Professor Helen Meng elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA)

Professor Helen Meng was elected Distinguished Lecturer of the International Speech Communications Association (ISCA) in May 2015. ISCA promotes, in an international world-wide context, activities and exchanges in all fields related to speech communication science and technology. ISCA is aimed at all persons and institutions interested in fundamental research and technological development that aims at describing, explaining and reproducing the various aspects of human communication by speech, that covers, without assuming this enumeration to be exhaustive, phonetics, linguistics, computer speech recognition and synthesis, speech compression, speaker recognition, aids to medical diagnosis of voice pathologies. ISCA funds its elected Distinguished Lecturers to travel to different parts of the world to give lectures to help promote research activities on speech science and technologies.

Our students have won the Championship of CILTHK Case Competition in The 2015 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK) Student Day

IMG-20150321-WA0010.jpgThe Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK) Student Day was held in IVE Tsing Yi on March 21, 2015. This event took the form of case study competition on topics of logistics and transportation with the objective to train students to formulate solutions for pressing problems under a tight time constraint. There were 9 participating teams from Hong Kong and Macau tertiary institutions.
The SEEM team consisting of Bu, Qianqian; Chuen, Wai Man Winnie; Lui, Wingki Kay; Tsui, Man Wa Tommy; Ty, Edwin has won the Championship, under the supervision of Professor C.H. Cheng. Their topic is “Do you support promoting cycling as a mode of transport in Hong Kong? How would you borrow the TfL ideas and design for cycle tracks in the urban area?”. The first runner-up went to The University of Hong Kong, and the second runner-up was Macau University of Science and Technology.

Our final year students have won the 2nd Runner Up prize and Merit prize in the HKIE Manufacturing & Industrial Division Student Project Competition 2013-2014

The Manufacturing and Industrial (MI) Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) organizes the Student Project Competition with the aim to encourage students to stretch themselves intellectually and practically in the application of MI Engineering technologies in a real industrial case. The final-year-project “Information Visualization: Dynamic Finance” of Miss CHENG Tak Yi, Miss LI Ka Yee and Mr. LAU Chung Pui Patrick (Supervisor: Prof. Jeffrey Yu) has won the 2nd Runner Up prize and the final-year-project “Analysis of the Effect Arose from the Coming Major Infrastructures to Supply Chain Management (SCM) Practice in PRD Industries” of Mr. CHAN Ka Chun, Mr. CHAN Siu Tat and Mr. KWAN Iat Leong (Supervisor: Prof. Janny Leung) has won the Merit prize in the 13-14 competition in June 2014.

Our students have won the Championship of the 12th CILTHK Case Study Competition in The 2014 Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK) Student Day

The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in Hong Kong (CILTHK) Student Day was held in PolyU Hong Kong Community College on March 8, 2014. This event took the form of case study competition on topics of logistics and transportation with the objective to train students to formulate solutions for pressing problems under a tight time constraint. There were 9 participating teams this year.

The SEEM team consisting of CHEN Yingting, Sherry (Team Leader), KUAN Saiin, Grace, Li Xinwei, Elaine, Ye Haokai, Kyle and Yu Shunkin, Jeff won the Championship, under the supervision of Professor C.H. Cheng. Their topic is “Free MRT rides to ease morning crush: Do you think it can be provided in Hong Kong’s MTR as well?”.

Prof. Janny Leung has been elected a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT)

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With offices in 31 countries, CILT is the worldwide organisation for transport professionals that, through its educational, professional development and qualification activities, maintains and advances professional standards in supply chain, logistics, and transport across the world.

Chartered Fellowships are awarded to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the logistics and transport sector, having led research and development efforts in logistics and transport, or those who have attained a position of eminence in their field.