It is my great honor to be elected as the Chairman of Young Members Committee (YMC) of the Session 2007/2008.

With the effort of our Past Chairmen, Committee members and Registered Young Members (RYM), YMC has set up a strong tie among young engineers in all disciplines of the HKIE. Through our active twelve working group co-ordinators, namely community services, graduate promotion, human resources, non-technical programme, public relations, publicity, seminars, social, culture & arts, sports & recreation, student promotion, visits and webmaster, we will continue to provide a variety of activities to over 4,200 Registered Young Members.

This session, YMC will focus on the following aspects:

• To sustain future profession of RYM by nurturing the hard and soft skills of RYM. With the overwhelming responses from the one-day seminar on Contract Management in last session, we will continue to organise another one-day seminar on Legal Contract Management with other young professionals such as engineers, surveyors, lawyers and arbitrators. Besides, a CEO Series/Leadership and Communication Skills for Engineers workshop will be conducted. Apart from these, we plan to explore the infrastructures in the Pearl River Delta Region.
  
  
• To promote the professional and engineering image of YMC. We plan to organise a professional night to meet and exchange with other young professionals in the construction industry, to take part in the Conference of ASEAN Federation of Engineering Organisation to be held in Philippines in late 2007, to be host to various young engineering organisations from overseas when they visit Hong Kong and to organise a delegation to Australia (tentatively) in 2008.
  
  
• To increase influence in universities by organising promotional talks, technical visits, leadership training workshops, mentorship programmes and career talks for students in universities. We will guide the operation of the first HKIE's Student Chapter in the University of Hong Kong.
  
  
• To extend the contribution of YMC to the society by organisng community services to people in need with the input from engineering skills. For instance, we will form volunteer teams to participate in numerous charitable events, particularly, we will join the "Education and Development Programme in China" organised by Sower's Action. Also, we will co-organise a workshop on Emergency Relief Engineering with Medecins Sans Frontieres.

This will be another prosperous Session for YMC ahead. Please come and join our activities. Of course, you are always welcome to give feedbacks to us for our continuous improvement in the years to come.

Ms Sally LEUNG Suk Yan
Chairman, Young Members Committee
Session 2007/2008