Technical Visit To MRT Cochrane Underground Station Site

On the 29th of June 2013, we went for a technical visit to the MRT Cochrance Underground Station Site as part of the National Summit events.

The technical visit started with a warm welcome and brief introduction of the project background, challenges, development and highlights by MMC-Gamuda KVMRT.

MMC-Gamuda KVMRT explaining the alignment of the Sungai Buloh-Kajang line

MMC-Gamuda KVMRT explaining about the components of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM)

The participants listening attentively to the briefing by MMC-Gamuda KVMRT

After the presentation, IEM YES KL's Chairman, Engr. Mah Way Sheng thanked and presented a token of our gratitude to MMC-Gamuda KVMRT for hosting the technical visit for the National Summit 2013 participants.

Our Chairman, Engr Mah Way Sheng presenting IEM YES' token of appreciation to MMC-Gamuda KVMRT

It's the time we've been waiting for, entering the site! We were accompanied by the MRT Site Safety Officer. It's compulsory to put on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and we got even more excited. It felt as if we were the engineers of the MRT site for the day.

On our way to the site with full PPE!

During the technical visit, the Project engineers explained about the current progress of work, the challenges they have encountered and solutions for the challenges to us. We even managed to get a glimpse of the assembly in progress of the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM). 

The assembly of the Tunnel Boring Machine is in progress

A technical visit wouldn't be complete without a group photo at the site! We looked so cool, right?

Group photo at the site

Group photo in front of the KVMRT Information Centre

You may visit the website for more info of the project here : 

http://www.mymrt-underground.com.my/

By Engr. Kok Jing Shun                                                                                                                   

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri from all of us at YES!

To all our IEM YES members, we would like to wish you "Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri"

We hope that you will have a wonderful raya celebration with your family & friends.

Please drive safe!

569th YES Meeting 31 July 2013

Hi Everyone!

We will be having our monthly meeting on Wednesday (31st of July 2013).

Please feel free to attend and bring your friends too who are interested in joining us as our volunteers!

Hope to see you there! Please confirm your attendance via email : iemgs@yahoo.com

Here are the details of the meeting :

Date : 31^st July 2013 (Wednesday)

Time : 6.30 p.m.

Venue : GETD Room, Bangunan Ingenieur, Petaling Jaya

YES Buka Puasa Event & Appreciation Dinner for National Summit 2013

Earlier this week, on Monday the 22nd of July 2013, we had our YES Buka Puasa Event & Appreciation Dinner for National Summit 2013.

This year's Buka Puasa event was held at Kuala Lumpur Golf & Country Club.

We invited all the committee members & volunteers who were involved in the National Summit 2013 which was organized last month. We had a blast! Lots of things to catch up to and lots of good food to eat too.

Thank you to everyone who came!

Selamat Berpuasa to all our muslim friends from all of us at YES!

Hope that you're having a blessed Ramadhan :-)

Group photo with all the committees & volunteers

By Engr. Aida Yazrin Mohd Khairi

IEM Engineering Week is back!

Guess who's back?! IEM Engineering Week's back!

What is IEM Engineering Week?
A one-week programme will be arranged to promote engineering actively and covering all aspects; the challenges, professionalism, the exciting working environment and the wide career options available to engineers.

Why is IEM Engineering Week organized? 
IEM Engineering week is organised to introduce and promote the engineering profession to the general public and the contribution of Engineers in Scientific and Technology Development.

Who are the target groups from IEM Engineering Week?
The target groups for these strategies are organizations, engineers, universities and schools.

What are the events lined up for IEM Engineering Week?
There are 2 events : Engineering Invention & Innovation Expo (EINIX) & Engineer's Run

EINIX - Register here! http://iemew.org/einix/registration/

Engineer's Run - Register here! http://iemew.org/e-run/registration/

Please visit the official website of IEM Engineering Week for more info!

http://iemew.org/

Are you ready to CAFEO?!

Are you ready for this year's CAFEO? This year is Jakarta's turn to host the annual event!

What does CAFEO means? It's an abbreviation of The Conference of the ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations (CAFEO). This conference is held on an annual basis, with one of the member organisations as the host. The rotation between member organisations is on alphabetical order. This year's Indonesia's turn to host. Here are the details for the 31st Conference of ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisations 2013.

