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  • Engineering Students Reap Most Awards at Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2019

    Twenty-one student teams from CUHK received awards at the Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2019, held on 25 and 26 May, eighteen of which was formed by students of the Faculty of Engineering.  The University, with the largest number of awards among tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, ...
  • CUHK Shone at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva

    Eleven Engineering projects have received two Gold Medal with Congratulations of the Jury, one Gold Medal, seven Silver Medals and the Prize of the Ministry of Scientific Research and Innovation - Romania in the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. Here is a summary of the Faculty of Engineering’s award- ...
  • Engineering Researchers and Alumna Receive Awards from the Chinese Association of Automation and MIT Technology Review

    Two members of the Faculty of Engineering have each received an award from the Chinese Association of Automation (CAA) and a Faculty alumna has been awarded a distinction by /MIT Technology Review/ for their remarkable achievements. The Faculty is committed to developing innovative technology to improve peoples’ lives and these ...
  • A Safe, High-rate, and Long-life Organic-oxygen Battery: A New Chapter in Renewable Energy Storage

    Alkali metal-oxygen batteries promise high gravimetric energy densities but suffer from low rate capability, poor cycle life and safety hazards associated with metal anodes. A safe, high-rate and long-life oxygen battery that exploits a potassium biphenyl complex anode instead of the problematic potassium metal anode has recently been ...
  • CUHK Appoints Dean of the Faculty of Engineering

    The Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong has approved the appointment of Professor Martin D.F. Wong as Dean of the Faculty of Engineering with effect from 4 January 2019. He will serve for a term of 5 years. Professor Wong is also appointed as Choh-Ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering. Professor Martin D ...
  • Two CUHK Engineering Professors Elected IEEE Fellows 2019

    Prof. Tsang Hon Ki and Prof. Irwin King Kuo Chin, Faculty of Engineering at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), have been elected Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in the class of 2019, for their research contributions to “nonlinear silicon photonics and advanced waveguide grating couplers” and...
  • Prof. Chen Shih-Chi Receives the 2018 R&D 100 Award for Developing the Digital Holography-based 3-D Nano-Builder for Ultrafast Micro-/Nano-Prototyping

    Professor Shih-Chi Chen, Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering and his team have been honoured with the globally prestigious 2018 R&D 100 Award – “The Oscar of Invention” for the development of the Digital Holography-based 3-D Nano-Builder. It can additively write micro-nano-scale components with complex structures in ...
  • CUHK Team Develops a Rapid On-Site Method for Detecting Influenza Virus and Wins Gold Award in iGEM Competition

    A genetic engineering team of 12 undergraduate students from the Faculty of Business Administration, the Faculty of Engineering, the School of Biomedical Science of the Faculty of Medicine, and the School of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Science has been awarded a Gold medal at the international ...
  • Faculty of Engineering Launches Master of Science in Financial Technology in Hong Kong

    Financial Technology (FinTech), an emerging industry that enhances convenience and efficiency in financial activities through the adoption of data-oriented and smart technologies, is bringing revolution to the financial service sector. The development of innovations such as virtual bank and blockchain ...
  • Nano-robots Swarm Learn Collective Morphological Transformation on Animals with Huge Potential for Biomedical Applications

    A new way to control the collective movement of nano-robots has been developed by a research team led by Prof. Li ZHANG, Associate Professor of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering. The team has studied and implemented swarm behaviors on nano-robots, allowing controlled morphological ...

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