Report Of the Student Chapter Talk

Last Friday on the 12^th of July the IMECHE Student Chapter of UNITEN held its membership drive talk which took place in the lecture hall College of Engineering. The talk is intended to introduce students to IMECHE and also the recent inception of IMECHE Student Chapter Committee in UNITEN.

The attendance was encouraging for the lecture hall was well occupied with students of different years. Before the talk begins, the committee had already received application from students to become members. Students were already seen queuing at the booths in front of the lecture hall to register for membership. Attending to give the talk introducing IMECHE to students was the Chairman of IMECHE (Malaysia Branch) Mr. Matthew Thomas. Also, present for the talk were Mr. Thomas’ wife, and the IMECHE Student Chapter supervisor, Ir. Dr. Ramesh Singh and Mr. Tan Chou Yong.

Upon the arrival of Mr. Thomas and his wife at the lecture hall, the UNITEN corporate song was played and students and lecturers stood to sing. Before the talk commenced, emcee Adeline Khoo provided a short introduction about the Chairman of IMECHE Malaysia Branch.

At the beginning of his speech Mr. Thomas introduced to students about IMECHE and reiterated the history behind the establishment of this institute, which has spanned over a century. Throughout the speech Mr. Thomas elaborated on the benefits and advantages of IMECHE membership from which its international recognition enables members to look forward to working in United Kingdom and Europe. He also enumerated the details of the membership requirements where there were steps upon which a member need to climb before getting approved for being incorporate engineer and chartered engineer.

At the end of the speech, students were briefed on the procedure of filling in the IMECHE forms and shortly after that it was followed by Q and A session between Mr. Thomas and the students. Later the IMECHE talk ended with souvenir presentation by the Student Chapter President Dominic Hua to Mr. Matthew Thomas.