Quality Alchemist (品質煉金術師): ABCT

Prof. Gary Tang and Dr. Joe Lam (ABCT Dept) invited me (COMP Dept) to discuss opportunities to add AI elements into their MSc or undergraduate course especially in Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) Industry. AI for TIC (AI4TIC) will be the future development direction. We had tea in block Y and took a photo for memory.

Finally, Joe will prepare proposal and then I will discuss it into the HKCTC Panel of Manpower Development.

Reference:

ABCT - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/abct/

COMP - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/comp/

BSc (Hon) in ASTC - https://www.polyu.edu.hk/abct/study/undergraduate-programmes/senior-year/bachelor-of-science-honours-in-analytical-sciences-for-testing-and-certification/recognition-and-prospects/

20260304: PolyU FITE Seminar Series - “HKQF-TIC and the Education & Career Pathway of the TIC Profession” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2026/03/polyu-fite-seminar-series-hkqf-tic-and.html

HKSQ CLabQS Registration - https://hksq.org/certification/hksq-certified-professionals/certified-laboratory-quality-specialist-clabqs-hksq-registration/

20250318: PolyU ABCT Guest Talk for “HKQF-TIC & Experience Sharing” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2025/03/polyu-abct-guest-talk-for-hkqf-tic.html

20240327: ABCT Guest Talk for “Introduction of HKQF & Experience Sharing” - https://qualityalchemist.blogspot.com/2024/03/abct-guest-talk-for-introduction-of.html

2026年3月4日星期三

PolyU FITE Seminar Series - “HKQF-TIC and the Education & Career Pathway of the TIC Profession”

I was honor to be invited by Prof. Gary Tang as a speaker of FITE Seminar and the topic entitled “The Hong Kong Qualification Framework for Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) and the Education & Career Pathway of the TIC Profession” on 4^th Mar 2026. This Seminar is supported by UGC's Fund for Innovative Technology-in-Education (FITE) under Faculty of Science, PolyU.

Before the seminar began, I took a photo with Prof. Gary Tang and Dr. Joe Lam in class.

In the beginning, I introduced the Hong Kong Qualification Framework (HKQF) for testing, inspection and certification (TIC) and there has seven QF levels.

And then I briefed the Hong Kong Council for Testing and Certification which established in Sep 2009. It aims to formulate overall development strategy of Hong Kong’s testing and certification industry.

After that I shared my career experience entitled “Connect the dots” which was based on Steve Jobs statement in Stanford Commencement Address in 2005. He said “You can't connect the dots looking forward you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.” I demonstrated all my dots in past 30+ years experience.

I asked the students to vote for their three areas of greatest interest, and the results showed that they were medical testing, food testing, and traditional Chinese medicine testing.

Finally, I surveyed the students about their desired careers and found that chemist, inspector, and auditor were the top three career choices.

The last topics I shared were my company-based capstone projects in COMP department. I invited TIC industry to support my students project including precious metals test, construction test, ecotoxicity test and drug packaging industry.