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Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering Celebrates the First AAE MSc Dinner

The first AAE MSc Dinner was held to celebrate the achievements of AAE's MSc students in 2022-23. The memorable evening was attended by 23 students and 15 academic staff. The event began with a congratulatory speech by Prof. Chih-yung WEN, the Head and Chair Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, AAE, who praised the students for their hard work and great achievements. This was followed by speeches from Prof. Christopher CHAO, the Vice President (Research and Innovation), and Dr Hailong HUANG, the representative of the teaching professor. The Department was also honoured to have Dr Chili WU, the Chairman of Hong Kong Young Scientist Association, as a guest speaker, who offered words of encouragement to the MSc students. Mr Henry CHAN and Mr Li CHENG, the student representatives of Class 2022, also gave a speech on behalf of their class, thanking the teachers, the Department, and the University. Congratulations to the 12 students who completed 30 credits within one year, an accomplishment that is ahead of the normal duration. Your hard work and dedication are truly commendable. The Department takes pride in the achievements of Class 2022 and wishes you success in all your future endeavours.

Dr Hailong Huang secured the Smart Traffic Fund

The project titled “Development of a Personalised and Connected Advanced Driver Assistance System”, led by Dr Hailong Huang, Assistant Professor of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, was awarded the Smart Traffic Fund (STF) with a total amount of $ 4,510,578. This project aims to develop a personalised and connected advanced driver assistance system, which covers both driving habits of individual drivers and motion prediction of surrounding vehicles, so as to improve driving safety by providing predictive warnings and driving advice.   STF set up by the Transport Department of the HKSAR Government provides funding support to local organizations or enterprises for conducting research and application of innovation and technology with the objectives of enhancing commuting convenience, enhancing the efficiency of the road network or road space, and improving driving safety. More details can be found at www.stf.hkpc.org.   Read the approved note in full on the Hong Kong Government Press Releases page: https://stf.hkpc.org:8443/2023/03/29/psri-47-2209-pr/

PolyU and COMAC co-organise International Science and Technology Innovation Week and collaborate on advancing aviation research

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, Ltd. (COMAC) co-organised for the first time an international innovation week and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate on advancing civil aviation technology. With the theme of “Digital Aircraft: Industry Empowerment,” the 6th COMAC International Science and Technology Innovation Week was co-organised by COMAC, PolyU and Tongji University and held in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province to promote collaboration on innovations. Over 500 experts and scholars from government, academia, research institutions and industry attended the week-long event that ended today. They exchanged ideas on basic as well as frontier science and technology in areas such as aviation Big Data, artificial intelligence and advanced materials. PolyU and COMAC also signed an MoU to promote technological innovation in civil aviation. Both sides will collaborate on research, talent development and knowledge transfer in the areas of artificial intelligence, Big Data and new materials. The MoU was signed by Prof. Christopher CHAO, Vice President (Research and Innovation) of PolyU, and Mr TAN Wangeng, Director and Deputy Party Secretary of COMAC. Prof. Christopher Chao said, “This collaboration aims to inject new impetus into the development of civil aviation and related fields, while jointly promoting technological innovation and industrial development. PolyU will join hands with COMAC to create more opportunities for exchange between academia and industry.” Mr HE Dongfeng, Chairman and Party Secretary of COMAC, said at the event, “Promoting an ecosystem to foster collaboration among industry, academia, and research institutions is important for the development needs of commercial airliners and is demanded by technological trends. In light of the new wave of technological revolution, we need to establish an innovation chain for airliner development supported by talents, innovation, and partnerships between industry and academia.” At the event, leading PolyU scholars met with industry professionals and shared their insights on cutting-edge technologies and development trends in civil aviation. Among them were Prof. H.C. MAN, Dean of Faculty of Engineering and Chair Professor of Materials Engineering; Prof. Chih-Yung WEN, Head of Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering and Chair Professor of Aeronautical Engineering; and Prof. CAO Jiannong, Director of Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things and Chair Professor of Distributed and Mobile Computing. Prof. Wen also delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the event. COMAC, headquartered in Shanghai, is engaged in the research, manufacturing and flight testing of civil aircraft and related products, with the mission of implementing large-scale passenger aircraft programmes and realising the industrialisation of civil aircraft in China. PolyU’s Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering is ranked number 1 in Hong Kong by ShanghaiRanking. It plays a crucial role in bridging research and industrial needs in the aviation and aeronautics field. In addition, the Aviation Services Research Centre (ASRC) is an applied research centre founded by PolyU and Boeing Company. It aims to develop new or improved aviation service technologies applicable to the Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) industry and beyond.   Reposted from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University [Original post]

