IEEE Malaysia Section Report (2017) PART A - SECTION SUMMARY · A.1.2 Section Highlights A.1.2.1 2017 has observed the formation of Sabah Sub-Section and our very first joint council

IEEE Malaysia Section Report (2017)

PART A - SECTION SUMMARY

A.1 Executive Summary

A.1.1 The Section Executive Committee members for year 2017, elected during the 27th Annual

General Meeting on 14th January 2017 and their portfolio are as follow:

No. Portfolio Committee

1. Chair Mohammad Faizal Ahmad

Fauzi

2. Vice-Chair /Membership/Chapter

Development

Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin

3. Hon. Secretary Haidawati Mohamad Nasir

4. Hon. Treasurer Zuriati Janin

5. Professional Activities/Industrial Relation Nordin Ramli

6. Communication/Newsletter Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar

7. Educational Activities Lee Yoot Khuan

8. Student Activities Noor Ain Kamsani

9. Past Chair/Award and Recognition Zuhaina Zakaria

10. Auditor Christopher Chew

11. Auditor Chong Yu Zheng

Secretariat

Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Selangor.

Tel: 03 55436083, Fax: 03 55435077

Email: [email protected], [email protected]

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A total of five (5) Executive Committee meetings and two (2) chapter chairs meetings* were

held during the year of 2017.The attendance of Executive Committee is as follows:

20/1 25/2

*

5/5 8/8 29/9 17/10* 14/1

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M Faizal Ahmad Fauzi √ √ x x √ √ √

Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin x √ √ √ √ √ √

Zuhaina Zakaria x √ √ x √ √ √

Haidawati Mohamad

Nasir √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Zuriati Janin √ √ √ x √ √ x

Nordin Ramli √ √ √ √ √ √ x

Noor Ain Kamsani √ √ √ √ √ x √

Lee Yoot Khuan √ √ √ √ √ √ √

Rosmiwati Mohd

Mokhtar √ √ √ √ √ x √

TOTAL 7/9 9/9 8/9 6/9 9/9 7/9 7/9

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A.1.2 Section Highlights

A.1.2.1 2017 has observed the formation of Sabah Sub-Section and our very first joint council

chapter, the Nanotechnology & Sensor Joint Council Chapter. In addition, one new student

branch (UniKL SB) and one new Student Branch Chapters (UPM PES SB) was approved

in 2017. With these additional sub-section, student branch and student branch chapters,

Malaysia Section now consists of 2 Sub-Sections, 24 technical chapters, 3 affinity groups,

1 council chapter, 24 student branches and 16 student branch chapters (including 3 WIE

SB AG) as of end of 2017.

As in previous years, IEEE Malaysia Section is very active in organizing events for its

members. Perhaps the biggest event organized was the 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference

(TENCON), which took place from 5th to 8th November in Penang. The conference

attracted around 600 participants from around the world, with the IEEE President and CEO,

Karen Bartleson among the keynote speakers. Besides keynote and invited talks, and

regular paper presentation, TENCON2017 also features Student Meet Up session, SIGHT

Train the Trainer workshop, Teacher in Service Program (TISP) workshop, industry forum,

Women in Engineering (WIE) forum, and Young Professionals (YP) meet and greet

session. Besides TENCON2017, the Section also continues to host its annual Student

Conference in Research and Development (SCORED) for the local undergraduate and

postgraduate students to showcase their work. Together with the UPM Student Branch,

SCORED2017 was held on 13th and 14th December in Putrajaya, attracting more than 100

participants.

Besides conferences, Malaysia Section has also been selected as one of the venues for

Mini-POCO, a smaller version of POCO (Panel of Conference Organizers), the IEEE

annual event for leading scholarly conference organizers around the world. The event,

supported by R10, Malaysian Convention Bureau (MyCEB), Penang Convention Bureau

(PCB) and Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) attracted more than 80 participants. Other

activities organized by the Section include the annual leadership camp for chapter officers,

the Senior Member elevation workshop series, the member-get-member program, as well

as the Website competition for chapters and student branches. IEEE Malaysia also

provided support for several volunteers to attend the R10 Meeting in Chiba, Japan, and the

Sections Congress in Sydney, Australia.

IEEE Malaysia Section continued to support many students’ activities especially on the

annual events namely the Leadership Camp for student volunteers, Student Congress and

Undergraduate Final Year Project Competition. The Student Congress, held in Universiti

Sains Malaysia, Penang, was co-sponsored by R10 under the SAC grant. The Section also

supports 31 teams from our student branches for the IEEEXtreme programming

competition. Besides activities for students, our affinity groups have also been active in

organizing events for our women and young members. WIE Malaysia received support

from R10 to host the 2017 WIE International Leadership Summit, as well as several other

activities. YP Malaysia also received R10 support to conduct the 2017 IEEE HardTech

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Summit which brings together entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors, researchers and

community leaders across Asia to share their experiences with our young professionals.

It was also a great year for us as several members of IEEE Malaysia received numerous

grants as shown in Table A.1. The grants were received from various funding sources such

as the R10 Educational Activities Support Fund, R10 Professional Activities and Industry

Relations Support Fund, R10 WIE Support Fund, R10 Student Activities Support Fund, as

well as the IEEE Humanitarian Activities grants. Furthermore, our volunteers as well as

organizational units are recognised by the awards given either from Region 10 or IEEE

MGA as described in section B.6.

In terms of membership, statistic for 2017 shows there was a decline in the number of

active members. During the Chapter Chairs meeting in October, several factors for the

decline have been identified, and Section will take the necessary action to reverse the trend.

The number of senior members, on the other hand, has increased from 410 in 2016 to 470

in 2017 (14.6% growth). This is due to efforts taken by Section and several chapters in

organising a series of workshops to assist members to elevate their grade to Senior

Member. This initiative was a proven success, and has enabled IEEE Malaysia Section to

emerge as top Section in the Senior Member elevation category for the second year

running, and receive USD250 from R10.

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Table A.1: List of support and grant received from IEEE/Region 10

Item Types of

Fund

Organiser Project Name Chapter Amount

(USD)

Status

1

R10

Professional

Activities and

Industry

Relations

Fawnizu A Hussin Industry Forum at TENCON2017 Section 800 Completed

2 V P Thinagaran Industrial Track at ICSE2017 CES 500 Completed

3 Bernard Lim

IEEE International Microwave,

Electron Devices, Solid-State

Circuit Symposium (IMESS) 2017

Penang

Chapter 500 Completed

4

R10 WIE Fund

Kar Yen Shum Women in Workplace Forum USM WIE

SB 300 Completed

5 Nasreen Badruddin

Outreach Program to All-Girl

Schools to Create Awareness on

and Interest in Engineering

WIE 400 Completed

6 Zaipatimah Ali Special Session at TENCON2017 WIE 400 Completed

7 Zuhaina Zakaria WIE International Leadership

Summit 2017 WIE 1500 Completed

8

R10 EA

Support Fund

Rosmiwati Mohd

Mokhtar

Underwater Robotics for Search

and Rescue Mission OES 300 Completed

9 Siti Anom Ahmad Assistive Technology Awareness

for Elderly Group in Malaysia EMBS 250 Completed

10 Jahariah Sampe Electronics Magic! EDS 200 Completed

11 Hussain F. Mahdi Bringing Robotics to the Masses UKM IAS

SB 300 Completed

12 R10 SAC

Support Fund Nor Ain Kamsani Student Congress Section 800 Completed

13

HAC Grant

Chong Yu Zheng HAC Track at TENCON2017 Section 3000 Completed

14 Mohd Nabil

Muhtazaruddin

Solar Energy for the Indigeneous

People in Malaysia

NA

(Individual) 500 Completed

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Other Funds

Nordin Ramli Mini-POCO Section 400 Completed

16 Zaid Omar 2017 HardTech Summit YP 914 Completed

17 Fawnizu A Hussin,

Haidawati M Nasir

Sponsorship for 2 Secondary

Delegates to Attend Sections

Congress 2017

Section 2000 Completed

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A.1.2.2 Among the sponsored and technically co-sponsored conferences successfully organized in

2016 are listed in Table A.2 below:

Table A.2: List of conferences organised in 2017

No Sponsored Conferences Organizational

Unit(s) Date Location

1 2017 IEEE 13th International Colloquium on Signal

Processing & Its Applications (CSPA) - #38834 CS 10-Mar-17 Penang

2 2017 IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications &

Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE) - #40339 IE/IA 24-Apr-17 Langkawi

3 2017 IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image

Processing Applications (ICSIPA) - #40287 SP 12-Sep-17 Kuching

4 2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Microwave Conference (APMC) -

#39341 AP/MTT/EMC 11-Nov-17

Kuala

Lumpur

5 2017 IEEE Symposium on Wireless Technology &

Applications (ISWTA) - #41227 IE/IA 30-Jul-17

Kuala

Lumpur

6 2017 7th IEEE International Conference on Control

System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE) - #41414 CS 24-Nov-17 Penang

7 2017 Regional Symposium on Micro and Nanoelectronics

(RSM) - #41573 ED 23-Aug-17 Penang

8 2017 IEEE Conference on Energy Conversion (CENCON)

- #41708 PEL 30-Oct-17

Kuala

Lumpur

9

2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart

Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)

