the PhD in Forest Engineering Survey from Cranfield University, England, UK in 1992. He is currently a Senior Professor (Grade VK6/B) of Forest Engineering Survey (Airborne Hyperspectral Imaging) with the Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia and has been a Visiting Professor with Harvard, Kyoto, Yale University and an Erasmus Mundus Professor with Lund University, Sweden, Warsaw University, Poland and ITC, The Netherlands. While a Visiting Professor with Yale and Harvard University in 2008/9, he has published more than 100 papers on top of his 4 technical and 4 non-technical books. He has currently published more than 300 papers in various Citation Indexed/Direct Open Access Journals particularly ISI & Scopus-based.

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Posted Engr. Mei Wong

Event: TWO DAY COURSE ON “CONCEPT AND DESIGN OF PLUMBING AND SWV SYSTEM”

Date: 21st – 22nd February 2012
Time: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Speaker: IR. GARY LIM ENG HWA
Venue: TUS Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, Wisma IEM, PJ,

LEARNING KEY OUTCOME
At the end of the training course, participants should be able to:
1. Understand the basis to determine the cold water storage demand and size the transfer pump accordingly
2. Select the suitable type of pumping system to meet the water usage requirements namely direct, variable speed drive, pneumatic tank
3. Select the piping material amongst the many choices of plastic and metal
4. Calculate the piping size for cold water in accordance to the BS6700 standard methodology of Loading Units
5. Take preventive measures to minimize the impact of water hammer to the pipe lines by way of design and selection of the right equipment
6. Determine the stack size of Soil, Waste, Vent (SWV) using Discharge Unit methodology and understand the constraints impose on branch discharge pipe in particular on the gradient to minimize blockage
7. Observant of poorly installed plumbing and SWV systems which are preventable



Engr. Ir. Gary Lim Eng Hwa BE(Mech.) NZ, Mgt Dip. FIEM, P.Eng, Asean Eng.
Ir Gary Lim is an experienced and qualified Professional Engineer with over 20 years of manufacturing experience in these areas; Industrial Engineering (Work Study), Project Management, Maintenance, Production and Factory Management. The 20 years of his work spanned over various industries namely industrial chemicals, diary products, jam, sauces, chocolates, confectionnaires, industrial gases (liquid nitrogen, oxygen, argon, etc), blow moulding of plastic containers and paint manufacturing (highly fire hazardous). In the diary industry involved in the design of Clean-In-Place (CIP) system of the process pipings.

If you require further details or clarifications kindly contract the IEM Secretariat at:

The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
Lot 60/62, Jalan 52/4
46720 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel No: 03-7968 4001/02 Fax : 03-7957 7678
Email Address: mizi@iem.org.my


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Posted by Engr. Mei Wong

Event: TWO DAY COURSE ON ““DESIGN OF ACTIVE WET FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM INCL OH PRE-CALCULATED SPRINKLER SYSTEM”

Date: 11th – 12th January 2012
Time: 9.00am - 5.00pm
Venue: TUS Lecture Room, 2nd Floor, Wisma IEM, PJ,
Speaker: IR. GARY LIM ENG HWA

LEARNING KEY OUTCOME

At the end of the training course, participants would be able to:
1. Understand the Risk Management Process and Major causes of Fire Losses
2. Understand the principles of combustion, fire behaviour
3. Identify the possible causes of fire and explosion (gas and dust) like static electricity
4. Minimize these causes and design of active wet systems in case to mitigate the potential losses
5. Understand the incentives provided by the insurance company for the installation of active wet systems, up to 70% discounts on the premium
6. Able to design fire pumps and pipe sizing of the wet systems (jockey and duty pump for hydrant ring main, wet riser, sprinkler)
7. MS1910:2006 Fixed Firefighting systems – Automatic Sprinkler Systems Design, Installation and Maintenance, able to design a Pre-Calculated Sprinkler system for Ordinary Hazard and selection of orifice plate
8. Understand the difference between Clean and Non-clean gaseous suppression systems and its application
9. Able to conduct a fire pump flow test using a Pitot tube and its applicable formula

Course contents:

• ISO 3100 Risk Management Standard, Fire risk assessment steps and Risk Treatment that follows, 2 case study of actual fire losses
• The 3 types of fuels expected in fire situation
• The various heat sources which would ignite a fire or an explosion. Static electricity which is the invincible potential heat source underestimated by many. An actual fatal incident due to static electricity as a case study
• Explosion hazards
• Concept of pre-calculated sprinkler design in accordance to MS1910:2006 Fixed Firefighting Systems-Automatic Sprinkler Systems-Design, Installation and Maintenance, case study to apply the knowledge in designing the system
• Determine the pump size of each of the wet systems including jockey pump
• A case study on conducting a pump flow test using pitot tube to determine

Speaker Profile
Engr. Ir. Gary Lim Eng Hwa BE(Mech.) NZ, Mgt Dip. FIEM, P.Eng, Asean Eng.
Ir Gary Lim is an experienced and qualified Professional Engineer with over 20 years of manufacturing experience in these areas; Industrial Engineering (Work Study), Project Management, Maintenance, Production and Factory Management. The 20 years of his work spanned over various industries namely industrial chemicals, diary products, jam, sauces, chocolates, confectionnaires, industrial gases (liquid nitrogen, oxygen, argon, etc), blow moulding of plastic containers and paint manufacturing (highly fire hazardous). In the diary industry involved in the design of Clean-In-Place (CIP) system of the process pipings.

Note: All fees must be fully paid before commencement of the course; otherwise participant will not be allowed to enter the Lecture Hall.

* Closing date for Registration: 5th January 2012

If you require further details or clarifications kindly contract the IEM Secretariat at:

The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia
Lot 60/62, Jalan 52/4
46720 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Tel No: 03-7968 4001/02 Fax : 03-7957 7678
Email Address: mizi@iem.org.my

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Professional Engineer Q&A: Part 17

FAQs on Training

Q30: Among those who have undergone the above, can you consider going to the site for supervision 'off and on' just to solve the site problems as site experience?
Definitely. If you go to the site for supervision, the experience can be accumulated.

Q31: Can Post Graduate training be considered?
We consider Post Graduate training as 1/2 of the period required and only if you are a research candidate.