Shin Yang Technical Site Visit (2008)

It's another traditional site visit organized by CUTEC!

Today, our club went visiting to Shin Yang Shipyard, located somewhere close to Kuala Baram district.

and we had a whooping 32 participants joining this site visit!

Upon arriving at the shipyard, we are warmly welcomed and we received a briefing session of the shipyard and details and safety precautions of our site visit, presented by Mr. Ting, the general manager of the shipyard.


After about half an hour of briefing, we are then divided into four groups with each group was tour guided by two engineers.


Moving on, we were first brought to visit the cutting machine.


This machine uses the hydraulic pressure to cut through steels and metals.

We were then brought to see the pipe bending machine, where one of the engineers demonstrated how the machine actually works.


This machine has the ability to bend pipes easily without breaking it, imagine how powerful it is to be able to do that!

Next, we were brought to view places where ships are being built.


The ships are HUGE!


Look at those engineers working on the ship, they actually weld the body, pieces by pieces like puzzles, and create such enormous giant in the end!

That must have taken a lot of work to complete the whole ship

And yes! We actually boarded onto a ship!


We visited all the way up the top..


..then into the control room (nice eh?)

Wa look at those knobs and switches, better keep your hands in your pockets!

..and down under into the engine room.

The engines are generating noisy "sweet lullabies"

All in all, this site visit is very interesting and meaningful!

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We sure have learned and seen a lot of things that we would not have the chance to see, and so this group photo wrapped up the event for today. Overall everything went smoothly, except the grouping at the end of the briefing session, which was quite confusing at first, and it would have been better if I had planned for this earlier. A big "thank you" I must say to the commitee members who have helped me for this event.

~The End~

Kian Hua,

Organizing Chairperson,
CUTEC Technical Site Visit.