- #41231

IM 28-Nov-17 Kuala

Lumpur

10 2017 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference

(RFM) - #41857 AP/MTT/EMC 13-Nov-17

Kuala

Lumpur

11 2017 IEEE 9th International Conference on Engineering

Education (ICEED) - #41802 E 9-Nov-17

Kanazawa,

Japan

12

2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate

Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PrimeAsia)

- #40056

CAS 1-Nov-17 Penang

13 2017 IEEE 13th Malaysia International Conference on

Communications (MICC) - #41448 VT/COM 28-Nov-17

Johor

Bahru

14 2017 International Conference on Electrical, Electronics

and System Engineering (ICEESE) - #42095 E 9-Nov-17

Kanazawa,

Japan

15 2017 11th Multi-disciplinary International Workshop on

Artificial Intelligence (MIWAI) - #41637 CIS 1-Nov-17 Brunei

16 2017 International Conference on Engineering Technology

and Technopreneurship (ICE2T) - #41969 IM 18-Sep-17

Kuala

Lumpur

7

17

2017 IEEE 7th International Conference on Underwater

System Technology: Theory and Applications (USYS) -

#42111

OE 18-Dec-17 Kuala

Lumpur

18 2017 International Conference on Educational Research

and Practice (ICERP) - #42297 E 17-Jul-17 Selangor

19 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Consumer

Electronics (ISCE) - #42338 CE 21-Nov-17

Kuala

Lumpur

20 2017 IEEE Conference on e-Learning, e-Management and

e-Services (IC3e) - #42359 C 15-Nov-17

Miri,

Sarawak

21 2017 IEEE Conference on Application, Information and

Network Security (AINS) - #41998 C 12-Nov-17

Miri,

Sarawak

22 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) - # 39482 Section 5-Nov-17 Penang

23

2017 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing

Association Annual Summit and Conference (APSIPA

ASC) - #39710

CIS 12-Dec-17 Kuala

Lumpur

24 2017 IEEE 15th Student Conference on Research and

Development (SCOReD) - #42296 Section 13-Dec-17 Putrajaya

25 2017 4th IEEE International Conference on Engineering

Technologies and Applied Sciences (ICETAS) - #42595 IIUM-SB 7-Dec-17

Salmabad,

Bahrain

26 2017 IEEE 3rd International Symposium in Robotics and

Manufacturing Automation (ROMA) - #42639 RA 19-Sep-17

Kuala

Lumpur

27 2017 IEEE Conference on Big Data and Analytics

(ICBDA) - #42279 C 15-Nov-17 Kuching

No Technical Co-Sponsored Conferences Organizational

Unit(s) Date Location

1

2017 3rd International Conference on Power Generation

Systems and Renewable Energy Technologies (PGSRET)

- #40291

PE 4-Apr-17 Johor

Bahru

2 2017 5th International Conference on Information and

Communication Technology (ICOIC7) - #40424 SMC 17-May-17 Melaka

3 2017 International Conference on Drones and its

Applications (IConDA) - #40622 C 3-Aug-17 Kuching

4 2017 6th International Conference on Electrical

Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI) - #41120 C 25-Nov-17 Langkawi

5 2017 5th International Conference on Research and

Innovation in Information Systems (ICRIIS) - #40314 C 16-Jul-17 Langkawi

6 2017 6th International Conference on Electrical

Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI) - #41120 C 25-Nov-17 Langkawi

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7 2017 6th ICT International Student Project Conference

(ICT-ISPC) - #41899 C 23-May-17

UTM,

Skudai

8 2017 6th ICT International Student Project Conference

(ICT-ISPC) - #41899 C 23-May-17

Johor

Bahru

9 2017 International Conference on Robotics, Automation

and Sciences (ICORAS) - #41980 RA 27-Nov-17 Melaka

10 2017 International Conference on Computer and Drone

Applications (IConDA) - #42213 C 9-Nov-17

UiTM,

Sarawak

11 2017 7th World Engineering Education Forum (WEEF) - #

41223 Section 13-Nov-17

Kuala

Lumpur

12 2017 IEEE Conference on Open Systems (ICOS) #42190 C 15-Nov-17 Miri,

Sarawak

13 2017 4th International Conference on Electrical, Control

and Computer Engineering (InECCE) - #42040 CASS, CAS(M) 16-Oct-17 Langkawi

14 2017 International Conference on Computing,

Engineering, and Design (ICCED) - #42596 IIUMSB 23-Nov-17

Kuala

Lumpur

15 2017 Asia Modelling Symposium (AMS) - #43045 Section 4-Dec-17 Kota

Kinabalu

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A.2 Financial Report

Financial Report for Year Ended 31st December 2017

IEEE Malaysia Section Income and Expense Statement for Year Ended 31st December 2017

INCOME

RM

1. IEEE Membership and Activities Rebates 87,717.39

2. TENCON 2017 Seed Money (USD5000) 22,055.00

3. R10 Educational Activities Support Fund 8,033.15

4. R10 WIE Support Fund 7,542.04

5. R10 Student Activities Support Fund 5,795.76

6. R10 Professional Activities and Industrial Relations Support Fund 14,074.76

7. Other R10 Support 4,464.37

8. Unidentified Foreign Bill Credit 7,235.66

9. Income from Sponsorship 0.00

10. 2017 AGM & Dinner 21,600.00

11. Income from Others 2,873.70

12. Income from Conference and Seminars 163,292.11

30% Conference Surplus From Chapters 60,221.61

TENCON 6,900.00

SCORED 73,680.50

MINI POCO 2017 22,490.00

13. Income from Other Activities / Sources 7,900.00

14. GST 34,953.07

15. Miscellaneous Income 14,390.00

Total Income 401,927.01

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EXPENSES

RM RM

1. IEEE Activity Bonus to Chapters / Affinity Groups 5,682.74

2. R10 Educational Activities Support Fund 8,035.80

3. R10 WIE Support Fund 7,544.38

4. R10 Student Activities Support Fund 4,923.77

5. R10 Professional Activities and Industrial Relations Support Fund 14,078.36

6. Other R10 Support 1,648.60

7. Annual Grant From Section to Chapters / Affinity Groups / Student Branch (SB) 37,360.00

a. 2017 Annual Grant to Chapters / Affinity Groups / Subsection 26,610.00

b. 2017 Annual Grant to SB 9,750.00

c. 2016 Annual Grant to Chapters (late payment) 1,000.00

8. Meeting Allowances to Chapters / Affinity Groups / Student Branch

(SB) 19,490.00

a. Meeting Allowances to Chapters / Affinity Groups / Subsection (Pay to Attendee)

8,390.00

b. Meeting Allowances to SB (Pay to Attendee) 11,100.00

9. Conference / Congress / Seminar Expenses 88,649.28

TENCON 2017 18,588.71

SCORED 2017 51,704.30

MINI POCO 2017 18,356.27

10. 2017 AGM & Dinner Expenses 72,221.40

11. Support for Student Activities 6,340.00

12. Travel Support 15,571.85

13. Excomm Meeting Allowances & Refreshments 8,899.26

14. Other Expenses 11,090.90

15. Seed Money 5,000.00

16. Administration Expenses 5,727.15

17. GST 2017 30,260.74

GST 2016 - 4Q16 Payment to Kastam 14,260.98

GST 2017 Payment to Kastam 12,753.87

GST Rebate to Chapters 3,245.89

18. Miscellaneous Expenses 10,218.54

Total Expenses 352,742.77

Surplus / (Defisit) [A –B] 49,184.24

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IEEE MALAYSIA SECTION BALANCE SHEET @ 31st December 2017

ASSET

1. Non-Current Assets RM

A. Property, plant and equipment 0

B. Investment 0

Total Non-Current Assets 0

2. Current Assets

A. Bank balances:

B. MBB Shah Alam Main account closing balance 56,591.08

C. Cash in hand 0

D. Fixed deposit 0

E. Stocks 0

F. Receivables from WIE ILS 2017 Seed Money 5,000.00

G. Receivables from SCORED 2017 Advanced Payment 51,704.30

H. Receivables from Chapters 0

I. Receivables from CPMT21 – ON Semiconductor Malaysia Sdn Bhd 4,800.00

J. Receivables from Others - conference income 0

K. Receivables from Others - other income 0

Total Current Assets 118,095.38

TOTAL ASSETS 118,095.38

Represented by :

1. ACCUMULATED SURPLUS :

A. Opening bank balance (1 Jan 2017) 52,580.54

B. Opening cash 0

C. Surplus/(Deficit) – 31 Dec 2017 49,184.24

Total accumulated surplus 101,764.78

2. LIABILITIES

A. Long Term Liabilities

I. Hire purchase payables 0

Total Long term Liabilities 0

B. Current Liabilities

I. Payables - conference expenses

II. Payables to 3rd parties - share of conference income 0

III. Payables to 14 Chapters & 3 Affinity Groups - 2017 Activity Bonus 5,382.74

IV. Payables to COM/VT - R10 Professional Activity (USD327.74) 1,435.03

V. Payables to 2017 Student Paper Contest Winners d0267 1,648.60

VI. Payables to OE22 - EA–2017–19 Project d0295 (USD300) 1,204.90

VII. Payables to EMB18 - EA–2017–20 Project d0290 (USD250) 1,004.08

VIII. Payables to ED15 - EA–2017–21 Project d0296 (USD 200) 803.27

IX. Payables – conference / student activities support expenses

X. Payables - others 4,851.98

Total Current Liabilities 16,330.60

Total Liabilities 16,330.60

TOTAL ACCUMULATED SURPPLUS AND LIABILITIES 118,095.38

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PART B - ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

B.1 Membership Development Activities

B.1.1 The objectives of the Membership Development Committee (MDC) of IEEE Malaysia are as

follows:

- To promote qualified Members to Senior Members

- To increase the number of professional and student members within Malaysia Section

- To retain as many members as possible

B.1.2 Figure B.1 presented the trends of total active IEEE members in Malaysia for the last five

years from 2013 until 2017. As shown in the figure, the total number of active members as

of 31st December 2017 is 3011. In general, the number of active members for IEEE Malaysia

in 2017 decreased by 9.28% as compared to 2016.

