IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter...report also features thepublication of 30th anniversary...

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IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter

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2016 Executive Committee

The Executive Members for 2016 are as follows:

Chair Zuhaina Zakaria

Vice Chair Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi

Past Chair Norliza Mohd Noor

Hon. Secretary Haidawati Mohamad Nasir

Hon. Treasurer Christopher Chew

Committee P. Susthita Menon

Rozita Jailani

Abdul Rahim Ahmad

Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin

Auditors Franklin Joseph

Michael Joseph

From the Editor

This edition will be the last publication for 2016. This

edition features a lot of new events that took place in

October through December 2016. This 27-page

newsletter features activity reports from Malaysia section

officers (excomm), Sarawak subsection, 14

chapters/affinity groups and 4 student branches. This

report also features the publication of the 30th

anniversary commemoration book, As usual, this fourth

quarter has also been very busy for Malaysia section.

Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin

Editor,

IEEE Malaysia Newsletter

[email protected]

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

Director for her active

contribution to the region,

especially in Malaysia.

The Annual General Meeting will be held on 14th January

2017 at the Grand Bluewave Hotel, Shah Alam at 9am.

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.

2016 Outstanding Branch Counselor Award

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

Congratulations!

Deadline: 13th January 2017, 1700 hrs.

Don’t delay. Vote now!

https://sites.google.com/site/fawnizu/

https://sites.google.com/site/fawnizu/

http://ieeemy.org/mysection/?p=3711

http://bit.ly/ieeemy-wc

http://bit.ly/ieeemy-wc



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IEEE Sarawak Subsection

Reported by Pan Zheng

[email protected]

IEEE Sarawak Technically Co-sponsored Young

Innovate Sarawak

Young Innovate (YI) is an annual program to catalyse

maker movement in secondary schools through an

embedded system design national competition.

This year the program in Sarawak was held at Swinburne

University of Technology Sarawak Campus on 15 Oct

2016 with 16 schools and total 174 students participated.

YI is considered to be an important initiative to boost

school children’s STEM awareness and uptake rate.

IEEE Sarawak was actively involved in this program. Dr

Jacey Lynn Minoi, Ir Dr David Bong Boon Liang and Dr

Pan Zheng from IEEE Sarawak played the role of judges

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.

Invited Industrial Talk on Power Quality

Organized by IEEE Sarawak

Besides community focus, IEEE Sarawak also works on

industrial linkages and explores the opportunities

where the industry experts benefit the community. On

18 Oct 2016, an invited industry talk on power quality

is organized with effort from our Excomm member Mr.

Victor Wong. A pioneer in power quality industry,

Terence Chandler, is invited to deliver the talk. Mr

Chandler who has more than 30 years of power quality

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.

Students and academics from UNIMAS and Swinburne

attended this interesting talk.

Young Innovate 2016 Sarawak

Power Quality Talk given by Mr. Chandler

Post-talk discussion with Mr. Chandler

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IEEE Day 2016 Celebration

IEEE Day is a worldwide event where members

celebrate all things IEEE. Every year, it is celebrated

concurrently by sections and chapters throughout the

world, from US, South America, Africa, Asia-Pacific and

more. Information on the event can be found at

ieeeday.org. The event comprised of insightful talks by

notable IEEE Malaysia volunteers. Dr Pauzi Abdullah

introduced everyone to IEEE as a society and its benefits,

while Dr Anang Hudaya Mohd Amin talked about the

activities conducted by IEEE Young Professionals

Malaysia. This was followed by Dr Zaid Omar who

shared his interesting experience participating in the

Region 10 Congress in Bangalore, India.

Finally, Mr. Hussain Mahdi gave a talk about his long-

standing involvement with IEEE. The highlight of the

event was the cake-cutting session, where participants

were treated to an IEEE Day-themed cake and other

refreshments. Overall, the program was deemed a

success and we look forward to celebrating IEEE Day

again in 2017!

IEEE Young Professionals (YP)

Reported by Zuraidah Zan

[email protected] and [email protected]

In conjunction with

the annual IEEE Day

which fell on 4th

October 2016, IEEE

Young Professionals

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

attendance.

A cake to complete a celebration

The young and enthusiastic YP committees sharing their YP’s

experiences; from the left, Mr. Hussein Mahdi, Dr. Anang Hudaya (Chair)

and Dr. Zaid

CONGRATULATION!: 2016 MGA Young

Professionals Achievement Award

2016 is a year to remember for IEEE YP Malaysia when

one of our committees; Mr. Hussein Mahdi has been

awarded with this prestigious award from the IEEE

Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Board.

Quoting the letter on the award recipient; ”This is a very

prestigious award, and we are pleased to honor you for

the outstanding contributions you have made to

numerous IEEE activities and the example you set in

carrying forward the goals and objectives of the IEEE

MGA Board”. Mr. Mahdi received this award for

exemplary leadership and contributions to student and

IEEE Young Professionals activities and for continuous

efforts supporting the technical and professional

development of IEEE members.

Congratulations Mr. Hussein Mahdi on the 2016 MGA

Young Professionals Achievement Award

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IEEE Young Professionals (YP)

Reported by Zuraidah Zan


IEEEYoung Professional (YP) Malaysia Meet Up

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

Last Decade (GOLD) affinity group in 2005.

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

prestigious global award from IEEE on YP activities

during his time as Chair for IEEE YP Malaysia.

Mr. Simon

Group photo; the participants

Dr. Mohd Hanif Dr. Anang Hudaya

(IEEE YP Chair)

IEEE YP National Technical Poster Competition

2016

IEEE YP Malaysia has successfully organized the IEEE YP

National Technical Poster Competition 2016.This

competition was held via online submission, which was

opened to all IEEE and non-IEEE members, since August

2016. There are about 40 submissions received for four

different categories; Undergraduate Engineering,

Undergraduate IT, Postgraduate Engineering and

Postgraduate IT. The prize-giving ceremony for this

competition was held during the IEEE SCOReD 2016

conference on 13th of December 2016, at Berjaya

Times Square Hotel.

Among the winners; certificates and prize giving

ceremony

And we are proud to present you the winners

(Congratulations!):

Undergraduate Engineering Category

Katrina Marie Fernandez, Taylor's University, Power

Flow Management in Electric Vehicle

Undergraduate IT Category

Dr. Tan Choo Kim, Sam Wong, Wong Kar Sang, Tan

Choo Peng, MMU, MyFitTrack

Postgraduate Engineering Category

Muhammad Muzakkir Bin Mohd Nadzri, Dr Afandi Bin

Ahmad, UTHM, Efficient Reconfigurable Architectures of

Surveillance System for Wildlife

Postgraduate IT Category

Nur Amalina Mohamad Hazawawi, Dr. Mohd Hafiz

Zakaria, Syariffanor Hisham, UTeM, SpIke

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Components, Packaging & Manufacturing Technologies Society (CPMT)

Dr Chee CK witnessed the presentation of Degree by Pro Vice-

Chancellor Prof Robert Parkin to Chin Kim Keat

IEEE CPMT Malaysia Best Final Year Project (FYP)

Undergraduate Prizes 2016

Dr. Siow Kim Shyong from National University of

Malaysia was the Project Manager for this program

which is targeted to encourage greater awareness

amongst students of career opportunities in

microelectronics components, packaging and

manufacturing technology as well as motivate them to

excel in it. Winners will receive RM500 cash and a

book valued at RM300 donated to their respective

university by Rolf Aschenbrenner (Fraunhoffer IZM).

