I am honored to serve as the Chairman of the
MMNC Division of the HKIE for Session 2022/2023. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks
and appreciation to the past chairman and committee members for their dedication
and valuable contribution to the MMNC division.
Like many other organizations and companies in
Hong Kong, MMNC faced a lot of unprecedented challenges last year. After almost three years since the outbreak of
pandemic COVID-19, we now should be ready for a very different post COVID-19
world.
Riding on HKIE’s roadmap “Time to Change”, the
MMNC Division will take a proactive approach to realize this mission focusing
on “boosting professionalism” and “enhancing service to members” through three
different channels.
Firstly, we will strengthen our relationship
with Guangdong Mechanical Engineering Society (GDMES) after the renewal of MOU.
Our focus will be on technological knowledge exchange such as drone
technologies and mechanical measurement to cope with the adverse weather due
the climate change. We will also target to have technical visits to China if
the situation permits.
The second channel is to enable the public to
better understand how MMNC engineering is applied in our daily life, we will develop
some promotional materials with canned stories on the following three topics,
i. Predictive
control in ventilation systems to reduce potential spread of COVID virus
ii. Power
generation
iii. Passenger
elevator & Lift systems
Technical sharing series and visits will be arranged
on these 3 topics.
To better engage our members, especially the
young members and potential members, we will make use of different events and activities,
such as mentoring program, Young Inventor Competition, Blue Tech STEM program
and STEM x Marine Vehicle Design and Construction Competition to reach out to a
wider audience base.
This year we will boost our communications with
the members and collect views from them in order to establish insights for our
further growth and development as one of the biggest divisions in HKIE. We will
continue to engage them though different activities and varies sub-groups under
the MMNC division, The Marine Engineers, Chemical Engineers, Automotive
Engineers, Ladies Engineers, and Blue Tech Engineers.
Other than the above-mentioned activities, we
will actively participate and support the HQ for the Hong Kong Engineers Week
in March 2023 with the main theme “Our future we engineer”.
With the support from our committee and
members, I am confident that though better communications and various members
engagement activities, we will achieve a lot of great changes together,
overcome numerous of obstacles together, and enjoy another fruitful year
together.
Ir Chang Fan
Chairman, MMNC Division, Session 2022/2023