The Best Poster Award at the E-MRS 2019 Spring Meeting
Sun Haoran, a final-year PhD student supervised by Professor Min Wang of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, won the Best Poster Award at the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) 2019 Spring Meeting. This international conference was organized by E-MRS in conjunction with the International Conference on Advanced Materials (ICAM) of the International Union of Materials Research Societies (IUMRS) which was held from May 27 to 31, 2019, in Nice, France.
Haoran’s poster presentation “Cell Proliferation and Migration in Bicontinuous Bijels-derived Hybrid Hydrogel Membranes” was based on his PhD research on bijels and bijels-derived structures which was conducted at HKU.
Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) 2019 Student Competition (Hong Kong)
The team and their supervisor Dr Hayden So (1st from right).
A team of HKU students was among the five teams to represent China at the 2019 Global Grand Challenges Summit (GGCS) in London this September. Their project “ClearBot”, a system of AI vision enabled, self-navigating, self-charging, trash collection robots that collaborated as a swarm to collect ocean trash, stood out from four other teams from local universities and won the regional competition in Hong Kong.
The students were HKU students Woo Chung-yu (BEng(CompSc)+BBA (Double Degree)), Utkarsh Goel (BEng(CompSc)), Ahmed Abbas Alvi (BEng(ME)) and Ma Jiacheng (BSc(Acturial Science)). They were supervised by Dr Hayden So and Dr Kit Chui of the Faculty of Engineering and will be joined by two talented students from the HKUST (Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy (BEng(CompSc)) and City U (Theresa Yip (BEng(CompSc)) to form a unified team to represent China at the GGCS 2019 Student Competition in London in September 2019. The team will be supported by Mr Hugh Chow, CEO of ASTRI and Mr Johnny Chan, President of Hong Kong Venture Capital in preparing the final competition.
The Global Grand Challenges Summit features a student team competition of innovation, design, and business development based on themes related to a major challenge facing society and the planet every two years. A total of fifteen teams from China, UK and US will convene in London for a final competition in September 2019. They are expected to propose an innovation or novel approach to address aspects of the theme of this year’s summit “Engineering in an Unpredictable Way”.
BIM Competition 2019 by Construction Industry Council
Ar. Ada Fung presented the award to the team.
(From left: Ar. Ada Fung, Jacky Lee, Kenny Siu, Edward Li, Owen Miu and Karson Yam)
The Construction Industry Council’s first Building Information Modelling (BIM) Competition 2019 was held on June 16, 2019, successfully. The judging panel consisted of members from the professional bodies of the industry selected “BuslMan Team” as the champion of the Tertiary Student Category.
The team was formed by two Civil Engineering undergraduates Kenny Siu King-hay and Jacky Lee Wai-chung and three HKU students from the Faculty of Architecture (Edward Li Man-to (BA(US)), Owen Miu Ho-yeung (BA(AS)) and Karson Yam Ho-kin (BSc(Surv)).
The context of the competition was to redevelop a designated site using Building Information Modelling (BIM). There were two rounds of competition, in which the latter one required the group to work on-site for 12 hours to come up with their final model and present in front of professional judging panels. “BuslMan Team” demonstrated a collaborative effort of using BIM technology in a comprehensive way and a great sense of creativity on the modern architectural design.
Kenny Siu remarked that, “With multi-disciplinary collaborations, we would have a chance to interact with architects, surveyors and urban planners that could hardly find in university coursework.” His fellow classmate Jacky Lee said, “From this competition, we not only won the championship title and a Singapore trip, but also it provided a platform to interact with students from other faculty. It is a valuable experience to become an all-rounded civil engineer in the future.”
CIC will sponsor the winning teams to attend an international symposium held in Singapore.
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The Robocon 2019 Hong Kong Contest
Supervised by Dr Kwok Ka-wai and supported by the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, “Team Sapientia” won a 1st runner-up at The Robocon 2019 Hong Kong Contest among a record number of 13 competing teams from seven local tertiary institutions on June 23, 2019. The team comprised of mixed disciplines of engineering students. They designed two innovative robots based on the theme of the competition “Sharing the Knowledge飛奔大漠中”.