Hong Kong Society for
Quality (HKSQ) and Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE),
PolyU signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) of Career Development Programme on 21st Jan 2025. HKSQ
would arrange its members to share their experiences and provide their advice
to help students for planning and developing their future careers in
engineering profession via meetings, workshops, or other HKSQ activities where appropriate.
Before the signing ceremony, we took a photo for memory.
(Left: Prof. CY Tang, Mr.
Ben Tsang, Dr. Aaron Tong, Prof. Xiaowen Fu, Dr. Jane Wong and I)
In the beginning, Prof.
Xiaowen Fu (Professor and Head, ISE) gave welcome speech and mentioned the
important of innovation for student career development.
Then Dr. Jane Wong (Chairman,
HKSQ) gave an opening speech and introduced MoU purposes and our future
cooperation.
The signing ceremony of the
Career Development Program MoU was signed by Prof. Fu and Dr. Jane Wong, as
well as, witnessed by Prof. Tang and Dr. Aaron Tong.
After the ceremony, the seminar
on Career Development in Testing, Inspection and Certification Industry started.
The first speaker was Mr. Don Lee (Senior Business Manager, SGS) and his topic
was “Certification in TIC Industry”. He aimed to led student more understanding
of certification auditor roles.
Firstly, Mr. Lee briefed SGS
footprints in Hong Kong including Gammon, The Bank of East Asia, crypto.com, etc.
Then he also introduced Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC) and Hong
Kong Accreditation Service (HKAS).
After that Mr. Lee briefed
the roles of certification auditor and introduced the seven audit principles
including Integrity, Due Professional Care, Independence, Risk-based Approach,
Fair Presentation, Confidentiality and Evidence-based Approach.
Finally, he shared the
career path of the Testing and Certification Sector as certification auditor.
Dr. Aaron Tong (Managing
Director, TQM Consultants Co., Ltd.) was the second speaker and he shared topic
named “HKIE Scheme A for MIS and LTE”.
Dr. Tong briefed the
requirement of HKIE scheme A that student needed to join the graduate training
for 2-year and then accumulated 2-year experience that could apply HKIE member
to be professional engineer.
After that he showed some
successful engineers trained by TQM and joined different consultancy projects
in different industries.
Finally, he mentioned that
he believed work-life balance and most staff left on time. Work smart rather
than work hard inefficiency!
I (Former Chairman, HKSQ) was
the last speaker and my topics included “Introduction to HKSQ” and “Connect the
Dots”. Firstly, I briefed HKSQ vision, mission and value, as well as, history
since 1986. Then I briefed different HKSQ activities and personal certificates
(e.g. CQE, CSSGB, CSSBB, CLabQS, etc.)
My second topic entitled “Connecting
the Dots” that quoted Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Address in 2005. He said
“You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking
backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your
future.”
Lastly, I shared my
experience in four categories included Academic, Business, Community and Government.
The start point is from university degree and then shared my career development
in laboratory, research centre, certification body, consultant, ordinary
organization (e.g. HKSTP) and education (CityU & PolyU). Contribution to
professional body (e.g. HKSQ) is critical to success through expansion of networking.
At the end, we took a group
photo with all participants.
(Left 1st row: Prof.
Carman Lee, I, Prof. CY Tang, Dr. Jane Wong, Dr. Aaron Tong, Mr. Ben Tsang and Mr.
Don Lee)
Before left, we took a group
photo outside and we all received ISE souvenirs.
After the seminar, we had
lunch together. We also discussed the coming activities for ISE students.
Leaflet of seminar is posted
for record.
