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Q4 edition 1 Oct – Dec, 2016 IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter IEEE Malaysia Chair Appointed as Region 10 Education Activities Chair The current IEEE Malaysia chair, Zuhaina Zakaria, has been appointed as the IEEE Region 10 Educational Activities chair for the term from Jan 2017 to Dec 2018. Zuhaina has been appointed by Kukjin Chun, 2017-2018 IEEE Region 10 Deadline: 13th January 2017, 1700 hrs. Director for her active Don’t delay. Vote now! contribution to the region, especially in Malaysia. Congratulations! For the first time, IEEE Malaysia section is conducting the website competition for all 27 operational units (chapters, affinity groups, subsection). Members’ votes are sought for the best websites. Please visit this URL to case your vote. Vote here: http://bit.ly/ieeemy-wc The Annual General Meeting will be held on 14th January 2017 at the Grand Bluewave Hotel, Shah Alam at 9am. 2016 Outstanding Branch Counselor Award This is followed by the Annual Appreciation and Award Dinner at 7:30 pm. Please register for the AGM at IEEE Malaysia website at the following URL http://ieeemy.org/mysection/?p=3711. From the Editor This edition will be the last publication for 2016. This edition features a lot of new events that took place in 2016 Executive Committee October through December 2016. This 27-page newsletter features activity reports from Malaysia section The Executive Members for 2016 are as follows: officers (excomm), Sarawak subsection, 14 . Chair Zuhaina Zakaria chapters/affinity groups and 4 student branches. This . Vice Chair Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi report also features the publication of the 30th . Past Chair Norliza Mohd Noor anniversary commemoration book, As usual, this fourth . Hon. Secretary Haidawati Mohamad Nasir quarter has also been very busy for Malaysia section. Hon. Treasurer Christopher Chew . Committee P. Susthita Menon Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin Rozita Jailani Editor, Abdul Rahim Ahmad IEEE Malaysia Newsletter Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin [email protected] . Auditors Franklin Joseph Michael Joseph Q4 edition 2 Oct – Dec, 2016 IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter IEEE Sarawak Subsection Reported by Pan Zheng [email protected] IEEE Sarawak Technically Co-sponsored Young Invited Industrial Talk on Power Quality Innovate Sarawak Organized by IEEE Sarawak Young Innovate (YI) is an annual program to catalyse Besides community focus, IEEE Sarawak also works on maker movement in secondary schools through an industrial linkages and explores the opportunities embedded system design national competition. where the industry experts benefit the community. On 18 Oct 2016, an invited industry talk on power quality This year the program in Sarawak was held at Swinburne is organized with effort from our Excomm member Mr. University of Technology Sarawak Campus on 15 Oct Victor Wong. A pioneer in power quality industry, 2016 with 16 schools and total 174 students participated. Terence Chandler, is invited to deliver the talk. Mr YI is considered to be an important initiative to boost Chandler who has more than 30 years of power quality school children’s STEM awareness and uptake rate. engineering, training and management experiences is the founder and the director of Power Quality Asia and currently he is also managing the Asian operations for Dranetz-BMI- Electrotek. Young Innovate 2016 Sarawak Power Quality Talk given by Mr. Chandler IEEE Sarawak was actively involved in this program. Dr Jacey Lynn Minoi, Ir Dr David Bong Boon Liang and Dr Students and academics from UNIMAS and Swinburne Pan Zheng from IEEE Sarawak played the role of judges attended this interesting talk. and provided feedback, suggestions and ideas to the teams who would represent Sarawak to compete in national level in Kuala Lumpur later. By participating in external community programs and activities, IEEE Sarawak enhanced the reputation of IEEE and improved the cognizance of the IEEE brand in the region. Post-talk discussion with Mr. Chandler Q4 edition 3 Oct – Dec, 2016 IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Reported by Zuraidah Zan [email protected] and [email protected] Finally, Mr. Hussain Mahdi gave a talk about his long- IEEE Day 2016 Celebration standing involvement with IEEE. The highlight of the In conjunction with event was the cake-cutting session, where participants the annual IEEE Day were treated to an IEEE Day-themed cake and other which fell on 4th refreshments. Overall, the program was deemed a October 2016, IEEE success and we look forward to celebrating IEEE Day Young Professionals again in 2017! Malaysia together with IEEE UTM Student Branch have jointly- organized the Malaysia IEEE Day Celebration. The inaugural event, held