The reports for the workshops held last year are available Pro II training and Environment/Safety.
May the best team win.
IEM CETD
Chemical Engineering Technical Division, Institution of Engineers Malaysia
Sunday, November 16, 2014
Saturday, September 27, 2014
3rd IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition - Registration
The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia (IEM) Chemical Engineering Technical Division (CETD) is pleased to announce that registration for the 3rd IEM Chemical Engineering Design Competition is now open!
Closing date for registrations is the 31st October, 2014
The competition is theme is "Technical Design and Economic Analysis of Potential Utilization of Crude Glycerol". Soft copies of the form may be downloaded here.
Closing date for registrations is the 31st October, 2014
The competition is theme is "Technical Design and Economic Analysis of Potential Utilization of Crude Glycerol". Soft copies of the form may be downloaded here.
Monday, October 28, 2013
Pre-AGM Talk: Integrating Environmental Information in Decision Making
A Petroleum Industry Practitioner's Perspective.
Ms Lee Tzee Wan's presentation slides are up for download now: http://www.sendspace.com/file/po62dz
Ms Lee Tzee Wan's presentation slides are up for download now: http://www.sendspace.com/file/po62dz
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Plenty of Opportunities for Career Development
This is part of a series of articles that appeared CETD championed issue of IEM's monthly publication - Jurutera, September 2013. The article is best viewed in its original published form, available from IEM in print or online.
An Interview with John Thurtell, PhD
John Thurtell, Engineering Global Support Office (EGSO) Manager of ExxonMobil Business Support Centre Malaysia Sdn Bhd, said demand growth in the chemical industry is anticipated to strengthen over time, linked to the growth of the broader economy.
“Most chemical demand growth is in
Asia, driven by manufacturing of consumer products for both worldwide export
and to serve the growing Asian middle class. These consumers are expected to
purchase more packaged goods, appliances, cars, tyres and clothing, many of
which are manufactured from chemical products,” he said. “Asia Pacific has
accounted for more than two-thirds of global demand growth since 2000, and this
trend is expected to continue,” said the Canadian who has just arrived in Malaysia
approximately half a year back.
In the next decade, global chemical
demand is expected to grow by 50%, driven by improving prosperity in developing
countries. Large scale investments are ongoing in the region, particularly in
Singapore and China where world-class facilities are being built in the
refining and chemical businesses. Thurtell feels this augurs well for the chemical
engineering profession as the industry boom will require more engineers with
strong professional capabilities in every aspect of the business.
Will the development of the oil
& gas sectors in Malaysia & Asia Pacific region affect the chemical
engineering profession? In Malaysia, ExxonMobil has been operating for over a
century. In fact this year marks the company’s 120 years in Malaysia, which is
a significant milestone. Thurtell said: “We are a major oil producer and
natural gas supplier in Peninsular Malaysia. We produce about a fifth of the
nation’s crude oil and condensate and supply about half of its natural gas
needs which is mainly used for power generation. Beyond upstream operations, our
Business Support Centre, which is the second largest within ExxonMobil, also
hosts ExxonMobil’s IT infrastructure and provides IT support across the globe
24/7.”
As an engineering-based company,
ExxonMobil hires a lot of engineers to meet the operating needs of its
business. “We also employ engineers in our EGSO in Kuala Lumpur. By virtue of
the EGSO functionally reporting to ExxonMobil Research and Engineering (EMRE),
our engineers are given the opportunity to provide technical, engineering and
application support for ExxonMobil’s manufacturing plants around the world,” he
explained, adding that about 95% of its total workforce is Malaysian which
“reflects the tremendous local talent we have in our organisation”.
PROFESSIONAL BODIES
Sadly, many chemical engineers are not registered
with the Board of Engineers Malaysia. We asked Thurtell what ExxonMobil is
doing to help develop young graduate engineers into professional engineers. He
said: “We recognise that engineers play many different roles, depending on
their specific job scope. ExxonMobil values the role of certification to ensure
compliance with regulatory and process requirements. At ExxonMobil, membership
in professional boards is not a prerequisite to employment or an on-the-job
requirement as much of our focus is on safe and reliable project management and
implementation, as well as operations of our existing facilities. Nevertheless,
we are fully supportive of employees who wish to pursue qualifications to
improve or maintain their skills and have over the years provided education
assistance and reimbursement of the full cost of studies upon successful
completion. We also provide internal training programme to strengthen the
technical skills of our engineers.”
