IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter

First Quarter | January – March 2014

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IEEE Malaysia Section Executive Commitee 2014 Chair – Norliza Mohd Noor Past Chair – Mahamod Ismail Vice Chair – Zuhaina Zakaria Secretary – Rozita Jailani Treasurer – Badrul Hisham Ahmad Professional Activities /Industrial Linkages – Franklin Jeyasekhar Joseph Communications/Newsletter – Dianne Cheong Lee Mei Educational Activities – Mohd Fua’ad Rahmat Student Activities – Md Pauzi Abdullah

24th Annual General Meeting 25th January 2014

Mines Wellness Hotel, Selangor

Best Performing Chapter Awards for 2013 were presented during the annual dinner held on the 25th January 2014 at Mines Wellness Hotel, Selangor. The winners are as follows: Best Performing Chapter: Communication (COMSOC) and Vehicular Technology (VT) 1st Runner Up: Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter 2nd Runner Up: Power and Energy Society Malaysia Chapter

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Currently, there are four joint chapters, sixteen chapters, two affinity groups (Women in Engineering and Young Professionals), and a new chapter - Technology Management Council under IEEE Malaysia Section. There are 17 student branches.

FEBRUARY NEWS

Last Name First name Society

AbdulRahim Herlina Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Ang Boon Chong Circuits and Systems Society

Chan Chee Seng Industrial Electronics Society Che Ismail Rizalafande

Chong Poh Kit Communications Society

Irawan Addie Robotics and Automation Society Khan Raisuddin Robotics and Automation Society

Mamat Hazian

Mohd Sharef Nurfadhlina Computational Intelligence Society Othman MD Rizal

Pathan Al Sakib Khan

Ramachandram Dhanesh Computational Intelligence Society

Taha Imad Computational Intelligence Society

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IEEE Region 10 Technical Activities presented a Region 10 Seminar in conjunction with the 2014

R10 Meet at Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak Campus on 28th February 2014. This

seminar is jointly organised by IEEE R10 and IEEE Malaysia Section. Members of Asia Pacific

region are culturally rich with various ethnicities. The theme Technology with Culture Empathizes

Humanity is chosen to show that technology accentuated with culture will spawn research that

enriches the society. We were fortunate to have in our midst speakers from the Asia Pacific region to

share their knowledge and experience with us in this seminar: “Single Cell Analysis and Assembly by

Micro and Nano Robotics System” by Tashio Fukuda; “Contactless Measurements of Low Loss

Materials for Micro and Nano Electronics” by Janina Mazierska; “New Network Architecture for

Future Internet-Information-Centric Networking” by Yong-Jin Park; Indoor Localization Methods” by Lawrence W.C. Wong; “Digital Image Discrimination for Some Lung Diseases” by Norliza Mohd

Noor; and “Cancellable Biometrics: Enhancing Security and privacy of Biometric Authetication” by

M.L. Dennis Wong.

Professor Anthony Cahalan, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Swinburne University of

Technology Sarawak Campus was impressed with IEEE generous sharing of expertise and

experience with faculty members and students.

The seminar was officiated by Norliza Mohd Noor, Malaysia Section Chair. The introduction of

IEEE, MGA and Region 10 was given by Hidenori Nakazato, R10 Secretary while the Humanitarian

Technology Activities by Takako Hashimoto, R10 Humanitarian Technology Activities Committee

Member.

R10 Seminar

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MARCH NEWS

IEEE R10 Annual General Meeting, 1-2 March 2014 About 120 delegates convened at Hilton Kuching Hotel for a two-day AGM in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. A welcome address was given by Toshio Fukuda, R10 Director. Various addresses were followed by Jose Roberto de Marca, IEEE President; Howard Michel, IEEE President-Elect; and Martin Bastiaans, R8 Director respectively. Cecelia Jankowski presented the delegates with MGA strategy. The highlights on 1st March were the addresses with Q & A by President-Elect candidates, Frederick Mintzer and Barry Shoop and Poster Sessions by R10 EXCOM members. The posters covered Awards and Recognition (Kukjin); Conference & Technical Seminar (Takatoshi Minami); Educational Activities (Supavadee Aramvith); Electronic Communications & Information Management (Gowtham Prasad K.N.); Young Professional program (Darrel Chong); History (Takatoshi Minami); Humanitarian Technology Activities (Takatoshi Minami); Individual Benefits & Services (Michael Ong); Industry relations (Ravikiran Annaswamy); Life Member (Kunio Tada); Membership Development (Darrel Chong); Newsletter Editor (Ruey-Beei Wu); professional Activities (Hui Zhang); Section & Chapter (Elmer Dadios); Strategic Planning & Section Congress 2014 (Zia Ahmad); Student Activities (Om Perkash & Pasan Pethiyagode); and Women in Engineering (Takako Hashimoto). Besides reports by the various portfolios, there were training workshops: Section Management; Member Retention; vTools and Communication Strategy for Sections; Educational Activities; and IEEE Asia Pacific Office and Continuing Education.

Award winners

Cultural dance at dinner

MORE NEWS

Leadership Camp & Strategic Meeting 22nd March 2014

Berjaya Times Square, Kuala Lumpur

Free admission for Chapter Chairs, Student Branch Counselors, and Student branch Chairs

The objective of this program is twofold: to enhance leadership in IEEE Malaysia Chapter and Student Branch; and to provide training and share experience in the running of IEEE Chapter and Student branch. A total of 20 chapters, 2 affinity groups and 11 student branches participated. Pivotal Talks on IEEE Organization, IEEE Reporting, Funding Opportunities, Chapter Account, and Role of Chapter Chair were the main agenda. Malaysia Convention Bureau addressed the concerns and support of organizing a conference while Dr Norliza , the Section Chair briefed participants on organizing an IEEE conference.

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Track 1 centered on Chapter Chairs while Track 2 was specifically for Student Branches. In addition to information on IEEE Malaysia vision, IEEE Organization, Reporting and Funding, the Student Branch Chairs were briefed on the Role of Student Branch and Leadership Qualities by Dr Pauzi Abdullah, Chair of Student Activities, . The Chair of Young Professionals Malaysia shared experiences and expectations after graduating. Dr Dianne Cheong informed the guidelines and policy of using IEEE Masterbrand, logo, and color in designing Student Branch Website. The website can be linked to http://ieeemy.org/mysection with a request submission to Dr Dianne.

Dr Pauzi with Student Branch Chairs

Young Professional Talk Talk on Student Branch Website