For 2016, 3 students won Best FYP Undergraduate

Prizes. They were Mah Chee Weng from University of

Nottingham Malaysia Campus with the topic “Modeling

of an Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion System”;

Norhafifah Binti Zainal Azlin from University Malaysia

Perlis with the topic “The Effect of Thermal Aging on

Intermetallic Compound Growth of Lead free SAC and

SAC/Activated Carbon Composite Solder Joint”; Chin

Kim Keat from Inti International University and College

with the topic “Cryptanalysis using Genetic Algorithm”.

Big Congratulations to the 3 winners!! Well Done!

Reported by CHEW Guat Li <[email protected]>

LEFT: Dr Khairel Rafezi Bin Ahmad, Dr Luqman Bin Musa and

Norhafifah Binti Zainal Azlin. RIGHT: Dr Chee CK presenting

award to Mah Chee Weng

IEEE-CPMT IMPACT Taiwan Conference (Taipei,

26th to 28th Oct)

International Microsystems, Packaging, Assembly and

Circuit Technology (IMPACT) is a joint international

conference consisting of IMAPS All Asia Conference

(IAAC) organized by IEEE CPMT-Taipei, iMAPS-Taiwan,

ITRI and TPCA. IEEE M’sia CPMT chapter was honored

with multiple submissions in both Invited Papers and

Oral Presentations categories. CPMT M’sia was

represented by Shaw Fong Wong (from Intel

Technology) to deliver 2 invited papers entitled ”Trends

and Opportunity in Malaysia IoV” and “Packaging as IP

Differentiator”. The other 5 orals presentations were

presented by M’sia delegates, from Altera-Intel, Jabil and

Freescale-NXP. The overall successful IMPACT

conference had became a vortex of valuable resource

under various APAC region CPMT chapters’

contribution and participation; a hallmark of strong

collaboration forum between CPMT M’sia and Taipei on

continuous technical sharing and development.

Taiwan Delegates, iNEMI representatives and keynote speakers.

The view of a well attended keynote lecture

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Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS)

Reported by Dr. Hazlee Illias <[email protected]>

Renewable Energy Demonstration in SUKRA

Family Day 2016

IEEE Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (DEIS)

Malaysia Chapter has participated in 2016 Sunway

Kayangan Resident Association (SUKRA) Family Day

on 19th November 2016 through “Renewable Energy

Demonstration” activity. The demonstration was also

supported by the University of Malaya Power Energy

Dedicated Advanced Centre (UMPEDAC). The

demonstration was led by Dr. Hazlee Azil Illias, an

academic staff from the University of Malaya.

The objectives of the demonstration are:

To create awareness among the community on

the importance of renewable energy

To disseminate basic information on renewable

energy and its latest updates to the community

To demonstrate renewable energy process to the

community, particularly for wind and solar energy

During the event, Dr. Hazlee and his team

demonstrated and explained how electricity can be

generated from wind and solar energy to the

community. The demonstration received

overwhelming response from the community,

especially residents of Sunway Kayangan, Shah Alam.

IEEE DEIS Malaysia Chapter hopes that similar

demonstration can be organized again in future

community events in Malaysia.

In conjunction with the 6th IEEE International

Conference on Power and Energy (PECON) on 28th and

29th November 2016 at Hatten Hotel, Malacca, IEEE

Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEIS)

Malaysia Chapter has set up a promotion booth of DEIS

as part of its membership drive activity. The booth was

handled by two IEEE DEIS Malaysia Chapter committee

members, Dr. Lau Kwan Yiew and Dr. Hidayat

Zainuddin.

The main objectives of the booth were to bring

awareness to the public on the presence of the recently

established IEEE DEIS Malaysia Chapter, especially to the

conference participants, and to promote activities related

to DEIS.

IEEE DEIS Malaysia Chapter was established in Malaysia in

May 2015 with the aims to enhance networking and

stimulate research and development in the field of

dielectrics and electrical insulation in Malaysia. Its field of

interest is in line with that of DEIS, i.e., the study and

application of dielectric phenomena and behavior and the

development, characterization and application of all

gaseous, liquid and solid electrical insulating materials and

systems utilized in electrical and electronic equipment.

IEEE DEIS Malaysia Chapter hopes to promote the close

cooperation and exchange of technical information

among its members.

Dr Hazlee Illias at SUKRA Family Day 2016

Membership Drive Activity

Dr. Lau (left) and Dr. Hidayat at the IEEE DEIS Malaysia Chapter’s

promotion booth

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IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter Meeting

The 9th , 10th and 11th committee meeting for IEEE

OES Malaysia Chapter was held on the 6th Oct 2016,

28th Oct 2016 and 12th Dec 2016, respectively. The

meeting main agenda was on preparation for the 2016

IEEE USYS conference which was first time to be

organized by the IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter. Each

portfolio was given task list as to assure the smooth

running of the conference. During the 9th meeting, the

committees were also informed on the adjournment of

National Technical Seminar on Underwater System

Technology to next year. The meetings were also

concluded on IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter account

which was officially opened and issue related to finance

such as GST and process of making a claim was

explained to all the committees.

2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on

Underwater System Technology: Theory &

Applications (USYS’16)

The 2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on

Underwater System Technology: Theory &

Applications was successfully organized on the 13th to

14th December 2016 at the Toray-USM Knowledge

Transfer Centre, USM Pulau Pinang. The conference

was organized by the IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter,

technically joint by the Malaysia Society of Automatic

Control (MACE) and hosted by the Universiti Sains

Malaysia (USM).

With theme “Go Deeper, Reach Further” USYS’16

marked significant achievement to the chapter since

this is the first time that the conference was organized

by the IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter and also first time

for the conference to be registered under the IEEE.

One thing unique about the conference was that the

organizing committees come from different institutions.

Each portfolio had committees from different

university. The spirit of team work, cooperative

coordination and positive commitment has led to the

successful conduct of the event.

During the 2 days conference, 4 keynote speeches

were delivered and 41 technical papers were

presented. Aside from keynote and technical sessions,

the conference also had exhibitions on ROV and UAV

platforms which were developed by researchers from

various institutions. 3 best paper awards were also

prepared and given to authors of which their technical

papers and presentation had been chosen by the

judging panels as winners. The next 2018 USYS is

planned to be organized in Wuhan, China.

Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Reported by Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar & Mohd Rizal Arshad

[email protected]; [email protected]

Date Meeting

6th Oct 2016 9th IEEE OES MY Meeting

(USM Eng. Campus, Penang)

28th Oct 2016 10th IEEE OES MY Meeting

(Toray-USM KTC, Penang)

12th Dec 2016 11th IEEE OES MY Meeting

(Toray-USM KTC, Penang)

Photo taken during 11th Meeting

IEEE USYS 2016

USYS’16 – Go Deeper, Reach Further

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Electron Devices Society (EDS)

Reported by Jahariah Sampe <[email protected]>

Prof. Dr. M.K. Radhakrishnan and the participants after the lecture

GENERIC Program

DL by IEEE EDS Vice President

The IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Malaysia

Chapter with the collaboration with IEEE EDS UKM

Student Branch Chapter have successfully organized

the Distinguished Lecturer (DL) Talk by Prof. Dr.

M.K. Radhakrishnan on 07th November 2016. The

event was co-organized with the Institute of

Microengineering and Nanoelectronic (IMEN), UKM.

Prof. Radhakrishnan is the IEEE EDS Vice-President of

Regions & Chapters and a Member of Board of

Governors of IEEE Electron Devices Society. He is an

lEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer from 1997, has

presented his research work entitled: Electrostatic

discharge (ESD) Issues and Challenges in Si

Nanometer Devices. There were about 28 audiences

comprised of staffs from UKM, as well as

postgraduate students from IMEN.

On 26th- 28th of September 201, the Kulliyyah of

Engineering, UIA had held an event called ENGITEX. In

this event, the IEEE- EDS Malaysia Chapter has the

opportunity to co-organize a sub-event of ENGITEX

known as GENERIC. GENERIC is program which

involved that participation from primary and secondary

school to inculcate interest in Science Technology,

Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). There were 45

students participants from primary schools and 33

students from secondary schools around Kuala Lumpur.

The program was divided into two parts; Generation of

Engineers for primary school and Eco Race Challenge for

secondary school. Participants are required to answer

some questions regarding the experiments using EDS-

ETC kits conducted in the Eco Race Challenge.

Technical Talk by Ir Cheang Kok Meng

The IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Malaysia

Chapter with the collaboration with IEEE EDS UKM

Student Branch Chapter have successfully organized

the technical talk by Ir Cheang Kok Meng on the 9th

of December 2016. He is now a visiting lecturer in

several universities where he talks on Engineering

Ethics, Technology & Society, Professional

Development and Broadcast Systems. His

presentation entitled: The Thin Line between Right

and Wrong-Ethics in Engineering. The event was co-

organized by Pusat Citra, UKM. There were about

16 audiences consists of staffs, postgraduate and

undergraduate students from UKM.

Ir Cheang Kok Meng and the participants after the talk

Participants using EDS-ETC kits

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Power & Energy Society (PES)

Reported by Mohd Zainal Abidin Ab Kadir <[email protected]>

TREES 2016 by IEEE PES Malaysia Chapter

IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) Malaysia Chapter in collaboration with the Solar Group Universiti Putra

Malaysia (UPM), The Electrical and Electronics Association of Malaysia (TEEAM) and the Young Scientist

Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) have successfully organized a one-day workshop called

Transfer Renewable Energy & Electrical Safety (TREES) on 27th October 2016.

TREES is an educational outreach project with the purpose of promoting and educating school children from age

13-15 on the fundamental theory of power engineering as well as on solar system development. Outcome of this

workshop include a group’s mini project on solar system development and installation and also provide

awareness on electrical safety aspects. TREES received fund of USD5000 under the IEEE PES Member Driven

Initiatives campaign.

This event also served as a platform for IEEE PES Malaysia members to interact with the students and instil the

important role they can play in shaping the future of the nation.

The event commenced with a talk on the Importance of STEM and the Electric Safety, delivered by Associate

Professor Dr Samsul Bahari Mohd Noor (UPM) and Professor Dr M. Iqbal Saripan (YSN-ASM Representative),

respectively in the morning session. Before they were dismissed for their afternoon break, another one-hour

session on the Electrical Safety Demonstration was conducted by the TEEAM personnel. The students showed

very good response as this was a new experience for some of them. In the afternoon, a total of 67 students

were grouped into 15 groups and led by one Facilitator. They were given briefing on the Solar PV system

development before they were assign a task to complete the simple installation.

A group photo of the 2016 IEEE CAS M High Tea participants

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Systems, Man & Cybernetics Society (SMC)

Reported by Anang Hudaya Muhamad Amin

[email protected]

Robotic Workshop at Manipal International University

IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Malaysia and

Manipal International University (MIU) have jointly

organized a robotic workshop at MIU Campus in Nilai,

Negeri Sembilan on 7th of December 2016. The robotic

workshop was conducted by the IEEE SMC Malaysia

Chair, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Khairul Salleh Bin Mohamed

Sahari and his team from Universiti Tenaga Nasional

(UNITEN). Participants of the workshop are mostly

students from MIU.


(Left) Doctoral Dissertation winner (Right) Master Dissertation winner

During this workshop, the participants are exposed to

the knowledge and skills related to the field of robotics.

Participants are also been given a hands-on training on

developing a small-scale robotic module.

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Humanitarian and Social Program: Reaching out to

Community in Flood Prone Areas

On November 20, 2016, ComSoc/VTS, together with

Persatuan Mahasiswa Kejuruteraan (PEMAJU) Universiti

Putra Malaysia, IEEE Malaysia Signal Processing (SP)

Society, and representatives of UKM have visited Sekolah

Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Kuala Krai, Kelantan. The

main objective of this visit/program is to create

awareness among students and understanding of

responsibility to build intellectual society. In addition, the

program also promotes the importance of radio

communication during disaster and also knowledge

sharing session on how to stay connected during severe

flood notably when all the communications were

disconnected.

The team departed from Serdang on the midnight of

November 19, 2016 by UPM bus, and arrived in Kuala

Krai around 5am on the next day. We went to SMK

Kuala Krai at 8am and greeted by the school teachers

and 200 Form 4 students of SMK Kuala Krai. The

program started with the introduction to IEEE,

ComSoc/VTS and SP by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Aduwati Sali,

followed by amateur radio demonstration and talk by

Prof. Dr. Mahamod Ismail. The 200 students were then

divided into 3 smaller groups. They were exposed to

various activities related to science and technologies, and

communication such as a competition to build and design

an antenna using straw. In addition, there were several

games being played such as Laser Maze and Light Box.

The students were also introduced with the basic

concept of electrical design. The group sessions were

carried out for 3 hours, and groups that scored the

highest points in the activities were given special prizes by

ComSoc/VTS.

