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CEE PhD Students Awarded 2023 IACIP Outstanding Graduate Student Award

Congratulations to Ms Linyi Yao and Mr Danning Li, PhD students of CEE who are supervised by Dr Zhen Leng, for being awarded the 2nd prize and 3rd prize of 2023 IACIP Outstanding Graduate Student Award respectively, in the 2023 International Association of Chinese Infrastructure Professionals (IACIP) Annual Workshop.

Visit of Prof. Mohamed A. Meguid, McGill University, Canada

Prof. Mohamed A. Meguid, Chair of Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, Canada, paid a visit to CEE on 17 February 2023 (Friday). During the visit, the collaboration between the two departments, including undergraduate and postgraduate exchange programmes, were discussed.  Prof. Meguid also had a research meeting with CEE Geotechnical Unit to explore ways to enhance research collaborations in area of strength at the two departments.

Prof. Kwok-Fai Chung’s Project received Grand Award of the CSCS Science and Technology Awards 2022

Congratulations to Prof. Kwok-Fai Chung, Director of CNERC, whose project, titled “Basic Theory, Key Technology and International Application of Chinese High Strength 690MPa Steel Structures”, has received a Grand Award of the Chinese Steel Construction Society (CSCS) Science and Technology Awards 2022. The prize was presented during the Opening Ceremony of the Annual Conference of CSCS on 10 February 2023 in Guangzhou. The Grand Award is the highest honour among the CSCS Science and Technology Awards and PolyU is the only Hong Kong institution being awarded. The Project was successfully completed with academics from Tsinghua University and Imperial College London, and experts from famous consulting and construction companies in Hong Kong, which provided a comprehensive solution to innovative applications of high quality Chinese 690MPa steel in construction.

New joiner – Dr Tao Yong

Dr Tao obtained his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Wuhan University of Technology in 2016 and 2021, respectively. He studied as a joint Ph.D. student at the University of California, Irvine in 2019-2021. He joined The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in 2022 and transferred to Research Assistant Professor in 2023. Dr Tao's research interests include mechanical and chemical properties and processes of cementitious materials, molecular simulation, force field development, etc. Dr Tao has joined us on 13 February 2023.

PolyU CEE Webinar Series: Microbially-induced Corrosion in Marine Infrastructure

Dr Sun Xiaohao delivered a seminar with the topic of “Microbially-induced Corrosion in Marine Infrastructure” on 8 February 2023. It was co-organized with HKIE Civil Division.

President’s Visit to CEE

The President and the Senior Management Team visited CEE on 7 February 2023.   The visit started with a laboratory visit and followed by a meeting to review the Department’s achievements, challenges and future plans under the scopes of teaching, partnership and research. It ended with a fruitful Q&A session where colleagues’ concerns were addressed to.  Over 85 CEE staff members joined the meeting in person or online.  Top right photo from left: Prof. Ben Young (Chair Professor and Vice President (Student and Global Affairs)), Prof. Chi Sun Poon (Chair Professor and Head of CEE), Prof. Wing-tak Wong (Deputy President and Provost), Prof. Jin-Guang Teng (President), Dr Miranda Lou (Executive Vice President), Prof. Christopher Chao (Vice President (Research and Innovation)), Prof. Xiangdong Li (Chair Professor and Dean)  

Election to the Class of Fellow to the Environmental Discipline of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE)

Congratulations to Ir Prof. Dan Tsang, who had been elected as Fellow grade member (FHKIE) of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) - Environmental Discipline.  Bring recognized as FHKIE, Ir Prof. Tsang has achieved positions of responsibility to which he has brought superior knowledge and practice in the environmental engineering discipline. HKIE was initially founded in Hong Kong in 1947, to promote the professional standing, interests and technical standards of local engineers across a broad spectrum of engineering specializations.

Visit of Prof. Andrew Whittle, Departmental Academic Advisor (DAA)

Prof. Andrew Whittle of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who is the Departmental Academic Advisor of CEE, paid his first visit to the Department from 9 to 11 Jan 2023.Apart from the CEE management team, Prof. Whittle also met with different student groups including undergraduate, master and postgraduate students.  He also joined the CEE Departmental Advisory Committee (DAC) Meeting to learn the development of the Department and  understand the civil and environmental industries in Hong Kong.  CEE’s curriculum updates, research achievements and 50th Anniversary upcoming events were deliberated during the meeting.

Prof. Anthony Chen’s research has won the MULTRA 2022 Best Article Award from the Elsevier Journal Multimodal Transportation

Congratulations to Prof. Anthony Chen for his research output “Accessibility-based vulnerability analysis of multi-modal transportation networks with weibit choice models” winning the “2022 Best Article Award” given by the Journal “Multimodal Transportation” Multimodal Transportation provides a forum for high quality, cutting-edge research in transportation science and technology. The best article award is given to the top 10% or less of articles that are picked out by the journal editorial team.

MSc Project Supervised by Dr Tak-Ming Chan has been Awarded an MSc Research Grant for 2022/23 by the Institution of Structural Engineers

Congratulations to Dr Tak-Ming Chan, Programme Leader of the Master of Science (MSc) in Civil Engineering, whose supervised MSc project entitled "Development of Earthquake Resistant Design Guidelines for Inter-module Connections of Modular Buildings" has been awarded an MSc grant for 2022/23 by the Institution of Structural Engineers.   The Institution of Structural Engineers is the world’s largest membership organization dedicated to structural engineering. The annual MSc research grants by the Institution's Research Fund support postgraduate research project carried out as part of a full time or part-time Master of Science degree programme.  Focal topics include Institutions' industry focused research themes and the applications were assessed based on: likelihood of scope of further research, extent of innovation, relation to a practical problem and feasibility.