Issue 1

Vibrant@FENG - Issue 1 (May 2021)

Welcome to the first issue of Vibrant@FENG, a bi-annual e-newsletter of the Faculty of Engineering (FENG). Our goal is to keep you in touch with the news, achievements and developments of FENG staff, students and alumni. You can sign up for our e-newsletter here.

Cover Story

Researches in Smart Ageing

Smart ageing for better health

A scenario-based product-service system for servitization of gerontechnology for ageing in place

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Departmental News

Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering

Department of Biomedical Engineering

Department of Computing

Department of Electrical Engineering

Department of Electronic and Information Engineering

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Research Achievements

PolyU-made space instruments complete lunar sampling for Chang’e 5

Professor Din-Ping Tsai’s Research Named Top Ten Optical Breakthroughs in China

Areas of Excellence Scheme (AoE) 2020/21

Gold Medal with The Organizer’s Choice Award and Toronto International Society of Innovation & Advanced Skills Special Award in the 5th 2020 International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada

Cover article on the Advanced Optical Materials journal

A paper published by Dr Liang Liu and his Research Associate, Mr Zhaorui Wang, in the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications journal was listed as an Essential Science Indicators (ESI) Hot Paper on the Web of Science

New generation of Batteries & Energy Storage Systems

Mode-phase-difference Photothermal Spectroscopy

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Staff Awards and Recognitions

56 Faculty members ranked as top 2% of the world's most highly cited scientists by Stanford University

2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate Analytics

Prof Din Ping Tsai has been elected 2020 Fellow of National Academy of Inventors USA

Professor Din-Ping Tsai has been elected 2020 Fellow of National Academy of Inventors (NAI), U.S.A.

Professor John Horan won Huibregsten Prize 2020 with his robotics research project “Alice”

2 Scientists from the Faculty received China’s Excellent Young Scientists Fund 2020

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PolyU E-Formula Racing Team

The PolyU E-Formula Racing Team is experimenting with various new developments to enhance the racing car’s performance

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Student Awards

Engineering Doctorate student together with Dr Daniel Lun and Dr Ivan Ho won the Gold Medal in International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva with the invention “Dolphin – Effective Indoor Positioning Service”

First Prize in the 6th IoT Technology and Application 3S Competition for University Students in China

PolyU Capture-the-Flag Team won the Silver Award (Tertiary Institution Category) of Hong Kong Cyber Security New Generation Capture the Flag Challenge 2020

Computing research student team won the 1st National Artificial Intelligence Challenge

Outstanding Student Award of Department of Computing

Industrial and Systems Engineering students won the Champion at the HKIE Control, Automation & Instrumentation Division - CA Paper Award Competition (Postgraduate level)

Industrial and Systems Engineering students won gold with education project on personal finance

Joint Team formed by graduates of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Mechanical Engineering scored Champion at Hong Kong Techathon 2021

Mechanical PhD student won Young Professionals Grant for Inter-Noise 2020

Electrical Engineering student received the CLP - Engineering Studies Award (ESA) 2020

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Alumni Update

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Scholarship and Support to the Faculty of Engineering

PolyU recognises the academic/ non-academic achievements of our prospective and current students through offering different types of scholarships.

List of FENG Scholarships and Awards

The Dean's Honours List of Outstanding Students

Engineering is one of the founding disciplines of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) building on a tradition of engineering excellence for 85 years. We welcome any form of support rendered to the University and to the Faculty’s research, teaching and learning, and student development.

For any form of giving or support, please contact us via email: karen.cheung@polyu.edu.hk or view details at here.

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