Committee on Engineering for Innovative Technologies (CEIT)

1. To continue with the focus areas selected by the previous Committee as the main strategic goal of the four-year plan:

A. Big Data

To promote open and equal access to and proper treatment of data worldwide and narrow the data-divide between developed and developing countries.
To exchange new ideas of implementing innovative Big Data technologies into socio­environmental problems in the fields of social life, such as transportation, education, health care production and consumption, infrastructure, banking and finance.

B. Artificial Intelligence

To share the vision of the potential of Artificial Intelligence in improving, accelerating, and supporting sustainable development.

To facilitate the adoption of Artificial Intelligence in the traditional fields of engineering for enhancing productivity, quality and achieving sustainable development.

C. Innovative Technologies

To identify the next innovative technologies for sustainable development and to enhance collaboration among multi-stakeholders to promote innovative technology engineering for facilitating a sustainable world.

2. To further enhance the focus of the previous Committee with regard to SDG Goal 9 which in simple tenns refers to initiatives and programmes for a society to grow. This entails the development of quality and resilient infrastructure and the promotion of inclusiveness as well as sustainable industrialization, to support economic development and human well-being.
The main Project: Innovative Technologies Assisting Disaster Risk Reduction – the International Meridian Circle Project
The previous Committee had focused on Earthquake which is a major natural disaster that threatens human life and property. They were working on improving the capacity of earthquake prediction that is urgently needed for sustainable development and in tum requires international collaboration as well as technological innovation.

For the next four years, The Institution of Engineers, Malaysia will expand the coverage of this project to include other natural disasters which had occurred in the last century causing damage to properties and loss of lives. Disasters such as landslides, thunderstorms, floods, tomadoes occurred not only in third world/developing countries, it has also caused devastation and social environmental disruption in developed countries.