BSE's student awarded “Outstanding Student Award of Faculty” on 15 March 2016

The Department of Building Services Engineering (BSE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is proud to announce that our BSE student Mr. LEUNG Yu Kit has been selected as the Outstanding Student, Faculty of Construction and Environment, 2015 under the PolyU’s Outstanding Students Award Scheme.

The objectives of the scheme are motivate students to excel in both academic and non-academic pursuits while they are studying and PolyU, and help cultivate a campus culture and communicate a public image favourable to the development of all-round graduates.

The Outstanding Student Awards Presentation Ceremony was held on 15 March 2016 at the Chiang Chen Studio Theatre. At the ceremony, Mr. LEUNG was presented a certificate and a cash prize of $3,000 from Professor Timothy W. TONG, President of PolyU.

The Outstanding Student Awards are given annually to full-time final-year students in recognition of their outstanding academic achievement, strong leadership ability, active involvement in extra-curricular activities, substantial community service experience and exposure, and good personal qualities.

In these 4 years study, Mr. LEUNG received a number of scholarships, including the Gold Prize for the PolyU SPECIAL All-round Student Award in 2014/15, the Sliver Award for Volunteer Service (Individual) in 2004, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Scholarship, Dr Ng Tat-lun Memorial Scholarship, Hong Kong Mediation and Arbitration Centre Scholarship, Fung Scholarship and the Service Learning Scholarship 2014/15.

Mr. LEUNG was being an active participant in various extra-curricular activities and international events, for example Peer Mentoring Programme, student exchange programme at Sweden, the 20th Asia Pacific Youth Conference in Taiwan. In summer 2015, he initiated and developed a web-based programme named “PolyU EasyReg”, which helped students process
their subject registration effectively by providing some automotive functions. There were over 20,000 visits after published on web.

BSE would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mr. LEUNG on his academic success and achievement on winning the award.