Mechanical Engineering (ME) undergraduates and research postgraduates together with students/graduates from other department or university have formed 2 teams to join a start-up competition, the Hong Kong Techathon 2021. There were 4 divisions at the competition, and ME won in 2 divisions.
Team ‘ing” with graduates from PolyU ME (Mohammad Shehzaad, Rudra Someshwar) and School of Design, and HKU with the topic of “Feelit” won the Overall Champion and Champion (Health and Social Impact).
Team “FJ005” with PhD and MSc students from PolyU ME (Wen Weisong, Ng Hoi Fung) and graduates from Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering with the topic of “Indoor visual positioning system for IoT applications” won the Champion (Smart City).
Hong Kong Techathon is a competition for programmers, engineers, designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs to present their business solution ideas and prototypes. Competitors of over a hundred groups from different universities pitched for seed fund and incubation support. This year, the Division has provided one-week online workshops and programmes (2-9 January 2021) guiding participants to brainstorm new business solutions and presenting their ideas to renowned academic and industrial panelists.