The highest percentage of grades is Member followed by Senior Member, Graduate Student

Member and Student Member as shown in Figure B.2. The decrement in the number of

active member was contributed from decreased number of active members in all grades

(except Student and Senior) as depicted in Figure B.3.

Senior membership development saw steady growth for the past five years to become the

second largest member grade. This is partly due to the Senior Membership elevation

workshop jointly conducted by Malaysia section and the technical society chapters. Senior

Members are very important to the section because the retention rate is much higher (close

to 100%) compared to other grades.

Figure B.1: Total Number of IEEE Malaysia Active Members (2013-2017)

3204

35373388 3319

3011

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

4000

2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Total Members of IEEE Malaysia Section (2013-2017)

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Figure B.2: IEEE Malaysia Active Members by Grade (2017)

Figure B.3: IEEE Malaysia Active Members by Grade (2013-2017)

Fellow

0%

Senior

Member

15%Life Member

0%

Member

56%

Associate

member

1%

Graduate

Student

member

15%

Student

Member

13%

Percentage by Membership Grades

AssociateMember

Studentmember

GraduateStudentMember

MemberSenior

MemberFellow Life Member

2013 68 287 575 2025 247 0 2

2014 57 448 656 2080 292 1 3

2015 51 406 521 2063 343 1 3

2016 40 431 516 1917 410 1 4

2017 27 380 445 1682 470 1 6

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B.1.3 A lot of measures were taken to improve membership recruitment, which include Member-

Get-Member (MGM) program where current members are given monetary incentives to

recruit new members and membership drive programs. Social Meetings and Membership

Drives were also carried out by Chapters at various institutions/organizations through

various ways such as promoting IEEE Membership during conferences and workshops

amongst others.

During conferences, conference organizers were encouraged to participate in Conference

Membership Recruitment (CMR) program, where one selected society membership will be

given free to new members who joined during the conference under this CMR program.

Membership retention (renewal) on the other hand posed a different challenge, especially

for the student members. The slow decline in the student membership is due to the success

of the membership development programs conducted at universities. Membership retention

for students is below 10%. Based on the survey conducted, the increasing membership fee

(mostly due to the weakening of RM) was highlighted as one of the factors. Several

universities also stopped subsidizing the membership fees for the academic staff, thus

contributing to the decline of members under the Member grade. The main focus for

Membership Development committee for 2018 would be on how to address the decline of

the number of member.

B.2 Chapter Activities

B.2.1 There are 2 Sub-Sections, 24 technical chapters, 3 affinity groups, 1 council chapter, 24

student branches and 16 student branch chapters (including 3 WIE SB AG) under IEEE

Malaysia Section. The technical chapter and affinity group chairs are as shown in Appendix

A.

B.2.2 Most of the chapters were active and the less active chapters have been supervised by

Membership /Chapter Development portfolio.

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B.2.3 Table B.2 summarised the activities for each chapter based on five main categories.

Table B.2: Activities for each chapter (2017)

Ad

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mee

tin

g

Co

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ces

Tec

hn

ica

l

Pro

fess

ion

als

No

n-t

ech

nic

al

Total

AP03/MTT17/EMC27 3 2 5 2 2 14

C16 7 3 4 1 0 15

CAS04 7 1 3 3 1 15

CE08 - 1 - - - 1

COM19/VT06 15 1 11 1 6 34

CPMT21 / EP - - 3 2 - 14

CS23 6 2 11 - 22 41

CIS11 1 2 2 3 1 9

E25 - 3 9 - - 12

ED15 7 1 18 1 21 48

EMB18 8 - 14 - 14 36

IE13/IA34 3 2 7 3 - 15

YP - - 2 - 1 3

GRS29 1 - 7 3 - 11

IM09 7 2 2 2 1 14

PEL35 3 1 5 3 4 16

ED15/MTT17/SSC37 (PENANG) - - 1 - 1 2

PE31 8 - 6 5 3 22

PHO36 11 - 9 6 9 35

RA24 1 1 7 3 - 12

SMC28 1 - 7 1 - 9

SP01 21 1 42 1 19 84

16

WIE 4 - 13 8 3 28

TM14 - - - - - -

DEI32 6 - 14 2 - 22

OE22 15 1 25 2 8 51

Sarawak Sub-Section 9 - 2 3 2 16

SEN39/NANO42 2 - 1 1 1 5

CNAG 2 - 1 - 1 4

Total activities conducted by Chapters reported in Vtools 587

(i) For details of each item, please refer to the chapter annual report in the respective chapter AGM.

(ii) The figures above are based on the L31 reported statistics from https://meetings.vtools.ieee.org/main as of

31st December 2017.

B.3 Professional and Continuing Education Activities

B.3.1 Professional Activities /Industrial Relation

B.3.1.1 IEEE Malaysia Section Committee on Professional Activities /Industrial Linkages have

organized for the first time the 2017 IEEE mini-POCO (Panel of Conference Organizers),

the first event for leading scholarly conference organizers in MALAYSIA. The aim of this

workshop is to provide an opportunity for professionals to interact among each other and

collaborate to develop a better understanding on conference management. This 2017 mini-

POCO is organized by IEEE Malaysia Section and supported by IEEE Region 10 (R10),

Malaysian Convention and Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB), Penang Convention and

Exhibition Bureau (PCEB), Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) and Tourism Malaysia.

The event was successfully organized and attended by more than 80 participants from

various chapters as well as non-IEEE participants. The event was officiated by IEEE

President, Karen Bartleson and attended by four speakers from IEEE Region 10.

.

B.3.1.2 In 2017, the collaboration between IEEE Malaysia and IEM Electrical Engineering

Technical Division (EETD) is continuous. Discussions of a proposed joint award by IEEE

Malaysia/IEM EETD have been initiated with the purpose of recognizing and

complimenting the efforts of young engineers and scientist in Malaysia who contributes to

the betterment of humanity. The working sub-committee has been appointed and currently

looking at the technical requirement for the award. IEEE Malaysia Section members have

also participated in several events organized by IEM in general and IEM EETD,

specifically, and vice versa.

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B.3.1.3 In promoting the participation from industry, together with IEEE ED/MTT/SSC Penang

Chapter, IEEE Malaysia has jointly organized the 2017 IEEE International Microwave,

Electron Devices, and Solid State Circuit Symposium (IMESS2017) at PSDC, Penang on

4 – 5 October 2017. The event was successfully organized and attended by more than 200

participants, which mainly from industry players in Penang and nearby cities. This

IMESS2017 was also supported by the IEEE R10 Professional Activities Grant.

B.3.1.4 IEEE Malaysia Section is working closely with IEEE 5G Initiatives to bring IEEE 5G

Learning Series and IEEE 5G Summit to Malaysia. In particular, IEEE 5G Learning Series

will be organized in Kuala Lumpur in 2018, and an official announcement will be made

very soon.

B.3.2 Educational Activities

B.3.2.1 2017 Leadership Camp and Strategic Planning for Chapter Leaders (25.2.2017) - This is

an EA project to office bearers of all Chapters on IEEE awareness and leadership training,

in addition to strategic planning of the year. The speakers were Dr Zuhaina Zakaria, Dr

Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Dr. Fawnizu Hussin, Dr. Haidawati Mohamad Nasir,

Zuriati Janin, Dr. Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar, Dr Aduwati Sali, Dr Norliza Mohd Noor,

Christopher Chew and Dr. Lee Yoot Khuan. In addition, feedback has been collected

from current office-bearers to design the content, such that “2018 Leadership Camp and

Strategic Meeting will be By the Member, For the Member”. Number of attendee is 62.

B.3.2.2 EA Awareness Technical Talk to Chapter Leaders at 2017 Leadership Camp and

Strategic Planning for Chapter Leaders (25.2.17) - This is an EA project to provide

awareness on services offered by IEEE EA Board, for EA chair of each Chapter to

transfer knowledge to members. Number of attendee is 62.

B.3.2.3 Dissemination on behalf of IEEE EAB Section Outreach Committee (28.9.2017) - This

is an EA project to close the gap between IEEE EAB with Members and Student

members, with transparency on IEEE EA Board 2018 Call for Applications for Volunteer

Positions, IEEE STEM Video Game Challenge, IEEE Certificates Program, IEEE

eLearning Library and IEEE Educational Activities on social media. Dissemination is to

all members & student members of IEEE Malaysia Section.

B.3.2.4 EA Awareness Technical Talk to Student Leaders at IEEE Malaysia Student Congress

2017 9 (18.11.2017) - This is an EA project to provide awareness on services offered by

IEEE EA Board, for SB representatives to transfer knowledge to their peers. In response

to feedback, 50% of EA grant proposals for submission to R10 will be allocated to SB in

2018. Number of attendee is 120.

B.3.2.5 Training of Trainers for Teacher-In-Service Program at TENCON 2017 (5.11.2017) -

This is an EA project to train IEEE volunteers in TISP, co-organized with R10 EA Co-

ordinator, Assoc Prof Dr Zuhaina Zakaria. Number of attendee is 25.

