工學院｜
School of Engineering
H
KUST,
ranked No. 23 in the 2007
Times Higher Education Supplement
(
THES
) league table of Top 50
universities for technology, has consistently made it to the top 25 since 2004. It is the only Hong Kong
institution ranked in the top 25 for each of the four years that the survey has been conducted.
HKUST was named one of the world’s top 100 universities in engineering in rankings released by Shanghai
Jiao Tong University in February 2008, and ranked 40th globally in the area of Engineering/Technology and
Computer Sciences. HKUST is the only Hong Kong institution to be ranked among the top 50 in this field.
Ranking criteria include the number of highly cited researchers, articles indexed in Science Citation Index,
percentage of articles published in top journals in the field, and engineering-related research expenditures.
The HKUST School of Engineering strives to offer professional engineering education to develop young people
both technically and academically to better prepare them for the future.
With the launch of the four-year programs in 2012, the School is actively preparing for the upcoming
education reform. In order to give students more flexibility in making program choices, and to ensure
a smooth transition to a four-year system, the School of Engineering is introducing the School-Based
Admission Scheme from 2009. Under this scheme, students will first be admitted to the School, instead of
individual programs, and will then choose their major at the end of the first semester.
The new school-based streams are suitable for students interested in engineering disciplines but hoping to
gain a broader understanding in various engineering disciplines before deciding on majors. In addition to the
existing 13 programs offered, students are given the opportunity to explore their interest further before they
select a program under the new scheme, that adds up a total of 15 programs for students to choose from.
To prepare for the imminent education reform, the School will introduce changes to make the curriculum
more flexible. A key change is to adopt a “three-track” curriculum model to reflect and respond to students’
diverse educational goals, strengthen the language and communication skills of engineering students, and
integrate more co-curriculum activities into programs to enrich their learning experience.
On a global level, HKUST has entered into collaborative agreements with Boeing Phantom Works to research
and develop new technologies associated with wireless communications in Boeing’s planes.
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