I was honoured to present my thoughts on SIL, SIF, IPF and other abbreviations to a willing crowd on the 9th September 2015.
Marketing Rounds – IEM SIL course
November 25, 2015
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IEM Shout Out – Half Day Course on Incorporating CDIO (TM) framework through Project based learning (PBL)
November 13, 2015This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a course on 27th November, presented by Ir Assoc. Prof. Dr. Satesh Namasivayam . It’ll be at 9am at Wisma IEM.
Ready to engineer. So it is said. But what is engineer and how do you engineer? What are the barriers to engineer and what are the key factors necessary to educate engineer? How to think like an engineer? Incorporating CDIOTM framework through Project based learning (PBL) can be one of the solutions. The CDIOTM initiative has been developing as more collaborators from all over the globe are taking this initiative as a base for their educational institutions adopting what so-called the “active learning” policy which includes, but not limited to, a complete system of a well-designed syllabus covering the skills and characteristics of graduating engineers.
Throughout CDIOTM phases, the learning process has changed from passive-note taking to more active-project-based education. This half-day workshop is designed with three (3) objectives as follows
- Introduce participants to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate initiative
- Integrate CDIO initiative in curriculum to address complex, value added engineering products, processes, systems in modern and team-based environment;
- Review the know-how of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating complex engineering systems of appropriate complexity.
Ir Assoc Prof Dr. Satesh Namasivayam BEng (1st Class Hons) PhD (London) FIMechE MIEM CEng PEng CIT (HRDF) is a Chartered and Professional Mechanical Engineer, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Dean from the School of Engineering at Taylor’s University, Malaysia.
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Adjusting to an era of low oil prices
November 10, 2015Which MPRC event was this? And how big is PETRONAS’ nose?
Dateline 2015-10-07, FMT:
Recently, oil experts and industry captains gathered at a conference organised by the Malaysian Petroleum Resources Corporation to deal with the gloomy situation brought about by the fall in the price of the commodity.
The big guys were joined by small players in the industry who were keen to listen in because they were feeling the hurt. Of course, “small” in the context of the oil industry could be “huge” to ordinary people like us. Many of them have deals worth billions of dollars tied up with Petronas in expansion programmes rolled out in recent years.
And being beholden to a single giant client is one of their problems. There are close to 1,400 companies doing business at various levels with Petronas. As one analyst puts it, “If Petronas sneezes, they’ll all fall into the sea.”
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IEM Dinner 2015 Part 3/3
November 4, 2015Last set of pictures.
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IEM Shout Out – Half Day Course on Incorporating CDIO (TM) framework through Project based learning (PBL)
October 30, 2015This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be having a course on 27th November, presented by Ir Assoc. Prof. Dr. Satesh Namasivayam . It’ll be at 9am at Wisma IEM.
Ready to engineer. So it is said. But what is engineer and how do you engineer? What are the barriers to engineer and what are the key factors necessary to educate engineer? How to think like an engineer? Incorporating CDIOTM framework through Project based learning (PBL) can be one of the solutions. The CDIOTM initiative has been developing as more collaborators from all over the globe are taking this initiative as a base for their educational institutions adopting what so-called the “active learning” policy which includes, but not limited to, a complete system of a well-designed syllabus covering the skills and characteristics of graduating engineers.
Throughout CDIOTM phases, the learning process has changed from passive-note taking to more active-project-based education. This half-day workshop is designed with three (3) objectives as follows
- Introduce participants to Conceive-Design-Implement-Operate initiative
- Integrate CDIO initiative in curriculum to address complex, value added engineering products, processes, systems in modern and team-based environment;
- Review the know-how of conceiving, designing, implementing and operating complex engineering systems of appropriate complexity.
Ir Assoc Prof Dr. Satesh Namasivayam BEng (1st Class Hons) PhD (London) FIMechE MIEM CEng PEng CIT (HRDF) is a Chartered and Professional Mechanical Engineer, Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Deputy Dean from the School of Engineering at Taylor’s University, Malaysia.
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IEM Shout Out – Talk on Postgraduate Studies and Research Opportunities for Chemical Engineers and Professionals
October 29, 2015This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will be hosting a talk on the 5th November, 2015 by Dr. Hii. It’ll be at 5:30 pm. Since the oil & gas market seems to be slowing down for the next 2 years, this might be a good place to park your glutus maximus.
Are you currently thinking about doing a postgraduate degree? Are you planning to switch your career to academic teaching? Do you like doing research to strengthen your expertise/research area? Currently, there are various postgraduate (PG) degree programs (PhD, EngD, MSc, MRes, MPhil, etc.) available in the market. Some PG degrees can be done by fulltime or part time basis, and can even be done via distance learning. There are so many options available and the question is, how to choose the right one? The aim of this talk is to provide a “beginners guide” to PG degree for chemical engineers/working professionals from the engineering industry. The talk will present what are the options currently available especially for those that do not wish to do it full time. The costs and time frame involved will also be presented. Career choice upon completion of a PG degree will also be presented.
Dr. Hii completed his BEng (Hons) in Chemical Engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (1996), his MSc in Food Processing and Engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia (2004), and his PhD (Chemical Engineering) at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus (2010). He joined UNMC as academic staff since August 2010 at the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Prior to joining UNMC, he worked as a Senior Research Officer in Cocoa Downstream Research Center, Malaysian Cocoa Board (1997 – 2007). Currently, he is the Academic Champion for the Center of Food and Bio-product Processing and Deputy Head of the Manufacturing and Industrial Processes research division. He is also advisor to UNMC-IEM Student Chapter.
Register here or download the form here. A map to Wisma IEM is presented here.
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IEM Dinner 2015 Part 2/3
October 28, 2015More pictures.
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Malaysia’s PETRONAS Spent $116M on Talent Management Last Year
October 24, 2015And how much will they allow service providers to spend on ‘talent management’?
Dateline 2015-09-23, Rigzone:
Malaysia’s national oil company Petroliam Nasional Bhd (PETRONAS) spent about $115.9 million (MYR 500 million) on talent management as well as on leadership training and competency building last year, the firm’s top executive said Tuesday, as reported by national news agency Bernama.
“It is quite a significant sum, but we take it as a long-term investment,” PETRONAS President and CEO Wan Zulkiflee Wan Ariffin said at the CPA Congress 2015 in Kuala Lumpur.
Besides making a hefty investment in nurturing talents, the company also spent a lot of time looking at succession planning and developmental needs of its 51,000 employees.
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EM Shout Out – Technical Visit to Solar Farm Kompleks Hijau Solar, Gading Kencana Sdn Bhd
October 22, 2015This is a shout out for the IEM. My Technical Division will hosting the visit on Wednesday the 28th Oct, 2015.
Gading Kencana Sdn Bhd has successfully commissioned a 8-MW solar farm on a 6.86 hectar land in Bemban, Melaka with an investment cost of RM 86-million. The solar farm has a total output of 10,120 MWh annually. It is enough to power some 1,800 local households. The electricity produced is being purchased by Tenaga Nasional Bhd at 80 cents per kilowatt hour of electricity under the Feed-in Tariff (FiT) scheme managed by Sustainable Energy Development Authority Malaysia (SEDA) and the Energy Commission.
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IEM Dinner 2015 Part 1/3
October 21, 2015I don’t know if I’ve published these or not. Consider it a reminder to join the IEM.
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Wata - Malaysian Oil and Gas Engineer 