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US
Patent Granted to New Innovation from the Mechanical Engineering
Department
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Expertise
in Consortium for Sound and Vibration Research Strengthened
Collaboration with Industry
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Computing Expert Won Silver Award in Cloud
Computing Competition
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Research
Project by ISE Professor Enhances Design of Intelligent Car Parking
System
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Mechanical
Engineering Professor Appointed Associate Editor of International
Journal
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Mechanical
Engineering Publication Ranked Most Cited Articles in Prestigious
Journals
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The
20th International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of
Advanced Materials
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Mechanical
Engineering Department Co-organised Institute of Road Transport
Engineers Symposium
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CEO
Forum Discussed the Way Forward for Engineering Education
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Computing
Student Won Gold Award in Innovation and Technology Project
Competition
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Electronic
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Electronic
and Information Engineering Alumni Gathering
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Paving
Your Way for Success with a PolyU Doctor's / Master's Degree in
Engineering
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Admission
for 2012/13
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A
US patent entitled "Double-Glazed Windows with Inherent Noise
Attenuation" (US 8,006,442 B2) was recently granted to
Professor Cheng Li, Head and Chair Professor of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, Dr Deyu Li, Research Associate and Dr
Ganghua Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow from the "Consortium for Sound
and Vibration Research" of the Department for their innovative
double-glazed window "Quiet Quiet Window" (QQW).
The
new innovation QQW is compact, easy to manufacture, and carries an
inherent design feature that can be exploited to drastically reduce
noise transmission through the window. The project was supported by
the Research Grants Council (RGC) and the Information and Technology
Commission (ITC) through the General Research Fund (GRF) and
Information and Technology Fund (ITF) project.
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The
collaborative research between China Oilfield Service Limited (COSL)
and the Department of Mechanical Engineering has been further
strengthened through a consultancy project led by Professor Cheng Li,
Head and Chair Professor of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering; Dr XJ Jing, Assistant Professor and Dr WO Wong,
Associate Professor of the Department.
The
COSL is a leading integrated oilfield services provider in the
offshore China market. Its services cover each phase of offshore oil
and gas exploration, development and production, involving a lot of
challenging problems and technical innovation. The project is to
investigate the mechanical behavior of a SSP Structure in
logging-while-drilling systems and to evaluate its vibration
suppression performance in protecting sensitive and critical
electronic elements from strong vibration, high temperature and high
pressure environments in measurement and control tasks.
The
collaborative research has established a productive platform for
utilising the expertise in the "Consortium for Sound and
Vibration Research" of the Department for solving industrial
problems.
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Congratulations
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Congratulations
to Dr Jacky Keung, Assistant Professor of the Department of
Computing, who has recently won a Silver Award for his project
"Cloud-enabled Mobile Real-time Intelligent HK Traffic
Information System" at the 1st IEEE Hong Kong Competition on
Cloud Computing Applications, the theme this year being "Mobile
Application on the Cloud Makes a Difference".
The
IEEE HK Competition is the first well-known cloud computing
competition in the region. It was sponsored by Microsoft Hong Kong
Ltd. and jointly organised by IEEE Hong Kong Section, IEEE Hong Kong
CAS/COM Joint Chapter, IEEE Hong Kong Computer Chapter and Hong Kong
Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Ltd (ASTRI).
It aims at promoting cloud computing paradigm and encourages local
students as well as faculty members to develop innovative and
practical cloud computing technologies. Criteria for assessing the
entries include technology application, practicality, creativity,
usability, business value and presentation.
Cloud
Computing is the latest model of computing in which the computing
resources and data are held in large data centers, providing dynamic
computing resources to the users when needed, and can be accessed
over the Internet from anywhere. Under Dr Keung's leadership in this
area, the Department of Computing has established itself as one of
the best known research centers in cloud computing technology.
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Dr
WH Ip, Associate Professor of the Department of Industrial and
Systems Engineering, and Sino Parking Services Limited, a subsidiary
of Sino Group, have entered into collaboration on a research project
in the design of intelligent car parking system. An n-Tier
Distributed Business Intelligent Architecture for the system and its
associated technologies will enhance parking system efficiency and
provide better customer service using state-of-the-art architecture,
envisaged to be widely adopted for future car park service systems.
The
project has received funding support of HK$1M from Sino Parking
Services Limited.
