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Career Talk Alternative career paths after engineering chartership

4 February 2013

YoungEngineers inSociety (YES)ofourAssociation iscoorganisingaCareerTalkwith Institutionof

Civil Engineers Hong Kong for young engineers with the aim at broadening their view on other

engineeringprofessionaland facilitating their futureplanningof careerpath. Developinga career

pathasanengineerobviouslyisnottheonlywaytogoaftergettingtheengineeringchartership.

Thiscareertalkwillintroduceyouadifferentcareerpathsafterattainmentofaprofessionalengineer

qualification. Speakersfromdifferentcareerdisciplineswithdifferenteducationalbackgroundswill

sharewith us some career pathswith a professional engineer status. Details of the Talk are as

follows.Date:Monday,4February2013Time:7:008:30pmVenue:LectureTheatre,HongKongProductivityCouncil,HKPCBuilding,78TatCheeAvenue,KowloonSpeakers:Mr.JustinWONG

MissCeliaCHOY

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Engineer vs Contract Advisor - Other Career Choice after CEng?Synopsis:

Civilengineering isoneof thebroadestof theengineeringdisciplines,extendingacrossmany

technicalspecialties.

Civil

engineers

plan,

design

and

supervise

the

construction

of

facilities

essential to modern life. These facilities vary widely in nature, size and scope and include

offshore structures, bridges, buildings, tunnels, highways, transit systems, dams, airports,

harbours,watersupplyandwastewatertreatmentplants.

CivilEngineers, inparticular thosewhoattained theCEng status,oftenbear thequestionof

whichcareerpathsuitsthembest.Whethertheyshouldgoforthetraditionalengineeringroute

onengineeringdesignandsitesupervision,orgive itatrywithcontractmanagementoreven

disputeresolution.

In this talk, the two speakers, with different working experiences after their engineering

charterships,willsharetheirexperienceandinteractwiththememberstoprovideothercareerperspectives

to

them

once

they

have

obtained

their

chartered

engineer

status.

SpeakersProfiles

MsCeliaChoyCelia isaResidentEngineerofAECOMAsiaCompanyLimited. SheisaCharteredEngineer,a

CharteredGeologistandanAccreditedMediator.SheobtainedherCharteredEngineerstatusin

United Kingdom andHong Kong in 2006 and 2008 respectively. After she has obtained her

engineering charterships, she has been working on various infrastructure and engineering

projects across the globe, including theHong KongZhuhaiMacao Bridge Boundary Crossing

Facilities, Shatin toCentral Link,OceanParkRedevelopment and10years Extended Landslip

PreventiveMitigation

Project

in

Hong

Kong,

Global

Switch

Building

in

Singapore,

Dublin

Metro

North in Ireland and Das Island Development in Abu Dhabi. Currently, she is working on

HarbourAreaTreatmentScheme(HATS)Stage2A,whichisamajortunnellingproject inHong

Kong.

MrJustinWongJustin is theManager Projects& Contracts Administration of theHong Kong Construction

Industry Council (CIC). Prior to joining CIC, Justin spent his early career with engineering

consultanciesworkingasdesignandthenresidentengineer.Justin laterworkedasacontract

consultant specialising in contract advisory, delay analysis, claimsmanagement and dispute

resolutionworkonboth localand international constructionprojects. Justin is an accredited

mediatorof

the

Hong

Kong

International

Arbitration

Centre

(HKIAC).

He

is

also

currently

serving

as theTreasurerof theHongKong SocietyofConstruction Law (SCLHK) and ImmediatePast

ChairmanoftheYoungMembersGroupoftheChartered InstituteofArbitrators (CIArb),East

AsiaBranch.