Events

PolyU Summer Programme 2016

Date: 20 July 2016   The 1-Day Summer Programme – Build a Smart Car was conducted on 20th July. The programme aims to promote the TSE programme to secondary school students and there were 26 Form 4 and 5 students participated in this one-day workshop. Participants were given a chance to experience the technologies of image processing, RaspberryPi and motor control. We are glad to know that this programme is well-received by the students. This will motivate us to arrange more activities of this kind to arouse youngsters’ interests in engineering.

STAFF RETREAT 2016

Date: 8th June 2016 Venue: Hotel ICON   The Department has successfully held its annual Staff Retreat at Hotel ICON.  This one-day event was held on 8th June 2016, with the participation of 24 Full-time and Visiting academic and teaching staff members.   This year, the retreat led staff members to go through topics like Review on 4-year Degree Programmes, Teaching and Learning matters covering TPS scheme, streamlining of subjects, final year projects, student activities and other related matters, and updates of research activities.   We have tried to provide a casual and relaxing environment for staff to share and discuss.  Through this annual gathering, more innovative and inspiring ideas are obtained.  

Photonic Research Centre Seminar: High Symbol Rate Coherent Optical Transmission Systems

Speaker: Dr. Greg Raybon - Nokia Bell Labs, Crawford Hill Date:  31st May 2016 Time: 11:00 a.m. Venue: R1108, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Commercial optical interface-rates are approaching 1-Terabit/s but which technology will reach this goal is not clear.  We review the use of high-speed electronics to achieve symbol-rates up to 107-Gbaud and their application to coherent optical systems. Specifically, we show experimental research results from recent experiments using single and dual-carrier 16QAM and 64QAM systems and to achieve 1-Terabit/s.

Graduation Tea Reception 2016

Date: 10th May 2016 Time: 3:45 p.m. Venue: POLYU V1201   The Graduation Tea Reception was held on 10 May 2016 to celebrate the graduation of students after weeks of examination and share the joy and happiness with friends and teachers. The event started with a welcome address by Prof Hwa-yaw Tam, Head of the Department. He highlighted that the Department dedicates to maintain a lifelong relationship with our alumni and is always glad to hear updates from them regarding their job prospects and personal advancement. He took the opportunity to extend the warmest congratulations to our graduates and wish our graduates every success in the future! During the tea reception, prizes and certificates were presented to graduates with Outstanding Final Year Projects and winners in Robot Wars Competition to express our appreciation to their hard work and success. Over 70 graduates and staff members joined this gathering and we all enjoyed this memorable afternoon.  Once again, hearty congratulations to all our graduates and best wishes in their future endeavors!

BBQ Gathering 2016

Date: 10th April 2016   Thank you for participating the BBQ event held on 10th April. The BBQ was held successfully because of your presentations. The BBQ is meant to strengthen the bonding between the current students, teachers and alumni of electrical engineering. With the enormous success of this event, we sincerely believe that we have linked the students, teachers and alumni together as a unit. Thanks to the sponsorship from the department of Electrical Engineering, we notice that there is a climbing trend in the participation of our alumni. It shows the intensity between us as students of electrical engineering. We hope this trend will continue and more alumni will come in the following year. Message from the President of EESS

The Engineering Club conducted a workshop on “Building an underwater robot”

Date: 2nd April 2016 Venue: EF402   The Engineering Club conducted a workshop on “Building an underwater robot” on 2-April-2016. Being one of the HK SciFest 2016 program , the workshop is intended to elevate the public’s interest in science and technology especially related to underwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and at the same the promoting the Department. There were 30 participants with secondary school students attending the workshop together with their teachers as well as parents and their children. After a general introduction, participants began building their ROVs and Engineering Club members were serving as helpers. A group of three 14-year old girls was the first to complete their robot. All participants were having fun and able to test their ROVs. We would like to express our gratitude to the Dr Clifford Choy of School of Design for providing us with the ROV kits that were used in the workshop.

Seminar: Quantization of the SI Base Units and Researches at National Institute of Metrology of China

Speaker: Prof. Tianchu Li Date: 22nd March 2016 Time: 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon Venue: AG710 The quantization evolutions of the SI (International systems of units) time unit "second" and length unit "meter" are introduced. Their realization methods and development trends are overviewed by taking the researches at National Institute of Metrology (NIM) as examples. The discussions on the quantization re-definitions of Ampere (electric current unit), Kelvin (temperature unit) and kilogram (mass unit) and their realization methods, which are currently under active investigations at NIM and other National Measurement institutes worldwide, are briefly introduced.

Robot Wars

Date: 5th March 2016 Venue: EF402 Robot Wars - the first robotic competition organized by the Department was successfully conducted on 5-March. The 6 teams with students from different levels of study took part in the competition with robots designed and built by themselves. After the first round of the competition, 3 robots named Tiger, Fire Phoenix and Hell Boy, entered the second round and competed for the champion.  After the first three games in the second round, Hell Boy lost one of its gear during combat and failed to continue. It was a tie between Tiger and Fire Phoenix after five games and at the tie breaker, it was still not able to name a winner. After careful deliberation of the Judging Panel, Tiger won the final game as well as the Championship of the first Robot Wars, it was also selected by the Panel as the Best Engineered Robot.  The final results of the competition are: Champion: Tiger  First Runner Up: Fire Phoenix  Second Runner Up: Hell Boy Third Runner Up: Tankinbox Best Engineered Robot: Tiger

Our Warmest Welcome to all EE Freshmen!! A Gathering Party

Date: 3rd March 2016   On 3rd March 2016, the Department is pleased to have gathered over 60 freshmen from degree and HD programmes, academic & teaching staff as well as programme support staff for the captioned event. Our academic and teaching staff were invited to give a brief introduction of their backgrounds and research specialties.  A warm welcoming note by Professor Tam Hwa-yaw, Head of Department, was then followed.  To let our freshmen understand more about academic matters and campus life, Dr. Edward Lo, the Associate Head, and Dr YF Fung, Coordinator of various student activities updated and share with them especially on the areas of University’s policy on academic performance, academic advising, upcoming events and activities, scholarship and exchange opportunities.   This event gives a good opportunity for all of us to meet and mingle.  The Department anticipates the relationship between us could be strengthened.  We all wish our freshmen could enjoy their campus life with the University in the next 4 years.  

A Fruitful Sharing with EE non-local Students and Students with Exchange Experiences

Date: 2nd March 2016 Venue: EF402   Having a chance to study abroad even though the period may only last for one semester, students could benefit a lot from learning other countries’ culture and languages apart from the subjects they took.  It is great fun to meet friends and teachers who are from different backgrounds.  Having such a memorable experience is not simply beneficial to the students themselves, it can help improve our teaching and learning if there is a chance that we can share and learn from others’. The Department is eager to obtain feedback from students who have experienced overseas study as well as our non-local students.  We hope through this regular meeting, it can inspire us on how to improve the learning process for our students.  On 2nd March 2016, Professor Tam Hwa-Yaw, Head of Department led a group of staff to meet those students casually in our newly renovated Electrical Engineering Lab (EF402).   A light lunch was arranged and we all enjoyed the sharing under such relaxed atmosphere.