InnoWing@ASEE2019

Date: June 13-20 2019, Tampa, Florida, United States

Presenter: Dr. C.K.Chui, Director of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing
Contact: ckchui@cs.hku.hk

Welcome

The Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing (Inno Wing) – opening in mid-2020 – will serve as an iconic landmark of the Faculty of Engineering. Home of future cutting-edge research projects, the Inno Wing will provide an open environment to foster multidisciplinary innovation among students and teachers, enabling generations of students to gain comprehensive knowledge and a deep understanding of the latest discoveries and challenges in a wide range of emerging technologies. It will serve as a platform to engage the young generation in exploring the world, raising their creative and multidisciplinary abilities, and ensuring they acquire the practical hands-on experience they need to serve the community.

Inno Wing will host various multidisciplinary programmes for bringing together like-minded students in an active peer learning community where they can delve into diverse topics pertinent to the use of cutting-edge technologies related to robotics, artificial intelligence, electric automobiles, healthcare, and new frontiers. These programmes will contextualize and integrate undergraduate students’ learning—both across and beyond the curriculum—through a connective spine of Student-led Interest Groups (SIGs) partnering with advising supervisors for Teaching and Learning (T&L) of their peers, Research and Development (R&D) of cutting-edge technologies, and creating meaningful impacts through Knowledge Exchange (KE), coupled with out-of-classroom/ curriculum credits. These SIGs will also enable students to assimilate engineering knowledge and skills by contextualizing and applying them in hands-on projects and authentic experiences. The community will serve as a living repository for knowledge which complements our current curriculum.

At Inno Wing, we wish the goals of our community intersect with the passions and aspiration of our participating students. They will relish new challenges and embrace an inexact yet a rigorous learning adventure.

Presentation

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Posters

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Dr. C.K.Chui (Kit), the Director of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, made a presentation about the HKU Innovation Wing project at the Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) special session: Opportunities for opportunities in ASEE2019.

Kit: Engineers in the global arena should be REAL (Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Awareness and Leadership)

Thank you colleagues from Bucknell University for giving a wonderful workshop about makerspace: Making Makerspaces Work for You – Creating Class Projects that Motivate & Inspire an Entrepreneurial Mindset

Professor Christopher Chao (left), the Dean of Engineering, fully supports the establishment of the Innovation Wing and the development of pedagogical innovations in the Faculty. Thank you Professor Robert L. Nagel (right) for hosting the Opportunities for Opportunities session, where we presented the Innovation Wing project to engineering educators all over the world!

Professor Louis S. Nadelson (right), Chair, Associate Professor Leadership Studies from the College of Education at the University of Central Arkansas, shared his research work on “Knowledge in the Making: What Engineering Students are Learning in Makerspaces” with us, which is very useful for the design of the space and programme in the HKU Innovation Wing. 🙂 Thank you!

Thank you Professor Krishna Vedula, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean Emeritus of the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, for your interest in the HKU Innovation Wing project. We are connected with the International Federation of Engineering Education Societies (IFEES). We will connect students from HKU with students in India for experiential learning projects.

Invited poster session at the ASEE President’s farewell party. Our sincere thanks to our donor Mr. and Mrs. Tam for donating $100M in supporting the establishment of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing and student experiential learning activities.

Professor Christopher Chao, Dean of HKU Engineering, came to supoort our Innovation Wing’s continuous effort to establish global connection and collaboration with overseas reputable institutes. We are presenting our works at the invited poster session at the ASEE President’s farewell party.

A fruitful and active panel discussion moderated by Professor Krishna Vedula, Professor of Chemical Engineering and Dean Emeritus of the Francis College of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Thank you!

Leaders in Engineering education shared their works on active learning and curriculum reform during the conference. Thank you Dr. Gary R. Bertoline, Dr. Kseniya Zaitseva, Prof. Angeles Dominguez and Prof. Genaro Zavala for joining the discussion.

We are from the University of Hong Kong!
At ASEE we are united 🙂

Thank you Patti Greenawalt, the Director of ASEE2019, for the chance for us to introduce HKU Innovation Wing to the wonderful community.

Thank you Stephanie Adams, the president of ASEE2020, see you in Montréal, Québec, Canada!

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Contact

For any collaborations, please feel free to contact Dr. C.K. Chui (Kit) at ckchui@cs.hku.hk, the Director of the Tam Wing Fan Innovation Wing, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Hong Kong.