IEM CETD Design Competition RESULTS

The Final Poster Presentation held on 23^rd February 2013 was the most anticipated event of the IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition 2012. The competition, which was organised for the first time by the Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD), had attracted twenty four teams from the higher learning institutions nationwide. After submitting three progressive reports, only eight teams were shortlisted for the poster presentation in Wisma IEM, which contributed the final 10% for the competition’s assessment.

 Each team was given fifteen minutes to present the poster on their biogas plant design. The A2 size poster must contain the background of the plant design, the design basis and criteria, process flow diagram (PFD), piping and instrumentation diagram (P&ID), design drawing of one equipment and brief summary of the plant’s economic performance. The teams were assessed on poster design as well as oral defence by the panel of judges that consisted of experienced engineers from the industry and academics.

 After an hour of presentation, the floor adjourned for lunch break while the Secretariat and Organising Committee consolidated the marks. Finally, the event ended with the announcement of the winners and prize giving by Ir. Prof. Dr. Dominic Foo, the Chairman of CETD. 
 

 

The winners are:
 

 

1^st prize winning RM 3,000 goes to Monash University

 

Chee Beng Siang - Aaron Ng Tze Heng - Voon Seen Yee

Sarah Yeoh Ee Lyn - Manura Ananda Kumar

 

2^nd prize: RM 2,000 goes to Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

 

  Har Chen Loon - Chan Ying Xin - Liu Chun Mei - Neo Lei Yee - Nicole Lam Chooi Yan

3^rd prize: RM 1,000 goes to Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP)

 Chiew Yee Ket - Law Woon Phui - Lau Siaw Jing - Ling Yeu Shin - Tan Ni King

 

 

 

2 x Consolation prize: RM 500 and certificates goes to

 

Monash University

Cheang Khai Hong  - Lee Pui Ee - Low Yen Yen - Tan Kian Tiong - Teh Hock Xiong

and 

Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR)

How Kha Tiam - Chan Junda - Pang Wei Xiong - Carina Hoon Huey Q - Danny Ho Pui Fui

 

Ir. Prof. Dr. Dominic Foo had also presented letter of appreciation to all the judges that had been involved in the entire competition during the event. Participants who did not bag any prizes from the competition were also given certificate of participation issued by IEM. Overall, the competition had been a great success with many positive feedbacks from the participants and panel of judges. The same competition will be organised in year 2013/2014 and it is hope that more chemical engineering students will benefit from this design competition.


Reported by,
Engr. Noor Zuraihan Mohamad Noor
Organising Chairperson



Finalist teams at the final poster presentation session.

Half-day Course on Intellectual Properly (IP) Law

IEM Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) will be organising a Half-Day Course onf Intellectual Property (IP) Law this coming Saturday, 28 September 2013.
 
The session is scheduled to run from 9 am to 1 pm. Participants will be granted 3.5 CPD/PDP hours.

Details are as follows:
 
Half-Day Course on Bird's Eye View on Intellectual Properly(IP) Law Practical Approach on Protection of Your IP Rights

Venue:	Wisma IEM (C&S Lecture Room, Second Floor)
Date & Time:	28 Sep 2013 (9:00 AM - 1:00 PM)
CPD/PDP:	3.5
Closing Date:	25-Sep-2013

For more details and to register, please visit the myIEM portal. Register online by 25 September 2013 for exclusive member rates.

IEM CETD Half-day workshop on Innovation

The IEM Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) will be organising a Workshop on the Source for Innovation this 7 September 2013 (Saturday) at Wisma IEM, PJ. The session is scheduled to run from 9 am to 1 pm. Participants will be granted 4.0 CPD/PDP hours.

 

In this day and age of advancing technology, it is said that we either Innovate or Die. But what is innovation? How do we innovate? What are the barriers to innovation? and How do we promote effective innovation?

 

This half-day workshop is designed to answer all these questions and more.

 

The workshop will be run by Dr Edwin Chung, Head of Taylor's Technology innovation Centre and Deputy Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) of the School of Engineering at Taylor's University. Dr Edwin Chung holds a BSc in Computer Science, BEng in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering and a PhD from Monash University.

 

His academic research interests is in the area of asynchronous circuit design; while his other intellectual research interests lies in the art and science of innovation. He started his career in the semiconductor industry and has worked on various products design with NEC Australia, Motorola Adelaide, Intel and Atmel.

