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ISE takes part in the HKTDC International ICT Expo (15th Edition) to Promote Industry 4.0 and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) Technologies.

The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) was invited by the Institute for Entrepreneurship (IfE) to exhibit in the HKTDC International ICT Expo (15th Edition) from the 13th to the 16th of April 2018 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre (HKCEC). Dr Carman Lee represents Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory to demonstrate the latest innovative solution – “Industrial IoT-based Smart Robotic Warehouse Management System” (https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ife/corp/cntimgs/techsearch/4_ISE_18_0917.pdf), an Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) project undertook with RV Automation Technology Company Limited. The above solution increases the operational efficiency of warehouses. It attracted lots of visitors to enquiry for details. The laboratory members explained the solution-related technologies and knowledge enthusiastically to the visitors. During the exhibition period, knowledge and ideas are transferred and exchanged to public respectively. Finding potential collaborative partners of the visitors would also probably pave the way for more innovative projects to undertake at the Department of ISE and PolyU in the future.

ISE students won the Second Runner-up in CILTHK Student Day 2018

Five final year students, who are studying BSc (Hons) in Logistics Engineering with Management (LEM), participated in the CILTHK Student Day 2018 on 10th March 2018 and won the Second Runner-up. Team Members: LIANG Wenshan (Team Leader) CHAN Tsz Tung FEI Min LEE Pui Yin WONG Wan Wai   The competition, organized by the Chartered Institution of Logistics and Transportation (CILTHK), aimed to provide a competitive arena for stimulating thinking and sharing instructive knowledge among the participants as well as the observers. Each participated team was provided a logistics and/or transport related topic by drawing lots on the event day. After preparation, students were required to give a 10-minutes presentation to demonstrate their understanding, knowledge, argument, analytical skill, logical thinking as well as communication capability. In the competition, the team was given a logistics-related topic "Assess the impacts of free shipping for logistics industry". Wenshan LIANG, the team leader mentioned that the competition is an invaluable experience for students. “It’s been a great honor to win the prize in the CILTHK Student Day 2018. This competition is very meaningful as it deeply discussed the development of the logistics industry in Hong Kong and how it will be affected in the future. Our team has learned a lot from the competition. Our team would like to express our deep appreciation to all staff who held the event and our professor Dr KL Choy for providing full support to our team.”

Media Interview on the Development of Re-industrialization in Hong Kong

The Hong Kong Government plans to diversify Hong Kong’s economy through developing technology and reviving industry in order to attract factories relocate to Hong Kong. “Re-industrialisation” was highlighted as a potential new area of economic growth in the 2016 Policy Address. Dr Carman Lee, Assistant Professor of ISE, was interviewed by media to share the view on the future development of Hong Kong’s Re-industrialization. During the media interview, Dr Lee points out the challenges that factories are facing to achieve Industry 4.0 and the difficulties in attracting undergraduates to join the manufacturing sector. Link: http://varsity.com.cuhk.edu.hk/index.php/2018/03/remaking-manufacturing-hong-kong/

Congratulations to ISE knowledge management team on receiving The Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Business Excellence, Romania

Prof. Eric Tsui and Miss Nikolina Dragicevic (a PhD student) from ISE Department received The Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Business Excellence, 22-23rd March 2018, Bucharest, Romania, for the paper "Using Scenario Development and Personal Learning Environment and Network to Support Curriculum Design". The paper discusses the opportunities of using scenario thinking and development together with a personal learning environment and network for co-designing curriculum with students, teachers, and practitioners in higher education. The paper contends that curriculum informed by such a design methodology would lead to more frequent renewal and equip students with skills to work in the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environment. The conference was organized by Society for Business Excellence and UNESCO Department for Business Administration and held at the Bucharest University of Economics and Commerce, Romania.

Prof. Eric Tsui receives the “Global Knowledge Management Leadership Award 2018”

Representing the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre (KMIRC), Professor Eric Tsui from ISE Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering received the "Global Knowledge Management Leadership Award 2018" from the Global HRD Congress in recognition of his exemplary leadership in the field in Feb 2018. Being an expert in knowledge management, cloud intelligence and business process management, Prof. Tsui was conferred this award which is given to role models in undertaking leadership, innovation, academic and industry interface with an objective to fostering future leaders.  

首間大學推出「工業4.0 」網上公開課程 First university launches a Massive Open Online Course on Industry 4.0

(Source: PolyU Websitehttps://goo.gl/aFV6T9)   PolyU現於edX 平台推出一個以英語教授、涵蓋全面的免費網上公開課程 (MOOC)「工業4.0：如何改革業務」。課程由理大工業及系統工程學系(ISE)徐汝康教授領導，旨為幫助各行各業的機構及人士在思維、技能及知識上為工業4.0的來臨做好準備，受益於工業4.0 所帶來的成果。課程為期八星期，由來自不同大學的教授擔任講師，包括德國的波茨坦大學、美國的辛辛那提大學及中國的哈爾濱工業大學。   PolyU is the first academic institution offering a comprehensive and free Massive Open Online Course on Industry 4.0, conducted in English and entitled "Industry 4.0: How to Revolutionize your Business" on the edX platform now.  Led by Professor Eric Tsui from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) of PolyU, this course aims to equip organisations and individuals from all disciplines to be better prepared for Industry 4.0 in terms of their readiness, skill sets, and competencies so as to reap the success of Industry 4.0. This 8-week course will be co-instructed by professors from multiple universities including University of Potsdam, Germany, University of Cincinnati, USA and Harbin Institute of Technology, China.   有關課程及報名詳情，請瀏覽以下連結： For more details of the course and enrollment, please visit the below links: https://www.edx.org/course/industry-4-0-how-revolutionize-business-hkpolyux-i4-0x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtA17gHLWqw   Media coverage: HKET -                                http://trsurl.com/s/4yo San Antonio Express-News   http://trsurl.com/s/4yn WorldNetDaily -                    http://trsurl.com/s/4yk BizWire Express -                http://trsurl.com/s/4yl benzinga -                            http://trsurl.com/s/4yi Minyanville -                        http://trsurl.com/s/4yj Wards Auto.com -                http://trsurl.com/s/4ym