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B.3.2.6 IEEE Malaysia Section has succeeded in securing 4 out of the 27 proposals being

approved for 2017 R10 EAB Support Fund. The total grant stood at USD1050, with

matching grants from IEEE Malaysia Section at MYR1200. Three projects fell into the

category of Education Outreach while one project into the Continuing Education,

benefitting a community of about 1100. They are Electronics Magic in conjunction with

IEEE Day by IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Malaysia Chapter; Underwater

Robotics for Search and Rescue Mission by IEEE OES Malaysia Chapter; Assistive

Technology Awareness for Elderly Group in Malaysia by IEEE EMBS Malaysia Chapter;

Bringing Robotics to the Masses by IEEE UKM IAS Chapter.

B.4 Student Activities

B.4.1 In 2017, one new student branches were formed bringing the total number to 24 Student

Branches (SB) under IEEE Malaysia Section. The newly formed SB is Universiti Kuala

Lumpur (UNIKL). One Student Branch Chapter was formed in 2017 bringing the total

SB Chapters to 13 in IEEE Malaysia Section. SB chapters formed in 2017 was UPM PES

Student Chapter.

B.4.2 The name of Counsellors and Chairs for IEEE Student Branches, Technical SB and SB

AG as of 31 December 2017 are listed as follows.

No University/Institution Name Year

Formed Counsellor Counsellor's Email

1 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) 1999 Mohamad Kamal A Rahim [email protected]

2 Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) 2000 Rozita Jailani [email protected]

3 Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) 2001 Noor Ain Kamsani [email protected]

4 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 2001 Mahamod Ismail [email protected]

5 Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) 2005 M Zuki B Yusoff [email protected]

6 Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia

(UIAM)

2006 Sheroz Khan [email protected]

7 Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) 2007 Ali Farzamnia [email protected]

8 Universiti Multimedia (MMU) 2007 Mohamad Yusoff Alias [email protected]

9 Monash University- Sunway Campus 2007 Alpha Agape Gopalai [email protected]

10 Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) 2009 Chong Yu Zheng [email protected]

11 Universiti Malaya (UM) 2009 Fatimah Ibrahim [email protected]

12 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) 2009 Mohd Tafir Mustaffa [email protected]

13 Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten) 2010 Zaipatimah Ali [email protected]

14 Curtin University Sarawak 2011 Hendra Gunawan Harno [email protected]

15 University of Nottingham Malaysia

Campus

2013 Khor Jeen Ghee [email protected].

my.

16 Universiti Selangor (UniSel) 2013 - -

17 Universiti Utara Malaysia 2013 Amran Ahmad [email protected]

18 Asia Pacific Univ of Tech and Innovation 2014 Abdulaleem Al-Othmani [email protected]

19 INTI International University 2014 Suliman Mohamed Ahmed

Gaber

[email protected]

20 Nilai University 2015 Abbas Mehdizadeh [email protected]

21 Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP) 2016 Azremi Abdullah Al-Hadi [email protected]

22 Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka

(UTeM)

2016 Shin Horng Chong [email protected]

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23 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malayisa

(UTHM)

2016 Nafarizal Nayan [email protected]

24 Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UNIKL) 2017 Mohammed Reyasudin

Basir Khan

[email protected]

No Technical SB/SB AG Year

Formed Advisor Advisor's Email

1 APU COMSOC Student Chapter 2014 Reza Adinehnia -

2 APU CIS Student Chapter 2014 Nirase Fatimah Abubacker

3 APU Computer Society Student Chapter 2014 Muhammad Rana [email protected]

4 INTI Computer Society Student Chapter 2014 - -

5 INTI COMSOC Student Chapter 2014 - -

6 UiTM PES Student Chapter 2014 Nur Ashida Salim [email protected]

7 UTM PES Student Chapter 2015 Md Pauzi Abdullah [email protected]

8 UNITEN PES Student Chapter 2016 Zaipatimah Ali [email protected]

9 UKM PES Student Chapter 2016 Azah Mohamed [email protected]

10 Curtin Sarawak IAS Student 2016 King Hann Lim [email protected]

11 UKM IAS Student Chapter 2016 Hussain Mahdi [email protected]

12 UKM EDS Student Chapter 2016 Badariah Bais [email protected]

13 UPM WIE AG 2016 Wan Fatinhamamah Wan

Ahmad

[email protected]

14 USM WIE AG 2016 Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar [email protected]

15 Curtin Sarawak WIE AG 2016 King Hann Lim [email protected]

16 UPM PES Student Chapter 2017 Mohammad Effendy

Yaacob

[email protected]

B.4.3 Student Activities in 2017

B.4.3.1 IEEE Malaysia Section Student Activities successfully organized the 7th IEEE Malaysia

Student Branch Leadership Camp on 13th March 2017 at the Faculty of Engineering, UPM.

The objective of the camp was to enhance leadership in IEEE Malaysia Section Student

Branches and to provide training as well as to share experiences in the running of IEEE

Student Branches. The event was co-organized with IEEE UPM SB. A total of 64 students

from 21 SBs attended the camp. Each SB presented their planned activities for 2017 and

Section provided annual grant and travelling claim to all SBs which presented. During the

Camp, the selection of the Malaysia Section Student Representatives (SSR) was

announced. Section Student Representatives and Student Committee (SAC) basically boost

student membership and assist student branches by keeping IEEE student members

informed of current activities and events within the section and institute–wide so that

student members can effectively network, learn and cooperate as one body. They are

Abdulrahman Taha Mohammed (SSR for undergraduate) from UPM SB, Kong Sheng

How (SAC) from Curtin SB, Abdulraqeb Alhammadi (SAC) from MMU SB, Ng Jiann Jia

(SAC) from USM SB and Shum Kar Yen (WSN) from USM SB.

B.4.3.2 Student Meet Up – Luncheon @ TENCON2017 was held on the 7th November 2017 in

Penang where the event was attended by 50 participants. This event is co-organised with

IEEE USM SB. The event was held as a platform for participants to meet and discuss on

student activities and its best practices with invited speakers Dr. Rajesh Ingle, IEEE R10

Student Activities Coordinator, Prof. Kukjin Chun, IEEE R10 Director, Dr. Noor Ain

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Kamsani, IEEE Malaysia Student Activities Chair and Dr. Mohd Tafir Mustaffa, IEEE

USM SB Counselor.

B.4.3.3 The 4th IEEE Final Year Project (FYP) Competition 2017 was held between June-July

2017. This event was co-organized with UNITEN SB. The aim of the event is to provide

an opportunity for final year undergraduate students to showcase their research and

development. This activity was successfully conducted with the cooperation between

Malaysia Section and 9 IEEE Technical Chapters. Students’ submitted softcopies of their

A1 poster and an abstract explaining their final year project. A total of 214 submissions

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winners for the various tracks received 1st Prize: RM300, 2nd Prize: RM200, 3rd Prize:

RM100 (sponsored by Technical Chapters in Malaysia) as well as plaques and certificates

from IEEE Malaysia Section. The winners from all tracks then showcased their project’s

A1 poster during the IEEE Malaysia Student Congress 2017 while receiving the prize and

certificates from IEEE Malaysia Section/IEEE Chapters. Winners from each Track are

shown in the table as follows.

Track Winners Name University

Track 1:

Power and Energy

sponsored by IEEE Power

& Energy Society (PES)

Chapter

1st Muhammad Helmi B

Mohamad Roslan

Universiti Putra Malaysia

2nd Muhammad Shafiq Bin

Nizar

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

3rd Suraj Chakraverty Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

Track 2:

Telecommunication

sponsored by IEEE

Comsoc/VTS Chapter

1st Nur Farahin Mohd Mazni Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia

2nd Mohd Helmi Mustafa and

Mohd Nazreen Khalid

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS)

3rd Eissa Abdullah Awadh

Mohammed

Universiti Malaysia Perlis

Track 3:

Electronics

sponsored by IEEE CAS

Chapter

1st Ong Wee Chiek Universiti Putra Malaysia

2nd Nur Atikah Binti Ishaimi Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

3rd Daniel Ng Chiu Loong Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Track 4: Computational

Intelligence

sponsored by IEEE CIS

Chapter

1st Ng Chin Kit Multimedia University

2nd Tan Yan Jia Universiti Sains Malaysia

3rd Chia Jia Tian Universiti Malaysia Sabah

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Track 5:

Signal and Image

Processing and Analysis

sponsored by IEEE SPSoc

Chapter

1st Tan Chun Hou Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia

2nd Nicole Tham Lei May Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

3rd Andy Tan Wei Keat Universiti Sains Malaysia

Track 6:

Under Water Systems and

Under Water Robotics

1st Mohammad Fahmi Mohd

Murad

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

2nd Tan Wei Chiang Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)

3rd *no winner -

Track 7:

Biomedical Engineering

sponsored by IEEE EMBS

Chapter

1st Norafisyah Binti Mansor Universiti Malaysia Perlis

2nd Stephanie Sia Sok San Universiti Malaysia Perlis

3rd Pang Cheng Hao Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Track 8:

Electron Devices/Microwave

Theory & Technique/Solid-

State Circuits

sponsored by IEEE

ED/MTT/SSC Penang

Chapter

1st Agnes Tan Bee Chin Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS

2nd Camdoo Raj Swinburne University of Technology Sarawak

Campus

3rd Mohamed Mirza International Islamic University Malaysia

Track 9:

Control & Systems

1st Sharifah Munawwarah Bt

Syed Mohd Putra

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur

2nd

Abdul Aziz Taufik

Balgohom Alkathiri

International Islamic University Malaysia

3rd

Muhammad Afiq Bin

Mustafa

Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

B.4.3.4 IEEE Malaysia Section organized the 5th IEEE Malaysia Section Student Congress on

19th November 2017 at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang. The event was co-

sponsored by IEEE Region 10 Student Activity Committee and was co-organized with

IEEE USM Student Branch which was headed by Mr Loo Fang Hean. The event was

participated by 19 IEEE Student Branches all over Malaysia and 2 Student Branches from

Universitas Indonesia and Institut Teknologi Bandung. A total of 109 participants gathered

at the event to gain knowledge pertaining IEEE leadership and networking opportunities.

