External student awards in 2019 / 2020
A student from School of Design, Wendy Law, received the Hong Kong Best Design Award among the 12 finalists at the Techstyle for Social Good International Competition 2019, with her Human Scale class project Aesthesis — The partial hand accessories for amputees designed for her mother who lost her fingers in an accident.
A PolyU Mechanical Engineering student team won the Gold Award of ASM Technology Award 2019. The team members, Roy Chow Hung-ming, Shin Ji-ho and Someshwar Rudra Ajay, supervised by Dr Henry Chu and Dr Curtis Ng, competed with HKU, HKUST, CUHK and CityU.
The PolyU ME team project ASME Competition Robot Development & Vision Based Target Alignment stood out from the rest and triumphed in the competition. The team was awarded HK$50,000 as a scholarship. And the PolyU Faculty of Engineering, as the institution of the Champion, received a donation of HK$100,000 as an encouragement to the outstanding students of the Faculty.
BA year-four student Wesker Au received the champion of the Hong Kong Fur Design Competition 2019, which was held at The Peninsula on 10 January. Themed 'Amazing Nature', the competition attracted over 240 submissions from 120 students with the participation of five local design institutes.
A team of BEng in Mechanical Engineering (ME) students won the 2nd Runner-up in the 2019 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Student Design Competition (SDC) Finals held on 9 November 2019, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
The team, comprising year-four undergraduate students, Parth Maheshwari, Maral Shagatay and Kwan Kai-lok, supervised by Ir Dr Curtis NG of ME developed an agile robot which can swiftly move around to pick and hold different sizes of balls. With tactical strategy, their robot stood out from other competing robots and eventually made it to the Final Four and brought home the 2nd Runner-up!
In the HK4As Kam Fan Award, PolyU Advertising Design students garnered five awards, making PolyU the most awarded school among eight universities and institutions in 2019.
A team which consists of four students — Cheng Tsz-yin, Cheung Chi-ho, Ng Wing-ki, Wong Chun-hei — was awarded the Gold and the Best of Show Awards with their project Meatless Meat Relocation.
Two teams of Occupational Therapy students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) won awards at the 13th International Convention on Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology (i-CREATe 2019) held in Canberra, Australia. The teams won Gold and Bronze awards in the Design Category of the Global Student Innovation Challenge of i-CREATe.
The winning products, “Snaker Spoon” (Gold award) and “Nailed it!” (Bronze award), were developed by Kristy Fung’s team and Elaine Mo’s team respectively. “Snaker Spoon” aimed at both children and adults with special needs, in particular those with upper limb disabilities. It can be twisted like a snake and the angle of the spoon can be adjusted to meet the user’s needs and allow for independent feeding “Nailed it!” is a product designed to help people with weak pinch strength and poor finger dexterity. It allows the user to clip nails using a palmar grasp in neutral wrist position effortlessly.
