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For the whole Faculty, we received 32 GRF/ECS/PPR grants
totalling HK$19.9 million, which represents increases of 45.5%
and 15.7% respectively over the grants received by us from the
same schemes last year. Even if we exclude the 3 PPR grants,
we received 29 GRF/ECS grants totalling HK$18.4 million this
year, which represents increases of 31.8% and 6.9% respectively
over the GRF grants received by us last year. This is an
excellent achievement given the increased importance of these
competitive grants to our future development and the highly
competitive environment we are now in.
45.5%(
) 15.7%( )
31.8% 6.9%
Amount of RGC Competitive Funding Per Eligible Staff Member
(Total Grant Awarded/No. of Eligible Staff)
Amount of RGC Competitive Funding Per
Staff Member
$250,000
$200,000
$150,000
$100,000
$50,000
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03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 10/11 11/12 12/13
Year
BRE
BSE
CEE
LSGI
FCE
Average
Figure 1: Comparison of Amount of RGC Competitive Funding per Eligible Staff Member between Departments
In terms of the amount won per academic staff member (only
eligible staff members are counted), the rankings of our four
departments are: BSE, CEE, LSGI and BRE. BSE is particularly
successful this year, with its number of grants, total amount of
funding as well as amount of funding per staff member being
substantially above those of the other three departments. This
year, the funding results of the PPR Scheme are also very
encouraging. BRE has been awarded three grants, which
represent 50% of the six grants awarded to PolyU. Comparisons
of departmental performance over the past 10 years using
2 indicators, namely the average amount per staff member
and number of grants per year are shown in Figures 1 and
2 respectively. In general, we see a trend of convergence of
performance of the four departments in recent years in terms
of average amount per staff member. More specifically, the
average amounts per staff member for the four departments
over the past three rounds are respectively HK$126,917(BRE),
HK$149,366(BSE), HK$164,360(CEE) and HK$154,816(LSGI).
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The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) was known as the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering (CSE) prior to 1 September 2012.
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