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BRE student takes time out for
Olympic experience
Competing at the Olympics is every athlete’s
dream, including PolyU student Lin Po
Heung, who took a year off from her studies
in the Department of Building and Real
Estate to pursue that dream. Her passion
for the sport of fencing began when she was
still in secondary school. Since then, she
has been a regular in fencing competitions.
To qualify for the Olympics was no mean feat. In the past year,
she had been competing at an international level almost every
month to accumulate the necessary points. Her training took
her to Nanjing and the U.S., where she was exposed to different
fencing styles. Even though she lost to a Japanese opponent at
the Olympics, she still learnt from the experience. With no major
competitions on the horizon, she will immerse herself in her
studies for the coming year, but plans to continue her training,
so she could be ready for the next regional games.
Orientations for new students
An orientation for newly-admitted students to the taught
postgraduate programmes of FCE was held on 14 September
2012. Nearly 130 students were on hand for the Dean’s
welcoming speech, which was followed by an introduction
of the four departments respectively by Prof. Geoffrey Shen,
Head of the Department of Building and Real Estate; Dr N. K.
Fong, Associate Prof. of Building Services Engineering; Prof.
C. S. Poon, Associate Head of the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering; and Prof. X. L. Ding, Head of the
Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics. Breakout
sessions for students to meet their programme leaders
were also available. It was an informative afternoon for all who
attended.
In a similar event, a common orientation programme for our
Faculty’s freshmen was held on 12 September 2012. More than
1,200 were admitted to begin their studies this month. The
student turnout rate was about 56%, which was better than last
year. The launch of the broad discipline in Construction and
Environment coincided with the transition to a 4-year university
curriculum. 59 students enrolled in the broad discipline
programme, which will give them a chance to narrow their
interests before they move on to a more specialized one.
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