Student Honors, Awards & Achievements Civil and Environmental Engineering PhD candidate Duruo Huang, supervised by Prof Gang Wang, received the Best Student Presentation Award from the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics at the Society’s th Annual Conference in March . Four papers by Electronic and Computer Engineering PhD students, doctoral graduates, and professors were presented at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), also known as “Chip Olympiad” and held in San Francisco in February . Papers comprised “Wireless Power Transfer System Using Primary Equalizer for Coupling- and Load-Range Extension in Bio-Implant Applications” by Xing Li; “A -Phase DC-DC Converter-Ring with Fast-DVS for Microprocessors” by Yan Lu and Junmin Jiang; “A / Phase Fully-Integrated Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter in Bulk-CMOS for Energy-E cient Digital Circuits with % E ciency Improvement” by Junmin, Yan and Cheng Huang; and “A . to . GHz nm Phase-Locked Loop with Passive Scaling of Loop Filter” by Zhiqiang Huang. In addition, Lin Cheng won a Predoctoral Achievement Award while Junmin received a Student Travel Grant Award, both given by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society. Zhiqiang, Junmin and Xing received Analog Devices ISSCC Outstanding Student Designer Awards. Yan and Cheng graduated in , and Xing in . Junmin, Zhiqiang and Lin remain PhD students. Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering PhD student Feng Ni and Electronic and Computer Engineering undergraduate Chun Sing Poon received the Global Youth Innovator Award for their Smart Ruler project at the rst International Contest of Applications in Nano-Micro Technologies (iCAN) Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January . Fi een international teams took part. The Smart Ruler o ers a new application for multiple Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) sensors integrated with a low-cost microcontroller unit chip and signal processing program to help children learn mathematics. In addition, engineering undergraduates Alexander Yu Tse and Chen Tang, both Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Chun Sing Poon, Electronic and Computer Engineering, won second prize at iCAN in Alaska in June for their project, Air Hand. The device could perform handling and manipulation of di erent objects without complicated controls. MSc student Jiayi Qiu, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, received the Star of Hope Award in the You Bring Charm to the World Awards for his research on sustainable building design. The annual awards were initiated by Phoenix TV in and recognize the achievements of Chinese people from all over the world. Eleven awards were presented, with Jiayi, who graduated in , among the youngest winners. Civil and Environmental Engineering undergraduate Pui San So, supervised by Prof Charles W W Ng, won the Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (Hong Kong) Final Year Projects Competition for his “E ects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) on Hydraulic and Mechanical Properties of Vegetated Soil” project. He is now an MPhil student in the same department. Undergraduate Ambi Cheuk Ho Yuen, Electronic and Computer Engineering, won the Gold Prize at the international session of the Capstone Design Fair of Engineering Education Festa , held in South Korea. His award-winning project, “Sally, Multi-Purpose Micro Swarm Robotics System”, performs basic collective functions, including aggregation, dispersion and pattern formation, and can be used to assist in rescues, entertainment and swarm behavior research. More than projects were exhibited. Ambi is now an MPhil student in the same department. 23 IN FOCUS
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