Congratulations to CEE members who have been awarded the FCE Dean’s Award 2023 in various categories.
Prof. Zhen-Yu Yin received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching Innovation, which recognizes his demonstration of teaching innovation in externally funded teaching development projects, teaching and learning related publications or external awards and honours.
Eight CEE members have received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Achievement in Research Funding for their success in securing external competitive research funding in the past years, contributing to the research excellence of CEE and the Faculty.
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Allocation Date |
Project Title (Funding Scheme) |
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Prof. Zhen Leng |
1 Jul 2020 |
Multiscale Characterization of the Short-term and Long-term Interaction between Surface-treatment Emulsion and Porous Asphalt (PA) Mixture towards More Durable PA Road Surfaces (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2021 |
Multiphysics and Multiscale Study of Water Migration and Performance Evolution Mechanism of Bitumen Emulsion Cold In-Place Recycled Mixture (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Characterization of the Interaction between Asphalt Emulsion and Cementitious Grout in Cold-mix Semi-flexible Grouted Macadam towards a Sustainable Heavy-duty Paving Material (RGC General Research Fund) |
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Prof. Yi-Qing Ni |
8 Jan 2019 |
Enhancing Safety, Punctuality and Ride Comfort of Railway Transportation: From Local Metro System to Global High-speed Rail Network (RGC Research Impact Fund) |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Physics-informed Parameter Identification of Linear and Nonlinear Structural Systems (RGC General Research Fund) |
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Prof. Dan Tsang |
1 Feb 2018 |
Enhancing Water Resilience with Blue-green Infrastructure: A Pilot-scale Study on Bioretention Systems for Stormwater Harvesting in New Development Areas (Environment and Conservation Fund) |
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1 Jul 2018 |
Engineered Biochar as Catalyst for Synthesis of Value-Added Chemicals: Manoeuvring Surface Functionalities and Pore Structure (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2020 |
Tailoring Next-generation Biochar Catalyst for Biorefineries via Integrated Experimental-computational Investigations (RGC General Research Fund) |
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10 Feb 2021 |
Hydrothermal Carbonization for Recycling Organic Waste into Biochar for Soil Improvement in Hong Kong (Environment and Conservation Fund) |
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28 Jan 2022 |
Recycling Yard Waste into New-generation Biochar Adsorbents for CO2 and VOCs Removal (Environment and Conservation Fund) |
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Prof. Tao Wang |
1 Jul 2021 |
Field and Laboratory Investigations of Reactive Bromine Gases and Their Impact on Winter Air Quality (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Hydrochloric Acid in the Polluted Coastal Atmosphere of South China: abundances, sources, and impacts (RGC General Research Fund) |
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31 Oct 2022 |
珠江三角洲大氣活性氮綜合觀測與演變規律研究 (MOST National Key Technologies R&D Program) |
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30 Nov 2022 (Date of Approval) |
臭氧污染過程、機理及預報方法研究 (NSFC Major Programme) |
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Prof. Zhen-Yu Yin |
1 Jul 2020 |
Multiscale Hydro-mechanical Modeling of Marine Silty Clay Interacting with FRP Foundation Structure in Consideration of Rate and Abrasion Effects (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2021 |
Deep Learning-based Multiscale Approach for Granular Materials from Particle Recognition to Mechanical Modelling (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Multiscale Approach for Granular Materials Reinforced by Disposable Face-mask Chips (RGC General Research Fund) |
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Prof. Tao Yu |
10 Feb 2021 |
Lightweight Multifunctional Noise Barriers/Noise Enclosures Incorporating Smart Fibre-reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites (Environment and Conservation Fund) |
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1 Jul 2021 |
Ductile FRP-Steel-Concrete Coupling Beams (RGC General Research Fund) |
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7 Jun 2022 |
Precast Seawater Sea-sand Self-Compacting Concrete Structures Reinforced with Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) Composites |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Rectangular FRP-confined Double-Skin Tubular Columns with a T-Section-Stiffened Rectangular Steel Tube (RGC General Research Fund) |
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Prof. Songye Zhu |
26 Sept 2018 |
Smartphone as Next-generation Monitoring Devices for Construction-induced Vibrations and Noise (Construction Industry Council) |
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8 Jan 2019 |
Enhancing Safety, Punctuality and Ride Comfort of Railway Transportation: From Local Metro System to Global High-speed Rail Network (CEE-2) (RGC Research Impact Fund – sub-project) |
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30 Nov 2019 (Date of Approval) |
跨海集群設施服役狀態評估及智慧維養技術與裝備 (MOST National Key Technologies R&D Program) |
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1 Jul 2020 |
Novel Self-Powered Active Vibration Control Technique for Bridge Stay Cables (RGC General Research Fund) |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Tunable Ultra-low-frequency Pendulum Oscillator and Its Application in Wave Energy Conversion (RGC General Research Fund) |
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Dr Ling Jin |
1 Jul 2020 |
Contribution of Selected Toxic Components and Associated Sources to Differential Mixture Effects of City-specific PM2.5 on Human Lung Cells: How Much of The Iceberg Have We Seen? (RGC Early Career Scheme) |
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1 Jul 2022 |
Effects of Urban Airborne Particulate Matter and Associated Toxic Components on Pathogen Receptor Expression in Human Airway Epithelial Cells (RGC General Research Fund) |
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5 Jul 2022 |
Unravelling the Black Box between Air Pollution and Public Health for Transformative Air Quality Management (CEE-2) (RGC Theme-based Research Scheme – sub-project) |