IEEE Malaysia ComSoc/VTS is

2016 ComSoc Chapter of the Year

Dr Fazirulhisyam Hashim has attended the IEEE

Globecom 2016 from December 4-8, 2016 at Hilton

Hotel, Washington DC. He also represented IEEE

Malaysia ComSoc/VTS for receiving the 2016 ComSoc

Chapter of the Year award during the Award Luncheon

ceremony on December 5, 2016. Moreover,

ComSoc/VTS also won the 2016 ComSoc Chapter

Achievement Award (Asia Pacific). The year 2016 has

been an exhilarating year for ComSoc/VTS, as we were

also the current winner of VTS Chapter of the Year

award. As the winner of 2016 ComSoc Chapter of the

Year, Dr. Fazirul was invited to deliver several talks and

sharing sessions during the conference. One of the

talks were during the Asia Pacific Board Meeting, which

was attended by the Chairs and representatives of

respective ComSoc chapters in Asia Pacific region.

This is indeed a great honour to the Chapter where

the recipe of success stems from the selfless

commitment of successive groups of Executive

Committees and above all the great support and

cooperation by the members.


Towards the end of the program, Dr. Fazirulhisyam

Hashim has delivered a speech and gave away some

tokens of appreciation to the representative of SMK

Kuala Krai. The program ended around 3pm.


Malaysia Communications and Vehicular Technology Society

Joint Chapter (ComSoc/VTS)Reported by Fazirulhisyam Hashim and Khairil Anuar


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AP/MTT/EMC Joint Chapter

Reported by Fauziahanim Che Seman

[email protected]

2016 IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2016)

The 7th IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied

Electromagnetics (APACE 2016) has been successfully

conducted. This year the event was held at ADYA

Hotel, Langkawi, Malaysia, from December 11 to

December 13, 2016. In brief, total of 128 papers have

been submitted and it involved more than 100 reviewers

coming from more than 10 countries. The average of an

acceptance ratio of the paper is about 75.6%, which

contribute to 87 papers have been accepted for the

presentation at APACE 2016. From these numbers,

about 65% of authors are from Malaysia and the balance

are coming from Japan, UK, India, Middle East Countries,

Australia and New Zealand. All of the registered, paid

and presented papers will be published in IEEE Xplore,

which is indexed by SCOPUS-Elsevier.

For the year 2016, the IEEE APMTTEMC Joint Chapter

was delighted to have three keynote speakers who are

Prof. Hiroyuki Arai, from Yokohama National University,

Japan, presented about ‘Smart Suit for Body Area

Network’; Prof. Mohamad Kamal A Rahim from

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia presented about ‘Frequency

Reconfigurable Antenna for Wireless Communication

System’ and Dr Imadun Rahman from Ericsson Research

Sweeden presented about 5G Overview and Challenges.

A group photo of the IEEE Asia-Pacific Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE 2016)

The event was also brightened up by the two tutorial

speaker, Prof Mohammad Zarar Mohd Jenu from

Universiti Teknologi Tun Hussein Onn presented about

Electromagnetic Compatibility: Concepts, Test Methods

and Design Considerations and Prof Yoshihide Yamada

from Malaysia-Japan International Institute of Technology

presented about Antenna Designing Methods by

MATLAB Software. This year, the event was also

enlighten to welcome 17 Invited Speakers who are

coming from various disciplines of field and experts. The

peak of the event is the Networking Dinner who attract

more than 60 participants to come.

The organizing Committee of APACE 2016

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Photonics Society (IPS)

Reported by Norhana Arsad, & Aiman Ismail


IEEE Photonics Society Awards 2016:

2016 Largest Membership Increase Award

IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecture

Series (DLP) in Malaysia

IEEE PS Malaysia Chapter was

honoured to host one of the DLP

series given by Prof. Hoe Tan, from

The Australian National University

(ANU), Australia. It was held at UKM

on 1st November 2016. This event

was co-organized by IMEN.

The award was given

as an appreciation to

the IEEE Photonics

Society Malaysia

Chapter’s effort in

conducting education

programs, social and

technical workshops

and increment

number of members

who took part in the

programs.

Prof. Hsueh-Ming Hang from National Taipei

University of Technology (NTUT)

IEEE Photonics Society Awards @ Hawaii USA

At the same event, IEEE Photonics Society Malaysia

Chapter was invited to attend the forum IEEE

Photonics Chapter Leadership at Hilton

Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA on 3 October 2016.

Prof Tan presented “Semiconductor Nanowires for

Optoelectronic and energy applications” , an

overview of compound semiconductor nanowire

research activities at The ANU.

Photonics Lecture Series (PLS)

This forum aims to provide opportunities for every

representatives from every country to share

experiences, methods, strategies and discussion about

the development of photonics in their respective

countries. This is in line with IPS mission statement, to

establish and maintain IPS as the global leader for

professional member development and societal

engagement in the fields of lasers, optoelectronics,

and photonics. The forum was chaired by the Vice

President of the IEEE Photonics Society, Dr. Paul

Juodawlkis.

A series of Photonics Lectures have been organized

throughout year 2016. The aims of PLS is to share

knowledge and networking with all IPS members in

Malaysia. The lectures are given by our enthusiasm and

energetics from young academicians.

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UNITEN organized the PLS on 4 November 2016 by

inviting Dr Raja Zahilah Raja Mohd Radzi from Universiti

Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) and Mr Pavala Malar Kannan

from Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) respectively. Dr

Raja shared her expert on Programmable Network

whereas Mr Kannan presented “Practical Usage of

Telecommunications Standards and Product & Service

Commercialization Challenges”. It was attended by

postgraduates students from various universities nearby.


UNIVERSITI TENAGA NASIONAL (UNITEN),

PUTRAJAYA

First PLS was held at UTeM on 23 Sept. 2016. The PLS

was delivered by Dr Siti Khadijah Idris @ Othman with

title “Towards Self –Clocked Gated OCDMA Receiver”

while Dr Hanim Binti Abdul Razak talked about

“Modeling and Optimization Silicon Photonics Device”

from Faculty of Electronics and Computer Engineering

(FKEKK), UTeM Melaka.


UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

(UTeM), MELAKA

Photonics Society (IPS)

Reported by Norhana Arsad, & Aiman Ismail



UNIVERSITI SAINS ISLAM MALAYSIA (USIM)

PLS was held for the first time, at Universiti Sains

Islam Malaysia (USIM) on 11th of November

2016. Dr. Affa Rozana Abdul Rashid, Dr. Wan

Maisarah Mukhtar and Dr Nur Athirah M Taib

had shared their expertise on “Evanescent Wave

Fiber Optic Sensor”, “Surface Plasmon

Resonance (SPR) for Sensing and Optoelectronic

Applications” and “ Carbon-nanotubes Based

Saturable Absorber” respectively.