For more information please visit the myIEM portal. Login and register online by 4 September 2013 for exclusive rates!

Engineers are not KAYU!

IEM Forum on "Engineers are not Kayu"

A forum entitled “Engineers are not kayu” was held at Taylor’s University Lakeside Campus on 11 May 2013, specially dedicated for the September issue of IEM Bulletin.  The forum was jointly organized by ChemicalEngineering Technical Division (CETD), Young Engineers Section (YES) of IEM, as well as Taylor’s University, and added by some practiting engineers and engineering students.  Seven panel speakers were invited too share about their professional work duties along with their side interests and talents.  

CETD chairman Ir. Prof. Dr. Dominic Foo Chwan Yee welcomed the participants by giving a simple overview of the forum. 

The forum started at 11.15 am, where two academic members of CETD, Engr. Dr. Chong Chien Hwa (Taylor’s University) and Engr. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Denny Ng Kok Sum (University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus) shared about their professional works being lecturers and researchers.  Apart from performing their academic duties, both Engr. Assoc. Prof. Dr Denny Ng and have another identity that are less known by their students and academic colleagues.  Engr. Dr. Chong Chien Hwa is a dedicated cook during his free time and has some very nice recipes with him in cooking fishes and seafood

Engr. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Denny Ng, on the other hand, is a traveler as well as a badminton player.  He shared quite some photos for his badminton competitions, as well as his travelling to various Asian and European cities.  He also share some tips on how to travel with low budget. 

Next, Engr. Rafil Elyas who is a consultant (East 101 Sdn Bhd) shared about his professional work in the oil and gas business.  In his spare time, he enjoyed writing fiction and short stories, playing and composing music, as well as music recording.  

 Apparently, music is also a common interest that he shares with Ir. Prof. Dr. Dominic Foo, who is a chemical engineering professor (his regular work duties include being a researcher, author, editor, teacher and “social worker” – his service with IEM).  

They next performed together with their guitars on a new song composed by Engr. Rafil specially for the forum – “I Want to be an Engineer”. The forum participants were also given a copy of the song lyrics (see the song lyrics at the end of this post) so that they can sing along together.  

Engr. Lim Mei Ling is the next panel of the forum, who shared about her professional work being a mechanical engineer at Technip, a project management, engineering and construction company. To the surprise of all forum participants, this young lady is actually a tough sport woman who enjoys a lot of outdoor activities, such as mountain hiking, marathon and mountain cycling!  She hikes many mountains in Malaysia (e.g. Gunung Batu Putih, Gunung Irau, Gunung Nuang, etc.), apart from completing 42 km marathon for 3 times, and also cycled up to Bukit Fraser, Cameron Highland, Bukit Tinggi, among others.

The next panel of the forum – Engr. Mohd Khairul Kamaruddin is also another sport man.  Apart from working as a piping engineer at Technip, Engr. Mohd Khairul spent his spare time with paragliding and rock climbing.  He worked as a rock climbing instructor before, and now is a member with the Malaysian national paragliding team.  His past achievements include a silver and two bronze medals in Southeast Asia (SEA) Games 2011 that was held at Indonesia.  He will soon represent Malaysia again in the coming 2013 SEA Games in Myanmar.  He also shared how he can appreciate the knowledge in fluid mechanics through paragliding activities.  

Ir. Razmawata Mohd Razalli, who is the last panel of the forum, is also an oil and gas consultant for his profession (Synergy Oil & Gas Engineering).  However, to this 2012/13 Session Chairman of the Oil and Gas Technical Division (OGTD) who owns a professional license of scuba diving, not all his offshore trips is meant for his oil and gas business, but rather to fulfill his desire to observe the many micro-organism and sea life in the deep sea.  Ir. Razmawata showed many pictures that he took for the unique creatures under the deep blue sea, which amazed the forum participants very much. 

The forum ended at 1 pm, with the 2nd performance of the song "I Want to be an Engineer", followed by group photo and lunch sessions.   Many participants felt that life of an engineer can be very interesting provided that we know how to enjoy our life.  The forum left some good memories especially to those undergraduate students in engineering who attended the forum.

I WANT TO BE AN ENGINEER Composer: Engr. Rafil Elyas 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!

