Ng Tsz Ming, a Computer Science Year 2 student, won the champion in the tertiary section of "Safe and Sustainable Transportation for Tomorrow" Paper Competition organized by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET). Tsz Ming's paper titled "Optimized Route-Planning System (ORPS)"....

Following last year's success, the iGEM (international Genetic Engineered Machine) team of CUHK has won a gold medal again at the iGEM Asia Regional Jamboree, and is qualified to participate in the iGEM World Jamboree to be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology next month. The team consists of 9 students from the School of Life Sciences, 6 students from the Faculty of Engineering and 5 instructors. Since this May, the CUHK team had been devoted to preparing for the competition and developed the project completely by themselves, from defining themes, designing experiments to developing new parts and models from scratch. They demonstrated strong team spirit and efforts, which included publishing a wiki page, producing posters and introducing the project and the new devices on public occasions....

Supervised by Prof. Yam Yeung, a team of postgraduate students from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering won the Jardine Engineering Corporation Outstanding Engineering Project Award this year, outshining competitors from other local universities. The team members Yu Cheuk-him Derek, Chan Chi-chong Carl and Lai Wai-yin William were presented the championship prize money of HK$55,000 on 27 June 2012....

A team of three engineering students from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering has won the championship in the 2012 Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest - Embedded System Design Invitational Contest on 25 July 2012, beating out 75 universities and 159 teams from China mainland, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, Russia and the United States....

Co-organized by CUHK Engineering and IBM, the Exploring Interest in Technology and Engineering (EX.I.T.E) Camp successfully held from 22 July to 26 July 2012 aims to kindle the interest of young girls in the fields of technology and engineering, and nurture female talents for the future. Thirty-six Form 3-to-be girls from Guangzhou No 47 Secondary School, Sacred Heart Canossian College Hong Kong and Sacred Heart Canossian College Macau– twelve from each school – participated in a series of specially designed innovative workshop, games, matches and lectures to acquire new knowledge of information technology and engineering, and to study the impact of science and technology on improving people's living....

The Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) has received a generous donation from Mr. Patrick Huen Wing Ming for the establishment of “Patrick Huen Wing Ming Professorship of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management” and in support of the research and development of the SEEM Department, the Faculty of Engineering and the University in related areas....

Future Science Park – Dandelion Cross-Strait Business Plan Contest was held in Zhejiang University from 3 to 9 July 2012. The contest was organized by Zhejiang University with the aim of promoting innovation and academic exchange among the students from cross-strait universities. A total of thirteen teams from universities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau participated in the competition. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) won the Second Prize and there were only two teams received this award....

The ACM Programming Team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) came in eighth and was awarded a silver medal in the 36th Annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) held in Warsaw, Poland. This is the best result achieved by an institution from Hong Kong in the last 20 years. The team comprised three undergraduate students: Law Wai -hon and Hon Man-hin, both majoring in computer science, and Yuen Chak-fai, majoring in quantitative finance....

Simon Siu Fai, Year 3 student of the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management has won the First Joint University Real Money Investment Contest in the region in March 2012. Simon has used systematic technical analysis and demonstrated in the contest extensive investment knowledge and strong and sharp market sense....

Prof. Du Ruxu of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering has been elected a Fellow of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME).

Prof. Du has been actively involved in research and teaching while holding various management positions, including the Director of Institute of Precision Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Director of Center of Precision Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology. His main research interests are in the areas of precision engineering design and manufacturing, energy and materials....