Chairman's
Message
I am honoured to be the Chairman of the Mechanical, Marine,
Naval Architecture and Chemical (MC) Division, looking after
the interest of our around 3,000 members in the aforementioned
four areas. I have been serving in different committees of the
HKIE for more than 10 years. By coincidence, it is also the
10th anniversary of my chairmanship in the HKIE Young Members
Committee (YMC). I believe my prolonged experience in the Institution
will help me to provide the demanded services to satisfy the
needs of our members. At the same time, I would be most pleased
to have your active participation in both the organisation and
participation of our activities, provision of suggestions and
feedback for our services enhancement and joining me to promote
the positive image of MC engineers.
My vision and plan for Session 2007/2008 focuses on three major
elements, namely:
Special Task Forces have been set up to work towards the above
three major objectives.
For the first objective, we will jointly organise more activities,
such as seminars, visits and social activities with other learned
societies of the same or related nature.
Regarding the second objective, I strongly encourage engineers'
participation in community services. In addition to contributing
to the community, it is also aimed to project a positive image
of engineers in the society. Publication of an A4 size leaflet
and a CD-ROM on MC engineering for distribution in our activities
is also planned for publicity purpose.
The MMNC Division has set up a Students and Young Engineers'
Affairs (SYEA) Group a few years ago and I was the Group Leader
for the first three Sessions (2002-2005). We believe that it
is time for us to give a relative "free hand" to the
young Division members to take an active role in the operation
of the SYEA Group. With such an arrangement, we foresee it will
help to develop the young MC engineers as our successors as
well as future leaders in the MC professional field.
With your contribution and participation in our activities,
I believe we can achieve our goals for the benefit of the profession,
Division members and the society.
Ir Alex W H LEUNG
Chairman, Mechanical, Marine, Naval Architecture and Chemical
Division
Session 2007/2008
