The industrial talk was held on 17 April 2018 (Tuesday) at L50 DK1 from 2.15 PM to 5 PM. The talk was delivered by Ir. Juraimi Masood from PTP Tanjung Pelepas. Currently he is working as General Manager Development Office Port of Tanjung Pelepas. As head of Development Department he is responsible for planning, construction, test and deliver of various packages within the Port development plan. Some of the contents of the industrial talk are discussed in next paragraph.
He began the talk with sharing his experiences being a Resident Engineer which in charge in commission the Air Conditioning Plant in KLCC project. In that project he took the chance to polish his skills on communication because his works always related to deal with clients, colleagues and contractors. He emphasizing that communication skills is very important to build the career path. An engineer who have excellent communication skills can easily blend in the working environment especially when the works involved foreign workers. Ir Juraimi started with being an engineer at first of his career and climbed up until he became a General Manager by exploring new abilities such as management and development planning. He mentioned in the talk that the abilities can be obtain if the individual willing to learn new things to keep improving themselves.
Next, Ir Juraimi explained that engineer's work is contributing to the society. In order to deliver a good work, an engineer must have a good engineering ethics. One of the engineering ethics is responsible. A good engineer must have a high responsibility towards their works. The engineer also must take into consideration of safety and quality in their project management. The safety not just cover for the workers on the project site but also the safety of people surrounding it and people who going to use it. He shows some example of project accidents caused by the human error during project planning and management. At last, he said engineering ethics is the field of applied ethics and system of moral principles that apply to the practice of engineering. The field examines and sets the obligations by engineers to society, to their clients and to the profession.
As conclusion, the industrial talk motivate the final year students and give some views on how to face the working environment in the future. It also helped the students to have an early plan for career path by skills development in early stage of the career and keep the good ethics while working.