Date: 16/4/2019
Time: 2.30pm - 5.00pm
Venue: P19 DK6
Talk: Engineering Employment Challengers
An industrial seminar was held at DK6, P19, School of Electrical Engineering on 16th April 2019 from 2.30 pm until 5pm. This seminar was delivered by Ir. Juraimi Masood from Competent Engineer – 132 kV, PTP Gelang Patah. First, he shared about his education from school until university. The journey of his education at university started at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) Jalan Gurney in 1982 and then he took Telecom Training in 1983. After that, he further study at University of Hartford in 1984. He started his career as Management Trainee Shiprepair Estimator at MSE Pasir Gudang from 1986 until 1991. Then, he continue his career in a heavy engineering field at Sime Sembawang that involved design, project plan, project cost, construction, quality and safety from 1992 until 1996. During 1996 until 1997, his career journey continued as resident engineer at Commission the Air Cond Plant, KTA Tenaga (KLCC). During that year, he faced so many challenges as engineer which he has to deal with clients, colleague and contractors. He continued his sharing sessions about development of Tanjung Pelepas and then he talked about his work experience at Berth Construction and Container Yard Construction.
Furthermore, he shared his experience as electrical engineer at 132kV main intake station. He said that as engineer, at first we should know and really understand about basic electric and electronic design for example 132Kv single line diagram and 132 bus section control. He also talked about an important of safety at construction sites. As engineer, he said that we just cannot know about engineering design only but we have to know about finance, human resources and others. After that, he continued his sharing about challenges when fresh graduates start work as engineer. Engineer always think and have positive view of their managers and believe that their managers can offer experience 59%, wisdom 41% and a willingness to mentor 33%. In reality, he said that not all managers are like that because each people have so many different personality and attitude. Then, managers in general have different view of their employees have unrealistic compensation expectations 51%, a poor work ethic 47% and are easily distracted 48%.
Meanwhile, he shared about employer’s expectations. First, engineer should have in depth technical competence in a specific engineering discipline. Second, engineers have to acquire ability to function effectively in a group as leader or manager as well as an effective team member. Third, engineer should have ability to acquire and apply knowledge of engineering fundamentals. Fourth, engineer should have ability to communication effectively to colleagues and community at large. Fifth, engineer must have ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution and having social awareness on sustainable development. Engineer also should have ability to utilise a systems approach to design and evaluate operational performance and lastly have ability to design and conduct experiments, as well as to analyse and interpret data. At the end of his sharing, he talked about an important of engineering ethics and shared some quotes.