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Students from the BSc (Hons) Scheme in Logistics and Enterprise Engineering win gold with education project on personal finance

A team of five students from the BSc (Hons) Scheme in Logistics and Enterprise Engineering have won the Gold Award in the “Excellent Financial Education Project”, Personal Finance Ambassador Programme 2019/20, co-organised by the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, Investor and Financial Education Council, and St James’ Settlement. Based on the theme of e-payments, the team, comprising Chan Kam-fai, Kwok Chun-yin, Li Tsz-chung, Wong Chun-hoi and Yu Shun-kit, built an online platform of videos and games, which they promoted through social media channels, such as YouTube and Instagram, to educate other students about key concepts in financial management. Their creativity and adaptability were commendable. Alongside winning a trophy and cash prize, the team was also awarded the Personal Finance Ambassador Certificate. Source: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cpa/Ebook/Excel_X_Impact/June2020/index.html#page/46

Advanced laser manufacturing to enhance protection of surgical masks and N95 respirators against COVID-19

Dr. Mitch Li's group developed novel laser manufacturing processes for printing superhydrophobic and photothermal graphene and silver nanoparticles for surgical masks and N95 respirators against COVID-19. Funder: These works are funded by our ISE department and State Key Laboratory of Ultra-Precision Machining Technology. Publications: Plasmonic and Superhydrophobic Self-Decontaminating N95 Respirators Reusable and Recyclable Graphene Masks with Outstanding Superhydrophobic and Photothermal Performances Graphene joins the fight against COVID-19

ISE graduate won the HKIE LTD - Best Student Papers Awards 2019

Law Tsz Yan, who is the graduate of BSc in Logistics Engineering with Management, won the HKIE LTD - Best Student Papers Awards 2019 with the project titled “Workflow Study of Internet of Things (IoT) Application for Smart Manufacturing”. The project made use of the risk assessment by means of Fuzzy AHP to identify to key risk factors that the electronics manufacturing company may encounter during the electronics manufacturing process. With the increasing demand for high-tech, feature-rich and high-quality products, the smart manufacturing with the IoT application is suggested to addresses the identified risk for satisfying the market needs and improving operational efficiency. The award was the annual event organized by the Logistics and Transportation Division of The Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE-LTD). It is for the student studying accredited Logistics or Transportation Engineering Degree Programs in Hong Kong and have completed an outstanding dissertation on logistics or transportation engineering. It aims to promote innovative ideas and research in the design and implementation of sustainable logistics and transportation systems and encourage them to pursue their career in engineering profession.

ISE graduate won 1st runner up in Classified Post Hackathon 2019

Mr Wenqiang Li who is the graduate of BSc in Enterprise Engineering with Management participated and won the 1st runner up in Classified Post Hackathon 2019. His project is on rocket emergency department under the supervision of Dr YM Tang. Classified Post Hackathon is a 24 hours challenge for students and fresh graduates to build winning digital solutions for large corporates. The event is for participants to turn ideas into reality and will serve as a platform for them to develop their prototype, enhance their problem solving skills and to learn and meet with technology industry leaders. And at the same time for corporates to explore shining stars from the participants.    

ISE won the “Equipment and Machinery Design Award” in the 2019 Hong Kong Awards for Industries (HKAI)

It is delighted to announce that Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory won the “Equipment and Machinery Design Award” in 2019 Hong Kong Awards for Industries (HKAI), with the project titled “An Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based Smart Robotic Warehouse Management System”. This system is jointly developed by Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory and RV Automation Technology Company Limited, which redefines logistics operations by using autonomous mobile robots and adopting advanced intelligent robotic algorithms for better operational efficiency, labour utilization and space utilization in logistics. This award comprises seven categories and supported by the Trade and Industry Department, HKSAR. For the equipment and machinery design award category, it is organized by the Chinese Manufacturers' Association of Hong Kong. It aims to encourage the upgrading of the design of equipment and machinery in Hong Kong so as to enhance competitiveness, and to give recognition to outstanding products. Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory will continue exploring innovative technology and contributing to various industries in Hong Kong. For more details, please visit CPS Laboratory’s website, https://www.cps.ise.polyu.edu.hk/   Trophy of “Equipment and Machinery Design Award” in 2019 Hong Kong Awards for Industries (HKAI)  

ISE graduate won the “Best Retail Innovation Concept Award” in Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award 2019

It is delighted to announce that Mr. Kong Zi Git, graduated from BSc (Hons) in Enterprise Engineering with Management, won the “Best Retail Innovation Concept Award” in Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award 2019. This competition honors the outstanding industrial practitioners in order to recognize and encourage excellence in retail technology adoption. Mr. Kong presented an ideal of IoT-based Real-time Parking Space Sharing Platform, which is supervised by Dr. Carman Lee. The parking space shortage problem is occurred in many crowd cities, especially in Hong Kong. Simultaneously, the sharing economy concept becomes more and more popular which leads to the development of resource sharing online platform. The idea of mobile-based parking space sharing online system is proposed which it provides the major functions for the users, such as leasing, renting, communicating and reporting. The platform acts as an intermediary between owners and seekers.

