June 2026 Issue 18 | Excel x Impact@PolyU

Cover Story

PolyU Education 4.0: Reimagining Healthcare Education through Innovation and Technology

Healthcare education stands at a critical turning point. The challenges facing global health systems are growing more complex, the shortage of medical professionals is deepening, and conventional teaching methods are failing to fully bridge the gap...

Cover Story

PolyU Education 4.0: Putting Students in the Driving Seat with AI

PolyU Education 4.0 is redefining learning and teaching through a student-centred, AI-enabled approach that is driving innovation across disciplines. From the Department of Applied Social Sciences' partnership-based pedagogy to the Department of Land...

Cover Story

Elevating the Art of Hospitality: A Look Inside Asia’s Leading Tourism Education

From its humble beginnings in 1979, PolyU’s School of Hotel and Tourism Management has evolved into a global centre of excellence in hospitality and tourism education and research. By fusing innovation with empathy-driven talent and utilising Hotel...

Cover Story

Taking the Lead in Internationalising Education

PolyU is transforming its higher-education ecosystem, and elevating Hong Kong’s appeal to international students Education used to be considered a destination; something with a formal structure, and conducted in a particular location. Today,...

Cover Story

Nurturing Tomorrow’s Interdisciplinary Visionaries

In the quiet corners of the natural world, a masterclass in professional versatility is unfolding. The beaver, often dismissed as a mere builder of dams, is in fact nature’s premier “interdisciplinary engineer”. By instinctively managing water...

Research & Innovation

Innovation in Our DNA, Impact Everywhere

Thousands of votes cast for PolyU research stories underscored the community’s strong resonance with our innovative spirit. At PolyU, innovation is not an aspiration but a way of being. It is sustained by a deep‑rooted research culture that...

Research & Innovation

Researchers Plan Next-generation AI Co-pilot to Tackle Eye Doctor Shortage

Eye care is facing a growing crisis, with too many patients and too few specialists By 2050, over 500 million people worldwide will face moderate to severe vision impairment or complete blindness. That includes Hong Kong, which is seeing growing...

Special Report

Advancing National Priorities through Innovation, Education and Connection

PolyU leverages its scholarly strengths and international standing to support the Nation’s academic and sci-tech ascent on the global stage. In March 2026, China unveiled a new national blueprint that will shape how the country innovates,...

Knowledge Transfer & Entrepreneurship

Welding with Vision

PolyU’s IntraSpect™ “industrial eye” redefines precision manufacturing Behind every electric vehicle battery, smartphone component or high‑performance electronic device lies an invisible challenge: how to weld metals perfectly, every...

Knowledge Transfer & Entrepreneurship

Self-guiding Robot Reinvents Power Generators Inspection

An award-winning project addresses industry pain points, offering electricity providers a way to minimise disruptive downtime and save time, money, and manpower. The boundary between a university classroom and the high-stakes industry front line...

Knowledge Transfer & Entrepreneurship

Human-Robot Collaboration Shaping the Future of Smart Manufacturing

Manufacturing is entering a new era, moving beyond Industry 4.0’s focus on smart factories and interconnected machines towards Industry 5.0—the next wave that puts people at the centre, harnessing technology to enhance human creativity,...