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Out of 130 applicants, 30 teachers were selected to join the 4-day teacher training in March at CityU. During the opening ceremony, Prof Stella Pang, EE Head was delighted to share CityU EE as a hub for knowledge sharing between industry, professional organization, and high school network, she also highlighted the upcoming Education Bureau supported Gifted Education Fund (GEF) Project 2021.

Professor Chen shared how he found ways to jump over hurdles and get around roadblocks, so that they did not stop him from moving forward and he hoped his stories could shed some light onto positive thoughts of students when facing adversity in life. Students actively participated in the Q&A session after the seminar.

A total of 39 submissions were received and 24 were shortlisted for voting among all EE undergraduate students. Congratulations to the following winners! Awards were presented to them by Mr Van Ting, EE Mentoring Scheme Coordinator, on 26 February 2021.

The competition used ML to create a model that predicts if one has suffered from pneumonia with medical image processing and various ML techniques. The ranking was based on the average score given by our judge of faculty team including Dr. CHIU Bernard, Dr. SUN Yanni and Dr. YUAN Yixuan.

Congratulations to the winning teams of Machine Learning Contest!

Unfortunately, farewell party could not be arranged given the COVID situation. Nevertheless, the Department has secured an occasion to honor their commitments and substantial contributions rendered to the Department and the University in the past 29 – 31 years, and a souvenir was presented to them as a token of thanks and appreciation. Our best wishes to them in their new page of life!

Dr Ricky Lau 30 years of service		Mr K T Ng 31 years of service		Dr Derek Pao 29 years of service

President Way Kuo was delighted to witness the commencement of phase three of the joint laboratory project and hoped this will contribute to more innovative technologies in the future and help promote technology transfer and commercialisation to benefit our community.

Since its establishment in 2019, the CityU EE Joint Lab Programme has connected with a total of 16 CityU EE Joint Lab Partners. A series of cooperative and technical projects have been/will be launched with these partners.

Front row, from left:

Dr Brian Li (Gold Peak), Prof Stella Pang (EE Head), Prof Way Kuo (President), Ms Cally Chan (Microsoft), Mr Peter Ng (ASM)

Back row, from left:

Dr Alfred Ng (SUGA), Mr Stephen Chau (SmarTone), Mr Andrew Young (Sino)

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Joint Lab Phase 3 Opening Ceremony 2021	Joint Lab Phase 3 Welcome Speech by Professor Stella Pang, EE Head
Joint Lab Phase 3 Welcome Speech by Professor Way Kuo, President & University Distinguished Professor	Sharing from Mr Peter Ng (ASM)
Sharing from Dr Brian Li (Gold Peak)	Sharing From Ms Cally Chan (Microsoft)
Sharing From Ir Andrew Young (SINO)	Sharing From Mr Stephen Chau (SmarTone)
Sharing From Dr Alfred Ng (SUGA)	CityU EE: Joint Lab Phase 3 Closing Remarks by Professor Stella Pang, EE Head

Winners of Outstanding Teacher Awards 2020, namely Dr Ray Cheung, Mr Van Ting, Dr Cheng Wang and Prof Moshe Zukerman, were invited to share their teaching philosophy and experiences with students. Important factors to effective teaching and learning, innovations in teaching, blended approach on programming education, etc., were discussed on the day.

Ways for achieving simple, consistent and accurate marking and checking; how to make use of Canvas for efficient marking; and tips on improving teaching quality were shared. Some TAs were invited to share their teaching experiences as well. The talk ended with active discussion on effective teaching practices among participants.

The gatherings were very fruitful and constructive in a way that good exchanges on university-industry collaborative proposals were carried out for a number of career-related student projects and program, namely Design Projects, Industrial Attachment Scheme, Final Year Projects, Professional (one-year) Internship Program, Career Coaching, Dissertation, Summer Internship for MSc students, and University-Industrial 3+2 PhD Scheme. Opportunities on research activities with faculty were also explored.

More events fostering university-industry collaboration will be organized to bridge our students and faculty with industry friends!