Theme: Implementation of Green Infrastructure In Asean Countries
Date: 10 - 14 November 2013
Venue: RITZ CARLTON Hotel, Mega Kuningan, Jakarta - Indonesia

Please visit the official website for more info! http://cafeo-31.com/

Come back soon for more updates!

COME BACK SOON FOR MORE UPDATES!

Engineers Are Not Kayu Forum

Engineers are not "KAYU" can loosely be translated to Engineers are not WOOD.

Most people have the perception that engineers are those people who deal with machines all day. This might be true only for a small group of engineers. For most engineers out there, they have other interesting life besides their professional work in engineering which may include some fascinating hobbies and skills (e.g. photo-shooting, music, drama and etc.), or even community services. In this forum, engineers ranging from young engineers to successful Professional Engineers (Ir.) shared their past time activities.

We have an engineer who has even represented Malaysia for SUKMA Paragliding competition, an engineer who are passionate about cooking, an engineer who is preparing to climb Mount Everest soon, a Professional Engineer who owns his own music label and etc.

This event was organized by Chemical Engineering Technical Division, Institution of Engineers Malaysia and co-organized by Taylor's University and the Young Engineers Section (YES), Institution of Engineers Malaysia. It was held at Taylor's University on the 11th of May 2013 targeting Undergraduate students of IPTA/IPTS & Secondary school students.

The organizers managed to get quite a few engineers to share in the forum.

Engr Mohd Khairul Kamaruddin (Paragliding, rock climbing)

Engr Mohd Khairul introducing himself to the forum

Engr Mohd Khairul sharing his passion on paragliding

Dr Denny Ng (travelling, sports)

Dr Denny introducing himself to the forum

Rafil Elyas (music)

Engr Rafil introducing himself to the forum

Engr Rafil sharing his hobbies which includes writing & music

Engr Prof Dr Dominic Foo (music)

Prof Dominic sharing his interest in music. He even has his own record label!

Engr Lim Mei Ling (outdoor activities)

Engr Mei Ling introducing herself to the forum

Engr Mei Ling sharing her passion with outdoor activities

Engr Dr Chong Chien Hwa (travelling, cooking)

Dr Chong sharing with the forum his work background

Dr Chong sharing his passion on cooking

The forum ended with a wonderful performance of the forum's theme song specially composed by Engr Rafil & Dr Dominic. It's titled : I WANNA BE AN ENGINEER.

Let's hope that there will be more engineers sharing their passion to the public in the future and prove that indeed, Engineers are NOT "KAYU"!

Group photo of the speakers & forum's participants

Here are the lyrics for "I Wanna Be An Engineer" courtesy of Engr Rafil & Dr Dominic

Lyrics : I wanna be an engineer (By Mr Rafil and Mr Dominic)

I want to build a rocket ship, I want to grow a giant turnip

I want to break covalent bonds, maybe find a Higgs boson

I want to make some gasoline, put it in my speedy machine

Drive it over to your house, build a giant robot mouse

(Chorus)

I wanna be an engineer, you wanna be an engineer!

I don’t wanna be no doctor, I don’t want to be no lawyer

I want a hard hat, safety boots, don’t want no designer shoes

One ton beam falls on my toes, dance around in my coveralls

I like chemistry and physics, diff EQs and stochastics

I really dig fluid mechanics, gotta have my thermodynamics

Willard Gibbs is the Taikor! Bernoulli, Maxwell and Euler!

Now we can make anti freeze, build space stations, refineries!

I wanna be an engineer, you wanna be an engineer!

I don’t wanna be no doctor, I don’t want to be no lawyer

I want a hard hat, safety boots, don’t want nice designer shoes

One ton beam falls on my toes, dance around in my coveralls

I wanna make my car go faster, I wanna make my bridge span longer

I wanna make my sub go deeper, I wanna make my plane fly higher

I wanna end all world hunger, make sure everyone’s got clean water

Everyone’s healthy there and here! So everyone can be engineer!

I wanna be an engineer, you wanna be an engineer!

