Events

Staff Retreat

This retreat focuses on teaching and learning, held in Hotel ICON on 10 May 2019.  Staff members were first updated by Head of Department about the upcoming Departmental Review, DSE Interviews' new arrangement, space audit, and some admission statistics of the new cohort.  With the discontinuation of Broad Discipline, Dr Lo has worked out curriculum improvement and shared with staff members' comments.  In the meantime, TSE programme's curriculum will also be slightly reformed.  More sharing on the performance of large group projects, the arrangement on the Industrial projects, review on FYP, MSc Dissertation, Internship etc., were also given.  A thorough deliberation and fruitful discussion is observed and thank to staff members' active participation.

Singapore AUV Challenge 2019

Our department sent 7 students to join in the Challenge, organized by IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, Singapore. Among 40 contributions teams from all over the world, our team entered the final round with other 15 teams. The team was ranked 7th in the final challenge. In the Challenge, students utilized their knowledge in computer vision, automated control, and system integration to send an autonomous underwater vehicle to the arena to complete different tasks.

Technical Seminar Enabling smart renewable and sustainable energy technologies

Date: 12 Mar 2019 Time: 15:30 - 17:00 Venue: Room N001, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong  Speaker: Dr. Aoife Foley, Reader (School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast)

EE Research Seminar : Distributed Coordination of Multiple Renewable Energy Resources in a Microgrid

Speaker: Dr. XU Yinliang Date: 2019-01-21 Time: 04:15 p.m. – 05:00 p.m. Venue: Room EF112, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University   The seminar is organized by EE Department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. No pre-registration is required.

EE Research Seminar by Prof XIE Kaigui and Prof LI Hui

Speaker: Professor XIE Kaigui and Professor LI Hui Date: 2019-01-11 Time: 10:00 am - 11:20 am Venue: EF112, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong   The seminar is organized by EE Department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. No pre-registration is required. Certificate of attendance will be issued.

Joint Seminar Emerging Research Directions in Smart Grid

Speaker: Professor Lingfeng WANG Date: 2019-01-04 Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Venue: Room CF617, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong   The seminar is jointly organized by EE Department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The IEEE-HK Joint Chapter of PES/IAS/PELS/IES, and IEEE Communication Society Smart Grid Technical council. No pre-registration is required. Certificate of attendance will be issued.

Technical Seminar - Grid Modernization: Challenges Opportunities and Solutions (EE and IEEE Joint Chapter)

Speaker: Professor Jianhui Wang, Southern Methodist University, USA Date: 18 December 2018 (Tue) Time: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Venue: Room TU103, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University The seminar is jointly organized by EE Department, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The IEEE-HK Joint Chapter of PES/IAS/PELS/IES, and IEEE Communication Society Smart Grid Technical council. No pre-registration is required. Certificate of attendance will be issued.

2018 Christmas Lunch Gathering for EE

Generation and Applications of Chaotic Light

Speaker: Prof. Yuncai Wang, College of Physics & Optoelectronics, Taiyuan University of Technology, China. Date: 7 December 2018 (Friday) Time: 10:00 a.m. Venue: BC304, Main campus, PolyU

Large Group Project Competition completed on 14 Nov

Electrical generator is one of the most important devices in electrical engineering.  Ninety-five students studying Circuit Analysis was divided into 12 Groups forming large group.  They designed three-phase permanent magnet generator from scratch in 8 weeks.  On 14 November, an exciting afternoon of competition finished with Group3 generating output power of 278 mW winning the First Prize, Group7 generating output power of 228 mW winning the Second Prize, and Group2 generating output power of 147 mW winning the Third Prize.