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Signal Processing Society (SPS) Reported by Vijanth Sagayan Asirvadam

email: [email protected]

SPS Winter School 2016

The IEEE SPS Malaysia Chapter has organized the2016/2017 Winter School on Recent Advances inBiomedical Imaging, which was held at UTM KL from 7-11 November 2016. The school was part of theSeasonal School Series sponsored by IEEE SignalProcessing Society worldwide, featuring a mix of localand international speakers.The 5-day program covers all aspects of biomedicalimaging, from basic topics such as PACS/DICOM, imageregistration, structural imaging, functional imaging and3D modeling, to advanced topics such as fusionimaging, digital pathology, image-guided procedures,deep learning and big data in biomedical imaging. Foreach topic, recent advances within their domain werethe main focus.Besides the regular lecture session, there were alsodedicated session to meet local radiologists, a postersession for participants to showcase their current work,a forum among the speakers to discuss a particulartopic of interests, a visit to the National Heart Instituteof Malaysia (NHI) and last but not least, a session onhow to write a good biomedical imaging article.The Winter School was a success event. The committeewould like to thank all the speakers, NHI, the posterpresenters, the participants and all those who made itsuch a fruitful and beneficial experience. We hope toconduct similar schools in the future, and wish to getcontinuous support from IEEE SPS.

Professional Development Workshop Series

The IEEE Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapterand the Center for Signal Processing and ControlSystems (CSPaCS), UNITEN organized a ProfessionalDevelopment Workshop Series (PDWS2016),sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society, atUNITEN during November-December 2016.

This series of six talks by experts in signal processingfrom across the nation discussed concepts and ideas insignal processing. (Refer to https://goo.gl/BNDZBX).

IEEE ICSIPA 2017 open for submission (closing 15 Mar 2017). Details at http://spsocmalaysia.org/icsipa2017/

Workshop: Optimization using MATLAB

The 4th annual Optimization using MATLAB(Optim2016) workshop was held at UNITEN onThursday October 21, 2016. The event attended by 25participants from across the country introduced theessential concepts of optimization, and explored thetools available in MATLAB to execute these. Severalexamples and case studies from his research portfoliowere used by the speaker, Prof Farrukh Nagi.(Refer to https://goo.gl/89Q1IS)

http://metalab.uniten.edu.my/~syedkhaleel/workshops/2016/pdws2016.html

https://goo.gl/89Q1IS

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Computer Society (CS)

Reported by Lim Kok Cheng and Mohd Hazli Mohamed Zabil


The 2016 IEEE Conferences (ICOS, ICWiSe and

IC3e)

IEEE Computer Society Malaysia has recently

organized three joint conferences from 10 to 12 October

2016 at Holiday Villa Beach and Spa, Langkawi Island. The

three conferences are held annually to welcome

researches and technology practitioners from all over the

world to share on current industrial and academic status.

Besides, the conferences also aimed to encourage more

IEEE members to publish their work whilst at the same

time attracting more people to be IEEE members to

participate in similar conferences annually with given

privileges. The three conferences namely IEEE

Conference on Open Systems (ICOS 2016), IEEE

Conference on Wireless Sensors (ICWiSe 2016) and

IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and e-

Services (IC3e 2016) has successfully bring together 76

presenters from more than twenty countries this year.

19 presenters published their work in ICWiSe 2016, 22

presenters published in ICOS 2016 and 35 presenters

published in IC3e 2016 respectively. Works presented in

ICOS 2016 includes tracks such as open systems and

technologies. software engineering and tools, open

systems applications, security, open systems in public

sector, standards and infrastructure, business, licensing

and legal issues just to name a few. ICWiSe 2016 on the

other hand includes article from tracks such as sensor

networks software and architectures, wireless

information networks, hardware, data manipulation,

signal processing, obstacles, simulations, applications and

uses. As for IC3e, it includes tracks such as e-learning,

technologies and platform, emerging hardware and

software for e-learning, infrastructure and portals,

authoring and content management tools, developing

The conference invites two prominent keynote

speakers this year round. The first keynote speech was

delivered by Professor Dr. Zaidatun Tasir from

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) in the related field

of e-learning courseware. The second keynote speech

was delivered by Mr. Marcos Bonfim de Azevedo from

Schlumberger on data analytics in current era. Both

keynotes were much enlightening discussing on current

issues, challenges and technology advancement. The

conferences also organized a beach front dinner

attended by all participants on the second night of the

conference. Several Best Paper awards have also been

presented to a few most prominent authors from

respective categories and conferences. Overall, the

2016 IEEE conferences have been a successful and

memorable one. It is hoped that these conferences will

proper further and better in the futureA group photo of the 2016 IEEE CAS M High Tea participants

e-learning contents, e-management, infrastructure,

architecture and tools for e-management, applications

for e-management, e-services, issues/ opportunities in e-

government, web services and cloud based e-services,

trends in e-commerce/e-business and e-hospital

developments


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Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS)

Reported by Lim Tien Sze

[email protected]

Keynote lecture by Mr Atsushi

IEEE Workshop on Geoscience and Remote Sensing 2016 (IWGRS2016)

This workshop provides participants the opportunity

to learn the basics of airborne laser scanning (ALS)

data processing in ArcGIS software with some

practical applications. It is our belief that the scope

of this year’s workshop will provide an interesting

technical program which will further enhance our

knowledge on sustainable environmental and

resource management. You are all cordially invite to

join the workshops on ALS data processing, keynote

speeches, and paper presentation.

The IEEE Workshop on Geoscience and Remote

Sensing 2016 (IWGRS2016) has been successfully

conducted. This year the event was held at Faculty of

Engineering Auditorium, UPM on 8-9th November

2016. The IWGRS is our yearly event, aimed at

providing a forum for IEEE GRSS members to share

knowledge and experience on recent development and

advancement in geosciences and remote sensing

technologies, particularly in the context of earth

observation, disaster monitoring and risk assessment

for sustainable development. This year, the IWGRS

consists of a distinguished keynote lecture by

international expert, 20 full papers, and a practical

workshop on LiDAR technology.

More information of IWGRS2016 workshop can be

found on the IEEE GRSS Malaysia website

http://grss.ieeemy.org/events/iwgrs2016/

For the year 2016, the IEEE GRSS was delighted to

have Keynote Lecture by Mr Atsushi Murakami, Japan.

The title of the keynote lecture is “Trend of Earth

Observation Satellite and Launch Vehicle for Small

Satellite”. Mr Atsushi presented the current trend of

small satellite, especially for the earth observation

satellite. The program started with a welcoming

remark given by Assoc. Prof. Ir Dr. Raizal Saifulnaz

Muhammad Rashid from UPM, the Head of department

of Civil Engineering, UPM.

