(From left) Dr Ryan Wong, Jacky Lee, Gordon Leung, Kenny Siu and Head of Department of Civil Engineering Professor Francis Au.
Team COMpromICE, formed by BEng(CivE) Year 3 students Siu King-hay Kenny, Lee Wai-chung Jacky, Leung Jing-shang Gordon and a student from Faculty of Architecture was awarded the First-runner up at the Communications Competition organised by the Institution of Civil Engineers.
The group-based competition comprised of three rounds, which aims to promote effective communication between different parties in infrastructural development projects. The team had to prepare multimedia printable as well as consultation strategy documents for the competition. Eventually, the team presented their make-up civil engineering project at a mock public consultation meeting, followed by responding to different parties’ concerns in the virtual project.
The team thought that it was a great opportunity to brush their soft skills throughout the competition, “Not only did we compose an attractive leaflet interestingly, but we also had to present technical civil engineering concepts in a laymen way, which is equally challenging to us. We thought that it was a valuable experiential learning experience, which facilitated the development of our holistic understanding of the technical knowledge taught in class.”