at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, UTM Johor Bahru, was well received with around 100 in A cake to complete a celebration attendance. IEEE Day is a worldwide event where members CONGRATULATION!: 2016 MGA Young celebrate all things IEEE. Every year, it is celebrated Professionals Achievement Award concurrently by sections and chapters throughout the 2016 is a year to remember for IEEE YP Malaysia when world, from US, South America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and one of our committees; Mr. Hussein Mahdi has been more. Information on the event can be found at awarded with this prestigious award from the IEEE ieeeday.org. The event comprised of insightful talks by Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board. notable IEEE Malaysia volunteers. Dr Pauzi Abdullah Quoting the letter on the award recipient; ”This is a very introduced everyone to IEEE as a society and its benefits, prestigious award, and we are pleased to honor you for while Dr Anang Hudaya Mohd Amin talked about the the outstanding contributions you have made to activities conducted by IEEE Young Professionals numerous IEEE activities and the example you set in Malaysia. This was followed by Dr Zaid Omar who carrying forward the goals and objectives of the IEEE shared his interesting experience participating in the MGA Board”. Mr. Mahdi received this award for Region 10 Congress in Bangalore, India. exemplary leadership and contributions to student and IEEE Young Professionals activities and for continuous efforts supporting the technical and professional development of IEEE members. The young and enthusiastic YP committees sharing their YP’s experiences; from the left, Mr. Hussein Mahdi, Dr. Anang Hudaya (Chair) and Dr. Zaid Congratulations Mr. Hussein Mahdi on the 2016 MGA Young Professionals Achievement Award Q4 edition 4 Oct – Dec, 2016 IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Reported by Zuraidah Zan [email protected] and [email protected] IEEE YP National Technical Poster Competition And we are proud to present you the winners 2016 (Congratulations!): Undergraduate Engineering Category IEEE YP Malaysia has successfully organized the IEEE YP Katrina Marie Fernandez, Taylor's University, Power National Technical Poster Competition 2016.This Flow Management in Electric Vehicle competition was held via online submission, which was Undergraduate IT Category opened to all IEEE and non-IEEE members, since August Dr. Tan Choo Kim, Sam Wong, Wong Kar Sang, Tan 2016. There are about 40 submissions received for four Choo Peng, MMU, MyFitTrack different categories; Undergraduate Engineering, Postgraduate Engineering Category Undergraduate IT, Postgraduate Engineering and Muhammad Muzakkir Bin Mohd Nadzri, Dr Afandi Bin Postgraduate IT. The prize-giving ceremony for this Ahmad, UTHM, Efficient Reconfigurable Architectures of competition was held during the IEEE SCOReD 2016 Surveillance System for Wildlife conference on 13th of December 2016, at Berjaya Postgraduate IT Category Times Square Hotel. Nur Amalina Mohamad Hazawawi, Dr. Mohd Hafiz Zakaria, Syariffanor Hisham, UTeM, SpIke Dr. Mohd Hanif Dr. Anang Hudaya Mr. Simon (IEEE YP Chair) Among the winners; certificates and prize giving ceremony Mr. Simon shared the IEEE entrepreneurship initiative, in which YP Malaysia has been selected as a pilot. Dr. Mohd Hanif Yaacob shared his experience winning the IEEE Young Professional (YP) Malaysia Meet Up prestigious global award from IEEE on YP activities during his time as Chair for IEEE YP Malaysia. The IEEE Young Professionals (YP) Malaysia has organized a meetup session during the 2016 IEEE Malaysia Student Congress on 20th of October 2016. The event was successfully held at Asia-Pacific University (APU), Bukit Jalil, Selangor. The meetup session comprises two main sharing sessions conducted by Mr. Simon Yeoh and Dr. Mohd Hanif Yaacob. Mr. Simon shared his experiences on IEEE entrepreneurship initiatives and Dr. Mohd Hanif inspired IEEE YP members on his experiences as the founder and the first chair of IEEE Graduate of the Group photo; the participants Last Decade (GOLD) affinity group in 2005. Q4 edition 5 Oct – Dec, 2016 IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technologies Society (CPMT) Reported by CHEW Guat Li <[email protected]> IEEE CPMT Malaysia Best Final Year Project (FYP) IEEE-CPMT IMPACT Taiwan Conference (Taipei, Undergraduate Prizes 2016 26th to 28th Oct) Dr. Siow Kim Shyong from National University of International Microsystems, Packaging, Assembly and Malaysia was the Project Manager for this program Circuit Technology (IMPACT) is a joint international which is targeted to encourage greater awareness conference consisting of IMAPS All Asia Conference amongst students of career opportunities in (IAAC) organized by IEEE CPMT-Taipei, iMAPS-Taiwan, microelectronics