workshop for local high school students, focused on improving global health through sustainable technology, was jointly organized by the Student Innovation for Global Health Technology (SIGHT) Program and School of Engineering in April . The SIGHT Program o ers an enterprising undergraduate education platform that creates healthcare solutions for global problems using simple technology. The program was launched by the Division of Biomedical Engineering and involves students from various disciplines. It is led by Prof Ying Chau, Biomedical Engineering and also Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. At the workshop, a discussion on global health issues was followed by a mobile clinic simulation game illustrating the daily problems facing SIGHT’s non-governmental organization partner One- -One in delivering mobile clinical services in Cambodia. Workshop participants were introduced to the Electronic Health Record (EHR) system speci cally developed by a SIGHT student team to facilitate One- -One’s operations, and then invited to become the rst users of the system ahead of deployment. The EHR system was created to replace traditional paper records, making life much more convenient for One- -One and patients in Cambodia, noted alumnus Lance, BEng Computer Science, a coding team member. Participation in the project gave him a great sense of achievement, he said. The workshop usefully raised awareness among school students on how life could be improved by technology, issues related to global health, and the importance of taking part in community service. Participants comprised students and three teachers from seven local secondary schools. The EHR team and a second SIGHT team, creators of a portable drug dispensary box, delivered their products to Cambodia in June . Both were well received. then Dean of Engineering Prof Khaled Ben Letaief, and Head of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Prof Christopher Chao. The event concluded with an AIAA Distinguished Lecture by Dr Susan Ying, AIAA Fellow and VP-International for the AIAA Board of Directors, who spoke on the “ABC of Commercial Aviation: Technology Insertion Rewards and Challenges”. The move into Aerospace Engineering has been a major School of Engineering initiative in recent years. Developments include the renaming of the Department of Mechanical Engineering to the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, recruitment of new faculty in aeronautical engineering, launch of the Aerospace Engineering Major Program and Aeronautical Engineering Minor Program, and the establishment of the Aeronautics Interest Group and HKUST Student Branch of AIAA. KUST’s rst Aero Day, jointly organized by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the HKUST Student Branch of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), successfully took place on campus in February . Aero Day explored developments in the aviation industry locally and internationally, with exhibitions and presentations by airlines, maintenance and repair organizations, original equipment manufacturers, government agencies, and professional organizations. It introduced aerospace and aeronautical engineering to rst-year students to assist with their choice of major and showcased career opportunities in the industry to more senior students. One of the highlights was the flight simulator experience set up by HKUST Aeronautics Interest Group. Welcome speeches were delivered at the opening ceremony by Executive Vice-President and Provost Prof Wei Shyy, Flying Start for Aero Day H A Showing High School Students the Impact of Simple Technology on Healthcare 26 IN FOCUS
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