CityU EngD Society Meeting with Dean of College of Engineering

 We are honor to have meeting with Prof. Kuo Tei Wei (Dean, College of Engineering; Chair Professor of Information Engineering, CityU), Prof. Chuangyin Dang (Acting Head & Professor, SEEM Dept., CityU) and Prof. Min Xie (Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering, SEEM Dept., CityU) to discuss the future of EngD (EM) program and how EngD Society could contribute to College of Engineering on 3^rd Dec 2020.  We took a photo in front of College office.

(Left: Prof. Chuangyin Dang, Dr. Samuel Fung, Dr. Herbert Yeung, Prof. Kuo Tei Wei, Dr. Lotto Lai and Prof. Min Xie)

We also expressed EngD (EM) cohorts’ opinions to continue the EngD(EM) Program and reposition to the higher level hierarchy of CityU as well as provided more contribution by EngD Society.

Then Dr. Herbert introduced the EngD (EM) Program and EngD Society Background to Prof. Kuo.

One of significant activities of the EngD (EM) Program is residential workshop that we could visit different great corporate and closer discussion among different cohorts.

After that we discussed the following items:

i)          EngD (EM) is important program and different departments under College of Engineering could support it (College-based program).  Incentive scheme for different professors under different should be considered so as to enhance the programme supervision.  One of suggestions is employed EngD cohorts to assist for supervising the thesis.

ii)         EngD Society could help college for enhancing the following items including Entrepreneurship / Startup, Internship, Guest talk and Forum, as well as, Mentoring.  So as to create Academic and Industrial ecosystem.

iii)       Cooperation between industry and academic that we needed to work out a right model.  Dean suggested to separate into Innovation Part and Implementation Part. PhD or research students would focus to Innovation Part (R&D) and it needed industry input for Implementation Part.  Thus, university research result have impact to society.  Funding issue such as ITF or industry sponsorship could be considered for different projects initiation.

iv)    EngD Society supported the new program named Bachelor of Engineering in Intelligent Manufacturing Engineering (BENG ITME) which matched the reindustrialization policy in Hong Kong and industry 4.0 trend in the world. Intelligent manufacturing laboratory would be built for this purpose. EngD Society is willing to provide supporting letter for that programme.

At the end, EngD Society would like to contribute more back to CityU and connected all cohorts to share their experience and expertise. 

Reference:

CityU Engineering Doctorate Society - http://www.engd.org/  

College of Engineering, CityU - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/ceng/

BEngITME - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/prg-bengitme.htm

Engineering Doctorate (Engineering Management) - http://www.cityu.edu.hk/seem/prg-engd.htm

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