Outstanding Student Award of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering (AAE) 2022

We are delighted to announce that Mr LAM Yat Long, a Year-4 BEng (Hons) Aviation Engineering student, was selected as the Outstanding Student of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering 2022. The award scheme is organized annually by the University to recognize full-time final-year students who excel in both academic and non-academic pursuits during their studies.  Please join us in congratulating Mr Lam.   Read more about the Outstanding Student Award Scheme and the full list of awardees in 2022.

AAE Student Awarded HKIE Scholarships 2022/23

An AAE student Mr ANG Jershon Ainsleigh Entote was awarded The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) Scholarship 2022/23. He is one of the three awardees among all eligible institutions in Hong Kong this year. The HKIE Scholarship scheme aims to recognize the academic achievements of outstanding full-time engineering undergraduate students and to develop them into future engineers. Each year, the scholarship is awarded to two to three students who major in HKIE-accredited engineering programs in any local university.   Congratulation to Jershon!

AAE Master Student won the Gold Prize at the Hong Kong Engineers Week 2023

One of our AAE master students, Mr. CHENG Li (team leader), in collaborating with a CEE Student Mr. ZENG Haoxu, EBM Student Ms. YU Lingyan, BEEE Student Ms. WANG Fuqiu, and EE Student Ms. CHENG Jie, won the Gold Prize with HKD 5,000 cash award at the “Hong Kong Engineers Week 2023 The Innovation Competition: Our Livable City, We Engineer” for their project “the Moss”. The team, Prof. WEN Chih-Yung and Dr HUANG Hailong (the advisor of the project) were invited to the “Hong Kong Engineers Week 2023 Opening Ceremony” on 3 March 2023 at the Hong Kong Palace Museum to celebrate the excellent achievement and share the project with the officiating guests and engineers. “The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers: Hong Kong Engineers Week 2023 The Innovation Competition: Our Livable City, We Engineer” is organized by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and invites students to become engineers by transforming their vision of a future city into 3D models and videos. Through leveraging their creativity and incorporating concepts such as smart city and sustainability into their designs, they live the lives as engineers and take pride in creating a future livable city. The next-generation city Quantum, the work of the team, is a future city highly integrated with green energy, sustainability, and intelligence transportation, based on the Internet of thing system MOSS. MOSS system displays personal physical condition and life information to individual users and collects and processes the overall information of the city. For more details: https://youtu.be/Gb5hNA439OA The Department is proud of Mr CHENG’s outstanding performance. Congratulations!

AAE students and alumni visit the Civil Aviation Department Headquarters

116 AAE students and alumni visited the Civil Aviation Department Headquarters (CAD HQs) in February and had a valuable tour to its facilities, including experience sessions in the Control Tower Simulator (CTS) and the Radar Simulator. An Air Traffic Control Officer first shared with students his career journey and provide an insight into the career development in the CAD. Students and alumni then had a tour in the Radar Simulator to get to know the air traffic control procedures as well as the training of Air Traffic Control Officers. Next, students visited the Control Tower Simulator (CTS), which is equipped with state-of-the-art projection and image generation technologies. During the tour, students are able to experience to be an Air Traffic Control Officer through a simulation training. The tour is concluded with a visit of Aviation Education Path. Thank the Civil Aviation Department for giving AAE students and alumni such a precious experience! AAE has been actively engaging with different industrial partners to provide students insight in the aviation industry. For more details about CAD, please visit: https://www.cad.gov.hk  

