Karen received the prestigious ASME Arthur L Williston Medal at a ceremony at the ASME Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition in Arizona, US, in November 2016.
Alumni Series: Women in Engineering – meet Karen Leong
(From left): Mr Man-Kwai Lee, Director and General Manager of New Bright Industrial Co Ltd; Prof Tim Kwang Ting Cheng, Dean of Engineering; New Bright Professor of Engineering Prof Qiang Yang, recipient of SENG Distinguished Research Excellence Award 2016; Prof Wei Shyy, Executive Vice-President and Provost; and Ms Gemma Wong, Director of New Bright Industrial Co Ltd
(From left) Prof Tim Cheng Kwang-ting, HKUST Dean of Engineering; Prof Tony F Chan, HKUST President; the Honorable Andrew Liao Cheung-sing, HKUST Council Chairman; Mr Eddie Ng Hak-kim, Secretary for Education of the HKSAR Government; Prof Roy Chung, Founder and Chairman of Bright Future Charitable Foundation and Co-founder and Non-executive Director of Techtronic Industries Company Limited; HKUST Council Vice-Chairman Prof John Chai Yat-Chiu; Dr Eden Woon, HKUST Vice-President for Institutional Advancement and Prof Tsui Chi-ying, HKUST Associate Dean of Engineering (Undergraduate Studies) officiate at the opening ceremony of the Academy for Bright Future Youth Engineers.