Faculty of Engineering, HKU

A Ceremony was held on December 28 , 2021 to mark the opening of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing Two, an important new facility under the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong.

The project team led by Professor Huang Mingxin at the Department of Mechanical Engineering has made significant breakthroughs in producing the first anti-COVID-19 stainless steel that kills the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) on its surface.

Many are no stranger to the concept of big data in today’s world. But few may be aware of the diverse job opportunities and burgeoning demand for data scientists and engineers.

Among the thirty-one academics of the University of Hong Kong being named “Highly Cited Researchers of 2021” by Clarivate Analytics, six of them are from Engineering. Congratulations to Professor Tong Zhang, Professor C.Y. Tang, Dr Huang Kaibin, Professor James Lam, Professor Lance Li and Professor Dennis Y.C. Leung!

Organised by Innovation Academy, the Engineering InnoShow were scheduled to be held at the end of each semester, and where students can showcase their innovative projects and achievements to their peers and public as a way of knowledge exchange and giving back to the society.

Centre for Transformative Garment Production aims at utilizing today’s artificial intelligence and robotics technology to re-engineer the garment industry, with an ultimate goal to increase production capacity, quality and work safety, and create new, high-level job opportunities for the decades to come.

Advanced Biomedical Instrumentation Centre is a major collaborative effort between HKU and Harvard SEAS to translate advanced biomedical instrumentation into real-world healthcare solutions that benefit people in Hong Kong and around the world.

Professor Alfonso H.W. Ngan, Kingboard Endowed Professsor in Materials Engineering, and Chair Professor in Material Sciences and Engineering of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been elected as an International Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the U.K.

Three young Faculty members of HKU Engineering awarded the prestigious fund under the National Natural Science Foundation of China, an organisation managed by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

A cross-disciplinary team led by Professor Tong Zhang of the Department of Civil Engineering has received funding to develop a methodology for the detection and monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in sewage to supplement the overall community surveillance system.