HKUST Aero Team members at the BMFA Payload Challenges 2024 (from right to left): Prof. Larry Li (team supervisor), Mr. C K Leung (team pilot), Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering undergraduates Leung Nok-Hei, Leung Yu-Hin, Keung Ho-Lam, Tsui Ho-Sum, Chu Lok-Hang, and Karine Lu Hoi-Lam.
Ranking 16th worldwide, the HKUST Aero Team is the highest scoring Asian team among 107 international teams at the 2024 AIAA Design/Build/Fly Competition. This is also the best ever result achieved by the team since they first joined the competition in 2013.
Prof. Fu Lin’s project will advance the flow prediction technology in aerospace engineering, which is crucial in shortening the design process of aircraft.
Prof. Larry Li (left) and Prof. Yu Hongyu (right) have been elected as Fellows of the Royal Aeronautical Society, the world’s only professional body dedicated to the aerospace community.
Chairman of the University Grants Committee (UGC) Mr. Carlson Tong (right) presents the 2021 UGC Teaching Award for Early Career Faculty Members to Prof. Rhea Liem.
