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2016-03-01
Faculty Annual Award Presentation Ceremony cum 25th Anniversary Kick-off Ceremony
The Faculty of Engineering's annual Award Presentation Ceremony was held on 20 February to give recognition to outstanding Faculty and staff – who are dedicated to providing the highest quality education and to making a difference to the Faculty. The ceremony also offers an opportunity to recognize students with outstanding academic ... -
2016-02-01
Engineering Students Shone at Solar Car Competition
The CUHK Engineering team formed by 14 students has recently won the “Renewable Energy Capture & Conversion Efficiency Award" at the New Energy New Generation” Solar Car Competition (tertiary education category) organized by the Electrical and Mechanical Services Department in January. Led by Prof. ... -
2015-11-24
CUHK Receives Winners’ Cup at National Challenge Cup Competition
CUHK students swept top awards in the 14th Challenge Cup held at Guangdong University of Technology, and won the Winners’ Cup, the second top prize of the competition. With overall outstanding performance, CUHK received the second top prize, Winners’ Cup, beating more than 300 participating universities and over 780 projects from ... -
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 ...
