A student team supervised by Prof Yi-Kuen Lee, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE), received the Global Youth Innovator Award at the 2015 iCAN Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas on 6-9 January. The team comprised MAE PhD student Feng Ni and Electronic and Computer Engineering undergraduate Chun Sing Poon, who won the award with their Smart Ruler project. The Smart Ruler is a new application of multiple Micro-ElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors integrated with low-cost microcontroller unit (MCU) chip and the signal processing program which helps kids learn mathematics and measurements of length, thickness, 2D/3D angles, etc. This technology could provide a good solution for STEM education in US and other parts of the world. The HKUST project attracted the interest of many people at the show, including some teachers in Los Angeles’s school district, senior engineers and managers in international companies.

The 2015 event is the first iCAN CES Show, with 15 teams from US, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong, Mainland China participating. The teams are previous iCAN contest winners, who come from various universities including MIT, Peking University, FH Aachen in Germany. iCAN (International Contest of Application in Nano-micro Technology) is the first international youth innovation contest in micro/nano fields. In July 2014, a MAE PhD student team led by Prof Lee won the 3rd prize in the 5th iCAN held in Japan.

CES is the world’s largest show of cutting-edge consumer electronics with 48 years of history. The iCAN CES Show is part of the CES 2015, which attracted 170,000 attendees on 6-9 January in Las Vegas.

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