Events

Seminar by Prof Rui Zhang

Visit by Departmental Academic Advisor

The Departmental Academic Advisor (DAA), Prof. Rui Zhang, paid a virtual visit to EIE from 11 to 13 April 2022. Prof. Zhang is a Professor and Provost’s Chair from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National University of Singapore. Prof. Zhang met with our academic staff, student representatives, Programme Leaders, Research Focus Areas’ Leaders, Departmental Research Committee, as well as the Departmental Learning and Teaching Committee to review our programmes and provided constructive advice for the development of the Department. During his visit, Prof. Zhang also delivered a seminar on “Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) Empowered 6G: Fundamentals, Applications and Challenges” to introduce a new promising wireless technology, named Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS), which has been identified by the industry as a potential key technology to achieve the ambitious goals of 6G. In this talk, Prof. Zhang presented the fundamentals of IRS including its hardware architecture and communication model, its main applications in wireless networks, and its cost and performance advantages as compared to the existing wireless technologies. He focused the main design challenges in efficiently integrating IRSs into the future wireless networks such as 6G, including passive reflection optimization, IRS channel acquisition and IRS deployment, and overviewed their state-of-the-art solutions. Prof. Zhang then discussed open problems and pointed out directions worthy of further investigation in future work in the final part of the seminar.

EIE Microcontroller Application Design Contest (2021-22)

To promote students’ interest in microcontroller-based electronic product design and to raise students’ creativity, innovation and presentation skills, the Department organized the EIE Microcontroller Application Design Contest (2021-22) jointly with the RS Components Ltd. between December 2021 and February 2022. 28 students in 13 teams joined Phase I of this Contest. They had the opportunities to attend the workshops on DesignSpark Mechanical 3D and DesignSpark PCB software to enhance their technical knowledge before the submission of their proposals. 9 teams were shortlisted to enter Phase II of the Contest to implement their products in various areas like IoT, system control and sensor network, etc. They presented the ideas and designs of their products to a judging panel on 18 February 2022. Here are the winners of the Contest!   Award Proposal Student Champion A Smarter Smart Home LO Wen Chin CHEUNG Ki 1st Runner-up and Champion of Design Prize   Child-Friendly Advanced Toy Gun   LIANG Jiayuan   1st Runner-up and Merit Award of Design Prize Toilet Occupied Indicator   LEUNG Chun Hang KWONG Wai Ki LEE Tsz Yin   2nd Runner-up 6DOF Motion Simulator for Functional Apparel Design   CHEAH Yeok Tatt Merit Award Smart Pet Feeder   CHAU Ka Ming Kim CHAN Ka Lam CHAN Pak Yeung   Merit Award IoT Valuable Reminder YAKOBUS Samuel TSENG Hsiang An

High-spatial-resolution Ultrafast Imaging in Picosecond and Femtosecond Time Scales

The research seminar by ZENG Xuanke has been arranged as follows:      Date: 2 Dec 2021 (Thursday) Time: 10:30 a.m. - 11:30a.m. HK time Venue: Room CD304 and Online via Zoom Presentation title: High-spatial-resolution Ultrafast Imaging in Picosecond and Femtosecond Time Scales Zoom Link:     Meeting ID:   Passcode: https://polyu.zoom.us/j/92365329595?pwd=SlB1dndOeHBaWEdDQ0p1N3c0ZFJTUT09   923 6532 9595   479242    You are welcome to attend the seminar and raise questions during the "Questions and Answers" session.  

AAEIE Webinar on STEM Education

The Alumni Association of Electronic and Information Engineering (AAEIE) invited our BEng in EIE graduate and the co-founder of STEAM Academy, Mr Steven Yau, to deliver a webinar about STEM education on 19 November 2021 for our alumni. Mr Yau introduced the concept of STEM, which is a broad term used to group together four academic disciplines, including science, technology, engineering and mathematics. He discussed about the importance and the development of STEM education. Mr Yau also shared about his experience on how STEM education like programming and intelligence application workshops could enhance students’ creativity, innovation, logical thinking and problem-solving skills.

Stanley Autumn Invitational Cup 2021

Despite the pandemic, the EIE Dragon Boat Team kick-started their training with the dragon boat eye-dotting ceremony in March this year. The ceremony was officiated by Dr Daniel Lun, Associate Head of the Department. After several months’ intensive practice, the team was invited to join the Stanley Autumn Invitational Cup 2021 and won the 4th Runner-up in the Stanley Gold Cup of the race on 10 October 2021. It is really a joyful activity for the team members to strengthen their physical fitness and cooperation skills.  If you would like to join the paddle training and dragon boat races, please contact the team captain, Mr Jason Tsui, at jason99tsui@hotmail.com for enrollment.

PolyU Undergraduate Info Day 2021

Owing to the adverse weather on 9 October, PolyU Undergraduate Info Day 2021 was held successfully in a hybrid on 10 October instead.  It was a great success that we have attracted over 100 visitors, including both potential applicants and their parents to attend our guided lab tours and seminars.  As announced by the University, around 10,000 registrations were recorded by the close of the Info Day at 5:30pm and about one third of them also opted for attending the event physically on campus in the morning.  The actual participation/turnout of virtual events might have been higher as many parents joined their children using the same PC or other mobile devices.

Wireless Power Transfer: Past, Present and Future

  Date: 23 Sep 2021, Thursday Time: 16:00 p.m. – 17:00 p.m. Venue: Title: Guest: online via ZOOM Wireless Power Transfer: Past, Present and Future Prof. Ron Hui Join Zoom Meeting via Meeting URL: https://polyu.zoom.us/j/5273784681 Meeting ID: 527 378 4681

A seminar “Entrepreneurship for Engineers” by Prof. Eugene Fitzgerald of MIT

Register Link: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/mysurvey2/index.php/838198?lang=en Room No: Online via Zoom / DE306 Speaker: Prof. Eugene Fitzgerald Event Date: 9/14/2021 Time: 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM