CityU Research Seminar – How to Succeed with RGC Grant Applications

 The CityU Research Seminar named “How to Succeed with RGC Grant Applications” was organized by the College of Engineering on 30^th Aug 2021.  This talk aims to share successful experience in winning grants strategies in writing grant applications. Prof. Moshe Zukerman (Chair Professor of Information Engineering, EE Dept., CityU) was the seminar facilitator.

HKSQ Meeting for the 35th Anniversary Book

 In 2021, it is Hong Kong Society for Quality (HKSQ) 35^th anniversary and we planned to publish the 35^th Anniversary Book in early 2022 for memory.  We had meeting on 29^th Aug 2021.

We had planned to include the abstracts of papers submitted in the 6^th World Summit for Chinese Quality (WSCQ) which would be held on 26^th Nov 2021.  The location is in City University of Hong Kong.  All full papers will be posted into our website site in electronic format and abstract will publish in our anniversary book for distribution to our members and supporting organizations.

The remaining tasks are including invitation of congratulation letters, advertisement, activities milestones, feature article mainly by WSCQ paper, etc. 

Reference:

HKSQ - www.hksq.org

20210306: HKSQ The 1st Exco Meeting 2021 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2021/03/hksq-1st-exco-meeting-2021.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2020 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2020/12/hksq-strategy-meeting-2020.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2019 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2019/11/hksq-strategy-meeting-2019.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2018 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2018/09/hksq-strategy-meeting-2018.html

HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2017 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2017/08/hksq-strategy-meeting-2017.html

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HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2013 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2013/09/hksq-strategy-meeting-2013.html

The HKSQ Strategy Meeting 2010 - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.hk/2010/08/hksq-strategy-meeting-2010.html

 

Visit to T·PARK

 Dr. KS Chin and I visited to T·PARK (Transformation Park) on 27^th Aug 2021. We would like to observe if it is suitable for student visit because one of subjects in the course (ADSE2066) related to sustainability.  When arrived, I took a photo in front of the entry.

Dr. Chin and I took a photo before went into the building. T·PARK signifies the continuous drive to shape Hong Kong’s “waste-to-energy” ambitions for the good of the community. It also reflects a vision to encourage positive change in people’s attitudes and behaviors towards waste management and resource recovery and recycling.

Then we saw the whole actives introduction banner in the walk of theater.

The whole T·PARK model was showed.

Before the tour, we attended the briefing video.

After that there were three teams followed with tour leader to visit different part of T·PARK including Sludge Grabber, Fluidized Bed Incinerator, Bag Filter, Reverse Osmosis plant, Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR), Air Cooled Condenser, Steam Turbine, etc. 

The Sludge Grabber is real size and it weights 4.85 tonnes empty and can lift 5 tones of sludge. It can move on average 24 full loads of sludge per hour that is 120 tonnes of sludge per hour, or 2880 tonnes per day.

The fluidized bed incinerator contains 690 individual air nozzles. Each incinerator can treat up to 550 tonnes per day of wet sludge and nearly 23 tonnes per hour.

Reverse Osmosis plant can produce up to 600m³ of water from sea water each day and the reverse osmosis system includes 24 vessels containing a total of 128 filter membranes. 

Moving Bed Biofilm Reactor (MBBR) gives a total surface area for the bacteria to grow on of 2300m².  80Nm³ of air blows through the MBBR every hour to provide oxygen for the bacteria.

The left two cylinders contain activate carbon and then the three cylinders for acid and alkaline treatment, as well as the last five cylinders are Ash silos.

We also visited the roof. 

The video explaining for waste to energy was showed at the end.

Finally, we had lunch in the T·CAFÉ.

It is my first time to have lunch in restaurant and need to clear all dish by customer!

Reference:

T·PARK - https://www.tpark.hk/en/

Student_Handbook-ITME - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/adse/programme/2021-22_Student_Handbook-ITME.pdf

SGS EPD Project – IA Practice

I was honor to be quality specialist for EPD Project invited by SGS and performed Internal Audit practice after online training on 25^th Aug 2021. I took a photo in front of the laboratory.

SGS team members included Mr. Billy Cheng, Mr. Thomas Ma, Ms. Crystal Wan and I took a photo for memory.

ESG Online Seminar – Leadership 2.0 – How to INT Strategy to Strengthen Your ‘Unseen’ Power to Lead

 The Executive Study Group (ESG) online seminar named “Leadership 2.0 – How to INT Strategy to Strengthen Your ‘Unseen’ Power to Lead” was held by the ESG, Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (APIFS) on 18^th Aug 2021.   In the beginning, Dr. Mark Lee briefed the background, history and goal of Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (APIFS), as well as Industry-support during Covid-19.   This talk content included “Key Tasks for Managers”, “Difficulties of Strengthening Power” and “INT Strategy”.