Technical Visit to GOODWATER ENGINEERING MANUFACTURING SDN BHD, GOODWATER FACTORY, CHEMOR, PERAK

IEM Shout Out – Visit to Top Glove Bhd

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting a visit to Visit to Top Glove Bhd  on the 22nd May, 2013. You will be awarded with 2 CPD points.

Top Glove has established in 1991 with one of factory and three production lines. Currently, it has 23 factories and 458 production lines across Malaysia, Thailand and China, which is the world’s largest rubber glove manufacturer. To stay ahead in product development, Top Glove collaborates with government agencies such as Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (RRI) and Lembaga Getah Malaysia (LGM) to keep itself abreast with latest rubber research technology. All factories are fitted with modern machineries and online quality control measures to ensure the highest quality products. Top Glove emphasize on ISO 9001 and compliance of ASTM and EN455 standards. Top Glove’s commitment has been recognized and rewarded through numerous awards, the latest awards are 2012 ASEAN Business Award-“ Most Admired ASEAN Enterprise” for the category of Corporate Social Responsibility (Large Company), special achievement organization category by Malaysia Achievement Organisation, MIS ASIA 100- Top 100 IT departments in ASIA, MOSHPA Occupational Safety & Health Awards 2012 by Malaysian Occupational Safety & Health Professionals’ Association and Penghargaan Industri Negeri Perak 2011/2012 by Department of Environment (Perak). Top Glove’s corporate mission statement is “To be a World Class Glove Manufacturer providing top quality products with excellent services through continuous improvement and innovation”
Participants of this visit will also be briefed on Top Glove’s latest development in addition to the plant tours at Top Glove’s Corporate Office premises.

You can register for the event here, or get the flyer here.
Maybe you can get free samples.

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IEM Shout Out - One-day Course on Plastics for Automotive Applications (21st November 2012)

This is a shout out for IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division will be organizing an 'One-day Course on Plastics for Automotive Applications' on the 21st November, 2012 (Wed.) at Wisma IEM, PJ. The session is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (registration at 8.30 a.m.) and end around 5 p.m. Participant will be granted 6 CPD/ PDP hours at the end of the day.

This course is specially designed for people interested to gain knowledge on the plastics usage for automotive applications. This course will cover the basic theory of polymer properties and characterization as well as the processing technology. It is followed by exploring the plastic reinforcement technology and their competition in the automotive industry. In addition, environmental and safety requirement based on the customer demand of the automotive industry will be discussed. Finally, the examples of the use of plastics for specific components and systems will be covered.
At the end of the course, the participants will be able to:

• Analyse laboratory data to determine the performance of the plastic materials.
• Select plastic materials based on application requirements.
• Synthesis the reinforcement package for automotive application.
• Determine the safety specifications to fulfill the international standards.

Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr Tee Tiam Ting is an associate professor in Chemical Engineering Department of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experiences in the field of Plastics in the university. He was the former vice president of IEM and currently the fellow member of IEM. He still plays an active role as a committee member of Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) of IEM. He graduated with PhD from McGill University, Canada and was working on developing an oscillatory rheometer in 1970s to measure the viscoelastic property of polymer melts. He had worked as plant manager in an international Injection Moulding company at Montreal, Canada. He is currently an active consultant for Commercial Polymers Sdn. Bhd. to develop crosslinked polyethylene for cable application. He also had served as technical adviser to Malaysian Plastics Manufacturing Association of Malaysia for many years. He plays an active role in designing the polymer engineering curriculum of UTAR for undergraduate program.

Engr. Dr Lee Tin Sin is an assistant professor in Chemical Engineering Department of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). He graduated from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) with First Class Honours in Bachelor of Engineering (Chemical-Polymer) and PhD in Polymer Engineering. He completed his PhD in two years’ time with 10 papers publications in international journals and book chapter about the characterization of biopolymer. His PhD research was focus on developing injection mouldable biodegradable cassava starch polymer compound which has won silver medal award in Malaysia Technology Expo 2010. Moreover, he has received IEM Young Engineers Award 2012. Previously, he worked as a R&D Process Engineer in Superlon Worldwide Sdn. Bhd. which is one of the largest nitrile insulation manufacturers in Malaysia. Currently, he plays active roles in designing the polymer engineering curriculum of Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman for undergraduate program. Besides, he also serves as a committee member of the Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) of IEM. In March 2012, the Young Engineer Award was conferred on him by the IEM Council in recognition of his outstanding works and achievements as an inspired young engineer.