Dr Li-Ta Hsu received 2022 Per Enge Early Achievement Award

The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its 2022 Per Enge Early Achievement Award to Dr Li-Ta Hsu, Associate Professor of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, in recognition of his outstanding research leadership and innovation in urban navigation and positioning. He pioneered the application of GNSS vector tracking to detection and mitigation of NLOS reception and multipath interference. The award was presented during the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) and Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting held January 23- 26, 2023 at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California. Dr Hsu has made numerous contributions to urban navigation. He has been focusing on improving the accuracy of positioning in urban canyons by the use of lidar and 3D-mapping-aided (3DMA) GNSS. Dr Hsu is a world leader in 3DMA GNSS. Dr Hsu is now collaborating with various industrial partners to implement 3DMA GNSS, GNSS vector tracking, and lidar SLAM algorithms in their products. About Per Enge Early Achievement Award The Per Enge Early Achievement Award recognizes an individual early in his or her career who has made an outstanding achievement in the art and science of positioning, navigation and/or timing and is given in memory of Professor Per Enge, a brilliant engineer and teacher who used his cheerfulness and enthusiasm to inspire others through education, advising and mentorship. About ION The Institute of Navigation is a not-for-profit professional organization advancing Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT). The Institute is a national organization whose membership spans worldwide. Additional information about the ION can be found at ion.org.   Read more at https://www.ion.org/awards/2022-Early-Achievement.cfm

PolyU Collaborates with Meituan to Develop Vision-aided Positioning System for Parcel Delivery by Drones in Urban Canyons

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and Meituan joined hands to conduct a research project to improve the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for parcel delivery in urban canyons. Led by Dr Weisong WEN, Research Assistant Professor of AAE, the project “Vision Aided GNSS-RTK Positioning for UAV System in Urban Canyons” received support from Meituan. PolyU was the only institute funded by Meituan in the field of UAV perception. Prof. Chihyung WEN, Head and Chair Professor of Aeronautical Engineering said, “This project could effectively improve the positioning accuracy and reliability of the UAV systems for autonomous parcel delivery in complex urban canyons. The collaboration with Meituan demonstrates one of the successful knowledge transfer examples of the Research Center of Unmanned Autonomous Systems in AAE.” Prof. Guoquan Huang, the technical lead of Meituan UAV, said, “Reliable positioning in dense urban canyons is a challenging problem that prevents the massive deployment of UAV systems. Dr. Wen’s research could improve the UAV positioning, potentially unlocking a series of UAV applications in dense urban canyons” PolyU Research Center of Unmanned Autonomous Systems (RCUAS) RCUAS plays a vital role by providing physical unmanned autonomous systems (UAS) research and development platforms to synergise the impactful and cross-disciplinary research conducted in PolyU, and it facilitates collaboration with leading partners. Meituan Meituan is a one-stop platform for food, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment. As a tech-driven retail company, Meituan has advanced the digital upgrading of services and goods retail on both supply and demand. Meituan was listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in 2018.

AAE Student won the IET Prize 2022

Our BEng (Hons) Aviation Engineering Year 2 student Mr Jershon Ainsleigh Entote Ang is being selected as the awardee of the IET Prize 2022. The IET Prize is presented by The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Hong Kong. Apart from outstanding academic results, the awardee is also selected based on his strong leadership ability demonstrated in his extra-curricular activities, engineering institution and community service. Mr Ang will join the IET mentorship program and have a chance to learn the experience from the IET senior members. He will also serve as the student ambassador of the IET Hong Kong. Please join us in congratulating Mr Ang!