HKUST Annual Report 2017-18

55 At the same time, a self-financed Executive Master of Business Administration for Eurasia Program between the School of Business Management and the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, with a particular focus on Eurasia, had been introduced. The part-time program, lasting 17 months, is designed to help forward- looking business leaders capitalize on new markets and opportunities emerging across that extensive region, partly as a result of the country’s Belt and Road Initiative. During the review year, the Division of Integrative Systems and Design, as well as Department of Ocean Science, were established while there was a change of names of certain academic departments, such as the Department of Industrial Engineering and Decision Analytics from the then Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, to better reflect their positioning and latest development of the academic world. The Senate The Senate, the supreme academic body, had considered during the review year some proposed refinement to the existing Programs to cater for students’ and societal needs. A number of new Program proposals, covering the disciplines of data science and technology, sustainable energy engineering, decision analytics, and integrative system and design, etc. had also been approved by the Senate.