Among the invited speakers were Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mohamad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi (Chair,

IEEE Malaysia), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Lee Yoot Khuan (Education Activities Chair, IEEE

Malaysia), Dr. Nasreen Badruddin (Women in Engineering, IEEE Malaysia), Mr. Simon

Yeoh Hong Boon, (Young Professional Malaysia representative) and Dr, Noor Ain

Kamsani (Student Activities Chair, IEEE Malaysia).Apart from the invited talks, prize

giving ceremony for the IEEE Malaysia Final Year Projects (FYP) Competition winners

was also held during the congress. FYP posters from the winner were showcased during

the event. A networking session for the delegates from different IEEE Student Branches

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were held in the afternoon. Group activities were held to build teamwork spirit and provide

a platform for the members to get to know other participants which could lead to discussion

for future collaboration between IEEE Student Branches.

B.4.3.5 The IEEEXtreme 11.0 Programming Competition was executed worldwide on 14th October

2017. 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 31 teams (93 students) from the various universities and student

branches in Malaysia Section participated in this competition. IEEE Malaysia Section

sponsored meals worth RM30/student for each participating student. The top three teams

from Malaysia are from Nottingham University, Universiti Malaya, Swinburne University

SB.

B.4.3.6 The 15th IEEE Student Conference on Research & Development (SCOReD2017) was

successfully organized by IEEE Malaysia Section and IEEE Universiti Putra Malaysia

(UPM) Student Branch from 13-14 December 2017 at the Everly Hotel Putrajaya. The

conference was chaired by Dr Mohammad Faizal Ahmad Fauzi, Chair of IEEE Malaysia

Section. UPM SB was led by Dr Noor Ain Kamsani. SCOReD2017 received 3 keynote

speakers who were Prof. Mohammad Hamiruce Marhaban from Universiti Putra Malaysia

delivering talk on IR 4.0: Shaping The Future-Proof Graduates; Mr. Ganesh Muren from

Saora Industries delivering talk on Humanising and Scaling Research to Venture; and Prof.

Dr. Kim Jae-Sok from Yonsei University, Korea delivering talk on Driving Assistance

System for Autonomous Car. A total of 94 papers categorized into 10 technical tracks and

hailing from 17 different countries were presented at the conference. SCORED2017 Best

Paper Awards were awarded to “To Investigate Classical Scheduling Schemes with Power

Management in IaaS Cloud Environment for HPC Workloads” by Aftab A. Chandio,

Muhammad Saleem Korejo, Imtiaz Ali Korejo and Muhammad Saleem Chandio;

“Measuring Human Joint Movement with IMUs” by Weiyang Xu, Cesar Ortega-Sanchez

and Iain Murray; and “Online Project Evaluation and Supervision System (oPENs) for

Final Year Project Proposal Development Process” by Syila Izawana Ismail, Rina

Abdullah, Siti Aishah Che Kar, Nazuha Fadzal, Hasiah Mohamed @ Omar, Hasnorhafiza

Husni.

B.4.3.7 Memberships Drives were conducted by IEEE Malaysia Section and SSRs as follows.

i) 22nd of March 2017 - IIUM SB,

ii) 31st March 2017 – UTM KL

iii) 13th Aug 2017 – CREST Bootcamp in Penang,

iv) 16th August 2017 – Nilai University SB,

v) 23 August 2017 – INTI University SB and

vi) 27th August 2017 – CREST Bootcamp at UM.

IEEE Malaysia Section Student Activities also successfully revamped the INTI University

SB where newly appointed counselor and committee were formed successfully.

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B.4.4 Student Representatives:

Section Student Representative (SSR) is the communication medium between IEEE student

members and IEEE Malaysia Section as well as helping the section in planning and making

suggestions to sections regarding student activities. The elected SSR for 2017 were:

SSR: Abdulrahman Taha Mohammed, UPM SB

B.4.5 Awards/Recognition

B.4.5.1 Award from IEEE

IEEE R10 Exemplary Student Branch Award – Curtin Malaysia SB

2017 Darrel Chong Student Activity Award (Platinum Medal) – Curtin Malaysia SB

Award from IEEE Region 10

IEEE R10 SAC Student Branch Award – Curtin Malaysia SB

Awards from IEEE Industrial Applications Society (IAS)

IEEE IAS Humanitarian Project Contest (1st Place) – Curtin Malaysia SB

IEEE Outstanding New Chapter Award – Curtin Malaysia SB

B.4.5.2 IEEE Malaysia Section Outstanding Student Branch and Outstanding Student Volunteer

Award are awards given to the student branches and student volunteers that are judged

based on the greatest overall contribution and service to its members. The awards were

given during the IEEE Malaysia Section Annual Dinner in January. During 2017 IEEE

Dinner, the winners were;

2016 Outstanding Student Branch Award

Curtin Sarawak Student Branch (1st Prize),

Universiti Sains Malaysia Student Branch (2nd Prize)

Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Student Branch (3rd Prize)

2016 Outstanding Student Volunteer Award

Ali Najah Al-Shamani, UKM SB (1st Prize)

Fatimah Abd Rahman, UPM SB (2nd Prize)

Gorakanage Ashen Indimal Gomes (3rd Prize)

B.4.5.3 International Appointments

IEEE Region 10 Student Activities Committee 2017:

o Dr Noor Ain Kamsani, (R10 Leadership Summit Project Coordinator)

o Arvind Rajan, Monash SB (Paper Contest Coordinator)

o Saaveethya Sivakumar, Monash SB (Zonal Student Coordinator)

o Kong Sheng How, Curtin SB (Sub-Zonal Student Representative)

IEEEXtreme Programming Competition 11.0:

o Loo Fang Hean, USM SB (Ambassador)

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o Lancelot Chong Hwei Cai, Curtin Malaysia SB (Ambassador)

IEEE Day 2017

o Abdulrahman Taha Mohammed, UPM SB (Ambassador)

o Chong Shu Lan, Curtin Malaysia SB (Ambassador)

B.4.6 Means of Communication with SB/Newsletter

IEEE Malaysia Section Student Activities has several methods of communicating with IEEE

student members as well as with SB Counselors/Technical Advisors and SB Chairs. We

have Google Groups: [email protected], Facebook page: IEEE

Malaysia Students and via website www.ieeemy.org/students. Else than that Whatsapp

Group was created to communicate with them. All SB activities are published quarterly

which is incorporated within the IEEE Malaysia Section Newsletter.

B.4.7 Student Branch Activities

Each IEEE Student Branch had completed a number of activities for the year 2017. The

summary of activities is listed as follows. Data was extracted from

vTools.StudentBranchReporting.

No University/Institution Name

Tec

hn

ical

Non

-tec

hn

ical

Ad

min

istr

ati

ve

Oth

er

1 Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) - - - -

2 Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) - - - -

3 Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) 9 5 6 3

4 Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) 12 3 1 0

5 Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) 3 2 24 0

6 Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia (UIAM) 7 3 11 0

7 Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) 2 6 8 0

8 Universiti Multimedia (MMU) 17 9 20 2

9 Monash University- Sunway Campus 6 5 11 0

10 Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) 5 7 5 0

11 Universiti Malaya (UM) 16 49 52 5

12 Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) 17 3 6 14

13 Universiti Tenaga Nasional (Uniten) 6 2 1 1

14 Curtin University Sarawak 17 5 2 16

15 University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus 7 3 4 0

16 Universiti Selangor (UniSel) - - - -

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17 Universiti Utara Malaysia - - - -

18 Asia Pacific Univ of Tech and Innovation 7 2 1 1

19 INTI International University 2 0 0 0

20 Nilai University 0 3 0 0

21 Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UNIMAP) - - - -

22 Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) 4 0 0 11

23 Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) 3 6 0 3

24 Universiti Kuala Lumpur (UNIKL) - - - -

B.5 Affinity Group Activities

B.5.1 Young Professional (YP)

This year, all 11 committee members of the Young Professionals Malaysia have shown

tremendous effort in volunteer work and also in conducting professional events. Early in the

year, YP have kicked off with an aim to be as involved as possible in IEEE events and

collaborate whenever the opportunity comes. The events organized this year revolved

around social events, technical events, and community outreach. Our major achievement

this year is for hosting the second edition of IEEE Hardtech Summit, the largest Young

Professionals' Summit in Asia Pacific, on 4th November 2017 at University Kebangsaan

Malaysia, Bangi. The summit, sponsored by R10 Young Professionals, brings together

entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors, researchers and community leaders across Asia to

share their experiences with our young professionals. This year's summit focused on

hardware technology with the aim to broaden the vision of YPs towards the changing

paradigms. The CEO and President of IEEE, Karen Bartleson provided the opening speech

for the summit.