Talk on STEM in our Space Exploration and Wealth Creation (STEM 在太空探索及創富)

Prof. KL Yung, BBS, Chair Professor of ISE Department, was invited to deliver as a talk on STEM in our Space Exploration and Wealth Creation (STEM 在太空探索及創富) on 19 Jan 2018. Prof. Yung shared with the secondary students on his space exploration projects and their relation with STEM in daily life, which improves the quality of life. Around 280 students from eight secondary schools in Yau Tsim Mong district participated and the talk was well received.

ISE student won the best paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices

ISE student Miss. CAI Jiaxiao have received the best paper award at the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices 2017 for the paper “Higher Individuality for Effective Swarm Intelligence”. This research paper presents a glimpse of the results from the research they have conducted for the final year project which Miss. CAI Jiaxiao completed under the supervision of Dr. Velvet Chen at the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering early this year. The Conference Best Paper Award is presented to Miss. CAI Jiaxiao and her supervisor Dr. Velvet Chen (ISE) for their paper titled, “Higher Individuality for Effective Swarm Intelligence”, and it is highly competitive, with two rounds of selection processes to screen out the top three papers among more than 50 conference papers. The Best Paper Award recognizes their exceptional research merit and industrial impact dealing with a subject related to intelligence computing, communication and devices. The International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication & Devices 2017 (ICCD-2017) is held during December 9-10, 2017 in Shenzhen, China. This conference gathered academicians, researchers, scientists and professionals from around the globe to share their knowledge and expertise in the field of intelligent computing, communication and devices. The selected paper of the International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Communication and Devices 2017 (ICCD-2017) will be published in Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (ISSN: 2194-5357) by Springer-Verlag. The research paper explores way in which robotic swarm system can be developed to be more efficient and flexible with the aid of a novel concept, called swarm individuality. Note the expanding demands of robotic tasks with higher complexity, higher dimensionality, and different information density, other than employing the conventional low cost–effective approach of increasing the number of swarm, this paper intends to adopt higher swarm individuality to design a swarm system with higher flexibility and re-configurability. The proposed swarm system is realized by a target following technique using computer vision and a novel path planning algorithm, directional A* algorithm. With an aim to explore the possibility to apply swarm robot in service sector, the system has been tested with a self–developed swarm robot target following system, the Auto–Cart (a new supermarket service system). It is believed that the proposed swarm system could also be implemented into various sectors such as exploration, rescue, military and agriculture.

全港中小學產品設計大賽2017-2018 (Hong Kong Product Design Makeathon)

理大工業及系統工程學系主辦的Hong Kong Product Design Makeathon 2017-2018「全港中小學產品設計大賽2017-2018」已於2017年11月4日舉行了第一場工作坊，吸引近300人參與。 是次比賽有助鼓勵創意設計，提升學生對產品設計的興趣，同時展示學生在科學、科技、工程、數學(STEM)等方面的學習成果。學生由概念圖開始到原型整合製作都全程負責，透過比賽學生有機會把想法帶到現實中實現，啟發學生的創意及設計的才能。學系安排了大學生導師，對每一組參賽隊伍進行跟進及協助。比賽設有「小學組」和「中學組」兩個組別，不同組別的同學就智能家居、 穿戴科技和衛生保健或復康產品三個領域發揮他們的小宇宙，互相切磋。參賽隊伍將於2018年5月在理大展示他們的作品並作和現場介紹。 官方網站: https://www.polyu.edu.hk/ise/subpages/product-design-makeathon/2017/

ISE student won the Champion and the 2nd Runner-up at the Supply Chain and Logistics Management Innovation Project Competition 2017 and the Final Year Project Competition 2016-2017

Miss Ip Sik Yan Pinky, who is a graduate student in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE), participated in the Supply Chain and Logistics Management Innovation Project Competition 2017, organized by Department of Supply Chain and Information Management, Hang Seng Management College, and the Final Year Project Competition 2016-2017, organized by the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter respectively, together with other contestants from local Universities. After keen competitions, Pinky was awarded the Champion and the Second Runner-up at the two competitions on 7 July 2017 and 26 August 2017 respectively. Pinky, who graduated from the BSc (Hons) in Logistics Engineering and Management (LEM) this summer, received the award of the Champion and the Second Runner-up with her individual project entitled “Study of Physical Activity to Improve Functional Abilities of the Elderly”, which was supervised by Dr W.H. Ip and Dr C.H. Wu. With the problem of population ageing and the policy of “Ageing in Place” in Hong Kong, the student project develops a tailor-made and preliminary exercise program for the elderly to suit their needs and functional abilities on balance training, so as to lower the risk of fall. The performance was validated in terms of accuracy, technical feasibility and safety through extensive laboratory and on-site tests. The Final Year Project Competition 2016-2017 is an annual event organized by the IEEE (Hong Kong) Computational Intelligence Chapter, and is open to all final year undergraduates who are studying in a tertiary institution in Hong Kong, with their individual or group project in an area of computational intelligence. It aims to promote computational intelligence among students in Hong Kong. The Supply Chain and Logistics Management Innovation Project Competition 2017 organized by Department of Supply Chain and Information Management, Hang Seng Management College aims to encourage undergraduate students in the innovation of intelligent and applicable solutions for supply chain, logistics and information management.