A group photo of the IWGRS workshop

IWGRS organizing committee member

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IEEE Circuit and Systems Society (CASS)

Reported by Nurul Amziah Md Yunus and Tang Tong Boon


IEEE CAS BioPro 2016: Asia-Pacific Winter School

on Bio-inspired Systems and Prosthetic Devices in

Seri Iskandar, Malaysia

Asia-Pacific Winter School on Bio-inspired Systems and

Prosthetic Devices (BioPro) 2016 is considered as

analogous to the annual cognitive neuromorphic

workshops in Telluride for the US region and in Capo

Caccia for the European region. The ultimate goal of the

annual Asia-Pacific Seasonal School is promoting the

applications of bio-inspired systems to real industrial or

medical problems. BioPro has been held in Taiwan from

2009 to 2015, with the support from IEEE Circuits and

Systems Society under Outreach Initiative. This year

BioPro was organized by IEEE Circuits and Systems

Society (Malaysia Chapter) as one of the IEEE Seasonal

Schools in Circuits and Systems, in collaboration with

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) and National

Tsing Hua University (NTHU). The hosts are Tong Boon

Tang (UTP) and Hsin Chen (NTHU). The winter school

received a total of 52 registered participants comprising

both local and foreign nationalities (Fig.1). Besides the

keynote lectures by eight invited speakers, we had a

special session on microfluidic technology and

applications with an additional six speakers from local

universities to share their research projects and

outcomes. The winter school further provided a demo

session of brain controlled game and robot, a hands on

project for practicing the knowledge from the lectures,

and a brainstorming day tour to Cameron Highlands on

7th December for all the participants to have close

interaction with speakers to discuss innovative ideas and

future collaborations. The winter school featured

speakers from Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong and

Malaysia.

The next stop BioPro 2017 will be in Singapore, and

the BioPro 2018 in Australia.

IEEE CAS JOINT SEMINAR - FRENCH -

SHIKOKU – MALAYSIA

INVITED TALKS - IEEE CAS CONFERENCES

AND ACTIVITIES

The IEEE CAS Joint Seminar - French - Shikoku –

Malaysia was conducted on 19th Dec 2016 at Universiti

Putra Malaysia with three speakers. Amara Amara from

CAS France gave a talk on Extremely Low-Leakage

Memory and Logic Circuits Based on Tunneling FET

Devices while Yoshifumi Nishio from CAS Shikoku

Japan gave a talk on Complex Phenomena in Coupled

Chaotic Circuits. The seminar ended with the talk on

Towards Energy-Efficient On-Chip Communication

given by Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani from Malaysia. The

event was attended by 20 participants.

The IEEE CAS invited talk on CAS Conferences and

Activities has been successfully conducted on 20th Dec

2016 at The Everly Hotel Putrajaya. Amara Amara the

VP for CAS conference gave a talk on Dedicated To

Your Success - IEEE CAS Conferences and Yoshifumi

Nishio the BoG of CAS delivered a talk on Make the

Members’ Connection - IEEE CASS Activities. Twenty

participants attended. The event reached its point with

unforeseen numbers of questions and answers which

could then clarify the importance of the contents

delivered.

Fig. 1: Group photo of speakers and participants at BioPro venue

Fig. 2: Group photo of speakers and participants at Joint Seminar venue

Fig. 3: Group photo were taken with Yoshifumi and Amara

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Student ActivitiesReported by P Susthitha Menon <[email protected]>

2016 IEEE Malaysia Student Congress

IEEE Malaysia Section organized the 4th IEEE Malaysia

Section Student Congress on 15th October 2016 at Asia

Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU),

Kuala Lumpur. The event was co-sponsored by IEEE

Region 10 Student Activity Committee and was co-

organized together with the IEEE APU Student Branch

which was headed by Dr Ehsan and Dr Manoj.

The event was inaugurated by Prof. Ron Edwards, Vice

Chancellor of APU, Dr Zuhaina Zakaria, Chair, IEEE

Malaysia Section and Dr P. Susthitha Menon, Student

Activity Chair, IEEE Malaysia Section. There were a few

keynote speeches delivered in the Congress including

“IEEE Malaysia Section YP Overview” by Dr. Anang

Hudaya, YP Malaysia Chair, ”IEEE Malaysia Section WIE

Overview & WIE Student Network Soft Launch” by

Saaveethya, R10 WIE, “IEEE Individual Benefits and

Services” by Dr Norliza Mohd Noor, IEEE R10/Malaysia

Section Past Chair, “D2K: Data to Knowledge ” by Manoj

Jayabalan, APU, “How to be a Professional Engineer “ by

Ir. Yau Chau Fong, ”Healthy Lifestyle and Stress

Management” by Siti Munira, “Occupational Safety and

Health” by Yasin Mahanijah Md. Kamal, ”IEEE

Collabratec” by Saaveethya & Yeoh Hong Boon and

“IEEE Resume lab” by Fatimah Abd Rahman. A total of

200 participants attended the congress.

The award ceremony for the 3rd IEEE Malaysia Section

Online Final Year Project (FYP) Competition was during

the congress. 33 winners from 13 technical tracks

received cash prizes, plaques and certificates from

technical chapter representatives. The winning posters

were exhibited during the morning coffee break.


Team-building activities were executed by SSR Ashen

Gomes and Ali Najah, “Grab the Prize”; a written quiz

competition about IEEE was conducted by Jeff Kong

where the top 20 winners received gifts and prizes.

Saaveethya (WIE) and Yoeh Hong Boon (YP) executed

the IEEE Collabratec Session where the IEEE Malaysia

Community Collabratec Soft Launch was done. Several

prizes sponsored by IEEE Collabratec USA were given

away to participants for the various activities. The

winners of the Collabratec SB Contest were UITM SB

(1st) and Curtin SB (2nd). Winners of the Infographics

Competition are USM SB (1st), UKM SB (2nd) and Curtin

SB (3rd). An award ceremony was also held to recognize

the R10/MGA award winners. Finally, the winners for the

Exemplary Student Branch were MMU SB (1st), UTM SB

(2nd) and Curtin SB (3rd). The R10 SYLC Congress

attendees from Malaysia Section were also recognized

for their efforts in winning the Best Cultural Exhibition

Booth during the congress in Bangalore. They are P

Susthitha Menon, Hussain Mahdi, Saaveethya, Ashen

Gomes, Fatimah Abd Rahman, Jeff Kong and Zaid Omar.

In the evening, Student Activities, YP and WIE had their

respective parallel sessions to emulate the R10 congress.

Organizing Committee members received their token of

appreciation and the congress ended with evening tea

break and photo sessions.

Group Photo with the FYP Award Winners and Technical

Chapter RepresentativesGroup Photo with the Congress Participants

Organizing Committee

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IEEE Malaysia Section organized a membership drive at

Universiti Malaya on the 21st October 2016. A total of 25

participants attended the talk entitled “Benefits of

becoming an IEEE Student Member” delivered by Dr P

Susthitha Menon (SAC Chair – Malaysia). SSR Ashen

Gomes also gave his overview on the advantages of being

an IEEE student member. Finally the UM SB Chair, Farid

encouraged all participants to be IEEE members.


The IEEEXtreme Programming Competition was

executed worldwide on 22nd October 2016. IEEEXtreme

is a global challenge in which teams of IEEE Student

members—advised and proctored by an IEEE member,

and often supported by an IEEE Student Branch—

compete in a 24-hour time span against each other to

solve a set of programming problems. A total of 35

teams from the various universities and student branches

in Malaysia Section participated in this competition. IEEE

Malaysia Section sponsored meals worth RM25/student

for each participating student. The top three teams from

Malaysia are from Swinburne University (ranked 279

worldwide), Nottingham University (ranked 573) and

USM SB (ranked 759).