Another major event organized this year is the Young Professionals Meet and Greet Session

during the IEEE Region 10 Conference 2017 (TENCON2017). The session was moderated

and hosted by Dr. Zaid Omar, and was attended by young professionals from all over Asia

Pacific region present at the conference. Some other events were also conducted in

collaborations with other IEEE chapters such as WIE (for an inter-chapter bowling

tournament) and ComSoc/VT (community outreach projects in Sabah); as well as private

organizations such as Multimedia University Library (for a how-to workshop) and Startup

Campus Asia (for professional workshops). Through these collaborations, YP have made

new friends, gained new knowledge, and most importantly with team effort anything is

possible.

B.5.2 Women in Engineering (WIE)

In 2017, WIE Malaysia has increased the number of activities organized, especially those

related to encouraging STEM in girls and professional development of female engineers.

Our major achievement this year was being selected as one of the hosts for the WIE

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International Leadership Summit (WIE-ILS). The aim of the summit was to bring together

female and male leaders from around the world interested in advancing women in

engineering and technology. It was held in Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on

18-19 September 2017, and attended by 129 participants, with international participants

from Germany, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka,

Pakistan and United States. WIE-ILS Kuala Lumpur was officiated by Tan Sri Shahrizat

Abdul Jalil and we were fortunate to have the current Chair of Global WIE, Dr. Bozenna

Pasik-Duncan as one of the keynote speakers.

Another event organized by WIE Malaysia which attracted many international participants

was the IEEE-WIE Forum held during the IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON) in

Penang. Prominent female leaders from both industry and academics shared their

experiences on the topic “Balancing Work and Family Life as Career Women” during the

forum. This event received a Visibility Enhancement through Events Program (VEEP) fund

from IEEE R10. Another project by WIE Malaysia that received the WIE Support Fund

from IEEE R10 was the outreach program to all-girls schools, consisting of two separate

programs: WIEEReach and Public lectures on STEM. In total, 328 students and teacher from

five different all-girls schools participated in the two programs under this project.

B.5.3 Consultant Network Affinity Group (CNAG)

This year, Consultant Network Affinity Group (CNAG) Malaysia has conducted three

professional, membership development and social events. CNAG has co-organized an event

entitled "Consulting Career for Engineer" at UTM Johor, which was delivered by Fawzi

Behmann. Membership drive was also conducted prior to the event. In November 2017, a

community project was co-organized by CNAG and UPM students at Ulu Semenyih,

Selangor. Specifically, we provided learning session services to indigenous children in Ulu

Semenyih. The aim of this program is to inculcate interest in science and mathematics for

primary students in rural area. CNAG has also conducted three administrative meeting in

2017.

B.6 Awards & Recognition Activities

B.6.1 Award from IEEE Region 10

o Educational Activities Outstanding Volunteer Award: Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar

o YP Outstanding Volunteer in Entrepreneurship Award: Hong Boon Yeoh

B.6.2 Award constituted by the Section

2017 IEEE Malaysia Section Awards are given to the chapters and volunteers that are judged

based on the greatest overall contribution and service to its members. Call for nominations

for the 2017 Section awards was announced on 12th October 2017. The number of

nominations received are as follows:

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Outstanding Volunteer – 5

Outstanding WIE Volunteer - 6

Outstanding YP Volunteer - 3

Outstanding Student Volunteer - 6

Outstanding Chapter - 8

Outstanding Student Branch - 5

The selection committee for these awards comprised of IEEE volunteers from Region 10

and Section past chairs. The awards were given during the IEEE Malaysia Section Annual

Appreciation and Award Night on 27th January 2018. The winners were;

Outstanding Volunteer: Nordin Ramli

Outstanding WIE Volunteer: Nasreen Badruddin

Outstanding YP Volunteer: Simon Yeoh Hong Boon

Outstanding Student Volunteer: Kong Sheng How

Outstanding Chapter: IEEE EDS Malaysia Chapter

Outstanding Student Branch: IEEE Curtin Student Branch

B.7 Communication Activities (Newsletter, Home Page, E-mail, etc.)

B.7.1 Home Page

The website for IEEE Malaysia Section can be browsed at http://www.ieeemy.org. There

are eight tabs:

Main – Contains general information, upcoming events and latest posts.

Events & Activities – IEEE Malaysia Conference Digest

Chapters – Technical Chapter tab leads to 24 technical chapter websites and 2 affinity

group websites. IEEE Student tab leads to IEEE Malaysia Students website where 24

student branches and 16 student chapters linked to it.

Executive Committee – Showing the standing committees for 2017.

Membership – Key values of IEEE membership.

Newsletter – Showcase the quarterly published IEEE Malaysia Section newsletter.

GRA Vacancies – Posting of Job/Position Vacancy in various academic institutions in

Malaysia.

Contact – Corresponding person to IEEE Malaysia Section

IEEE Malaysia Section’s homepage has been updated with 271 new contents including

announcement, events and activities. Through 1st January 2017 to 31st December 2017, the

website has been visited 211,050 times and having 3,394,615 hits. Most visitors are from

Malaysia followed by United States, India, France, Japan, Indonesia, China, Great Britain,

Ukraine, Bulgaria, Russia and Germany. The source of website visitors is from search

engine, direct, referral and social media.

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The section also provides hosting for 15 chapters, 2 subsections, 2 affinity groups and 5

student branches. Total bandwidth usage for all website hosting is 178.68 GB.

B.7.2 Best Website Competition

In December 2017, the IEEE Malaysia Website Competition was conducted. Subsections,

technical chapters, affinity groups and students branches under the Malaysia Section are

eligible to participate in this competition. The interested parties need to submit their

participation forms via online. There were eight Chapters/Affinity Groups and five student

branches shown their interest in this competition. There are four judges have been appointed

to evaluate the website; two from Malaysia Section Executive Committees and two from

Region 10. The evaluation criteria are based on the website organization, layout and design,

navigation, currency and accuracy, contents, writing mechanics and overall quality. The

winners of this competition were announced during the IEEE Malaysia Annual Appreciation

and Award Night on 27th January 2018. The winners are:

Category: Technical Chapter / Subsection / Affinity Group

Champion: IEEE Power & Energy Society Malaysia Chapter (PES)

First Runner Up: Signal Processing Society Malaysia Chapter (SPS)

Second Runner Up: IEEE Dielectrics & Electrical Insulation Society Malaysia Chapter

(DEIS)

Category: Student Branches

Champion: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) Student Branch

First Runner Up: Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) Student Branch

Second Runner Up: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) Student Branch

B.7.3 Facebook

IEEE Malaysia Section’s Facebook page is another channel for Section intent to reach the

audience. Till December 2017, the Facebook page has received 2354 likes. Common

postings are announcement, events and activities from Section, subsection and also technical

chapters.

B.7.4 Quarterly Newsletter

Quarterly newsletter is established as platform for Section, Subsections, Technical Chapters,

Affinity Groups and Students Branches to report activities that have been conducted

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throughout the year. The newsletter obtained its ISSN number in June 2017 with serial

number of eISSN: 2590-3608. The quarterly newsletter can be downloaded from

http://www.ieeemy.org (tab Newsletter). Members were also informed of the quarterly

newsletter through [email protected].

The 2017 Chapter Communication Officer (CCO) was appointed mainly with aim of

becoming a focal person for the operational units (technical chapters, affinity groups etc.) in

regards to communication, website and newsletter activities. CCO representing each

operational unit is shown as listed in Table B.7.A.

There were four newsletters published in 2017. Table B.7.A also summarizes the technical

chapters and affinity groups that contributed their articles and/or news to each of the

newsletter editions.

B.7.5 Articles to R10 Quarterly Newsletter

The following Section activities have been reported in the IEEE Region 10 Newsletter

(http://www.ieeer10.org/newsletter/)

IEEE Malaysia Section Activities in First Quarter of 2017 – reported by Rosmiwati

Mohd Mokhtar, IEEE Malaysia Section Excom (page 27, March 2017)

Senior Membership Elevation Workshops Conducted by Malaysia Section – reported by

Fawnizu Azmadi Hussin, Vice Chair of IEEE Malaysia Section (page 8, Oct 2017)

IEEE Region Ten Conference (TENCON 2017) – reported by Zuhaina Zakaria, IEEE

R10 EA Coordinator (page 10, Dec 2017)

Other activities reported by the operational units in Malaysia Section are as follow.

Cross Country Visit, IEEE USM SB, Malaysia – reported by Rosmiwati Mohd Mokhtar,

IEEE USM SB (page 9, March 2017)

University App Challenge (UAC) – reported by Valarie John, Tan Kwang Shean and

Nurfarah Diana, IEEE USM SB (page 9, March 2017)

EDS-ETC Events Conducted by IEEE EDS Malaysa – reported by P.S. Menon, S.

