Three faculty members from different departments have been honored in the School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2012-13. The award scheme recognizes continuous excellence in undergraduate teaching as well as the fostering of students’ interest in the subject and promotion of students’ learning.

Prof Shenghui Song, Electronic and Computer Engineering, received the Distinguished Teaching Award for his dedication to bettering the teaching and learning environment of his students. One special achievement is the development of the new Signal Processing and Communications core course under the four-year curriculum. In teaching the course for the first, Prof Song re-developed all the teaching materials including lecture notes, tutorials and labs. The new arrangement and course materials received excellent feedback from student evaluations. The result is remarkable considering it is a core course and the class size is big.

Prof Sunghun Kim, Computer Science and Engineering, and Prof Ho Yin Mak, Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, received Teaching Awards. Prof Kim’s approach to motivate the students in the Software Engineering course is commendable. This includes the use of Facebook and Twitter to enable students to be acquainted with the complex system that they need to study; encouraging them to publish their projects in the Android Market, which equips them with the right mindset of designing robust software for others to use. He also dynamically adjusts his teaching based on quick feedback obtained from Twitter and hence maintains a consistently high-quality performance in teaching the course. Prof Mak devoted great effort in providing a motivating and stimulating learning environment with critical thinking in class. He has secured consistent and overwhelmingly positive comment from his students. His innovative style of teaching has made his class highly popular. He always strives to improve his teaching skills and spends a great amount of time outside class to communicate with his students, taking account of their feedback in developing teaching content.