UPM IEM Roadshow

Blogged by Lee Mei Ping
Prepared by Alex Tan Yew Aik


Date: 15^th March 2007

Time: 8.00pm – 11.00pm

Venue: Auditorium, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia

Speaker: 1) Prof. Madya Ir. Dr. Mohd Saleh Jaafar (TDA, Faculty of Engineering, UPM)

2) Engr. Noor Hisham (IEM METD)

3) Engr. Mahendran Subramaniam (IEM G&S)
4) Engr. Alex Tan Yew Aik (IEM G&S)

Description:

This event consist of 2 sessions, which is the presentation for Introduction of IEM G&S by Engr. Alex Tan & Engr. Mahendran from IEM G&S, and also “Talk on How to Become a Competent Engineer” by Engr. Noor Hisham & Prof. Madya Ir. Dr. Mohd Saleh Jaafar. It followed by the Q&A Session and also Membership Drive by PEMAJU UPM.

Career Guidance Sharing Session & IEM Registration organized by UPM PEMAJU (Engineering Society)

Very encouraging number of student attended this event, which has approximate 150 students from different disciplines.

Talk from Engr. Noor Hisham, which has plenty of interaction with the students on floor.

Intervarsity Conference of Engineering Student Society 2007 (ICESS 2007)

Blogged by Lee Mei Ping
Prepared by Alex Tan Yew Aik


Date: 3^rd March 2007

Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm
Venue: Conference Room, 2^nd Floor, IEM Building

Attendees:
1) IIUM Kulliyah of Engineering, Deputy Dean of Student Affairs - Asst. Prof. Dr. Raihan Othman
2) IEM G&S Chairman – Engr. Yau Chau Fong
3) Student Representatives from UM, IIUM, USM, MMU Malacca, UMP, and Swinburne
Technology of University (Sarawak Campus)
4) IEM G&S Student Affair Portfolio (Engr. Alex Tan, Heah Hooi Kiang, Chin Yik Ming,
Jafni Jiken, Goh Chiat Wooi)
5) ICESS 2007 Organizing Committees (from IIUM ENGINUIS)

Description:

ICESS is a formal gathering of engineering student societies, first introduced in October 2001 by the IEM G&S. The main purpose of having this conference is to provide a platform for the IEM SRC (Student Representative Council) Student Representatives to gather and have discussion on some crucial topics related to the IEM, SRC and respective universities.

Student Representatives from different universities voice out their opinion during Discussion Session.

Student representatives obtained a copy of “TARGET ASIA – ENGINEERING” from IEM G&S partner, GTI Specialists Publisher.

Group photo of participants for ICESS 2007

UTP Sharing Session with Young Engineers

Blogged by Lee Mei Ping
Prepared by Alex Tan Yew Aik

Date: 16th March 2007
Time: 8.00pm – 11.00pm
Venue: Conference Room, 2nd Floor, IEM Building
Speakers:

Civil – Engr. Suresh Yegambaram, Engr. Wong Chee Fui, Engr. Ivan Tan Chee Yen, Engr. Tang W.K

Mechanical – Engr. Mohd.Qaharuddin Abdullah, Engr Alex Tan Yew Aik Electrical – Engr. Yau Chau Fong

Lady Engineer – Engr. Kee Wai Fun, Engr. Nur Husna

Description:
This event is a sharing session organized by IEM G&S Student Affair Portfolio, in conjunction with Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) Civil Engineering Society 3 days Learning Visit to Kuala Lumpur. More than 30 students & 2 lecturers from UTP Civil Engineering faculty attended this event, with a beneficial sharing session with 9 young engineers of IEM G&S.

32 students & 2 lecturers from Faculty of Civil Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP)

Entertaining forum with plenty of interaction between the Young Engineers and UTP Civil Engineering students.

Token of Appreciation presented by representative of UTP, to IEM G&S Chairman, Engr. Yau Chau Fong.

House of Joy kids lunch gathering

Date : 4th Feb 2007
Place : House of Joy Boy’s Home, Puchong

Time : 1.30pm ~ 5 pm

Attendance : Sdr : Chau Fong, Ho WL, Yen, Lee, Hew, Aw,Mahendran, chee fui, Chee hoong,…..Sdri : siew yin, siew lee, tze yin, ira, Jocelyn,

It's another great outing by IEM G&S members to another charity home. This time is the House of Joy kids lunch gathering, in conjunction with the Chinese New Year celebration. There are about 60 boys and girls from the home turned out for this gathering. G&S was represented by 15 members.

The event kicked off with the lunch..Food was great and all the boys and girls were really disciplined to queue for the food served by our dedicated G&S members. After an hour, we took a quick tour around the home and was briefed by the caretaker, Ms.Lesley on the home condition and she shared some precious experiences in bringing up these kids. From there, we were really appreciate what they have done and sacrifice in upbringing these kids for the past 10 years.

Last session was the enjoyable part, the game session. It was fully conducted by the kids and G&S members, although much older than rest of them, took part and had a wonderful and unforgettable session with them. There are no PS2, computer games or even board games, but the simple games they thought of is good enough to make everyone had a great evening together..In short, that's the best moment when you watch the childrens' laughter and happiness during the get-together session....Of course, they enjoyed our companies too..

This is their sleeping room....see....how lucky we are

Retreat at Cherating

Date: 10-11Mac 2007 (2D1N)

Place: sanctuary Resort, Cherating, Pahang

Participants: IEM G&S committees

It's been a great retreat last week. We had review session for the past activities done (around 40 altogehter) and braintorming session for the coming session.

Certainly, it's time to refresh your mind after a hectic life in city. The scenes are really breath taking one.

