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PART A - CHAPTER SUMMARY A.1    Executive Summary CASS Malaysia Section received World Chapter of the Year Award in year 2017. The society has successfully organized several activities such as PrimeAsia2017 Conference (1), DLP (1), Hi-Tea (1), Technical Talk (9), Tutorial (1), Seasonal School (1), School Program (3), Networking Visit (7),  Industrial visit (1), Woman in CAS (WiCAS) (1), Chapter Fund (1), Co-organized workshop/seminar/conference (3)  and Membership Drive (3). PrimeAsia conference is Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate research in microelectronics and is supported by IEEE CASS Region 10. Distinguished keynote speakers are invited such as Franco Maloberti (CASS President), Massimo Alioto [...]

October 31st 2017 Kuala Lumpur; The IEEE CASS Society Malaysia Chapter (IEEE CASS M) has successfully hosted the IEEE Women in Circuits and Systems 2017 (WiCAS2017) program at Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The WiCAS2017 is the second special program on Women in Circuits and Systems (WiCAS) held in Malaysia. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurul Amziah Md Yunus from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) who is the general chair of 2017 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PrimeAsia 2017) and also the past chair of the IEEE CASS M (2015-2016) had proposed the WiCAS program to [...]

Date: 30th Oct 2017 (Monday) Venue: MLA Studio, Block B, ITMA, UPM (Latitude: 3.008121; Longitude: 101.720668) Time : 10:00 am-1:00 pm Speaker: Prof. Tsung-Yi Ho

This educational visit is an activity planned for Electrical & Electronic Engineering undergraduate students to visit electronics or semiconductor industries in Penang, Malaysia. The educational visit was held to visit National Instruments (NI) Penang, Malaysia on 6th October 2017. This one-day educational visit was co-organized by the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Selangor, Malaysia.  About 40 undergraduate students from UPM accompanied with four lecturers participated in the visit. This visit exposed students to the development of electronics industries in the country and  career opportunities in the field. This visit also gave students the whole picture and [...]

This year (2017), IEEE CAS Malaysia Chapter has been awarded USD2000 from the IEEE CASS Region 10 Outreach Fund to promote IEEE Circuits and Systems. CAS Malaysia’s proposal was to promote CAS for the establishment of a new Nagoya CAS chapter and research collaborations between universities. On 27th November 2017, Prof. Dr. Shoji Kawahito from Shizuoka University in Hamamatsu hosted this visit where meeting and presentations from CAS Malaysia were set with his team from Imaging Devices Laboratory. During the meeting, CAS Malaysia’s chair, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Suhaidi Shafie promoted IEEE CAS Society and CAS Malaysia’s activities in 2017. He also [...]

IEEE CAS Malaysia Chapter has sent few delegates to the 1st IEEE South-East Asia Workshop on Circuits and Systems (SEACAS) 2017 which was held at Vietnam National University (VNU) in Hanoi, Vietnam on 7th-8th November 2017.The IEEE CAS representatives are Yoshifumi Nishio (IEEE CASS BoG Member) and Amara Amara (Vice President of IEEE CASS). Besides CAS Malaysia, other CAS chapters were also invited to the workshop such as Indonesia’s chapter, Singapore’s chapter and Thailand’s chapter. The travelling expenses from Kuala Lumpur to Hanoi were supported by the IEEE CAS Region 10 and also CAS Malaysia.  CAS Malaysia’s delegates came to support [...]

2017 Prime Asia Date: October 31, 2017 to November 2, 2017 Venue: Hotel Pullman Kuala Lumpur Bangsar Address: No 1 Jalan Pantai Jaya Tower 3, 59200 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia The IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics and Electronics Keynotes Videos: IEEE PrimeAsia 2017 Keynote by Prof. Franco Maloberati. IEEE PrimeAsia 2017 Second Keynote by Prof. Dr Tsung-Yi Ho IEEE PrimeAsia 2017 Third Keynote by Dr Philip Tan Beow Yew IEEE PrimeAsia 2017 Fourth Keynote by Prof Dr Massimo Alioto Forum Video: SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING: LEARN FROM THE PROS

Brief description of the initiative/event          This year IEEE CAS Malaysia will host the 2017 Asia Pacific Conference on Postgraduate Research in Microelectronics & Electronics (PrimeAsia2017) in October 2017. In conjunction with the PrimeAsia2017, IEEE CASS Malaysia would like to promote engineering works carried out by women, young professionals and postgraduate students; and encourage them to join IEEE CAS Malaysia during the WiCAS Program 2017. Thus, we would like to propose an event called WiCAS2017, which is on Women in CAS/Young Professionals/postgraduates workshop on a day before the PrimeAsia2017.         The aim of the workshop is [...]

On 27 July 2017, IEEE CAS Malaysia has organised a Networking High-Tea at Hotel Sri Malaysia, Kangar, Perlis, Malaysia. The objective of this event is to help society and members from universities and industries to exchange ideas, especially in research, collaboration and exchanging products commercialization ideas in Circuits and Systems area. This is the 5th year since the annual event that has been initiated since 2013. With the theme “Recent advance in E&E Industry: Challenges and Opportunity”, four speakers has been invited to share their experience. The first speaker is Mr. Hun Wah Cheah, a Director of Oppstar Technology. He shared [...]