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2019-04-15
CUHK Shone at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva
Eleven Engineering projects have received two Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, one Gold Medal, seven Silver Medals and the Prize of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation - Romania in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Here is a summary of the Faculty of Engineering’s award- ... -
2019-04-12
MAE Students Shone at ASME Student Design Competition 2019
A team of MAE students has won the Best Design Award in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Design Competition 2019 (Hong Kong). Under the supervision of Dr. Li Yiyang and Mr. Yu Siuning, they designed a robot for the pick-and-place race. The ASME competition was hosted by the ASME Hong Kong Section at the ... -
2019-04-02
Engineering Students Won the Champion at the 8th Greater China Design Competition
An engineering team has won the Champion at the 8th Greater China Design Competition which was held in Macau on 23-24 March, 2019. They have designed a set of self-propelled prototypes for energy relay under the theme of "Energy Relay System”. Participants were required to design and develop a scaled-down version of four self‐propelled ... -
2019-03-27
Engineering Researchers and Alumna Receive Awards from the Chinese Association of Automation and MIT Technology Review
Two members of the Faculty of Engineering have each received an award from the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and a Faculty alumna has been awarded a distinction by /MIT Technology Review/ for their remarkable achievements. The Faculty is committed to developing innovative technology to improve peoples’ lives and these ... -
2019-03-14
A Safe, High-rate, and Long-life Organic-oxygen Battery: A New Chapter in Renewable Energy Storage
Alkali metal-oxygen batteries promise high gravimetric energy densities but suffer from low rate capability, poor cycle life and safety hazards associated with metal anodes. A safe, high-rate and long-life oxygen battery that exploits a potassium biphenyl complex anode instead of the problematic potassium metal anode has recently been ... -
2019-03-05
Collaboration of CUHK Faculty of Engineering and SenseTime on AI Education
The Faculty of Engineering and SenseTime Group Ltd (SenseTime) have recently launched a new collaboration on Artificial Intelligence (AI) education with the signing of a collaborative agreement. AI is the technology that uses machine intelligence to simulate human intelligence in performing tasks and solving problems. The application ... -
2019-02-13
CUHK Develops Medical Micro-robots for Diagnosis Able to Detect Clostridium Difficile Bacterial Toxins in 15 Minutes
Microrobots have attracted much interest as an emerging medical tool which has great potential in surgery, therapy, imaging and diagnostics. A collaborative research team from the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Medicine has recently developed fungi spore-inspired microrobots to detect Clostridium difficile (C. difficile)... -
2019-01-04
CUHK Appoints Dean of the Faculty of Engineering
The Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong has approved the appointment of Professor Martin D.F. Wong as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 4 January 2019. He will serve for a term of 5 years. Professor Wong is also appointed as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Professor Martin D ... -
2019-01-04
Two CUHK Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows 2019
Prof. Tsang Hon Ki and Prof. Irwin King Kuo Chin, Faculty of Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2019, for their research contributions to “nonlinear silicon photonics and advanced waveguide grating couplers” and... -
2018-12-18
Prof. Chen Shih-Chi Receives the 2018 R&D 100 Award for Developing the Digital Holography-based 3-D Nano-Builder for Ultrafast Micro-/Nano-Prototyping
Professor Shih-Chi Chen, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and his team have been honoured with the globally prestigious 2018 R&D 100 Award – “The Oscar of Invention” for the development of the Digital Holography-based 3-D Nano-Builder. It can additively write micro-nano-scale components with complex structures in ...