I don’t wanna be no doctor, I don’t want to be no lawyer

I want a hard hat., safety boots, don’t want nice designer shoes

One ton beam falls on my toes, dance around in my coveralls

You want to be an engineer, you momma wants to be an engineer

Your papa wants to be an engineer, you brother wants to be an engineer

Your kid wants to be an engineer, your neighbour wants to be an engineer

Everyone can be engineer! Everyone can be  engineer!  ENGINEER!

By Engr. Krishnath Tangaragee

IEM YES National Summit 2012

On 5th – 8th July, the annual National Summit was organized at Johor Bahru and led by Southern Branch chairman, Engr. Tan Ee Fan. It was attended by all branches’ representatives from all over Malaysia. They are from Penang, Perak, KL, Sarawak, Miri and Sabah branches. About 10 committees from IEM YES KL took part in this happening event. This year’s National Summit is different than even as it is jointly organized together with student’s National Summit. Therefore the number of participants of the event was about 100.

On 5th July, we arrived and checked in at one of the hotels at Sutera Utama, Johor at about 11pm after a long driving journey. The event began on next day with a breakfast at Taman Tun Aminah at a special location, Police Station. After the breakfast, we boarded bus to UTM for interbranch meeting.

The representatives in the meeting room concentrating on the agenda

The meeting started with an opening speech by Engr. Tan Ee Fan, chairman of Southern Branch who warmly welcomed the presence of all branches despite busy workload. Then it was followed by a speech by KL branch chairman, Engr. Mah Way Sheng. After that, every branch presented their activities of the year which took about 5min each. Discussion on ways to improvise this event started after the presentation. One of the highlights is to have a National Summit fund contributed by every branch to the organizing branch of the year to ease the financial burden. This idea was agreed by all and will be implemented after further discussion in KL.

Student representatives from all over Malaysia had meeting at the next room concurrently

Engr. Mah Way Sheng, Chairman of IEM YES KL presented on KL branch’s past activities 

After the long hours of meeting, we were invited by the organizing committees to take a group photo and then followed by a lunch.

Group photo of all branches’ representatives attended National Summit

The day was not ended but continued with a visit to Iskandar Regional Development Authority (IRDA), Danga Bay where we got a chance to explore various projects headed by Iskandar Malaysia. We were briefed by the person in charge of the role of IRDA. It was presented in an interesting and interactive method. We were then proceeded to visit the centre with lots of interactive games which helps to elaborate the developments. After that we headed to Puteri Harbour and followed by dinner at Damai Seafood Village. We were glad to dine together with the president of Southern Branch and received appreciation awards.

A group photo at Puteri Harbour

A picture at IRDA after listening to the introduction by the person in charge

A speech dedicated by the president of Southern Branch

After the fruitful first day event, next day we had a tour at Tanjung Piai National Park. Its unique geographical position at the southern tip of mainland Asia, at 1° 16.00’ North and 103° 30.46’ East coordinates, is the reason the park is proudly referred to as the Southernmost Tip of Mainland Asia.

A giant statue to behold upon entering the park

The national park consists of coastal mangroves and intertidal mudflats. Almost 526 hectares of land here is mangrove while the rest is inter- tidal mudflats. There are also other species of monkeys here such as the Dusky leaf monkey, shy and elusive to see. There are however sea gulls roaming the skies above the park, and other migratory birds. There were label for every species in the park and inspirational quoted along the walk way. When walking towards the end, we can enjoy the astounding view of the busy Straits of Malacca.

A group photo at the wooden walkway

Another group photo at the signature globe at Tanjung Piai National Park

After the trip then we proceeded to next destination, Pulau Kukup which is about an hour journey. Pulau Kukup is a mangrove island located at about 1 km offshore from the 150 years old finishing village. We boarded a finishing boat and an uncle briefed us the history of the finishing village and showed us his collection of fishes. It took about 2 hours length of trip. At night, the organizing committees had arranged a BBQ for all at Sutera Utama. Unfortunately there was a drizzling, so we had to move to shop nearby for a shed. However, we still enjoyed the food and chit chats with each other.

BBQ arranged by organizing committees

Finally on 8th July, it was time to bid farewell. After breakfast together, we had group photo and exchanged contacts with each other. There were souvenirs given by organizing committees as well. Of all we appreciated the great effort by Southern Branch’s chairman and organizing committees. It was a very well-planned event. We will see you again in KL for National Summit 2013!

 Prepared by Engr. Mei Wong