Register & pay online by 18th November to secure your place! IEM members please log in for exclusive member rates.

IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition 2012

Attention Chemical Engineering students!
How are your chemical engineering design skills? Enter our competition to find out! Aweeeeesome prizes await!

IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition 2012

Design of a Biogas Plant — Production & Utilization

Organized by Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD)

Registration Closing Date: 22 June 2012

Registration Fee: RM200/ team (maximum 5 members per team, incl. 1 team leader)

BACKGROUND

The design competition is initiated by Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) with the objective of enhancing the design competency practically and methodologically. This competition is open to all chemical engineering students, particularly those in the senior years. It will provide an excellent opportunity for the students to meet and exchange ideas pertaining to the profession with practicing engineers. 

ELIGIBILITY

• All active Chemical Engineering Students at Diploma and Degree levels from Public and Private Institutions are eligible to participate in the competition.
• The participating team may comprise members from the same or different institutions.

DELIVERABLES
A. Progress Report I (to be submitted end of September 2012)

• Feasibility report
• Process flow diagram and equipment selection
• Overall mass and energy balances
• Demonstration of zero emission concept

B. Progress Report II (to be submitted end of November 2012)

• Equipment design
• Process and instrumentation diagram

C. Final Report (to be submitted end of January 2013)

• Proper definition of basis, criteria and limits of design, and economic performance
• The final report should be at most 100 pages long (not including appendices)

D. Presentation (February 2013)

Presentation of final design if and upon being shortlisted

* Details of deliverables are made available upon registration.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA

• Feasibility report: 10%
• Process flow diagram and equipment selection: 15%
• Complete mass and energy balance: 15%
• Demonstration of zero emission concepts: 5%
• Equipment design: 15%
• Process and instrumentation diagram: 15%
• Proper definition of basis, criteria and limits of design, and economic performance: 15%
• Presentation: 10%

TOTAL 100%

PRIZES (with IEM CERTIFICATES)

1st Placing: RM3,000

2nd Placing: RM2,000

3rd Placing: RM1,000

Consolation Prize: RM500

TERMS & CONDITIONS

The design submitted shall be original and have not been previously submitted or published.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Engr. Noor Zuraihan Mohamad Noor (P & G)

Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr Thomas Choong Shean Yaw (UPM)

Ir. Prof. Dr Dominic Foo Chwan Yee (Nottingham)

Ir. Assoc. Prof. Dr Aziz Abdul Raman (UM)

Ir. Hj Tunai Shamsidi (Minconsult)

Ir. Juares Rizal bin Abdul Hamid (MECIP Global Engineers)

Ir. Mohamad Fadzil bin Adnan @ Nan (Petronas)

Ir. Razmahwata bin Mohamad Razalli (Synergy Oil & Gas Engineering)

Question?

Contact the secretariat, Ms. Kek Mei Tzy at 03 – 7968 4014 or meitzy@iem.org.my

Decided to join the 'battle'?

Act NOW! Download the brochure from IEM webpage here (take a look at our attractive poster too!) and fill up the registration form in it. Submit and make the payment of registration fee to us by 22 June 2012. We look forward to meeting you in the 'battle field' then!

IEM Shout Out – CETD 26th AGM

The Chemical Engineering Technical Division AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, TUS lecture room, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 6th October 2012.

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

IEM Shout Out - Talk on Green Energy Potential in the Palm Oil Industry

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having a talk on Saturday, 6th October, 2011.

The Palm Oil industry in Malaysia had attracted much negative publicity mostly from European NGOs on the issue of sustainability. As part of the measure to mitigate this issue, the Malaysian Government is encouraging the Palm Oil industry to reduce its carbon footprint.
Therefore all Mills in Malaysia are encouraged to convert the palm oil mill effluent into biogas by 2020. Conventional biogas technology had been around for more than 20 years but with the world’s energy prices going higher and with the Malaysian Government’s Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) program, there is a need to develop higher efficiency Biogas system.
Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors is a fairly new development around the world and recently these anaerobic membrane bioreactors (An-MBR) had been used for the first time in the world for treating palm oil wastewater. As a result, more difficult processes such as thermophilic digestion with An-MBR system can become a reality and it had resulted in superior biogas yield. Through the latest technology, the green energy from the Mill can be harvested and potentially converted into other form of fuel.