At nite, we had BBQ as usual, swimming in the crystal clear pool and a romantic walk along the pantai Cherating.....though you hardly see anything...hehe

We went back around 5pm after a little card game :)

Now let's enjoy the beautiful scenes around the resort:

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!!

Cool New Graphics - MySpace/Friendster

Networking Evening with Younger Members Section of The Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET), Malaysia Branch

Prepared by Engr. Kok Yen Kwan
Blogged by Yoke Mei

Group photo of IEM G&S with IET

13th January 2007, Saturday
8.00 – 10.30 p.m.
‘Kenny Rogers’, Amcorp Mall Petaling Jaya

G&S’ External Affairs conducted its’ 4th Networking session with other Young Professionals event – the “Networking Dinner with Young Members of Institution of Engineering & Technology (IET)”, which attracted a total of 19 participants.

Apart from the great interaction among the young engineers from both institutions, Engr. Yau Chau Fong (IEM G&S Chairperson) also presented the Certificate of Attendances to both Mr. Rodney Tan & Mr. Kwong C.F. from IET, both of whom attended the 13th Conference of YEAFEO 2006 held in Sunway from 30th November to 2nd December 2006.



Presentation of YEAFEO certs to IET members

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS' NIGHT 07

blogged by Yoke Mei

Date : 27 January 2007 (Saturday)
Time : 6.30pm onwards
Venue : MySciFiFan Outpost, Lot 208ii, 2nd Floor,
Cineleisure Damansara (outside Cineplex cinema)


Group photo with all the professionals

For the very first time as part of our efforts this session to network with other fellow young professionals...It's a successful social event attended by almost 100 professionals. Amongst them are:
-accountants
-architects
-chemists (from IKM)
-doctors
-engineers
-lawyers
-pharmacists (fromMPA)
-town planners
-veterinarians (from VAM)
-secretaries (from MAICSA)

and University of Malaya students as volunteers

The crowds started to fill up the restaurant at 630pm. After registration, they mingled around with different professionals and showed business cards during their interactions. Soon the restaurant were getting into party atmosphere. Everybody enjoyed chatting with each other very much.

The dinner started at 8pm and proceeded with introduction of every professionals by each body's representative. The picture shown beside is that our chairman, Engr Yau Chau Fong is giving speech.

The event was then proceeded with games, Taboo where all professionals are separated into groups. We are honoured to have Mr Richard, the owner of the restaurant to assist us in the game part as he sponsored a few prizes to the participants in the dressing of costume.

The event hadn't ended yet...We proceeded our excited spirit to Red Box (Karaoke) after the event :).

Indeniably, it is a highly applauded event among the attentees and hopefully we may have the similar events in future which aim in bonding with other young professionals' groups.

A Talk by Mr Peter Hicks-Talk on " What stop you from achieving your DREAM "

Blogged by Yoke Mei

Date : 26 Jan 2007 (Friday)
Time : 9am to 10.30 am (refreshment will be served at 10.30 am)
Venue : IEM conference Hall
Speaker : Mr Peter Hicks, Australia

Find out what stops people from achieving their dreams in life and how to break the habit!!

The speaker, Peter Hicks has had exposure on a relationship level with leaders of both government and private industry. He is an exceptional "people person" with broad marketing, fiscal and CEO experience. He is an experienced "agent of change".

The title grabs my attention most to attend the talk in the early morning. I went for the talk together with the other friends from University Malaya who are members of ASHRAE. It's a joint event with the body. The speaker arrived earlier than the stipulated time so we manage to talk to him before the talk started. We find that he's an interesting speaker who would not follow the old trend...speak according to the slides. Instead, he shared the experiences he encountered in his working life with the audience and interact with the rest of us to get feed back and to keep us awake :). I like the part when he expose the interview criteria like the question would be most probably asked by the interviewer during the interview. We believe that Mr Peter has been living in Malaysia for quite some time coz he knows our culture and living well so he would try to tolerate with us during his talk in order to make us understand what he's trying to convey.






















The pictures shown that Mr Peter is trying to explain human brain phenomena in which there is 90% of our brain is in subconcious condition and the 10% proportion in concious which means ---subconcious holds your back in your daily life.


A group photo taken before Mr Peter left. Obviously, Mr Peter is the 4th counting from the left.

An utmost gratitude to Mr Peter for his effort in his talk.

There are several quotes from him to be pondered---
" We are today is what we thought of yesterday",
" You are a victim of your past, unless you change it",
"Don't bite off any you can chew, be happy with what you have" etc.

We learned a lot from it.

Networking Dinner With NYLC & MPS

Prepared by Engr. Tang Wai Keong
Blogged by Yoke Mei

Networking Dinner with Young Members of the National Young Lawyer Committee (NYLC) & Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS).


On 05th January 2007, IEM G&S External Affairs successfully organised its’ 4th activity on 05 January 2007 – “Networking Dinner with Young Members of National Young Lawyer Committee (NYLC) & Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society (MPS) at Little Vietnam, Midvalley Megamall, PJ which attract 37 multi races participants.

Together with us for the dinner were some young lawyers, pharmacists & chartered accountant.
We have establishing a greater & closer networking & interaction among the young engineers, lawyers & pharmacists. Every participants have a chance to descript themselves and sharing their knowledge in
their profession.

All the Young Professionals are invited by IEM G&S for the Young Professionals’ Nite will be held on
27th January 2007 and other social events. The Young lawyers also inviting IEM G&S & MPS for their organized programs; whilst each respective committee members also can benefited from the outing by getting a rare opportunity to improve the relationship with other young professionals.
















More good moments to share ......








Our Mr. Chairman, Chau Fung talking so interesting....so many admirer. Yen: Chau Fung always want to talk a lot.



There will a lot more to be shared at The Professional Nite on 27th January 2007.