Membership Drive – UM SB

IEEEXtreme 24-Hour Programming Competition

Group Photo with the Membership Drive Participants

IEEE Day 2016

Formation of New SB, Technical SB and WIE Affinity

Groups

IEEE Malaysia Section Student Activities Chair, Dr P

Susthitha Menon celebrated IEEE Day at the National

University of Malaysia (UKM) on 4th October 2016 by

inaugurating the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the

newly formed IEEE UKM SB Electron Devices Society

Technical Chapter. The UKM SB EDS is the 12th SB

Technical Chapter which was formed in the Malaysia

Section. The Advisor of the Technical SB is Dr Badariah

Bais and the Chair is Mohd Nuriman Nawi. Most of the

postgraduate student members are from the Institute of

Microengineering and Nanoelectronics (IMEN), UKM and

the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering

UKM

Group Photo with the EDS SB Participants

IEEE Malaysia Section Student Activities is glad to

announce the formation of the following student

branches, technical SB and SB affinity groups in 2016.

1. Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia Student Branch

2. Curtin University - Sarawak WIE SB Affinity Group

3. Universiti Sains Malaysia WIE SB Affinity Group

4. Universiti Putra Malaysia WIE SB Affinity Group

5. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia EDS SB Chapter

6. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia IAS SB Chapter

7. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia PES SB Chapter

8. Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka SB

9. Curtin University - Sarawak IAS SB Chapter

10. Universiti Tenaga Nasional PES SB Chapter

11. Universiti Malaysia Perlis SB


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The 14th IEEE Student Conference on Research &

Development (SCOReD2016) was successfully organized

by IEEE Malaysia Section and IEEE International Islamic

University Malaysia (IIUM) Student Branch from 13-14

December 2016 at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel Kuala

Lumpur. The conference was chaired by Dr Zuhaina

Zakaria, Chair of IEEE Malaysia Section. IIUM SB was led

by Dr Musse and Dr Sheroz Khan.

IEEE SCOReD 2016 focusses on the findings from

research students, post-doc fellows and research

associates in the institutions of higher learning pursuing

research degrees. Beside the main fields of electronics,

electrical, and communication engineering, SCOReD

covers other fields related to biosensing, materials,

renewable energy, professional engineering ethics, and

mechatronics. The IEEE Malaysia Section has transformed

it into an event that is going beyond the borders of Asia

Pacific Region.

The first keynote speaker of the conference was Prof Md

Moinul Hossain from University of Kent with his Skype-

IEEE-SCOReD2016

Group Photo with the EDS SB Participants

based talk entitled “Recent Advances in Electrostatic

Sensors and Instruments for Industrial Measurement and

Monitoring”.

The second keynote speaker was Prof Mahamod Ismail

from UKM with his talk entitled “Mitigating Inter-cell

Interference in 5G Ultra-dense Femtocell Networks:

Issues and Challenges”. A total of 71 papers categorized

into 10 technical tracks and hailing from 15 different

countries were presented at the conference. Other

highlights during the conference were the launching of

the Student Activities Video Montage, IEEE Membership

Talk & Booth and the Young Professionals National

Technical Poster Exhibition & Award Ceremony.

SCORED2016 Best Paper Award Winner was Ms

Kiasatina from USM with her paper entitled

“Construction of Partial Discharge Measurement System

Under Influence of Cylindrical Metal Particle in

Transformer Oil”. Meanwhile the Best Student Presenter

Award Winner was Samuel Jia Wei Tang from Monash

University with his paper entitled “Closed-loop Color

Control of an RGB Luminaire Using Sensors Onboard a

Mobile Computing System”

Group Photo with the SCORED2016 Organizing Committee & Participants


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IEEE MMU Student Branch

Reported by Mahmoud Mahmoudzadeh

[email protected]


Diploma in AutoCAD

Multimedia university IEEE Student Branch conducted two full courses

of AutoCAD where participants received Diploma in AutoCAD

certification from eduCAD (Autodesk Educational Partner). First

session was carried out on 20th to 24th of October and second

session was conducted on 5 full days, the weekends from 16th to 25th

of December. Mr. B. Varun Nair, a certified professional in Autodesk

trained and introduced participant to AutoCAD and the basics of 2D

and 3D designing. Students mastered the skills through workshops

and various projects. Furthermore, participants experimented with

environmental and sun effects, as well as material rendering. A total of

25 individuals attended the courses.

AutoCAD courses

A Freescale training workshop was carried out for

engineering students by IEEE MMU Student Branch on

16th of December. Learning Freescale is important for

electrical and electronics engineer students as they can

utilize the device in various projects such as IoT. 40

students were trained by Dr. Tan Wooi, a senior

Multimedia University lecturer. Participants were

awarded a certificate of participation from IEEE MMU

Student Branch.

Freescale Workshop

Freescale workshop

Technical Visit (Measat)

In order to deliver better understanding of satellite

communications, IEEE MMU Student Branch organized a site visit

to MEASAT Teleport and Broadcast Centre, Cyberjaya on 7th

October 2016. A total of 20 Multimedia University students

participated in this trip. MEASAT staffs gave participants a tour of

the facilities and explained technical details during the visit.

Students had the opportunity to observe the three main

departments, namely satellite controlling department, Network

department and antennas farm.

MEASAT technical visit

Writing Grant Proposal for Young Researchers

MMU IEEE Student Branch with collaboration IEEE comsoc organized

a full-day workshop on writing grant proposal for young researchers

on 6th November 2016. The speaker Dr. Mardeni gave a motivation

points that improve the skills of writing grant proposal with high level

of acceptance. The workshop was conducted at faculty of engineering,

MMU and it was very popular and well received with more than 30

individuals attending with diverse backgrounds.

Writing grant proposal for young researchers

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IEEE MMU Student Branch

Reported by Mahmoud Mahmoudzadeh

[email protected]

Workshop on Satellite Communication

In alliance with APSEC 2016, IEEE MMU Student Branch co-organized

a workshop on satellite communication in Le Meridien Kuala Lumpur,

Malaysia, on 6th of October. Steamed speakers lectured participants

on a variety of satellite communications like: Applications,

Regulations, Industry overview and Career in Space. Furthermore,

participants were presented with few case studies to solidify their

understanding of satellite communication.

Satellite communication workshop

On December 24th, the committee carried out a full day workshop on

Mobile Android Development in an attempt to familiarize participants

with the fundamentals of mobile software development. As many as

30 students were partaking in the workshop where they learnt how

to set-up Android Studio as well as other necessary software like JDK

and SDK. During the full day workshop, participants were walked

through making their very first android app.

Mobile Android development

Workshop on Mobile Android Development

Technical Visit to Proton

To familiarize students with advance workplaces, IEEE MMU Student Branch facilitated a technical visit to Proton

factory in Shah Alam. 12 participants had a tour in one of the most praised companies of Malaysia, while technicians

elaborated various mechanism of the production line and the company.

