Shout Out – Talk on Ecotowns for Asia

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 24th November, 2009. It'll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) at Wisma IEM. That's right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.

This talk will cover such topics as, what is sustainability and why it is important, what advances are being made, what types of technology are now available in the market and will present a proposal on how to integrate this technology in a holistic manner in the form of Eco-Towns for Asia.

The above will be presented by Mr. Joe Eades, the Managing Director for Ispahan Engineering Pte Ltd, (www.ispahan.com) an engineering company specialized in engineering for the process industries, and Ispahan Solutions which provides Enterprise and Engineering Document Management software solutions for the engineering and construction industry.

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.

Shout Out - Talk on Intellectual Property

This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a talk on 16th November, 2009. It'll be at 5:30 pm (makan-makan at 5:00) at Wisma IEM. That's right people, as part of the new health drive you are required to walk up 3 flights of stairs to get your 2 CPD points.

In the course of their work, engineers may have to face many issues related to Intellectual Property (IP) rights. They may even have generated their own IP that requires protection. In this talk, the main speaker, Mr. Rozlan Khuen will dwell with issues such as the definition of IP, need to protect IP and how to determine if someone is infringing someone else’s IP.

The above will be presented by Mr. Ng Khuen Wee (Advocate and Solicitor of the High Court of Malaya and a MBA Graduate from the University of Malaya where he majored in International Business and Corporate Finance) and Ir. Dr. Abdul Aziz Abdul Raman (Associate Professor at the Chemical Engineering Department, University of Malaya. He started his career with Dowell Schlumberger and moved around as a process engineer with Golden Hope and later with Nestle until 1993 where he joined University of Malaya as a lecturer).

Fliers for the above and other events may be obtained here.