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Payload Challenge 5 of British Model Flying Association 2019 University and Schools Flight Challenges

The teams shared the joy for their remarkable performance in the Payload Challenge 5 of British Model Flying Association 2019 University and Schools Flight Challenges. (From left: Team #2, Team #4 and Team #3)

Three “Design, Build and Fly” teams from the Department of Mechanical Engineering dominated the Payload Challenge 5 of the British Model Flying Association (BMFA) 2019 University and Schools Flight Challenges. They won the champion, 1st runner-up and 3rd runner-up respectively after three days of competition.

The British Model Flying Association 2019 University and Schools Flight Challenges was held in BMFA Buckminster, Sewstern Lane, Grantham, Lincolnshire, NG33 5RW from May 31 to June 2, 2019. With the technical support from the Hong Kong Air Cadet Corp (HKACC) and the Hong Kong Model Engineering Club Limited (HKMEC), our teams competed the 2019 Payload Challenge 5 with other 14 teams from all over the world, including UK and USA.

Competing teams were required to design and build a radio controlled (RC) aircraft using the specified design and equipment parameters, capable of carrying the specified liquid payload. Contestants should design their aircraft to maximise the value of the ratio “payload/aircraft empty mass”. Apart from submitting a technical report for the aircraft’s design and construction with design drawings and a verbal presentation, teams were required to complete three rounds of flight missions. Each aircraft was required to complete a flight without any payload in the first round. Then the payload was increased to 2kg and 4kg in the second and third round respectively.  After three days of competition, our teams completed all three missions successfully and team #4, #3 and #2 won the champion, 1st runner-up and 3rd runner-up respectively.

Dr C.K Chan, supervisor of the teams, was proud of the excellent performance of the teams. He remarked, “It was not only a competition, but also an eye-opening experience for the students. They had chances to communicate and exchange ideas with other teams on design, selection of propellers, validity of different CAD software, weight minimization methods, payload loading and unloading mechanism, sourcing of components, etc. We are grateful to have such valuable experience and we thank the University for supporting us. ”

The Fifth Louis Vuitton Supply Chain University Contest

The champion “Team IMSE” and its mentor Dr Kuo Yong-Hong (1st from right).

With its outstanding supply chain strategy, “Team IMSE” from the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering won the Fifth Louis Vuitton Ultimate Supply Chain Contest held on March 19, 2019. The champion “Team IMSE” comprised of 6 undergraduate students, including Felicia Sutanto, Fernaldy Soegianto, Ng See Hin, Rita Aolei Yisang, Sidharth Pahuja and Wu Jian, and was mentored by Dr Jonathan Ng and Dr Kuo Yong-Hong.

With an aim of sharing knowledge with the supply chain management communities in top universities globally and soliciting innovative ideas from those universities, Louis Vuitton has organised the annual contest since 2014. Two universities from Paris and one top university from Hong Kong, New York, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo respectively were invited to join the contest this year. HKU “Team IMSE” was among the three teams that were being shortlisted to the final competition on March 19, 2019.

The contest was a case-like competition. Louis Vuitton posed a question on how to sustain its business by creating an omnichannel supply chain for its luxury goods. “Team IMSE” first explored the consumer behaviour in consuming luxury good where they found that luxury is all about the emotion induced by lavish products with distinguished heritage. They believed it is important for a luxury company to harness the power of technology to strengthen its brand image and service in a fast-paced digital world. Hence, they developed a suite of innovative online and offline solutions to optimize Louis Vuitton’s logistics and production decisions, and therefore enhance its customer experience through interactive real-time data collection and analysis.

“Team IMSE” presented its solutions at the Louis Vuitton Hong Kong office to a judging panel which consisted of the director and senior managers of the Louis Vuitton Global Supply Chain Division, and was voted unanimously by the panel to be the champion of the Fifth Louis Vuitton Ultimate Supply Chain Contest. “The contest offers a valuable opportunity for us to tackle a real-world supply chain problem under the coaching of the world-class supply chain experts in luxury goods industry,” said by “Team IMSE”.

The 5th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

Ten HKU projects won top prizes at the 5th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition.

The Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was organized by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association since 2015. Top winners will have the chance to represent HKSAR and their institutes in national competitions such as “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Contest in Beijing and China College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition in Hangzhou.

Ten projects from HKU stood out from over 70 projects by other local higher institutions and won top prizes in the competition. Among them, four were from the Faculty of Engineering:

The team from Department of Mechanical Engineering celebrated the achievement with their supervisors Professor Dennis Leung (1st from left) and Dr Wang Yifei (1st from right).

Ray Li of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering won a second-place award with his project on “An Investment Management System based on AI and Blockchain technologies”. With the support from CEDARS@HKU, he will represent to participate in the Challenge Cup National Competition in Beijing in this autumn.

Sharif Mohammed Nawaj of Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering awarded second place under “Innovation – Information Technology” category.

HKIE Scholarship 2018-19

Fung Cheuk-yiu (2nd from left) and Woo Chung-yu (3rd from left) were among the three awardees of HKIE Scholarship 2018-19.
 

Congratulations to Woo Chung-yu (BEng(Compurter Science)+BBA (Double Degree) Year 2) and Fung Cheuk-yiu (BEng(Mechanical Engineering) Year 2) in receiving the HKIE Scholarship 2018-19!

The HKIE Scholarship is awarded to three Engineering students with outstanding academic performance and leadership ability. This year, two out of the three Scholarship awardees are from HKU Engineering.

Each awardee received a certificate and a total grant of HK$80,000 scholarship, which will be disbursed in four installments (i.e. HK$20,000 per annum) at the end of each academic year.

Ir Ringo Yu (left), President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers, presented the certificate to Woo Chung-yu.
 

Fung Cheuk-yiu (right) received the certificate from Ir Ringo Yu, President of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers.
 

More details of the scholarship could be found in the link: https://www.hkie.org.hk/en/membership/award_detail/39/.