Topic: Technical seminar /Webinar on How to Become a Materials Engineer under the Materials Discipline

Organizer：Materials Division

Date, Time & Venue

13 May 2022 (Friday). Time: 6:30pm -8:00 pm, at Chan Yat Mei Sophie Room, 9/F of the HKIE Headquarters.

Speaker: Ir Professor Joseph Mak, Chairman, HKIE Materials Division

Joseph was the former Chief Structural Engineer of Hong Kong Housing Department before retirement. As a professional engineer, Joseph is a FIStructE, FHKIE (Structural) and FHKIE (Materials). He is specialized and responsible for the standard structural designs and prefabrication, which have been widely adopted in Housing Authority projects since early 90’s. As Chief Structural Engineer, he oversaw the structural section of the Independent Checking Unit (ICU), which is the unit assuming the role of Buildings Department (BD) for vetting all structural submissions of Housing Department projects. In parallel, Joseph looked after the Housing Laboratory assuming a policing role, managing all the directly appointed commercial testing laboratories, compiling structural specification and standards. He was in charge of managing all the factory manufacture of precast elements, architectural materials and building components in Mainland China. He has launched product certification for construction materials in Housing Authority projects, which emphasized on upstream factory control and audits.

In HKIE, Joseph is currently the Chairman of Materials Division. He has been the Past Council Member and Past Chairman of the Structural Division.

Programme Highlights

To satisfy the academic criteria, engineers in the Materials Discipline are in the past trained in the university under a materials degree. On the other hand, in Hong Kong, construction materials have been widely used in the engineering industry. Materials engineers should be one of the right types of professional engineers to steer and manage the materials issues in both civil and building construction works.

The nature of works of Materials Engineers in the construction industry can be broadly categorized under the following areas:

     (a)  Construction Management

     (b)  Material Factory Management

     (c)  Laboratory Management

     (d)  Certification and Audits

     (e)  Research and Development

To give recognition to these sectors of materials engineers in the construction industry, we are ready to facilitate them to gain the materials engineer membership by opening the academic requirements to those of the civil, structural, environmental, building, and chemical engineering degrees. After satisfying the academic requirements, they will then gain materials experience through on-job training and practice and go through the professional assessments in the usual way as required by HKIE route to become a professional engineer.

Engineers from the industries of testing and certification, construction materials, materials consulting, contractors and etc are strongly recommended to participate the seminar/webinar.

Registration & Enquiries

The talk would be carried out on both physical (20 seats) and zoom (200 seats) arrangement. Registration is required. Please fill the application before or on 8 May 2022. Confirmation will be made through email. For enquiry, please contact Ir CS Lam at 91527659. Attendance Certificate will be issued within 3 weeks after completion of the seminar. Applicants please fill the online registration form.