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Right: Professor
Cheng Li, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical
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Professor
Cheng
Li, Chair Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering, has been appointed Associate Editor of "Structural
Health Monitoring: An International Journal".
Structural
Health Monitoring is an international peer reviewed journal which
publishes the highest quality original researches that contain
theoretical, analytical, and experimental investigations, advancing
the body of knowledge and its application in the discipline of
structural health monitoring. The journal is SCI indexed and has an
impact factor of 2.115. Also sitting on this prestigious SHM journal
editorial board is Professor Alan KT Lau, Professor of the
Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Right: Dr
Zhongqing Su, Assistant Professor of the Department of Mechanical
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A
research paper co-authored by Dr Zhongqing Su, Assistant Professor
of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, has recently been
ranked No. 1 most cited article
since 2007 on NDT&E International, one of the highest ranking SCI journals according to
Elsevier. The paper (Lu, Y., Ye, L., Su, Z. and Yang, C.
Quantitative assessment of through-thickness crack size based on
Lamb wave scattering in aluminium plates, NDT&E International,
41(1):59-68), reporting a damage detection approach based on the
authors' intensive research, bears profound impact on the
development of relevant techniques in this area. NDT&E
International enjoys high standing among all journals in the area of
nondestructive testing and evaluation including ultrasonics,
electromagnetics, radiography, optical and thermal methods, and is
well recognised as one of the best in the field. More details at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/ndt-and-e-international/most-cited-articles/.
Another
paper co-authored by Dr Zhongqing Su (Su, Z., Ye, L. and Lu, Y.
Guided Lamb waves for identification of damage in composite
structures: A review, Journal of Sound and Vibration,
295(3-5):753-780) has also been ranked No. 2 most cited article
on Journal of Sound and Vibration since 2006, another eminent
journal in the field.
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Left:
Dragon dance performance at the kick off ceremony. |
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Right: Celebrating
20 years of success of the Symposium on Processing and Fabrication
of Advanced Materials. |
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The
Department of Mechanical Engineering has successfully organised the
20th International Symposium on Processing and Fabrication of
Advanced Materials (PFAM XX) from 15 to 17 December 2011.
World-renowned
groups in advanced materials and processing technologies joined the
symposium to exchange ideas and establish joint projects on frontier
research. Discussion topics included the development of fire-proof
biocomposites, materials for new space launching vehicles, renewable
energies for materials processing and production, life-time
monitoring of materials and structures by using embedded fibre-optic
sensors, nano-coating technologies for structural materials and
multi-functional materials and development.
The
symposium was officiated by Professor Timothy Tong, President of
the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Alan K T Lau,
Professor of the Department and Chair of the Symposium,
congratulated PFAM for entering its 20th year and thanked the
support of researchers and committee members.
World
renowned scholars sharing their recent research findings in the
symposium include:
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Professor
Paul Yu (University of California and Engineering Panel Chair of
the Hong Kong Research Grant Council)
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Professor
Debes Bhattacharyya (Distinguished Professor and Chair of the
Centre for Advanced Composite Materials (CACM) and Plastic Centre of
Excellence at the University of Auckland, New Zealand)
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Professor Alan Crosky (Professor,
University of New South Wales, Australia)
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Dr
John P Gyekenyesi (Structures and Materials Division Engineer
(Chief Scientist) US National Aeronautical and Space Administration
(NASA) Glenn Research Centre)
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Professor
Nobuo Takeda (Professor, The University of Tokyo)
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Professor
Ben Wang (Director of the High-Performance Materials Institute (HPMI)
and Assistant Vice-President for Research in Engineering, Florida
State University)
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Professor
Changchun Ge (Academician of Chinese Academy of Science;
Academician of World Academy of Ceramics; University of Science
& Technology Beijing)
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website of PFAMXX: http://www.a-tech.hk/PFAMXX/Index.htm.
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Dr
CS Cheung (in the middle) and Ir KK Lo (5th from left) were invited
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Institute of Road Transport Engineers (IRTE) of the Society of
Operations Engineers HK Region (SOEHKR) and the Department of
Mechanical Engineering jointly organised the IRTE Symposium 2011 on
10 December 2011 under the theme of "The Algorithm of Service
Quality and Diligent of Safety".