ISE won the “Media Choice Innovation Award” in Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award 2019

It is honored to announce that Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory (former RFID/IoT solutions Laboratory) won the “Media Choice Innovation Award” in Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award 2019. Hong Kong Retail Innovation Award 2019 is organized to honor the outstanding retailers and technology vendors driving the innovation. The RobEx Centre, which is jointly developed by Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory and RV Automation Technology Company Limited, is highly recognized its excellence in retail technology adoption and earned the award. The RobEx Centre is a 24/7 express center applying robotics technologies and smart warehousing technologies to offer express courier to customers. Customers can collect parcels delivered by multiple express companies whenever best suits their schedule. Considering the land shortage situation in Hong Kong, the smart warehousing system calculates and maximizes the use of space within the venue. With aid of the system, robots can be functioned efficiently and coordinately to deliver goods immediately and safely. Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory will continue exploring innovative technology and drive Hong Kong closer to realize Smart City in the future. For more details, please visit the CPS Laboratory’s website, https://www.cps.ise.polyu.edu.hk/

Research team develop VR systems for medical purposes

Led by Dr Y M Tang, the research team have developed several applications with Virtual Reality (VR) technology for medical purposes. Media Coverage on TVB “Innovation GPS” (創科導航) https://rplg.co/ebc1fce0 (11’00” – 19’20”)   1. Virtual Hand Therapy Exercise for Stroke Patients Dr Y M Tang of Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering worked with a team from Department of Rehabilitation Sciences to develop the “Virtual hand therapy exercises” for stroke patients to regain hand mobility through training their impaired hand muscles to perform simulated daily tasks. A patient can perform rehabilitation therapy at home anytime which speed up the rehabilitation process.  Data of the training will be stored and shared with medical professionals in order to keep track of the recovery progress for follow-up. 2. Application of VR Technology on Blood Taking Training An application has been developed to provide blood taking training to medical staff in an immersive environment by making use of VR technology.  The application not only allows doctors and nurses to practise blood taking procedures repeatedly under controllable conditions,  but also helps reduce the training time, cost and waste of disposable materials such as syringes, sterile glove packs, etc. compared with the traditional training method.   It is expected that the outcome of the project would be beneficial to thousands of medical staff members that require training in blood taking.   The application has been adopted by the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.  

ISE student received 2nd Runner Up Award in the “HKIE – MI Student Project Competition 2018-19” by HKIE Manufacturing & Industrial (MI) Division

Mr CHEN Chun Hei (Harry), who is a graduate student of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), received 2nd Runner Up Award in the “HKIE – MI Student Project Competition 2018-19”, a competition organized by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) – Manufacturing & Industrial (MI) Division. Harry, who graduated from BSc (Hons) in Logistics Engineering with Management (LEM) programme in 2019, won the award with his final year project titled “An Evolutionary Knowledge Management System for Assessing Needs of Long-term Care Plan 2.0”, which was supervised by Dr KL Choy. The Long -term Care Plan 2.0 is suggested by Taiwan Government to reduce the pressure of public healthcare system with aging population. The project made use of the case-based reasoning (CBR) approach and k-means clustering for care plan formulation with referencing high quality past cases. The proposed system was constructed into a web-bases system. It was validated through the case study in local health consultancy company, and thus the work is deemed to be feasible and practical for the industrial uses. Congratulations again to the winner and we are very proud of our student for the excellent project work and performance.  

ISE student won the second place of the IEOM Undergraduate Research Competition Award in the 3rd European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management

Mr. Lo Cheung Yu (Alex), who is a graduate student of Enterprise Engineering with Management, won the second place of IEOM Undergraduate Research Competition Award in the 3rd European International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management. The awarded paper title is “A Scalable Approach for Vehicle Routing Problem with Reinforcement Learning” which is supervised by Dr. Carman Lee. His paper aims to minimize the time required for vehicle routing by designing a nearly optimal routing path. The performance of the reinforcement learning model is obtained using a sequence to sequence deep learning network trained by policy gradient with the losses calculated by the REINFORCE algorithm. The model can be integrated into logistics systems for optimizing the operational efficiency. The conference is organized by IEOM Society International, from 23-26 July 2019 in Pilsen, Czech Republic. It aims at providing a platform for academics, researchers, scientists and practitioners to exchange ideas and bridge the gap between the Industrial Engineering and Operations Management theory and its application in solving the most current problems and challenges faced by 21st century organizations. Thanks to the financial support by International Affair Office, Alex can travel to Czech Republic to present his research work and exchange idea with peers. It also brings a fruitful learning experience for him and enable him to join the international event. Congratulations again to the winner and we are very proud of our student for the excellent project work and performance in the international event. Second Place of IEOM Undergraduate Research Competition Award