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Award of Silver Metal by Professor Eric Cheng

Professor Eric Cheng is one of the awardees of Silver Metal Award in the Inventions Geneva.  His project is “A Smart All-electric Antilock Braking System (ABS)”.  There are also many PolyU awardees as listed here. For details, please visit the official website: www.inventions-geneva.ch.

The EIE Microcontroller Application Design Contest (2020-21) will be held on 8 Feb, at 4:30 pm-7:30 pm via MS Teams (https://polyu.hk/XYmcX).

𝐄𝐈𝐄 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟎-𝟐𝟏)  The Contest aims to promote students’ interest in microcontroller-based electronic product design and to provide a platform for students to exercise their creativity and innovation through teamwork. Join the event via MS Teams to see the presentation of our students' hard work and creativity!  Date: 8 February 2021 (Monday) Time: 16:30 – 19:30 Join via MS Teams: https://polyu.hk/XYmcX  Venue: Room CD634, PolyU   * 𝐼𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑑𝑢𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑂𝑉𝐼𝐷-19 𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑐, 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑣𝑖𝑎 𝑀𝑆 𝑇𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠. For more details about the Contest, please visit: https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/event/madc2020-21/.

Professor Changyuan Yu received the Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Award

Many congratulations to Professor Changyuan Yu for winning this award! The "Faculty of Engineering Research Grant Achievement Award" has been set up by the Faculty Research Committee since 2003, with a view to recognizing the outstanding performance of FENG academic staff members in securing external competitive research grants. 

“Printing High‐Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells in High‐Humidity Ambient Environment—An In Situ Guided Investigation” published on Advanced Science.

The paper "Printing High-Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells in High-Humidity Ambient Environment—An In-situ Guided Investigation", coauthored by Patrick Wai-Keung Fong; Hanlin Hu; Zhiwei Ren; Kuan Liu; Li Cui; Tao Bi; Qiong Liang; Zehan Wu; Jianhua Hao; Gang Li, has been published on the premium open access journal, Advanced Science (IF15.84) in January 2021. The team is led by Professor Gang Li and the first author is Dr Patrick Fong, Senior Scientific Officer of EIE. This research aims at solving critical engineering problems in printing novel perovskite solar cells.  Advanced Science is an interdisciplinary journal covering fundamental and applied research in materials science, physics and chemistry, medical and life sciences, as well as engineering. Advanced Science has a 2019 Impact Factor of 15.84 (Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate Analytics, 2020)). Advanced Science publishes cutting-edge research, selected through a strict and fair reviewing process and presented using highest quality production standards to create a premium open access journal. Top science enjoying maximum accessibility is the aim of this vibrant and innovative research publication platform.

We are pleased to inform you that the new issue of EIE Newsletter has been published

A video about cooking up a fun hybrid learning class with Blackboard Collaborate produced by Dr Pauli Lai will be showcased in the Excellent Teachers on Teaching Excellence Symposium on 15 January 2021.

The Excellent Teachers on Teaching Excellence Symposium 2021 organized by the Educational Development Centre of PolyU under the auspices of the Learning and Teaching Committee will be held online on 15 January 2021. The Symposium provides an opportunity for teachers, educators, and students to share insights and experiences in teaching and learning. Under the theme of the event ‘Turning Challenges into Opportunities for Learning and Teaching in Times of Crisis’, a video about cooking up a fun hybrid learning class with Blackboard Collaborate as a key ingredient produced by Dr Pauli Lai has been selected for showcasing in the Symposium to demonstrate the good practices of addressing the learning and teaching challenges. Interested parties can watch the video at https://youtu.be/uTEDqZqGwMo and register for the Symposium at https://eldss.edc.polyu.edu.hk/ams/registration_single_polyu.aspx?aid=1998.

An Information Seminar for the MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering Programme will be held online on 9 January 2021, Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, via Zoom. Please click here for registration.

An Information Seminar for the MSc in Electronic and Information Engineering (MSc in EIE) Programme will be held online on 9 January 2021, Saturday, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm, via Zoom. You are welcome to join the seminar for more details of the MSc in EIE Programme. Please register for the seminar by 7 January 2021, 12:00 noon, at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/tpginfoday/.  More information about the programme are also available at the following links: https://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/prog/msc/msc_eie_leaflet.pdf http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/msc/application.html   http://www.eie.polyu.edu.hk/mscinfo

Our BEng in EIE graduate, Lam Lai Ying, won the Third-Class Award in the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region IT Project Competition 2020

Our BEng in EIE graduate, Lam Lai Ying, won the Third-Class Award in the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region IT Project Competition 2020 with her final-year project on Mining of Public Transportation Data supervised by Dr Ivan Ho. The competition was organized by the Guangdong Province Federation of Computers with the Internet Professional Association (iProA) as the co-organizer for the Hong Kong Region. In the project, Lai Ying aimed to reduce traffic congestion and suggest alternative routes when MTR incidents happen during morning peak hours in Hong Kong via machine learning techniques. The proposed algorithm was validated against semi-realistic SUMO traffic simulation and empirical mobility traces provided by KMB.

Application for non-JUPAS/Senior Year Admission to EIE programmes has started. An information session will be held on 15 Jan 2021.

We are now accepting applications for the following undergraduate degree programmes from Associate Degree/Higher Diploma students/graduates for the September 2021 entry. Deadline for application will be on 8 February 2021: Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Electronic and Information Engineering (Programme Code: JS3703/42470-SY) Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Internet and Multimedia Technologies (Programme Code: JS3519/42477-SY) Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Information Security (Programme Code: 42480) For information of and application for the above programmes, please visit: http://www51.polyu.edu.hk/eprospectus/ To let students know more about our programmes, especially on how our programmes prepare students to embark on a career in the engineering and the information and communication technologies (ICT) profession, we will arrange an information session with details as follows: Date: 15 January 2021 (Friday) Time: 3:30 p.m. Duration: 1 hour to 1.5 hours Venue: Face-to-Face Session: Room V322, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Pre-registration by 12 Jan 2021 is required:https://polyu.hk/mSCVY) OR Synchronous Online Session (via Zoom): https://polyu.hk/NKqzs

Professor Francis Lau named 2021 IEEE Fellow

Professor Francis Lau has brought an honor to our Department as being elevated to Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective from 1 January 2021, for contributions to analysis of chaotic communications systems and low-density parity-check code design. IEEE Fellow is a distinction reserved for select IEEE members whose extraordinary accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest are deemed fitting of this prestigious grade elevation. Less than 0.1% of voting members are recommended annually by the IEEE Fellow Committee for this honor. To understand more about the IEEE Fellow Program, please visit https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/index.html.