About me
Hi, nice to meet you. My name is Goh Chen Han. I am a fourth year electronic engineering student in School of Electrical Engineering.
- First name: GOH CHEN HAN
- Email address: chgoh6@live.utm.my
Personal Particulars
Gender: Male
Race: Chinese
Nationality: Malaysian
Hometown: Muar
Date of Birth: 03 June 1996
Marital Status: Single and available
Hobbies: Playing video games, reading novels, watching anime, playing basketball, jogging, swimming
Reflection on Professional Engineering Seminar
On 16 April 2019, I attended a seminar as required by the course SKEE4012 Professional Engineering Practice to have an insight on the professional engineering practice in the industry. The seminar comprised a talk and a Q&A session delivered by Ir. Juraimi Masood, General Manager of Project Integration Division from PTP Gelang Patah.
The talk was kick-started with Ir. Juraimi's self-introduction. Ir. Juraimi talked about his eventful journey since he graduated as an engineer. Ir. gave us a sense of intimation because he is an alumni of UTM, once a student of UTM. He graduated in 1982 when UTM was still located at the old address on Jalan Gurney. His study life didn't end just then as he enrolled in Telekom Training Centre to further hone his practical skill. After that, his journey continued in University of Hartford in 1984.
His engineering career officially started in MSE PG where he worked as a management trainee or a shiprepair estimator. His story taught us that no matter how good you are, as an engineer, everyone starts at the same starting point when entering the industry. Everyone learns from the basic. There is no classification of good or bad jobs, only if one chooses to work professionally. As a professional, every little task matters and the little tasks could bring great impact to the whole project. His obligation as a shiprepair estimator was long until 1992 when he shifted to SME Sembawang. His job scope was identical yet more complex and challenging as he worked on the design, planning and estimation on bigger heavy engineering projects. He cared and hold responsibility on the quality and cost of the heavy engineering construction. Ir. Juraimi's evolution taught us that professional engineering practice requires skill, practice and time. As time goes on, we gain practices, our skills improve and our obligation grows.
In 1995, his career achieved a new milestone which he worked on the KTA Tenaga of KLCC. His title is no longer an estimator but a resident engineer. He realized a huge evolution in the nature of his work, which communication played an important role in his job. In his project of air-cond commission, he had to deal with different parties of people in the hope of ensuring the smooth progress of the project. Not only among the colleagues or other engineers, he had to converse with the clients to confirm the requirement and update the progress. He also had to communicate with the constructors so that the construction could be carried out as planned, ensuring the link between the engineers' demands and the constructors' outcome. This proves that professional engineering practice does not cover only the technical skills or knowledge but the interaction or communication between human. A professional should be able to converse effectively, delivering and synchronizing the messages among different parties, at the same time taking care of the feeling of every party.
Ir. Juraimi further advanced his career by shifting his work in Tanjung Pelepas. His job scope involved managing the stakeholders' expectation and the project development. From developing the project master plan until ensuring timely, high quality and safe delivery of the project, Ir. Juraimi involved in every step of the project, determining the end users' requirement, engaging the communities and authorities, engaging the consultants and engaging the contractors and the suppliers. Ir. Juraimi showed the significance of professional engineering practice in every step of the completion of the project. Not only required strong technical skill, the project could only go on smoothly when the coordinator acquired professionalism, making sure the licensing, standardization and the professional flow of the project. The importance of professionalism becomes more significant when one involves in more parts of a project.
After the talk, Ir. Juraimi delivered the importance of professional engineering practice from the perspective of employers. He stated 8 key factors when an employer observe a new employee in term of engineering professionalism. Out of the 8 factors, strong technical skill and knowledge becomes the top requirement by the employers. The following are the other factors the employers care about their employees ranking from most important to least important:
- Ability to function effectively as a leader and a team player
- Ability to acquire and apply engineering technical knowledge
- Ability to communicate effectively among colleagues and to community at large
- Ability to identify, interpret and solve the problem
- Having social awareness on sustainable development
- Ability to utilize system approaches in designing and evaluating operational performance
- Ability to design and conduct experiment and to analyze the data
The seminar gave me a deep insight on the significance of professional engineering practice as a fundamental in engineering working industry. The lessons we learnt from the class are just theory, there are still much more to learn to become an effective professional engineer. Thanks to Ir. Juraimi for unfolding this pertinent chapter before we enter the industry soon in the future.