As for the speaker:

Mr. B. P. Chow is a Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) as well as a Chartered Engineer. Presently he is the Deputy Chairman of IChemE Malaysia and the Managing Director of Aquakimia Sdn. Bhd. He had more than 34 years of working experience primarily in the Palm Oil, Water & Wastewater business. He had been instrumental in bringing the Kubota Membrane Bioreactor technology from Japan to use local engineering to adapt it for the Palm Oil Industry

Water pinch sounds interesting. Please come along, and partake of the food (both intellectual and physical).

Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

IEM Shout Out - Talk on Green Energy Potential in the Palm Oil Industry

This is a shout out for the IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division (know as CETD to friends) will be having a talk on Saturday, 6th October, 2011.

The Palm Oil industry in Malaysia had attracted much negative publicity mostly from European NGOs on the issue of sustainability. As part of the measure to mitigate this issue, the Malaysian Government is encouraging the Palm Oil industry to reduce its carbon footprint.
Therefore all Mills in Malaysia are encouraged to convert the palm oil mill effluent into biogas by 2020. Conventional biogas technology had been around for more than 20 years but with the world’s energy prices going higher and with the Malaysian Government’s Feed-in-Tariff (FiT) program, there is a need to develop higher efficiency Biogas system.
Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors is a fairly new development around the world and recently these anaerobic membrane bioreactors (An-MBR) had been used for the first time in the world for treating palm oil wastewater. As a result, more difficult processes such as thermophilic digestion with An-MBR system can become a reality and it had resulted in superior biogas yield. Through the latest technology, the green energy from the Mill can be harvested and potentially converted into other form of fuel.

As for the speaker:

Mr. B. P. Chow is a Chemical Engineering graduate from the University of Birmingham. He is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE) as well as a Chartered Engineer. Presently he is the Deputy Chairman of IChemE Malaysia and the Managing Director of Aquakimia Sdn. Bhd. He had more than 34 years of working experience primarily in the Palm Oil, Water & Wastewater business. He had been instrumental in bringing the Kubota Membrane Bioreactor technology from Japan to use local engineering to adapt it for the Palm Oil Industry

Water pinch sounds interesting. Please come along, and partake of the food (both intellectual and physical).

Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

IEM Shout Out – CETD 26th AGM

The Chemical Engineering Technical Division AGM will be held at 3rd Floor, TUS lecture room, Wisma IEM, 21 Jalan Selangor, Petaling Jaya.

It will be held at 11am on Saturday, 6th October 2012.

Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.

IEM Shout Out - Half-day Workshop on the Source for Innovation (in conjunction with IEM Engineering Week 2012)

This is a shout out for IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division will be organizing a 'Half-day Workshop on the Source for Innovation' on the 8th September, 2012 (Sat.) at Wisma IEM, PJ. The session is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (registration at 8.30 a.m.) and end around 1 p.m. It will entitle the participant to 4 CPD/ PDP hours.

Innovate or Die. So it is said. But what is innovation and how do you innovate? What are the barriers to innovation and what are the key factors necessary to promote effective innovation? These are poignant questions which hold the key to unlocking our innovation capacity. After nearly a decade experimenting with the different approaches to teaching the art and science of innovation, the speaker believes that the key to unlocking your innovation capacity lies in your mindset. This workshop is designed with 3 objectives as follows.

• Introduce participants to a definition of innovation as is commonly defined by most innovation practitioners;
• Introduce participants to a framework for innovation based on Design Thinking and some of it underlying tools/ techniques; and
• Review the underlying intent of design processes and how they are link to the source of innovation.

The speaker, Dr Edwin Chung Chin Yau is the Deputy Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) for the School of Engineering at Taylor’s University and the Head for Taylor’s Technology Innovation Centre. He holds Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science; a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours majoring in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering and a PhD from Monash University (Clayton). His academic research interest is in the area of asynchronous circuit design while his other intellectual research interests lies mainly in the art and science of innovation including the mental and organisational factors surrounding the learning and practise of innovation. He started his career in the semiconductor industry and has worked on various products design including a 3G baseband processor, a 32 bit microRISC controller core, an I/O control hub and a USB keyboard hub while he was with NEC Australia, Motorola Adelaide, Intel and Atmel respectively.