Technical visit to Proton

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IEEE APU Student Branch

Reported by Manoj Jayabalan <[email protected]>

Industrial Visit to Public Bank

On 21-Oct-2016, students from “Banking and Finance”

and “Computing” participated in a industrial visit to

Public Bank in conjunction with 50th Anniversary

celebration. APU IEEE Student Branch organized the

trip with two lecturers; Rozitaayu Binti Zulkifli and

Manoj Jayabalan.



The visit gave a brief introduction to Public Bank history

and achievements over the years. Students had a

prospect to attend the exhibition and visited the Head

Quarters operation in action. Mr. Ryan Ong from

Human Capital Management presented the careers and

internship opportunities in the banking sector. He

added the different positions available in sales and non-

sales teams along with the different benefits offered to

their employees.

Mr. Sooym is the Head of IT department, provided

insights of the IT facilities, banking operations and the

level of data protection from natural disaster. He gave

the students with valuable information on IT career

paths in the banking sector and the different

applications built and maintained in-house.

Special thanks to the lead team: Prof. Dr. Ir. Vinesh

Thiruchelvam; Prof. Siva Muthaly; Mrs. Kwan (Wong

Hua Hung); Sryee Inthran

Community service for Down Syndrome Children

School

APU IEEE Student Branch had a fascinating event to

conclude a productive year.

Volunteers from the APU IEEE Student Branch

participated in a community service in the cleaning and

painting of the new premise for Down Syndrome

Children’s School, Pemulihan Dalam Komuniti (PDK

Kiu) on 11th December 2016.

Thank you Volunteers for the wonderful job. You are

an inspiration to all!

Upcoming Events for 2017

Organizing your research using Mendeley – Feb

2017

Technical workshop on Data Mining – Mar 2017

Data Analytical Programming using Python – Apr

2017

IEEE Member Recruitment Drive – Jun 2017

@APUIEEE

Contact us

[email protected]

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IEEE UTeM Student Branch Reported by Izzati Yusri. <[email protected]>

Official Formation of IEEE UTeM Student Branch

Participation in Blood Donation Carnival

Many of our members took part

in a Blood Donation Carnival in

which is jointly co-organized by

UTeM, Infineon and Malacca

Blood Bank held on 7th of

December 2016. Despite their

busy schedules, our members

managed to carry out their

responsibility to contribute back

to the society through this event.

A token of appreciation was given

The formation of IEEE

UTeM Student Branch was

pre-conceived as a result

from an insightful IEEE

membership workshop held

in Canselori Auditorium,

UTeMUTeM back in March 2016. The notion for establishment

was push forward and received approval from R10 SAC

by June 2016. However, it was until early October 2016,

our team has finally established officially as a student club

in UTeM. Currently, our formation of IEEE UTeM

Student Branch is established under the roof of Electrical

Engineering Faculty (FKE), UTeM with the endorsement

from Dr. Ir. Nazri Othman as the Dean of FKE and

support from Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chong Shin Horng as IEEE

UTeM Student Branch Counselor.

Our team has been very fortunate to be offered a chance

to establish our presence by having a booth at the 2016

IEEE 6th International Conference on Power and Energy

(PECON 2016) held at Hatten Hotel, Malacca from 28th

to 29th of November 2016 and Distinguished Lecture

Program on 30th of November 2016 held at Auditorium

Canselori, UTeM. With the golden opportunity, we were

able to provide a platform for UTeM community to get to

know more about IEEE as a professional body. Also, our

teams also have obtained many returns from the

informative keynote and DLP speeches given by Prof. Dr.

-Ing. Ralph Kennel and Prof. Dr. -Ing. Hugh Rudnick. As

Prof. Dr. -Ing Hugh Rudnick was previously a student

branch counselor, we manage to close up a short and

casual session of information sharing in which Prof. Dr. -

Ing Hugh Rudnick offered us some on his humble tips for

student branch for growth and future development.

(Left) PECON 2016 (Right) FKE, UTeM Membership Drive

Mock Cheque

Presentation

out to IEEE UTeM Student Branch from the organizing

committee for proactive participation throughout the

carnival. The token of appreciation was received by our

interim president and presented in the form of

monetary reward of RM 300. The monetary reward

would be utilized for our upcoming events and

workshops. Lastly, the blood donation carnival ends on

a high note by registering the highest record in Malacca

in which 755 bags of blood were collected. We look

forward for more opportunities for us to exercise our

social responsibility.

Reach out to us :

Upcoming Events:

Introductory Workshops (MATLAB)

Publication Formatting Workshops

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IEEE UNIMAP Student Branch

Reported by Ezanuddin

[email protected]



IEEE UniMAP SB Color Run

Microelectronic Photonics Talk

On October 5th, 2016, an IEEE Photonics lecture series

organized by School of Microelectronic, School of

Computer and Communication engineering and co-

organized by IEEE UniMAP SB was held. The talk was

given by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Angela Amphawan who holds a

PhD in optical communication obtained from University

of Oxford, UK. Her talk was about the importance of

Optical Mode Division Multiplexing (MDM) which

leverages on the plurality of modes in multimode fiber. In

MDM, independent data streams are transmitted using

modes in a multimode fiber. The lecture discusses several

techniques for multiplexing/de-multiplexing modes in

MDM.

On November 19th, 2016, a Color Run to promote

IEEE and to instill a healthy lifestyle amongst UniMAP

undergraduates was organized by IEEE UniMAP SB. The

event was, officiated by the Deputy Vice Chancellor

(DVC) for Student/Alumni Affairs, Assoc. Prof. Dr.

Fo’ad Sakdan and closing ceremony was initiated by our

very own Vice Chancellor (VC), Prof Dr Zul Azhar

Zahid Jamal. A talk small about joining IEEE and its

benefits was given by the VC, where he urge every

student on joining such organization, which is filled with

great people, is one away to gain knowledge, expand

social networking, learn from the experts and

opportunities for scholarship. The event ended after

prizes was given by the VC. This event was sponsored

by Husmat Furniture, Malaysia Event and Printing, MSY

(Engineering Consultant), Brader Kopi, Kerajaan Negeri

Perlis, and UniMAP as well. UniMAP Vice Chancellor

(VC), Prof Dr Zul Azhar hope and give full support to

IEEE UniMAP SB to organizing an IEEE Color Run again

as an annual event for IEEE UniMAP SB.

APACE 2016

From December 11 to 13, 2016, IEEE Asia-Pacific

Conference on Applied Electromagnetics (APACE)

conference was held. This event was a program where

we at IEEE UniMAP SB had the chance to help run the

conference from behind the scene Fully sponsored by the

IEEE AP/MTT/EMC Joint Chapter of Malaysia (Antennas

and Propagation, Microwave Theory and Techniques and

Electromagnetic Compatibility)

[http://www.myapmttemc.org], this APACE conference

series are organized alternately with the IEEE RFM.

Academics and practitioners working in the domain of

applied electromagnetics are solicited to present latest

research findings and best practices, share ideas and

initiate networking and collaboration.

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