Student Events 2021

Jun

2021

CityU EE Tech Tour 2021

CityU EE Tech Tour 2021 was held on 4 June 2021. 4 EE faculty members together with 48 EE Undergraduate, Master and PhD students visited the Hong Kong Science and Technology Park to explore “Technology Trends and Opportunities in Hong Kong”. The students also met up with EE Alumni in the startup community, and visited research centers including ASTRI and LSCM.

This tour was designed based on “play and learn” educational theory. By merging the visit to high tech companies with group project, competition and presentation, all the students found this tour very inspiring and eye-opening! 8 EE student winners include: He Houbo, Li jiaxing, Cai Mau Yin, Yupei Zhang, Alvi Rahman, Zhao yangyang, Wang Zhenzheng, Yuvraj Patra, Abdurrashid Sanka, Yan Boxun and Hon Shing Hei.

Videos


Tech tour 2021 - 1 min video		Sharing from Ms Jojo Cheung (Chief Marketing Officer of HKSTP)

Sharing from Ms Pauline Ko (Associate Director of HKSTP)		Sharing from Mr Edward Chan (Associate Director of HKSTP)

Sharing from Chun and Tommy (EE Alumni in HKSTP)		Sharing from Mr Jimmy Tao (CEO of Vitargent)

Sharing from Mr Jack Wong (Director of Zetakey)		Sharing from Mr John Tang (Founder of CityImage)

May

2021

Commencement 2021 – EE Sessions

We are proud to present our graduates of 2021 at Commencement of EE Sessions held on 28 May 2021. About 400 graduates, their parents and EE professors attended the ceremony to share the joyful and exciting moment together.

Apart from individual presentation on our graduates, there was prize presentation to recognize the excellent teaching of our professors. The big day ended joyfully by group photo taking among graduates and EE professors in the hall as well as at different campus photo-taking shots with fascinating backdrops set up by the University.

May

2021

AWS Smart City Training

AWS is delivering a Smart City training through introducing what you should know about Smart City with AWS IoT architecture and illustration of several business use cases on Smart City.

Date: 26 May 2021
Time: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Registration:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSct7l7QKj0RxPG5-uwaoL3KAQ6eHwChsjBC4x7IfB4IEVw6xg/viewform

Please find more details HERE.

Apr

2021

EE Student Tutoring Scheme - Presentation of Awards

EE Student Tutoring Scheme is a long established learning support activity offering to EE undergraduate students. Study groups on course-based, led by senior students (student tutors) with good academic performance, are formed serving as a platform for providing academic support to peers (tutees).

Students discuss problems and solve questions together during the weekly meeting throughout the semester. Apart from discussing academic matters, students also share and exchange their general experiences on personal development during university studies with their group mates at the meet-up.

To encourage active participation to the Scheme and to recognize outstanding performance of student tutors and tutees, Significant Improvement Award, Excellent Performance Award and Best Student Tutor Award are established. A prize presentation was held on 28 April 2021 to celebrate their achievement. Please check here for the list of award recipients. Congratulations!

Apr

2021

Postgraduate Seminar: My Stories of Conducting Research as an Early-career Researcher

Dr Wang Cheng, Assistant Professor of EE, delivered a seminar titled “My Stories of Conducting Research as an Early-career Researcher” in mixed mode to all postgraduate students on 26 April 2021.

During the seminar, Dr Wang shared with students some his stories on research career development, in particular during his PhD years. His genuine sharing of facing ups and downs provided insights to students on how to plan for PhD study and how to conduct good and solid research work. The session rounded up with active discussion and full of encouragement.

Apr

2021

EE Final Year Project Competition 2021

The Final Year Project (FYP) Competition was successfully held on 26 April 2021. A total of 32 projects entered the semi-final which was a poster session. All semi-finalists were enthusiastic and professional in introducing their innovative and novel ideas in their project works. Six of them were immediately selected after the semi-final to compete in the final round held on the same day for Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Merit prizes! This year, we got four new prizes in “Honorary Mention” to encourage more good performers!

The judging team for final presentation was composed of three faculty members and three guests from the industry who had donated all the cash prizes for this competition.

Please see here for competition details.

Event video

Apr

2021

Lion Rock Hike

With the lead of two EE faculty, Dr Sammy Chan and Mr Van Ting, a small group of EE students comprising Year-1 students, student mentors and student tutors had been to hiking on 25 April 2021, a time to chill out and relax before gearing up for attempting final examination.

They hiked from Lion Rock Country Park, climbed up to Amah Rock and finished this good exercise at Hung Mui Kuk. When situation allows, Department is ready to organize more this kind of get-together with EE students in all levels for networking and exchange.

Apr

2021

EE Photography and Digital Art Competition

EE Photography and Digital Art Competition with the theme “Electrical Engineering in 2021” was held in Semester B 2020/21 to provide an opportunity for EE students to demonstrate their creativity and maximise their potential to the fullest through artwork creation.

A total of 48 submissions were received. Congratulations to the following winners! Awards were presented to them by the judge panel, Professor Ben Leung, Dr. Chim Hung and Ms Jenny Lim, on 23 April 2021.

Champion	CHAN, Yiu Yu
First Runner-up	KHAN, Tayyab Ali
Second Runner-up	LEUNG, Ching Yee Angel

Apr

2021

EE Student Chapter Company Visit

To learn about career opportunities and to gain industry insights, EE Student Chapter (EESC) organized a company visit to Gold Peak Industries (Holdings) Limited on 8 April 2021

Students interacted with executives and employers to learn about relevant job opportunities, as well as gain insights from their iconic products. They actively asked questions during the visit to know more about the company and were excited by the job opportunities and the challenges ahead.

Student Reflections

Apr

2021

Major Allocation Information Sessions 2021

To facilitate EE Year 1 Students in choosing their majors (Computer and Data Engineering/Electronic and Electrical Engineering/Information Engineering) in the Major Allocation Exercise held in June 2021, three information major sessions were held on 7 and 8 April 2021.

The sessions successfully attracted 196 student counts. By joining the sessions, students got more thorough understanding about the features and curriculums, learning opportunities, career prospects of graduates, comparison of majors, etc. of the three majors being presented by our Year 1 and Major Programme Leaders – Dr Sammy Chan (Year 1), Dr Yanni Sun (CDE), Dr Andy Chan (ELEL), and Prof H C So (INFE).