Norjannah Ibrahim and A.B. Rosminazuin, IEEE EDS Malaysia Chapter (page 19,

March 2017)

STEM Educational Workshop – reported by Yogeswaran Mohan, IEEE EMBS

Executive Committee (page 8, July 2017)

Commencement of Digital Transformation in Miri, Sarawak – reported by Sheng How

Kong, IEEE Curtin Malaysia SB (page 12, July 2017)

CFP for Asia Pacific Microwave Conference 2017, APMC2017 Kuala Lumpur –

reported by Azah Syafiah Mohd Marzuki, Executive Committee of IEEE Malaysia

AP/MTT/EMC Joint Chapter (page 31, July 2017)

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Scratch Programming for Kids – Reported by Maryam M Isa, Co-chair WIE Malaysia

(page 42, July 2017)

Explore the Natural Tranquillity at FRIM - Reported by Maryam M Isa, Co-chair WIE

Malaysia (page 42, July 2017)

Technical Talk by Prof. Dr. Michael Pycraft Hughes – reported by Siti Anom Ahmad,

Vice Chair of IEEE EMBS Malaysia Section (page 5, Oct 2017)

STEM Forum Series 2/2017 – reported by Norliza Mohd Noor, Treasurer of IEEE

EMBS Malaysia Chapter (page 5, Oct 2017)

Malaysia IEEE Microwave Seminar – reported by Azah Syafiah M. Marzuki, Executive

Member of IEEE Malaysia AP/MTT/EMC Joint Chapter (page 10, Oct 2017)

Distinguished Lecturer Program (DLP): Prof. Grant Anthony Covic – reported by

Norezmi Jamal, Secretary of IEEE UTHM SB (page 18, Oct 2017)

IEEE SS12 Malaysia 2017 – reported by Li Wen Tan, Vice Chair of IEEE USM SB

(page 1, Dec 2017)

B.7.6 Research Position Vacancy Advertisements (GRA Vacancies)

Via the GRA Vacancies program, active IEEE members in Malaysia are able to submit their

GRA vacancies which will be advertised publicly in two domains: In Malaysia Section

website and circulation email through ieeemy mailing list. The details on GRA vacancies

can be submitted via online form at http://bit.ly/IEEEmyGRAform.

GRA ads were circulated via email quarterly in a year. As of 2017, more than 40 GRA ads

from various universities were advertised.

B.7.7 Conference Digest

The Conference Digest initiative was introduced this year in order to improve the circulation

of conference call for paper announcement and to assure more coverage gained by the

conference organizer. This initiative is applicable to IEEE sponsor and technical co-sponsor

conferences organized in Malaysia. The call for paper of the conference will be published

on IEEE Malaysia Section website (http://ieeemy.org/mysection/?page_id=4528) and also

will be circulated to all members via the ieeemy mailing list.

B.7.8 Communication Points

Section Executive Committee: [email protected]

Chapter Chairs: [email protected]

Chapter Secretaries: [email protected]

Chapter Treasurers: [email protected]

Members: [email protected]

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Table B.7.A: Chapter Communication Officers (CCO) and status of newsletter article submission by the

operational units

Newsletter Articles Submission

No

Name of Technical Chapter, Affinity Groups and

Subsection

Name of Chapter Communication

Officer Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

1

Antennas & Propagation / Microwave Theory & Technique / Electromagnetic Compatibility Joint

Chapter (AP/MTT/EMC, CH10226) Huda A Majid Y Y Y Y

2 Circuits and Systems Society (CAS, CH10307)

Fakhrul Zaman Rokhani (newsletter)

& Mohd Nazim Mohtar (website) Y

3 Communication Society and Vehicular Technology Society Joint Chapter (COMSOC/VTS, CH10361) Khairil Anuar Y Y

4 IEEE Electronics Packaging Society (EPS, CH10258) Banu Poobalan Y Y

5 Computational Intelligence Society (CIS, CH10669) Hoo Wai Lam Y Y Y Y

6 Computer Society (CS, CH10253) Lim Kok Cheng

7 Consumer Electronics Society (CES, CH10455) Jimmy Leong

8 Control Systems Society (CSS, CH10421) Mohd Hezri Fazalul Rahiman Y

9

Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Society (DEI,

CH10733) Yanuar Zulardiansyah Arief Y Y Y Y

10 Education Society (EDUSOC, CH10396) Mahanijah Md Kamal Y

11

Electron Devices / Microwave Theory and Techniques /

Solid State Circuits Joint Chapter, Penang

(EDS/MTT/SSCS, CH10341) Lee Choo Yong Y Y Y Y

12 Electron Devices Society (EDS, CH10105) Aliza Aini Md Ralib Y Y Y Y

13 Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS, CH10441) Yogeswaran Mohan Y Y

14

Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society (GRS,

CH10619)

Dinesh Sathyamoorthy; Lim Tien

Sze Y

15 Industrial Electronics / Industry Applications Joint Chapter (IE/IA, CH10295) Syed Abdul Mutalib Al Junid

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Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS,

CH10355) Mahanijah Md Kamal

17 Oceanic Engineering Society (OE, CH10729) Zulkifli Zainal Abidin Y Y Y Y

18 Photonics Society (PS, CH10306) Nurul Asyikin Mohamed Radzi Y Y Y Y

19 Power and Energy Society (PES, CH10106) Norhafiz Azis Y Y Y Y

20 Power Electronics Society (PELS, CH10628) Tan Chee Wei Y Y

21 Robotics and Automation Society (RAS, CH10365) Ahmad Anas Yusof Y Y Y

22 Signal Processing Society (SP, CH10284) Hezerul Abdul Karim Y Y Y

23

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society (SMC,

CH10534) Anang Hudaya Muhamad Amin

24 Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS, CH10706) Vemal Raja Manikam Y Y

25 Women in Engineering (WIE) Nur Idora Abdul Razak Y Y Y

26 Young Professionals (YP) Zuraidah Zan Y

27 Consultant Network Affinity Group (CNAG)

27 IEEE Sarawak Subsection Pan Zhang Y Y Y

28 IEEE Sensors & Nanotechnology Joint Councils Y

29 IEEE Sabah Subsection

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PART C - OTHERS

C.1 Special Events

Malaysia Section and its chapters and affinity groups organized a lot of activities in 2017.

For quite a number of the activities, we received support from various funding sources such

as the R10 Educational Activities Support Fund, R10 Professional Activities and Industry

Relations Support Fund, R10 WIE Support Fund, R10 Student Activities Support Fund, as

well as the IEEE Humanitarian Activities grants. Overall the Section received 17

sponsorships. The section, together with the WIE and YP, each organized their own special

events in 2017.

a) IEEE Malaysia Section hosted the 2017 IEEE Region 10 Conference (TENCON), which

took place from 5th to 8th November in Penang Island. The conference attracted around

600 participants from around the world, with the IEEE President and CEO, Karen

Bartleson among the keynote speakers. Besides keynote and invited talks, and regular

paper presentation, TENCON2017 also features Student Meet Up session, SIGHT Train

the Trainer workshop, Teacher in Service Program (TISP) workshop, industry forum,

Women in Engineering (WIE) forum, and Young Professionals (YP) meet and greet

session.

b) The Section also continues to host its annual Student Conference in Research and

Development (SCORED) for the local undergraduate and postgraduate students to

showcase their work. Together with the IEEE UPM Student Branch, SCORED2017 was

held on 13th and 14th December in Putrajaya, attracting more than 100 participants.

c) Malaysia Section has also been selected as one of the venues for Mini-POCO, a smaller

version of POCO (Panel of Conference Organizers), the IEEE annual event for leading

scholarly conference organizers around the world. The event, supported by R10,

Malaysian Convention Bureau (MyCEB), Penang Convention Bureau (PCB) and

Sarawak Convention Bureau (SCB) attracted more than 80 participants, with renown

speakers from all over Asia Pacific.

d) Receiving sponsorship from R10 under the SAC grant, the Students Congress was held

in Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, with the help from IEEE USM Student Branch.

The event was participated by 19 IEEE Student Branches all over Malaysia and 2

Student Branches from Universitas Indonesia and Institut Teknologi Bandung. A total

of 109 participants gathered at the event to gain knowledge pertaining IEEE leadership

and networking opportunities.

e) WIE Malaysia received support from R10 to host the 2017 WIE International Leadership

Summit, held in Berjaya Times Square Hotel, Kuala Lumpur on 18-19 September 2017.

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The aim of the summit was to bring together female and male leaders from around the

world interested in advancing women in engineering and technology. The summit was

attended by 129 participants from all over Asia Pacific. The summit was officiated by

Tan Sri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil, with the current Chair of Global WIE, Dr. Bozenna Pasik-

Duncan giving one of the keynote talks.

f) YP Malaysia received support from R10 support to conduct the 2017 IEEE HardTech

Summit which brings together entrepreneurs, industry leaders, investors, researchers and

community leaders across Asia to share their experiences with our young professionals.

The summit was held on 4th November 2017 at University Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi,

and focuses on hardware technology with the aim to broaden the vision of YPs towards

the changing paradigms. The CEO and President of IEEE, Karen Bartleson provided the

opening speech for the summit.

C.2 Relationship with National Societies

The Section has good relations with national professional bodies and societies. Several

conferences organized by the Section were either co-organized with these bodies or

participated by their members. IEEE Malaysia Section and the Institute of Engineers

Malaysia (IEM) have also agreed on joint IEEE-IEM awards to recognized individuals and

corporations’ contribution for the betterment of the engineering community. Besides IEM,

the Section also has good relation with the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)

Malaysia, where we supported activities organized by each other throughout the year.