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Chemical engineers can help to promote sustainable development
in the country. Thurtell said ExxonMobil’s commitment to operating in an
environmentally responsible manner is anchored in its Environment Policy, which
fosters appropriate operating practices and training, and requires its
facilities to be designed, operated and managed with the goal of preventing
environmental incidents.
He added: “Our ‘Protect Tomorrow.
Today.’ Initiative guides our management processes to continuously improve environmental
performance. Our business operations continue to drive enhancements in
environmental performance by incorporating Environmental Business Planning into
the annual business planning cycle. In Malaysia, one example where
environmental considerations are incorporated into the design basis of our facilities
is the use of a hybrid power-generation system on our unmanned satellite
platforms. Solar panels produce about half the electricity required, and
thermoelectric generators provide the other half. This combination ensures high
reliability and low operating costs. Within the global ExxonMobil group, we
also focus on various renewable energy initiatives, apart from doing energy
optimisation such as co-generation, etc.”
Thurtell shared with us more about
ExxonMobil’s new Engineering Global Support Office in Malaysia and the industry
as a whole.
Monday, October 7, 2013
Chemical Engineers are not Chemists
This is part of a series of articles that appeared CETD championed issue of IEM's monthly publication - Jurutera, September 2013. The article is best viewed in its original published form, available from IEM in print or online.
An Interview with Ir. Professor Mohd Ali Hashim
by Tan Bee Hong
Ir. Professor Mohd Ali Hashim is an unassuming man
and so soft-spoken that I wonder if his students ever take advantage of him.
But make no mistakes. Five minutes with the Professor of Chemical Engineering
at University of Malaya and one realises that there is a steely presence behind
his patiently quiet demeanour.
He shows Ir. Professor Dr Dominic
Foo (Chemical Engineering Technical Division chairman of IEM) and I some facts
and figures to back up his replies to our queries during an hour-long interview
in his office.
He is smartly dressed with a tie to
match, which he admits, at the end of the interview that he seldom wears, preferring
a more casual style.
We wanted to know about how chemical
engineering started in this country approximately 40 years ago. Being the most
senior chemical engineering professor in this country, Ir. Professor Ali told
us about the story. The university’s Department of Chemical Engineering was
established in 1975 (first in Malaysia, followed by Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
in 1983 and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia in 1984) with the help of Professor
John Kirkaldy, a Scotsman. Before that, an undergraduate course on chemical technology
was offered in the Chemistry Department at the Faculty of Science.
At that time, only a selected few
were among the intake, less than 10 students a year. “Today, there are about 60
students annually,” said Ir. Professor Ali. “When we first started, my students
were picked for jobs by corporations, even before they graduated.”
However, he adds: “It’s not easy to
start a chemical engineering department in general, as it involves very expensive
lab equipment.” Later, he walks us to the lab to show us the impressive
equipment set-up.
Despite this, more and more
universities have started offering Chemical Engineering studies as the demand
for chemical engineers continues to grow. Ir. Professor Dr Foo stated that
there are more than 10 Chemical Engineering departments set up in the past 10
years, bringing more than 20 departments that offer Chemical Engineering
courses in Malaysia, with approximately 1,600 graduates each year. However, Ir.
Professor Ali agrees with Ir. Professor Dr Foo that while graduates are
excellent in the “hard” skills part, many are still lacking in soft skills or
the ability to communicate and make presentations. One of his ways to overcome
this is to get his students to do reports as presentations which he feels, will
prepare them better for the job in the real world.
WHAT IS CHEMICAL ENGINEERING?
Friday, October 4, 2013
IEM CETD Design Competition RESULTS
The Final
Poster Presentation held on 23rd 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:
Chiew Yee Ket - Law Woon Phui - Lau Siaw Jing - Ling Yeu Shin - Tan Ni King
and
1st 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
2nd 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
3rd prize: RM 1,000 goes to Universiti Malaysia Pahang (UMP)
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
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
Reported by,
Engr. Noor Zuraihan Mohamad Noor
Organising Chairperson
Finalist teams at the final poster presentation session. |
Monday, September 23, 2013
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
For more details and to register, please visit the myIEM portal. Register online by 25 September 2013 for exclusive member rates.
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.
Monday, August 12, 2013
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!
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
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).
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.
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!
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