Webinar: HKUST 2.0 - Updates on our New Campus in Guangzhou

Live webinar named “HKUST 2.0 - Updates on our New Campus in Guangzhou” was performed on 23^rd April 2020 at 9:15am.  The webinar aimed to introduce HKUST Guangzhou Campus. In the beginning, the HKUST President Prof. Wei SHYY gave introductory speech.

Then Prof. Lionel Ming-shuan Ni (Provost of HKUST) introduced the background of HKUST Clear Water Bay Campus.  He briefed the faculty and student composition in which are international from 88 countries. 

And then different professors introduced the following schools in sequence:

i)                  School of Engineering

ii)                 School of Science

iii)                School of Business & Management

iv)                School of Humanities & Social Science

Interdisciplinary Programs office (IPO) is also briefed and its concept would extend to Guangzhou campus.

HKUST 2.0 that Clear Water Bay Campus is foundation and Guangzhou Campus is cross-disciplinary that have four hubs as follows. 

i)     Function Hub

        ²  Hard Science (e.g. Material, Microelectronics)

²  Natural Science (e.g. Ocean, Atmosphere and Energy)

ii)    Information Hub

²  Soft Science (e.g. Informationi

iii)   System Hub build from Function Hub and Information Hub

iv)   Society Hub demonstrated the impact from three hubs to society.

Why it calls “Hub” but not “School”?  They want to break the boundary.

All HKUST (GZ) students including both MPhil and PhD are required to take one of the following two project-based courses:

-          Cross-disciplinary Research Methods

-          Cross-disciplinary Design Thinking

The Function Hub is showed as below.

Prof. Fugee Tsung is Acting Dean of Information Hub and he is also HKSQ exco member, Fellow of ASQ and Academician of IAQ.

The Information Hub is demonstrated as follows.

The System Hub is presented in following diagram.

The last hub is Society Hub.  Entrepreneurship is belongs to this hub.

In research side, Clear Water Bay Campus would like to strengthen research foundation in traditional disciplines and co-supervision is optional.  On the other hand, Guangzhou Campus is to encourage students to pursue cross-disciplinary research and co-supervision from different disciplines.

HKUST target to recruit around 400 faculty in Guangzhou Campus in coming 5 years through open global search.

Finally, HKUST (GZ) Research facility and living lab network opportunities were introduced.

The Guangzhou Campus is situated in Qingsheng, Nansha (庆盛站, 南沙区) that connect to Hong Kong West Kowloon.

The environment of residential areas are very good!

For more information, please visit at https://publications.ust.hk/HKUST-GUANGZHOU/12/

Reference:

201300112: Visit to Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Centre (廣州大學城) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2013/01/visit-to-guangzhou-higher-education.html

Past Activities in HKUST:

20091008: Quality Sharing in HKUST - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2009/10/quality-sharing-in-hkust.html

20110421: CAQ & HKSQ meeting in HKUST - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2011/04/caq-hksq-meeting-in-hkust.html

20111026: Guest Talk in HKUST - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2011/10/guest-talk-in-hkust.html

20120803: ANQ Congress 2012 – Banquet - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2012/08/anq-congress-2012-banquet.html

20130712: Technical Visit to Nano & Advanced Materials Institute Ltd (NAMI) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2013/07/technical-visit-to-nano-advanced.html

20150715: The 6th International Conference on Systematic Innovation - ICSI 2015 (Day 1) - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-6th-international-conference-on.html

20190403: Visit to HKSQ exco members workplace - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/04/visit-to-hksq-exco-members-workplace.html