In the beginning, Dr. Mark Lee quoted Peter Drucker statement to explain the key responsibility of manager that is “The productivity of work is not the responsibility of the worker but of the manager.”  Manger job is people-oriented in nature that influence how others think and feel. It includes a series of small people-to-people events. 

Then he gave poll 1 to ask us how much percentages of their working time do managers spend with others.  It was found that 32% of vote for interacting with People from 41% to 60% and 61% to 80%. 

After that Dr. Lee discussed difficulties of strengthening your power because much of what manager do is fragmented and unpredictable that power is trapped by the Chaos! He suggested to treat Chaos of new normal as opportunities.

Finally Dr. Mark Lee explained the INT Strategy and it stands for Individual Power, Network Power and Team Power. 

Individual Power (“I” Power) is how you relate to others as a boss.

-          Use your formal authority effectively

-          Create human, caring, but not personal relationships with your people

-          Trust you as a manager by others, especially your own people

-          Exercise your authority and influence ethically

Network Power (“N” Power) is to create your own network and effective collaboration across different levels. 

-          Identify those who should be in your network systematically

-          Build and maintain your “Operational” network proactively

-          Build and maintain your “Strategic” network proactively

-          Use your networks to provide the protection and resources

-          Use your network to accomplish your team’s goals proactively

Team Power (“T” Power) is to build up your team with synergy (more than the sum).

-          Define and constantly refine “the Future” you and your team are trying to create

-          Clarify the roles, work rules, team culture, and feedback about performance that turn a “Group” of people into a genuine “Team”

-          Know and manage your people as individuals as well as team members

-          Use daily activities, events, and problems to pursue the 3 powers

Lastly, Dr. Mark Lee gave us a quick test and explained INT power through assessment. Those result showed as follows.

For “I” Power, the most rate on 39% stated exercise their authority and influence ethically is great.

For “N” Power, the highest rate is 42% in Great that they use their networks to provide the protection and resources.

For “T” Power, 46% in Great was the highest rate that they can manage their people as individual as well as team members.

At the end, Dr. Mark Lee said to leverage strengthen to open door, to align with organization’s goal & strategies, and gain trust.  He said you would set goal for self-development after the above self-assessment.

Reference:

Asia Pacific Institute for Strategy Limited (亞太策略研究所有限公司) – www.apifs.org

ESG facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/esg08

CityU Eminence Society –The 1st Executive Committee Meeting of the Sixth Executive Committee

The 1^st CES Executive Committee Meeting of the Sixth Executive Committee was held on 17^th Aug 2021. Dr. Raymond Leung (Chairman, CES) chaired the meeting and gave welcome speech. 

Then each sub-committees chairs reported their activities and those sub-committee included Membership Development (Mr. Weeky Wong), HK Tech 300 (Project Development) (Dr. YC Chau), HK Tech 300 (External Affairs) (Dr. Gary Cheng), One Health Development (Prof. PL Yuen), CityU Care (Mr. Anthony Lam), GBA and B&R Development (Dr. Wilson Chan) and Review of Articles of Association (Ms. Natalia Seng), as well as, Publicity (Dr. Raymond Leung).

We took a group photo in each table for memory

(Left: Dr. Augustine Chow, Mr. Robert Lui, Mr. Anthony Lam, Ms. Kathy Chan, Dr. Sunny Chai and Dr. Raymond Leung)

(Left: Mrs. Natalia Seng, Ms. Wendy Sin, Dr Christopher To, Dr Bobby Liu, Dr. Gary Cheng and Mr. Dennis Leung)

(Left: Mr Wilson Chung, Prof. PL Yuen, Dr. Wilson Chan, Ms. Agnes Wu, Ms. Dilys Chau and Dr Frank Leung)

(Left: Dr. Lotto Lai, Dr. Ron Chi-wai Kwok, Mr. Weeky Wong, Ms. Xu Fei and Dr. YC Chau.)

After that new and existing committee members were introduced themselves and updated some news to all.

Reference:

CityU Eminence Society - www.cityues.org

The CityU Eminence Society (CES) has established on 31 Dec 2010 and our mission is “To unite senior alumni to proactively contribute their resources, expertise and networks to help advance the University and serve the community”. 

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CityU College Mentorship Program: Development of Prototype with Mentees

I was invited as mentor in the College of Science Mentorship Programme and led two AP undergraduate mentees (Mr. Alex Cheung and Mr. Jason Lee). After joined the HK Tech 300 8 week training, we participated the seed fund interview to try our idea on Gamification of Extenics in the EduTech field. Eventhough it is not succeed in this round, we would continue to develop our idea into board game.  Our meeting was held on 18^th Aug 2021 in CityU.

