Department Events 2022

Jul

2022

Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) - CityU EE Virtual Workshop 2022

The Department is organizing a PhD recruitment virtual workshop to promote our PhD program to interested students. It aims at matching excellent candidates to suitable PhD supervisors in EE and prepare them to compete for the HKPFS later this year.

Date: 29 July 2022
Time: 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Venue: By Zoom
Language: English
Registration: Download application form HERE and send the completed form to eepostgrad@cityu.edu.hk
Application Deadline: 15 July 2022

Link to the poster

Jul

2022

(JS1205) Programme Information Session and Interviews for JUPAS Applicants 2022 by CityU-Electrical Engineering

CityU EE will hold an online Zoom Programme Information Session and Interviews for JUPAS Applicants. Students will join an information session to know about the programme, meet with our Admission Tutors and professors, receive first-hand sharing from current students, and get a chance to ask us questions.

Date: 8 July 2022 (Friday)
Time: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Delivery mode: By Zoom
Details and registration (here)

Jun

2022

Second Farewell Get-together for Three Technical Colleagues

The second farewell get-together was held on 22 June 2022 to recognize three technical staff - Mr K P Chan, Mr S Y Ng, and Mr Stephen Wong who retired after 30 June 2022 for their significant contributions to the department and the university, and shared together all memorable moments. They have served the Department for 32 years.

Over 50 colleagues participated in the event to render their warm wishes and recalled together many good memories. The event ended in wholesome laughter and heartwarming greetings. We wish them all the best in their new page of life after their retirement.

Jun

2022

Media Briefing for Microelectronics Engineering New Major

With the rising demand of new microelectronic technologies as needed in telecommunication, smart home, Internet of Things, biomedical equipment, etc, EE Department aspires to nurture innovative leading IC engineers for Hong Kong, China, and global market. A new major in Microelectronics Engineering will start its admission for 2022. A media briefing was held on 22 June 2022 to introduce the current related market trend, major curriculum and career path of these highly-sought-after microelectronics engineers.

Prof Stella Pang (Head of EE Department); Prof Henry Chung and Dr Alex Wong briefed to the media friends about the new major, its objectives and curriculum, promising career path of graduates, and the co-curricular opportunities during student studies. Ir Dr H L Yiu, Head of Reindustrialization, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation shared about the HK government’s staunch support in re-industrialization of Hong Kong; global, regional and local market in IC design and development; role of industry in support of the market; and the high demand of professional engineers in the microelectronics engineering discipline.

The major provides students sound knowledge of the fundamental principles involved in the design and fabrication of integrated circuits (ICs), and a comprehensive understanding of electronics and information technologies. The curriculum includes application specific IC (ASIC) design for novel applications, nanotechnologies for high-performance devices and microsystems, and new designs and materials for ICs.

Jun

2022

EE Staff Retreat 2022

EE staff retreat is an annual event gathering all academic and teaching staff for discussing departmental strategic areas identified for development.

This year, 40 staff attended the retreat held at the Hong Kong Disneyland Resort on 17 June 2022. Group discussions on topics ‘Opportunities and Teams Identification for Large Collaborative Projects’ and ‘Faculty Recruitment – Focused Areas and Approaches’ have led to various implementation plans for action.

Jun

2022

CityU EE Joint Lab Metaverse Career Fair 2022

Since CityU EE Joint Lab’s establishment in 2019, the CityU EE Joint Lab Programme has connected with a total of 28 CityU EE Joint Lab Partners. A series of cooperative and technical projects have been/will be launched with these partners. In order to support our partners for their talent acquisition, CityU EE organized the first metaverse career fair on 2nd June, 2022, 2:30-4:30pm.

The Virtual Career Fair was held on the Gather platform, a virtual scene that has delegated booths and zones for 8 CityU EE Joint Lab Partners to meet our EE students. Partners including ASTRI, Fujiflim, GP, LSCM, HKPC, Sengital, SmarTone and Suga joined this event. Around 50 people were in the Gather platform and each company had 12-15 interviews in this career fair.

Jun

2022

Admission Interview and Information Session 2022 for Local Direct Applicants

Eight sessions of admission interviews and information sessions were arranged for prospective local non-JUPAS (direct) applicants by Department of Electrical Engineering. The early round admission interviews have been conducted between Dec 2021 and March 2022 and the main round from April to June 2022. About 267 students mainly from UOW College Hong Kong (the former Community College of CityU), HKU Space Community College, PolyU HK Community College, and Vocational Training Council participated. The Admission Tutors Dr Leanne Chan and Dr Alex Wong introduced to the students about the department, her programmes, and admission information; while our current EE students were so enthusiastic to share their University life and various learning experiences with the participants. Group interviews were conducted on the days.

May

2022

EE Annual Awards

To celebrate the achievements of our alumni/ individuals in their career, and/ or servicing CityU EE community, or our society; EE is going to launch our exciting 2nd EE Annual Awards!

Nomination Period: 1 February 2022 – 31 May 2022
Please find more detail of the EE Annual Awards HERE.

Link to the poster

May

2022

Farewell Get-together for Three Long-serving Colleagues

It is with considerable reluctance that the Department is bidding farewell to three long-serving colleagues, Dr Peter Tsang, Associate Professor; Mrs Sandy Cheung and Ms Candy Leung, Clerical Officers I. They have served the Department for 36, 30, and 15 years respectively.

A farewell get-together was held on 30 May 2022 to register department’s votes of thanks.

Some 60 colleagues participated in the event to render their warm wishes and recalled together many good memories. The event ended in wholesome laughter and heartwarming greetings.

City-EE is always open for EE friends to come back and visit us! Our best wishes to Peter, Sandy, and Candy for their new move in life! All the best!

May

2022

CityU-EE Smartone Joint Lab Sky100 5G Lab Visit

CityU-EE Smartone Joint Lab Sky100 5G Lab Visit was held on 10 May 2022. 24 EE faculty members and postgraduates students visited the famous Sky100 at the tallest building in Hong Kong, International Commerce Centre (ICC), and visited the Smartone 5G Lab. During the visit, 4 research seminars were conducted, with an Introduction to Private 5G Network at the CityU EE x SmarTone Joint Lab presented by EdgeNectar. Finally, a fruitful discussion between CityU-EE and Smartone was carried out to explore the long-term partnership and potential research directions.