With
Dr C S Cheung, Associate Professor of the Department, as the
guest-of-honour, the symposium addressed the importance of service
quality and safety on road transport and attracted over 200
participants and partners from local transport industry. Ir K K Lo,
Engineer of the Department, gave a speech on Scientific Forensics
Engineering (Traffic Accident).
Mr
Fung Man-keung, Chairman of the SOEHKR-IRTE, and Mr Mou Yun-nin, the
Symposium Chairman, are both alumni of the Department of Mechanical
Engineering.
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speech by Mr Stephen Tetlow, CEO of the Institution of Mechanical
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To
support engineering education and the grooming of engineering
talents, Professor Alan K T Lau, Professor of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering, coordinated the organisation of the CEO
Forum and the Fellow Reception for The Institution of Mechanical
Engineers, Hong Kong Branch at Hong Kong Club on 10 December 2011.
The
topic of the forum "What are the Deficiencies of Current
Engineers?" reflects the growing concern of employers over the
gap between senior and young engineers in terms of experience,
knowledge and capability.
The
forum was well received by over 60 leaders from the Government,
engineering enterprises and companies, including the China Light
Power; Towngas; ATEL Engineering Limited; Hsin Chong Construction
Group Limited; Yau Lee Holding Group; Mass Transit Railways and
Airport Authority.
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Under
the supervision of Dr Ajay Kumar, Assistant Professor of the
Department of Computing, the final-year undergraduate project
"Iris Verification in Real Environment" developed by
student Ms Lau O-hung won the Gold Award in the HKEIA Innovation and
Technology Project Competition co-organised by the Hong Kong
Electronic Industries Association (HKEIA) and Hong Kong Electronic
Industries Association Education Foundation (HKEIAEF).
Automated
personal identification using iris images has been widely used for
high security access control and at border crossings. Iris
recognition technologies currently used require very high quality
images acquired under infrared illumination. Prolonged exposure is
often perceived to be hazardous to eyes. Ms Lau has developed a
working prototype solution for iris recognition using visible
illumination images acquired from Android-based Mobile phones. This
application requires user to provide his or her eye image from the
mobile camera. The image is used to extract discriminative iris
texture patterns to be matched with stored templates to confirm the
identity of the person. This contact-free and low-cost iris
recognition solution using commonly available mobile phones has
attracted instant attention from the application developers in the
industry.
The
HKEIA Innovation and Technology Project Competition gives
recognition to outstanding final-year projects that demonstrate
excellence in technology and innovation. This year more than 30
project entries were submitted by undergraduate students of
electronic engineering and related engineering fields from
universities in Hong Kong.
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Supervised
by Dr Zheru Chi and Dr Hong Fu, the Associate Professor
and Research Fellow of the Department of Electronic and Information
Engineering respectively, three undergraduate and research students of the
Department won the Innovative Spirit Award with their project
"Typing Text Using Gaze Gestures" in the Lenovo Innovative
Design Competition organised by the Lenovo (Hong Kong) Limited in
December 2011.
The
competition aims at encouraging students and researchers to use
intelligent technologies to improve daily life. The winning students
are Mr Chen Zenghai (PhD student), Mr Lee Tsz Yan (BEng in EIE, Year
3 student) and Miss Liang Zhen (PhD student).
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The
EIE Guitar Band performing at the gathering. |
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The
Alumni Association of Department of Electronic and Information
Engineering (AAEIE) held its 5th Alumni Gathering cum Annual General
Meeting at the PolyU's Staff Club Restaurant on 2 December 2011.
Over 160 participants joined the occasion and took the opportunity
to catch up with each other.
Graduates
of the EIE Department are welcome to register as a life member of
AAEIE at http://aa.eie.polyu.edu.hk/.
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Left:
Dr Winco Yung sharing about the programme MSc in Integrated
Engineering providing students with broad-based interdisciplinary
knowledge as well as discipline-based specialisation. |
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Right: Professor
H C Man introducing PolyU Engineering Doctorate to visitors. |
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PolyU
Engineering has developed an impressive portfolio of taught
postgraduate programmes to meet the challenges of the engineering
profession in local and multinational companies. At the PolyU Taught
Postgraduate Info Day held on 7 January 2012, prospective applicants
met professors and gained deeper understanding of the unique
features of our programmes.
A
postgraduate award may change the course of your career. The Faculty
is inviting applications for 2012/13. Find out more about our
application-oriented programmes at www.polyu.edu.hk/study.
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