Employment History
Part-time: Sai Kee Coffee Powder, Mika Premium Gift Shop, Perfecto Bakery & Cafe
Internship: Micron Semiconductor
Skills
Technical Skill
C, C++, Python Programming Language. Matlab graph analysis. Verilog Digital Design.
Interpersonal Skill
Management skill with experience as a club president and event director.
Language Competency
Chinese(Native), English(Fluent), Bahasa Melayu(Intermediate), Japanese(Beginner)
FYP2 Final Remark
It all started when Dr. Usman asked me if I wanted to join the IMDC 2019 competition. I entered fourth year without any thought on final year project title or field of interest in my mind, hoping that my supervisor would give me a title and guide me until the completion of my project. I knew my hope was just a dream when I first met my supervisor in his office and he asked me look through research papers and journals for my title. Luckily, he did gave me a direction, which is the IMDC. IMDC provided a couple of design challenges which the participant was required to do a project, which should synchronize with his FYP, to solve the challenge. Now, I had the direction. What I needed to do next was finding the exact title.
Looking for a suitable project title by reading through other research papers was like looking for a needle in the sea. I finally decided on doing an adaptive cruise control system to make a vehicle move by itself adjusting its speed according to the surrounding situation. To scope down the research a bit, the only obstacle we care is the other vehicle moving in front of our vehicle and the vehicles are moving on a highway road.
The project comprises three phases. Firstly, the existence of the vehicle in front has to be detected. Secondly, the distance to the vehicle needs to be measured. Thirdly, the current vehicle speed shall be adjusted according to the distance to the front vehicle. The overall concept and result are shown in the following video:
Reflection on GP Group Project
The course SKEE4012 Professional Engineering Practice, instructed by Dr. Ir. Mokhtar Harun, gave me insight on professionalism in engineering. We learnt the new face of engineering from professional aspect.
Group Presentation
I was lucky enough to pick the title Professional and Professionalism in group presentation. My group mates were Azri and Farhana. Initially, I thought it would be boring as it's a title from the textbook. However, after going through other groups' presentation session, my mind was changed. We learnt about the professional bodies, like IEEE, BEM and EAC. We also learnt about standard, acts and laws which are verified internationally. These are the elements that build up the engineering environment. No matter industry or education, the engineering environment system is so structured and well-designed that it covers so many aspects to ensure that engineer is a honored profession.
My group presentation title Professional and Professionalism covers the nature or the concept of professionalism and how engineer should be considered as a professional. In my opinion, the perspective of the textbook, even though correct and accurate, was too narrow which it sorted out many occupations from the category of professional. The presentation emphasized the five attributes of professionalism which are:
- To serve public good result
- Require sophisticated skills
- Require extensive formal education
- Regulated by professional bodies which the members are the people from the profession
- The work should not be routine and cannot be mechanized
Group Project
My group project coordinates with Group 2 (Dion, Gan and Izdihar). The title is much related to my presentation title, My group project is to investigate the understanding and awareness of professional and professionalism among SKEL third year and frouth year students. A questionnaire was distributed to find out their opinion.
The questionnaire comprises three main questions:
- The first question tests the students' understanding on professional by asking them to classify some occupations between professional and non-professional. The correct answer is based on the handbook distributed by the Department of Labor of Peninsular Malaysia.
- The second question tests on students' perception on the characteristics of professional. The options of the answers are based on the common characteristics people find on a professional in some research papers.
- The third question is to discover the students' perception on some common impacts, impressions and actions of professionalism. The options of the answers comprise positive, negative and neutral perceptions. The neutral perceptions cover the gray area which people cannot decide on what is correct and wrong of professional practice.