| Centre Name: | 
Centre for Railway Infrastructure and Engineering (CRIE) |
| Chairperson: | Prof. Dr. Andy Chit Tan |
| Description of Centre: | Vision: To be a leading research centre in innovative railway technology to support sustainable transportation with care for our community and environment. Mission: We are committed to achieving the following, 1. Promoting excellent research and development on railway infrastructure and engineering. 2. Providing engineering solutions to enhance the growth of railway industry. 3. Supporting the community on social, economic and environmental issues. |
| Objectives: |
1. Conduct interdisciplinary research in railway infrastructure, traction power, transport, signal control, railway structure design, maintenance and condition monitoring, railway asset management, socio-economics issues, materials for vibration/noise control, and sustainable energy and environmental issues. 2. To collaborate with local and overseas institutions to promote the above research activities and services; and 3. To conduct short courses and training in relevant subjects and to contribute to accredited formal courses related to railway engineering. |
| Research area: |
I. Promote interdisciplinary research in railway infrastructure, engineering and socio-economics; II. Railway engineering related courses and services. |
| NO. | NAME | FACULTY | MEMBER |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prof. Dr Andy Chit Tan | LKC FES | Full member (Chairman) |
| 2 | Dr. Ong Chuan Fang | LKC FES | Full member (Secretary) |
| 3 | Dr. Rubentheren a/l Viyapuri | LKC FES | Full member (Treasurer) |
| 4 | Ir Dr Khoo Hooi Ling @ Lai Hooi Ling | LKC FES | Full member (Professional Liaison) |
| 5 | Dr Poon Hiew Mun | LKC FES | Full member (Technical & External) |
| 6 | Ts King Yeong Jin | LKC FES | Full member (Website) |
| 7 | Dr Shee Yu Gang | LKC FES | Full member (Website) |
| 8 | Ts Dr Bernard Saw Lip Huat | LKC FES | Full member |
| 9 | Dr Kuan Seng How | LKC FES | Full member |
| 10 | Ir Dr Tey Jing Yuen | LKC FES | Full member |
| 11 | Ts Dr Yew Ming Chian | LKC FES | Full member |
| 12 | Encik Khairul Rizuan Bin Suliman | FEGT | Full member |
| No. | Date | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15-Jan-19 | Wayside rail wheel/track monitoring system. Prasarana Workshop, Subang |
| 2 | 2-Apr-19 | Presentation and research discussion with Colas Rail, Malaysia. UTAR SungaiLong |
| 3 | 21-Jun-19 | Big Data Opportunities: System monitoring and personalized health management |
| No. | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | A talk on “Wayside rail wheel/track monitoring system” on 15 Jan 2019
Presentation at Prasarana – Rapid Rail Give a presentation to CEO and staff on the proposed design of a wayside monitoring system on wheel and track. |
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| 2 | Visit by Colas Rail Sdn Bhd - 2 April 2019
The meeting and visit is arranged in Utar Sungai Long, and attended by: Senior HR Manager – Raywathy Veerasingam Colas Rail Asia Sdn Bhd Towel A-30-1 Menara UOA Bangsar 5 Jalan Bangsar Utama 1 59000 Kuala Lumpur Colas Rail started its operation in Malaysia in 2011 with its first contact to build the extension of KL LRT Putra Line. Since then it has set up its SE Asia division in Malaysia. The company has expertise in system engineering and construction infrastructures, power supply, signaling, telecommunication, maintenance of railway networks (HSR) and full system integration. The parent company is headquartered in France with a workforce of over 5800 employees and turnover on Euro947 million. In SE Asia they have offices in Vietnam and Singapore. Outcomes of the meeting: 1. Interesting to established formal collaboration with UTAR. Their current connection with UTAR is through PESTAC. 2. To provide internship placements for our students. 3. To participate in career talk to our final students. 4. To set up collaborative projects, initially through final year student projects. 5. To discuss future research collaboration projects. 6. To provide facility for industrial visit. 7. To know if we have a website for them to advertise their job vacancies in our website. 8. To conduct joint professional courses to rail professionals. Follow-up: 1. External Relations office to explore possible MOU. 2. Prof Andy Tan will liaise with Coral to set up project discussion meeting. |
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| 3 | Big Data Opportunities: System monitoring and personalized health management
Presentation by Prof Tsui Kwok Leung, City University of Hong Kong, 21 June 2019, KB517 Prof Tsui is leading the School Data Science at The City University of Hongkong. He has extensive experience in statically mathematics and had worked in USA before returning to Hong Kong His presentation is about how big data is necessary to for process monitoring, prognostics and health monitoring. He also emphasized that appropriate sensors are essential to measure the state of machine/human health condition. He gave several case studies in his presentation. The presentation ended with an active discussion and exchange of ideas. |
Photo: Prof Tsui’s Presentation on 21 June 2019 
Photo: Prof Tsui’s Presentation on 21 June 2019 |
| 4 | Future Event: 2nd Symposium of Railway Infrastructure and Engineering
Theme: Transformation of Railway Connectivity, Date : 3-4 August 2020 Venue : Sungai Long Golf and Country Club, Jalan Sungai Long, Cheras, Kajang Connectivity provided by rail transport will have significance impact to our social and economic lives. With the revival of the nation’s rail projects will undoubtedly propel our nation to the next stage of development and opportunity is not only limited to Malaysia but also in the region. This symposium is aimed at bringing together practitioners from railway industry, owner, operator, researcher and academia to share and promote research activities to support the new initiatives of expanding the rail network in Malaysia and promoting railway connectivity within the ASEAN region. It will provide a forum for exchange of ideas and opportunities to network with researchers, universities, practitioners and owners in the following areas: 1. Railways infrastructures 2. Safety and standards 3. Operation safety, reliability and maintainability 4. Social, environmental and economic issues 5. Education and training 6. Transportation and optimization of traffic control Invited speakers to date: 1. Opening remarks by the Minister of Transport 2. Dato’ Dr Ir Hj Mohd Abd Karim Abdullah, Group Managing Director/Chief Excutive Officer,Serba Dinamik Holdings Bhd 3. Professor Lin Jian Hui, CEO/Director, Traction Power State Laboratory, South West Jiao Tung University 4. Dr Yasushi Ujita, Deputy General Director, International Division, JR Railway Technical Research Institute 5. Dr M Salman Leong, Professor and HiCoE Director, Institute of Noise & Vibration, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia 6. Dr Or Tan Tang, CEO/Director, Doshin Rubber Sdn Bhd v 7. Professor Tam Hwa Yaw, Associate Director, University Research Facility in Materials Characterisation and Device Fabrication, Poly University of Hong Kong. |
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