Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE)

An Association for person residing in Malaysia, regardless of nationality, having a strong interest in automatic control and system engineering, and a sound professional background. 

MACE is a society formed as a result of a meeting attended by 42 Malaysian automatic control researchers from 10 universities throughout the country on 10 August 2015. The meeting agreed on the need to form a society that will represent Malaysia in IFAC’s General Assembly. At the end of the meeting, a provisional committee chaired by Professor Mohd Rizal Arshad (Universiti Sains Malaysia) was formed. The provisional committee members were given the responsibility to draft the constitution of the new society and initiating the submission process to be an IFAC NMO.

On 17 December 2015, MACE received its registration approval from the Malaysian Registrar of Society (MROS). Although the society is new, many of its members are experienced control engineers, researchers and academicians who are members of established control engineering faculties, research centers/institutes/industries throughout Malaysia. The Secretariat of MACE is based at the Centre for Artificial Intelligence & Robotics (CAIRO), Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Jalan Sultan Yahya Petra, 54100 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On 17 February 2016, MACE held its first Annual General Meeting (AGM) at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. A total of 101 control researchers and practitioners from both the industries and universities from many parts of Malaysia attended the AGM.

Malaysian Society for Automatic Control Engineers (MACE) is very pleased to be accepted as the IFAC Associate Member Organization (AMO) for Malaysia.IFAC Associated Member Organizations (AMOs) allow countries or regions without National Member Organizations (NMOs) to join the IFAC community despite financial or other challenges. AMOs consist of defined groups of researchers and practitioners in automatic control. Benefits include mentorship from experienced IFAC officials, access to specific information, invitations to events, and participation in Technical Committees. There’s no annual fee for AMOs, just minimal triennial administrative tasks, and members must adhere to the IFAC Code of Conduct. They can also register for the free IFAC Affiliates program. 

With the listed objectives (below) to be achieved, MACE stands as an Association to promote the science and technology of automatic control engineering, in cooperation with national and other international organizations, by organizing and sponsoring technical meetings such as congresses, conferences, symposia and workshops; and also technical publications. To further this aim, it maintains working relationship with other organizations, national or international, especially with other non-governmental professional societies or federations.

Last but not least, to clarify here that, MACE is not to become involved in any kind of political activity nor to take a stand on any such issue.

Objectives of MACE

1. To promote the science and technology of automatic control engineering in the broadest sense in all systems whether, for example, engineering, physical, biological, social or economic, in both theory and application. The Association is also concerned with the impact of control technology on the Malaysian society. 

2. To serve all those concerned with the theory and application of automatic control encompassing all areas related to control and systems engineering, wherever situated. 

3. To provide a framework for collaboration between those working in automatic control and systems engineering, irrespective of nationalities or of geographic location and to promote the free exchange of ideas and experts within its professional field.