C.3. Collaboration with other IEEE Sections

Representative from the Section attended the 2016 TENCON in order to prepare for the

2017 TENCON in Penang. Likewise, representative from the Seoul Section attended the

2017 TENCON in Penang in order to learn and prepare for 2018 TENCON in Jeju, Korea.

Besides, the Section also collaborates with IEEE Indonesia Section as well as other R10

committees in organizing many activities for TENCON 2017.

C.4 Support extended to Sub-sections & Society Chapters within the Section

IEEE Malaysia Section conducts at least 5 meetings in a year with the Section Executive

Committee and twice a year with Chapter/AG/Subsection Chairs. During the meeting with

Chapter/AG/Subsection chairs at the beginning of the year, all units are required to present

their plans and financial standing. At the second half of the year, the

Chapters/AGs/Subsections are required to report and update their activities. Section will

distribute grant of amount RM1000 to all chapters and affinity groups, which was disbursed

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in two installments. The same support was also extended to the two Subsections under the

Section. In 2017, a representative from the Section attended the AGM for both Subsections

to show our support as well as to give guidance for the newly formed Subsections. All

Student Branches also received financial incentives from the Section. Specific financial

support were also given to student branches for activities that benefit members of other

student branches or events that are of international significance such as International

Advanced Robotics Competition (iARC 2017) organized by UTP Student Branch, IEEE

Digital Maker Expo 2017 organized by Curtin Student Branch, WIE Forum 2017 organized

by USM Student Branch. Besides, every beginning of the year, the Section conducted the

leadership camp for both the Chapter/AG/Subsection officers as well as Student Branch

volunteers to equip them with the necessary knowledge in order to run their unit. Section

also provides seed money for chapters and affinity groups that are organizing a conference

that fall under specific criteria in order to assist with the financials, for example IEEE

SCOReD 2017, WIE International Leadership Summit 2017, IEEE TENCON 2017.

C.5 Best Practices of your Section (which you would like to share with other Sections for

the benefits of members)

Each year, IEEE Malaysia organized a leadership camp for new chapter/AG/Subsection

chairs, secretaries and treasurers. In this camp, the volunteers were given training on section

management, vtools, SAMIEEE and other key information to assist them in organizing their

activities. Similar camp was also organized each year for student branch volunteers with the

content tailored to running student branches and student branch chapters.

Senior member elevation workshops have also been organized by IEEE Malaysia Section to

assist members to elevate their grade to Senior Member. In 2017 we have organized 8 such

workshops, and this has increased our senior members from 410 in 2016 to 470 currently.

The Section has won the first prize in R10 MD incentive grants for the senior member

category for the second year running.

And to improve our membership recruitment, the Section has, since 2016, carried out the

Member-Get-Member (MGM) reward program. This program is similar to the MGM

program practiced at the HQ level, but to attract more members to participate, the Section

has doubled up the reward by giving our own reward at the Section level. The rewards were

disbursed during the AGM, which also increases the number of participations at the

Section’s AGM.

Malaysia section coordinates support for support fund applications by members and chapters

such as for Educational Activities support fund and Professional Activities support fund. As

a result, high number of support funds were secured by Malaysia section. All grants received

by section can be seen in Table A.1.

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C.6 Problems anticipated and suggestions for solutions, if any

The decrease in membership especially members needs to be addressed more aggressively

by all concerned. This has been discussed during the 2nd Chapter Chairs meeting in October

2017, and among the factors identified for the decline are 1) the weakening of the Malaysia

Ringgit, as well as 2) the fact that our sister societies, the IEM and IET, can provide

additional benefit that IEEE does not have, namely the ability to be elevated to Professional

Engineer (IEM) or Chartered Engineer (IET). This is especially attractive for the Malaysia

academics since it is now becoming a requirement for academic institutions in Malaysia to

have academics with these qualifications. This will be further discussed during the next

Chapter Chairs meeting in March 2018.

As mentioned in previous section, the Member-Get-Member reward program and the Senior

Member elevation workshops, together with the conference membership recruitment, are

the Section’s effort to reverse the decline. All chapters also need to be more pro-active in

attracting members by increasing their presence through organizing more high-impact

activities. Chapters may invite members who are in arrears to join the activities in order to

attract and encourage them to renew their membership.

PART D - GOALS AND PLANS

D.1 Continuation of project/activity in progress and their implementation plans

The Section will continue to support all activities that already in the pipeline from the

previous years. Established annual activities such as the leadership camp, senior member

elevation workshop, member-get-member rewards, SCOReD conference, FYP competition

etc. will be continued. The Section will monitor all the activities to ensure that the

implementation of all activities is according to the IEEE By-laws and benefits the members.

At the same time the Section will continue with activities that will nurture the IEEE Malaysia

Student Branch so that they remain active and relevant to their community. Section will

encourage more participation from Student Branches in embarking community work and

social responsibility especially to the underserved community.

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D.2 Goals and Future Plans

The IEEE Malaysia Section goal is to be the leader of technical society for electrical and

electronic engineers in the country. We hope to increase the visibility of IEEE among the

public and to enhance benefits to members by providing members with access to high quality

technical information through lectures, short courses, workshops and conferences. The

Section also plans to attract more members and upgrade the membership status of its

members. Efforts to increase student members and graduate student members (by forming

more student branches) as well as young professionals will be carried out more actively.

One worrying trend in Malaysia is the declining number of high school students pursuing

the science and technology major at the tertiary education level. IEEE Malaysia Section

hope to work closely with the government to address this problem by doing more school

outreach program, such as the Arduino programming workshop organized by last year

(https://signalprocessingsociety.org/newsletter/2018/01/malaysia-chapter-member-driven-

initiative-event-professional-knowledge-transfer) by UTHM Student Branch, to expose the

school students in the exciting world of science and technology, particularly the electrical

and electronic engineering topics..

We are also putting more efforts in promoting community services Malaysian-wide by

increasing cooperation with the industry and society at large. Section has embarked on IEEE

SIGHT project with the underserved community in the local area, and will continue to do

so and expand the effort to the regional area. We are also working with the R10 office in

discussing IEEE strategies in South East Asia, where Malaysia is among the 3 countries

along with Thailand and Singapore shortlisted as having the most potential. The strategies,

among others, include membership development, industry engagement, as well as education

and training as the main focal points.

D.3 Any innovative ideas to make IEEE more creative and value added for sustaining the

membership retention and recruitment goals.

The Section will try several strategies to organize more engagement activities with potential

members such as postgraduate students at universities and young engineers in industry.

The same will also be planned in reaching out to industry members. We think facilitating

networking between professionals and industry leaders can help bringing more industry

members in Malaysia into IEEE.

Sharing stories in social media on why an individual joined IEEE such as #IEEEMyStory

could attract new members in knowing more about IEEE. In this regard, section plans to

organize a short video competition where members document how IEEE has impacted their

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life and career for the better. These video stories will be used as promotional materials when

engaging the members in Malaysia.

D.4 Business Plan for Sustainable Growth and Financial Stability.

With a combination of good management, prudent spending as well as organizing income

generated activities, the Section has been able to sustain its growth and financial stability

every year. Having successfully hosted the 2017 TENCON, the Section is currently very

healthy financially. The current business practice will still be continued for the coming years

but now we have the means to conduct even more beneficial activities for members.

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APPENDIX A

List of Sub-Section/Joint Chapters/Societies/Affinity Groups

Name of Sub-Section Sub-Section Chair

Sarawak Sub-Section Lau Bee Theng

Sabah Sub-Section Ismail Saad

Name Joint Chapters/Societies/Affinity Groups Chapter Chair

Antenna & Propagation (AP), Microwave Theory and

Techniques (MTT) and Electromagnetic Compatibility

(EMC)

Badrul Hisham Ahmad

Communication (ComSoc) and Vehicular Technology (VT) Aduwati Sali

Electron Devices (EDS), Microwave Theory and Techniques

(MTT) and Solid-State Circuits (SSCS), Penang Wong Peng Wen

Industrial Applications (IA) and Industrial Electronics (IE) Nooritawati Md Tahir

Circuits and Systems (CAS) Suhaidi Shafie

Electronics Packaging Society (EPS) Wong Shaw Fong

Computer (CS) Ali Selamat

Consumer Electronics (CE) Thinagaran Perumal

Control System (CSS) Mohd Nasir Taib

Consultants Network Affinity Group Borhanuddin Mohd Ali

Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation (DEI) Lau Kwan Yiew

Education (EduSoc) Juliana Johari

Electron Devices (EDS) Susthitha Menon

Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBS) Alpha A Gopalai

Geoscience and Remote Sensing (GRS) Biswajeet Pradhan

Instrumentation and Measurement (IM) Kushsairy Kadir

Photonic (PS) Syamsuri Yaakob

Power and Energy Society (PES) Md Pauzi Abdullah

Power Electronics (PELS) Shahrin Md Ayob

Robotic and Automation (RAS) Rosdiazli Ibrahim

Signal Processing (SP) Syed Abdul Rahman Syed Abu

Bakar

System, Man and Cybernetics (SMC) Khairul Salleh Mohamed Sahari

Technology Management Council (TMC) Pei-Lee The

Young Professional (YP) Zaid Omar

IEEE Malaysia Women in Engineering (WIE) Nasreen Badruddin

Oceanic Engineering (OE) Mohd Rizal Arshad

Nanotechnology & Sen6sors Joint Council Chapter Mohd Khairuddin Md Arshad

Computational Intelligence (CIS) Yong Suet Peng