Placement is on a first-come, first-served basis. Register & pay online by 5th September to secure your seat! IEM members please remember to login first for exclusive member rates. Question? Ask here.

IEM Shout Out - Half-day Workshop on the Source for Innovation (in conjunction with IEM Engineering Week 2012)

This is a shout out for IEM. The Chemical Engineering Technical Division will be organizing a 'Half-day Workshop on the Source for Innovation' on the 8th September, 2012 (Sat.) at Wisma IEM, PJ. The session is scheduled to start at 9 a.m. (registration at 8.30 a.m.) and end around 1 p.m. It will entitle the participant to 4 CPD/ PDP hours.

Innovate or Die. So it is said. But what is innovation and how do you innovate? What are the barriers to innovation and what are the key factors necessary to promote effective innovation? These are poignant questions which hold the key to unlocking our innovation capacity. After nearly a decade experimenting with the different approaches to teaching the art and science of innovation, the speaker believes that the key to unlocking your innovation capacity lies in your mindset. This workshop is designed with 3 objectives as follows.

• Introduce participants to a definition of innovation as is commonly defined by most innovation practitioners;
• Introduce participants to a framework for innovation based on Design Thinking and some of it underlying tools/ techniques; and
• Review the underlying intent of design processes and how they are link to the source of innovation.

The speaker, Dr Edwin Chung Chin Yau is the Deputy Dean (Innovation and Enterprise) for the School of Engineering at Taylor’s University and the Head for Taylor’s Technology Innovation Centre. He holds Bachelor of Science majoring in Computer Science; a Bachelor of Engineering with first class honours majoring in Electrical & Computer Systems Engineering and a PhD from Monash University (Clayton). His academic research interest is in the area of asynchronous circuit design while his other intellectual research interests lies mainly in the art and science of innovation including the mental and organisational factors surrounding the learning and practise of innovation. He started his career in the semiconductor industry and has worked on various products design including a 3G baseband processor, a 32 bit microRISC controller core, an I/O control hub and a USB keyboard hub while he was with NEC Australia, Motorola Adelaide, Intel and Atmel respectively.

Placement is on a first-come, first-served basis. Register & pay online by 5th September to secure your seat! IEM members please remember to login first for exclusive member rates. Question? Ask here.

IEM Shout Out - Visit to MPOB Headquarters, Bandar Baru Bangi,

This is a shout out for the IEM. My technical division will be hosting a trip to the Malaysian Palm Oil Board (MPOB) at Bandar Baru Bangi, Kajang, on the 28th August, 2012. You will be anointed with 2.5 CPD / PDP hours.

The oil palm industry forms the economic backbone of Malaysia and continues to face new challenges in the face of globalization. Rapid responses are needed to meet the increasing challenges of the industry as they unfold. MPOB as the custodian of the oil palm industry is entrusted with meeting these challenges through excellence in R&D and services. MPOB has more than three decades of concerted effort in research and development along the entire value chain. Several technologies have made the transition from the laboratory to the market place. Ecologically and economically sustainable development has become the guiding philosophy of the oil palm industry and MPOB is playing a facilitating role in this endeavor. MPOB’s commitment has been recognized and rewarded through numerous awards, the latest of which is the 2010 Frost & Sullivan Award for Excellence in Research and Innovation. MPOB’s contributions are diverse, yet they serve a single goal, as expressed by its mission statement: “To enhance the well-being of the Malaysian oil palm industry through research, development and excellent services.”
Participants of this visit will also be briefed on MPOB’s latest development in addition to the pilot plant tours at MPOB’s premises.
TENTATIVE PROGRAMME
Time Programme
9.45 a.m. Gathering & registration at Bactris Hall
10.00 a.m. Briefing & Corporate Video
10.15 a.m. Discussion with research officers
10.35 a.m. Tour to margarine pilot plant
11.10 a.m. Tour to palm biodiesel pilot plant
11.45 a.m. Palm gallery
12.00 p.m. Refreshment & end of visit

Get the form here.  Flyers for the above and other events may be obtained here.