IEE technical talk at SEAMEO VOCTECH
By Huraizah Ahmad

Mr Bernard J Baker delivers a presentation

Keeping abreast with modern technologies is one of the many aims of the IEE committee members of Brunei Branch since its inauguration in 1997 as mentioned by Terry Douglas Jayasuriya who presided the IEE Talk in SEAMEO VOCTECH Saturday night. Consisting of around 120 members, including individuals with technical backgrounds as well as technical students, the committee of IEE in Brunei constantly organises programmes to update its members with study visits and technical talks by keeping in touch through e-mails.

The technical talk organised by IEE (B) was presented by two speakers: Mr Bernard J Baker from EIM Controls UK, Ltd on 'MOV Actuators & Controls- Use of Modern Communication Protocols' and Mr George Chong from TARCO Engineering, Canada on 'Programmable Logic Controllers-Built in Human Machine Interface'.

To start off with the session Hj Sapawi bin Hj Bolhassan, Chairman of IEE Brunei Berhad gave his opening speech in which he extended his gratitude to the speakers who came as well as the response from all the participants to make the talk session possible.

Participants who attended the lecture included several individuals from Brunei Shell Petroleum Co Sdn Bhd, Department of Technical Services (DES), Lucent Technologies, ITB and RTB.

During the whole session, all the participants were also able to ask several questions related to the topic of each speaker.

Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin