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Cultivating Wider Vision<br />
Regional Driver<br />
The School has contributed to strengthening ties between engineering institutions and industry,<br />
scholars and business leaders during 2009-11.<br />
Links with Asia<br />
The School has been proactive in helping HKUST establish links between top technology<br />
institutions within the region and participating in leadership conferences. In 2009, the Asian<br />
Science and Technology Pioneering Institutes of Research and Education (ASPIRE) League was<br />
formed. Members comprise HKUST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Nanyang<br />
Technological University, Tokyo Institute of Technology and Tsinghua University. The League plans<br />
and promotes joint activities, including student and research exchanges, with particular emphasis<br />
on sustainable development in Asia. HKUST is also a collaborating partner of the Asian Program for<br />
Incubation of Environmental Leaders (APIEL), established by the University of Tokyo. Engineering<br />
students have also been involved in the conference Festival of Thinkers held in the United Arab<br />
Emirates.<br />
Greater China Collaboration<br />
Fast Forward to the Future<br />
HKUST co-organized the first IEEE Technology Time Machine Symposium in June<br />
2011. Organized by IEEE and co-organized together with Hong Kong Applied Science<br />
and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI), the major three-day international event<br />
brought 200 corporate industry leaders, academics and other experts from around<br />
the world to Hong Kong to discuss “Technologies Beyond 2020”. The theme covered a<br />
number of potentially high impact emerging technologies, ranging from radio access<br />
technology and biomedical sciences to organic electronic materials. There was also a<br />
panel discussion focused on global R&D leadership. HKUST Dean of Engineering Prof<br />
Khaled Ben Letaief served as General Co-Chair of the Organizing Committee.<br />
The Department of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management brought 40 department<br />
heads from Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong to HKUST in 2011 to promote the<br />
development of industrial engineering and related areas in Greater China and to boost exchanges.<br />
The 1st Forum for Council of Industrial Engineering Department Heads in Greater China saw<br />
Prof Fugee Tsung, Head of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management at HKUST, elected<br />
Founding President of the Council.<br />
Wilson Tang Lecture<br />
The contributions of Prof Wilson Tang, a leading<br />
member of the School in its early years, were<br />
recognized with the inauguration of a prestigious<br />
international keynote lecture. Prof Tang, Head of Civil<br />
Engineering at HKUST from 1996 to 2001, was a<br />
founding researcher in geotechnical reliability and risk,<br />
and his breakthroughs led to many fresh insights. The<br />
Wilson Tang Lecture was inaugurated in 2009 at the<br />
Second International Symposium on Geotechnical<br />
Safety and Risk (ISGSR) and is hosted by GEOSNet.<br />
Prof Tang passed away in early January 2012 at the age<br />
of 68.<br />
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