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HKUST 2012-13 Annual Report
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INDUSTRY ENGAGEMENT
The Center for Industry Engagement & Internship
(IEI) was established in Fall 2012 to serve as a
bridge between industry and the School, and
to promote internship and recruitment. IEI
has its own director and is tailored as a one-
stop information and training hub. In addition,
faculty members and industry advisors can coach
students on career planning and critical skills to
be competitive in their job search and beyond.
Early developments include joint workshops
with J P Morgan to inspire students to look
beyond technology industries, company visits to
Apple, Google and LSI Logic in Silicon Valley, and
nomination of students to industry internship
fellowship programs. An inaugural industrial
forum entitled “Empowering Our Engineering
Talents for Globalized Technology Industries”
was organized where multinational corporations
could engage directly with students. A custom-
built mobile app provides the School’s students
with access to up-to-the-minute recruitment
information.
SERVING THE COMMUNITY
In community-oriented moves, a service learning
program was launched in 2013, enabling students
to apply their engineering skills to assist local and
non-local NGOs. The School’s Center for Global
& Community Engagement recognized the
outstanding contributions of 80 students through
the presentation of achievement certificates.
A Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
undergraduate and two teammates from the
School of Business and Management developed
an innovative Elderly Simulation Program called
Eldpathy, which earned them the Champion and
Best Presentation Award at the Hong Kong Social
Enterprise Challenge 2012.
POSTGRADUATE MOVES
There were numerous enterprising developments
in postgraduate education, among them a joint
venture in PhD education exchange with the
University of Toronto and the launch of a joint
MPhil/PhD program with Tsinghua University. The
School also received the largest number of Hong
Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme awardees among
all engineering schools in Hong Kong for the
fourth consecutive year – a position held since
the scheme began.
Overall, international research and taught
postgraduate numbers have grown over the year
due to the School’s continuous outreach efforts,
with students from a wide number of countries in
Asia, Europe, North America, the Middle East, and
Africa.
Postgraduates will benefit from a partnership with
Ford Motor Company, which is bringing its global
Conservation and Environmental Grants program
to Hong Kong for the first time, in collaboration
with the School. In another supportive move,
the School set up the Arthur and Louise May
Scholarship for Young Engineers to encourage
engineering professionals to pursue taught
postgraduate programs. The awards helped to
attract a number of good quality students from
different locations.