HKUST 2008-2009 Annual Report
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工學
School of Engineering
H
KUST, ranked 24th in the 2008
Times Higher
Education Supplement
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 five 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.
Prof Khaled Ben Letaief will succeed Prof Philip CH Chan
as Dean of Engineering from 1 September 2009. Prof Ben
Letaief is an internationally renowned expert in wireless
communications.
Under his leadership, the School will put stronger
emphasis on student learning and education through the
transformation of our academic curricula and programs,
as well as executing the 3-3-4 curriculum reform; further
enhancing internationalization and bolstering our
established areas of excellence in research while moving
to new priority thematic areas to bring breakthroughs on
a world scale.
The HKUST School of Engineering strives to offer
professional engineering education to better prepare
young people for “engineering” the future. With the
launch of the four-year programs in 2012, the School
introduced the School-Based Admission Scheme in
2009. Under this scheme, students would first be
admitted to the School, instead of individual programs,
and would then choose their major towards 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 enrich student’s exposure and nurture a strong sense of
social responsibility, the School also offered a Community
Service Project course in the 2008-09 Spring semester,
providing learning opportunities through social services in
addition to a series of training in personal development.
