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With Hong Kong’s construction industry plagued by manpower shortages over the past few years, safety has never been more important. As a first, a research team led by Professor Darwin Lau Tat Ming has developed a cable-driven robot which accurately mimics human movement to clean building windows and paint facades. The system is expected to replace […]

2022.11.23

Professor Liao Wei-Hsin has received the China Top Cited Paper Award by IOP Publishing for his research paper that is among the most influential articles from China. IOP Publishing selected the papers from across the entire IOP Publishing journal portfolio within the past three years (2019-21), recognising the top 1% of most cited papers in […]

2022.11.15
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Otitis media is an inflammation or infection located in the middle ear. It is a health problem commonly seen in children, usually caused by upper respiratory infections or bacterial infections. Some patients with fluid build-up, or effusion, need to the undergo the surgical procedure of, inserting a tympanostomy tube (also known as an ear tube […]

2022.11.14
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When Professor Chen Shih-Chi and his team started to develop a new precision tissue-cutting machine for pathological research seven years ago, one of the first things they experimented with was tofu. “In the beginning, we couldn’t find any soft tissues for cutting, and we didn’t have an animal licence for experiments. We went to the […]

2022.10.07
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Congratulations to CUHK’s robotics team for receiving the Grand Prix Award at the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Asia-Pacific Robot Contest (ABU Robocon), which was held online on 21 August. It was the second time CUHK took the award and is a testament to CUHK’s top-level robotics and innovation education. The CUHK robotics team was selected to […]

2022.09.23
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Luquos Energy, a start-up incubated by The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), won the Bronze Award in the TERA-Award Smart Energy Innovation Competition organised by the Hong Kong and China Gas Company Limited (Towngas) and State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). Out of 208 projects from 23 countries and regions, Luquos Energy’s “Safe and Low-cost […]

2022.09.15
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Professor Samuel Au shares insights on leveraging our strengths to contribute locally and to the Greater Bay Area Professor Samuel Au Kwok-wai of the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering spoke about strengthening Hong Kong’s role as an innovation and technology hub, and integrating with the Greater Bay Area (GBA), at the South China Morning Post’s […]

2022.09.09
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We are pleased to announce that Professor LU Yi-Chun has been awarded the title of “RGC Research Fellow” under the 2022-23 Research Grants Council (RGC) Research Fellow Scheme in recognition of her distinguished research achievements. The research project of Professor LU is “Polysulfide-based aqueous redox flow batteries with high stability and high-power density for low-cost […]

2022.08.10
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Congratulations to CUHK’s robotics team Golden Striker, including students from MAE Department, for claiming victory at the Robocon Hong Kong Contest 2022. The 2022 Hong Kong contest featured 14 student teams from eight higher educational institutions. CUHK’s team Golden Striker clinched the Championship and Best Team Spirit Award, while another CUHK team Power Builder finished […]

2022.07.22
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Postgraduate Programmes
The Department offers postgraduate programmes leading to the degrees of Master of Science (MSc), Master of Philosophy (MPhil), and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Mechanical and Automation Engineering.
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The Department has identified six areas striving to conduct pioneer research in Mechanical and Automation Engineering and Energy and Environmental Engineering.
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