Firstly, I presented ideas on “Gamification of Extenics” which I prepared a conference paper for ANQ 2021 held in Oct 2021. Then I explained gamification separated into non-digital environment and digital environment.  I demonstrated a training kid of 7 habit as our ideal final result. I expected our board game appearance like this international training course tools in the future.

Then we started brainstorming and draft the layout of board game.

We draw some of ideas and discussed the game aimed for cooperation or competition. What task reflect the Extenics ideas and when the game completed, as well as, how to evaluate the winner, etc.

It is not necessary fixed the outlook as monopoly that it could be mixed the METS cycle. Nevertheless, it could also be Octagon shape.  Alex and Jason both are very creative.

Finally, we took a group photo in front of our brainstorming results and then had a tea in student canteen. We will join the HK Tech 300 seed fund interview again once our prototype completed.

Reference:

CityU College of Science GREAT - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/csci/academic-programmes/undergraduate-programmes/global-research-enrichment-and-technopreneurship-great

HK Tech 300 - https://www.cityu.edu.hk/hktech300/

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The 17th Extenics Annual Meeting (全国第17届可拓学年会) – Day 2: Sharing Session & Closing (论文分组交流及闭幕)

The 17th Extenics Annual Meeting、Artificial Intelligence Frontier Forum and Extension Innovation Method Training Course ("全国第17 届可拓学年会"、"人工智能前沿论坛"暨"可拓创新方法培训班") were organized by Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) (中国人工智能学会) and Extenics Professional Committee of CAAI (中国人工智能学会可拓学专业委员会) from 12th to 15th Aug 2021. The first day is mainly for keynotes reporting and second day for AI frontier forum in the morning and sharing session in the afternoon, as well as, closing at the end.  On Day 2 afternoon, there were two parallel sharing session. 

Sharing Session I

The first speaker was Mr. Tong Xiaodong and his topic entitled “Intelligent Fitting Model of Emotional Basic-Element” (仝小冬、尚会超 - 情感化造型基元的智能拟合模型).

Mr. Tong used Kansei Engineering and Extenics for designing the disposable trocar for laparoscopy (一次性腹腔鏡用穿刺器).

The second speaker was Prof. Sun Baiqing and his presentation named “Extension Modeling and Application of Key Contradiction Problems in the Field of Performance Evaluation” (孙佰清、所蕾、经纬 - 绩效评价领域的关键核心矛盾问题的可拓建模及其应用).

Prof. Sun briefed the performance evalution model 4E (Economic, Efficiency, Effectiveness and Equity) in the beginning, and then he combined with balance scorecard and extension transformation into the performance evaluation model.

The third speaker was Ms. Zhao Baolin and her topic was “Research on risk management of automobile after-sales service based on extension model” (赵宝琳、苏越良 - 基于可拓模型的汽车售后服务风险管理研究). 

Ms. Zhao analyzed the risk factor using extension model and evaluating it quantitatively.

The fourth speaker was Ms. Li Wenjie and her presentation title named “Research on the Innovative Design of Baoshui Village Reconstruction in Fangshan District, Beijing based on Extension Theory” (王涛、李文杰 - 基于可拓理论的北京市房山区宝水村改造创新设计研究).

Ms. Li demonstrated using extension innovation method for solving antithetical problem on the village reconstruction design. 

The fifth speaker was Mr. Xu Fengkui and his presentation entitled “The Interior Design of Driverless Car based on Extension Theory” (王体春、许枫魁 - 基于可拓理论的无人驾驶汽车内饰设计). 

Mr. Xu employed Conjugate Analysis and extended to different soft part ideas so as to get the optimized design solution.

Dr. Lotto Lai was the sixth speaker and his topic named “A Preliminary Study on the Analysis of Sun Tzu's Art of War by Extenics” (黎剑虹 - 用可拓学分析孙子兵法的初探). Firstly, I briefed the background of foreign study in the Art of War and then tried to model the theory using basic-element.

The leader’s estimation formula based on the Art of War was demonstrated and other items were also modeled. 

Finally, some applications were proposed including HR talent evaluation, company success rate evaluation and startup product and marketing strategy generation.

The seventh speaker was Ms. Guo Jiayong and her presentation title was “Extension Psychology and Counseling based on Extenics”. (郭嘉咏、黄可仪、皮海滨 - 基于可拓学的可拓心理学与咨询).

Ms. Guo introduced the Extension Psychology to help patient solving contradiction psychological problems. 

The last speaker in the sharing session I was Ms. Gao Hong and her presentation title named “Extension Method of Proof of Lower Bound of Domination Number in Graph Theory” (高红、郭媛媛、刘行、刘巍 - 图论中控制数下界的可拓证明方法).

She demonstrated extension innovation method to solve military protection strategy problem.