Connecting with Students in the Special Time

When teaching and learning all to be conducted online in this semester, Department keeps interacting with students in various ways. Course lecturers are the frontline ones to keep close contacts with students taking their courses through user-friendly electronic platforms. We also invited all EE students to do a survey for the first two-week of online teaching to let us know how they have learnt.

Dialogue with Parents 2020

Support to Year-1 students from various parties on adapting to the university life is very important, may they be academic advisors, student mentors, peers or family members. Dialogue with Parents hosted by Prof Henry Chung was held on 5 September 2020 over Zoom to let parents of Year-1 students know better about the university life, teaching and learning at EE Department and its support to students, as well as the career prospect.

Department Academic Advisor Visit

The 3-day program was so packed but remarkably meaningful – the DAAs met with different parties that included EE management team, teaching and research team, new hires, students of all levels; and visited department’s state-of-the-art facilities in the lab area; for coming up with a wrap-up that concluded the visit with commendations of the department’s efforts, recommendations for department to sustain our leadership in the field, and constructive exchanges of good practices between different universities.

Prof Henry Chung, Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering shared topic on “Application of a Problem-Based-Learning Model in Designing Electronic Engineering Curriculum”

He is Editor-in chief of the IEEE Power Electronics Letters from 2014-2018.  He was recipient of the CityU President’s Award in 2016 and Teaching Excellence Award in 2018.  He was voted for by EE students as outstanding teacher in the Department from 2008 to 2018 consecutively.  His research interests include renewable energy conversion technologies, lighting technologies, and smart grid technologies.  He has received numerous industrial awards for his invented energy saving technologies.

JS1205 Programme Information Session and its complementary mBot Workshop

F.6 students who were serious in their final choice of studies joined the Programme Information Session for JUPAS Applicants on 26 June which comprised an interactive Technology Play acted by 3 EE students showcasing the latest student-faculty innovative projects, a talk on “Programme and Career Opportunities” introducing our programme and the bloom of EE sector in the recent job market, and parallel sessions of conversations with EE professors at the end to wrap up the day.