Silver Award at the 2nd Asia Exhibition of Inventions Hong Kong
Dr Huang Yu-ting (right), Dr Tony Feng’s student of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, won Silver Award at the 2nd Asia Exhibition of Inventions Hong Kong with “Direct Thermal Charging Cell”, a new invention which can effectively convert heat to electricity, creating a huge potential to reduce greenhouse effects by capturing exhaust heat and cutting down primary energy wastage.
The Asia Exhibition of Inventions Hong Kong (AEI) is the first exhibition cum competition exclusively devoted to inventions from Asia to be hosted in Hong Kong, by partnering with Palexpo, Geneva, organiser of the International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva.
For more details about the award-winning invention, please visit https://www.hku.hk/press/press-releases/detail/20140.html.
Silver Medals at the Regional and Continent Final of International Collegiate Programming Contest 2019
A HKU team coached by Mr Sun Bintao of the Department of Computer Science won two Silver Medals at the Asia Shanghai Regional and the Asia East Continent Final of the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in 2019. Team members included Dong Binrui (BEng(CompSc)), Kwok Kin-hei (BEng(CompSc)) and Lee Chun-yin (BSc(ActuarSc)).
The International Collegiate Programming Contest is an algorithmic programming contest for college students. Teams of three, representing their university, work to solve the most real-world problems, fostering collaboration, creativity, innovation, and the ability to perform under pressure. The HKU team competed with over 300 teams in the contests respectively.