News and Update
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2015-10-13
Engineering Alumnus Selected as One of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons by JCIHK
Dr. Alan Lam Hiu Fung was selected as one of the Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International Hong Kong in October 2015 for his innovation awards earned in international and regional technological competitions as well as his passion to promoting youth entrepreneurship. Dr. Lam received his BEng, MPhil and PhD ... -
2015-07-15
Students Won Top Prizes at Challenge Cup Hong Kong University Students Extra-curriculum Technology Contest
As a biennial national competition, the Challenge Cup is known as the 'Olympics' in promoting innovation in social science, science and technology for university students in China. This year, the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association held the first Challenge Cup Hong Kong University Students Extra-curriculum Technology Contest ... -
2015-04-08
MAE Students Won at the 4th Greater China Design Competition 2015
Eight students (Yip Chi Yiu, Lee Chun Kong, Chung Tsz Yin, Chan Tsz Fung, Cheung Ho Tin, Chan Yin Pok, Santo Royce and Kwok Ming Fung) from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, CUHK designed a prototype vehicle for rocks collection, and won the Champion in the 4th Greater China Design Competition. Hosted by the Institution of Mechanical ... -
2015-02-09
Prof. Yi-Chun Lu Pioneers a Step toward High-energy Redox Flow Batteries
Prof. Yi-Chun Lu (Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong) and her research team recently reported a flow cathode that exploits highly concentrated sulphur-impregnated carbon composite, to achieve high catholyte volumetric capacity (five times that of all-vanadium flow batteries and 3–6 times that ... -
2014-11-04
Mechanical and Automation Engineering Department Earns International Acclaim
Established in 1994, the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering (MAE) of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Over the years, the academics of the Department have been striving for the highest standards in teaching and research. They have been making strenuous efforts to develop innovative technology to ... -
2014-09-17
Alumnus Tak-Sing Wong Named One of the World's Top 35 Innovators
Carnivorous plant inspires solution to “sticky” problems The distinguished alumnus from Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering was recently been selected as one of the world's top 35 innovators under 35 by MIT Technology Review in recognition of his achievement in inventing one of today’s most intriguing and potentially useful new materials. ... -
2014-09-10
Prof. Jun Wang Won an IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
The biennial IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence was held in Beijing on July6-11, 2014. Several awards such as Neural Networks Pioneer Award, Fuzzy Systems Pioneer Award, and Evolutionary Computation Pioneer Award were given at the awards banquet. Prof. Jun Wang from the CUHK’s Faculty of Engineering has won the Neural Networks Pioneer Award conferred ... -
2014-08-01
Professor Liao Wei-Hsin Appointed Associate Dean (Student Affairs)
Prof. Liao Wei-Hsin has been appointed Associate Dean (Student Affairs), effective from 1 August 2014. Prof. Liao joined the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK since 1997, where he is also the founding director of the Smart Materials and Structures Laboratory. He was awarded the Research Excellence Award (2010-2011) of CUHK. He is ... -
2014-06-20
Two Student Teams Shone at HKIE Joint Institutes Competition 2014
Two students teams from the Faulty of Engineering swept the champion, 1st runner-up and the "My Favourite Project" Award. YUNG, Man Lee (CS), Chan Chun Kit (CS), Keung Nga Fong (MAE) and Chan Chuen Wai (MAE) won the champion of the HKIE Joint Institutes Competition 2014. The project named "Visually-impaired Positioning System" is a new guiding system to facilitate the... -
2014-04-02
MAE Students Won the Champion at the 3rd IMechE (HK) GCDC
An outstanding team (Ting Sin Hang, Yeung Chi Ling, Evelyn Julipalas, Chan Chung Ho and Cheung Kai Hung) from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, won the Champion in the Third Greater China Design Competition (GCDC), held in Guang Zhou on 22-23, March 2014. The competition was hosted by IMechE (HK) ...
