Abstract

Our previous teaching experience indicate that the “Innovation and Design” theme needs to be further enhanced for education at CUHK, in particular the training and practice for hands-on experience related to that theme. Therefore, the aim of this proposal is to provide project-based teaching and learning activities in the two courses, i.e. MAEG3920 (Engineering Design and Applications) and EEEN2040 (Building Service Engineering and Green Building), so that the engineering students could gain more experience on nanotechnology and have a deeper understanding on how nanotechnology driven “Innovation and Design” can be applied for practical applications and hence change our daily life.

Nanotechnology is an emerging discipline that studies the structure and materials at the scale of nanometer (i.e. 10-9 m). With the decrease of the size of structures/materials to the nanoscale, lots of interesting new effects and properties will occur. In the two nanotechnology related projects, one is focused on the development of self-cleaning textile, and the other one is related to filtration of PM2.5 air pollutant for better in-door air quality. The Principal Supervisor and Co Supervisor envision that after the project-based teaching and learning activities, the students will have much better understanding of nanotechnology via hands-on practice, and with significant enhancement of their local/global competitiveness on innovation and design.