The transition from planned to market economies in socialist and post-socialist societies, the rise of East Asian industrial civilisation. state-buildina in Chinese and Western historv.
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.the social bases of dictatorship and democracy.
Dr Irene ENG, Assistant Professor
Regional and international development, the recent rapid industrialisation in parts of East and Southeast Asia.
Dr Julian McAllister GROVES , Lecturer
Controversies over science and technology, social theory, Hong Kong culture, qualitative research methods.
Dr Gaochao HE, Assistant Professor
Chinese poliics, applied rational choice and game theory, political economy, develop- ment and democracy, and philosophy of explanation.
Dr Yi-Min LIN, Assistant Professor
Organisational behaviour, political economy, industrial organisations in post-Mao China;
and business networks in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South China.
Dr Shiu-Hing LO, Assistant Professor
The politics of Hong Kong and Macau, and a comparative study of democratisation in Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Dr Mark A MONTGOMERY, Assistant Professor
The international politics and economics of global environmental problems, including transboundary pollution, climatic change, biodiversity, and protection of the ozone layer.
Dr Gerald R. PATCHELL, Assistant Professor
The economic component of cultural geography, the diffusion of organisations and the creation of regional economies based on mutual development relationships.
Dr Barry SAUTMAN, Assistant Professor
The intelligentsiaand higher education in China, authoritarian theory and practice in China and Russia, Sino-American relations, comparative ethnonationalist politics.
Alfred KO-Wei HU, Assistant Lecturer
The role of education and school background in relation to labour market experience and status attainment, the process of group formation and industrialisation in East Asia.
De-Piao TANG, Assistant Lecturer
Trade and development in East Asian newly industrialised countries (NICs), Chinese monetary history.
Dr James KUNG, Lecturer
Economics of property rights, development, and comparative institutional analysis;
analysis of the institutions and institutional change in Chinese agriculture since 1949.
School o f Hunzanities and Social Science
JOINT DEGREE PROGRAMME
Master of Arts (MA) in Chinese Studies
The MA in Chinese Studies is an interdisciplinary course-work degree pro- gramme at the postgraduate level jointly offered by the Division of Humanities and the Division of Social Science. It may be pursued either as an end-in-itself or as preparation for doctoral studies. With an emphasis on an interdisciplinary approach, the programme offers courses in history, literature, philosophy, religion, anthropology, political science, economics and sociology which are China-related.
Students are required to take a minimum of 30 credits, of which at least 24 must be at the ~ostaraduate level (Students who wish to take ~ostaraduate courses outside the School shouliseek prior approval from their faculty supervisor). Among these 24 credits, students may take six credits of independent study under the supervision of a faculty member. Depending on their state of preparedness, students may be required to attend lecture courses, but the more essential training takes place in seminars which involve the writing of term papers. Students should refer6 the postgraduate Programme section as described in the Academic Regulations of this Calendar for course and residence requirements.
Under the guidance of the joint committee which oversees the programme and a facultv su~ervisor. each student works to formulate a studv ~ l a n combinina course-work within a chosen specialisation as well as other disciplines. Three areas have been identified as possible fields of specialisation: tradition and modernisation (or modernisa- tion in historical orosDectivek develo~ment both as a socio-economic Drocess and as an intellectual outlook (j.e., developmentalism as a value); and the inter-related develop- mentsof Hong
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Macau, South Chinaand South and Southeast Asiaasacultural and economic sohere. The term "Chinesen in "Chinese Studiesn is broadlv conceived. It includes ~h'inese not only in the People's Republic of China but also indiaspora.ACADEMIC SERVICES
Teaching and research at the University are supported by a number of academic service units.
University Library
Director: Min-Min CHANG, BA National Taiwan; MLS Univ of California, Berkeley
As an integral component of the academic programme, the Library supports the University's teaching and research in science, engineering, business and management, the humanities and social sciences. There are seminar rooms for meetings and instruction, areas for group discussion, and study carrels for individual use. Audio-visual materials, both educational and recreational, are available for use in specially equipped facilities. The Librarv is much more than a re~ositorv for the accumulated knowledae of civilisation; it servesas the heart of the intellectual enterprise. "
The rapid development of the University requires a correspondingly rapid rate of growth in its librarycollection. In 1994 the Library has acollection of over 250,000volumes of books and bound periodicals, as well as a sizable collection of non-print materials. The Library plans to add about 50,000 items per year to support the growing demand of the University's expanding programme. Reaching beyond local holdings, the Library has made extensive provisions for automation. The Library Online System forms a part of the campus-wide network, and is accessible from every part of the campus. Through the Online System users are able to consult a broad range of bibliographic and full-text information as well as to search CD-ROM databases. The University Library is linked via telecommunications to libraries and databases in institutions locally and overseas.
An experienced staff assists users in a variety of ways, from the selection, acquisition, and cataloguing of materials to using the collection, online searches, and interlibrary loans. There is also afully-equipped classroom and a computer laboratory for group instruction. The University Library has a strong service orientation in order to effectively meet the information needs of its academic community.
Language Centre
The Language Centre has a pan-University role in the provision of language courses, both as academic disciplines and as a support service. English is the medium of instruction in the University, and a priority of the Language Centre is to assist students to acquire the necessary language skills to gain the maximum benefit from their programmes. A range of courses concentrating on listening, speaking, reading and writing with particular reference to English for academic purposes is available. Classes are taught in tutorial mode, and are supplemented by individualised consolidation exercises. On admission to the University, students are assessed on their English language proficiency. Those deemed to be in need of English language support are required to attend the Centre's programme of language instruction. The Language Centre also offers a course in Business Communication as part of the curriculum in the School of Business and Management, and a course in Technical Communication as part of certain other programmes.
The Language Centre has two 24-booth audio-visual language laboratories (for orallaural work), one 24-booth computerised language laboratory (for orallaural work as well as text processing and editing) and one 18-booth language laboratory with CD-ROM
Academic Sewices Academic Services
facilities, for use both by class groups and by individuals. The laboratories and an extensively equipped self-access centre are open on weekdays for staff and students to make use of the growing collection of materials, printed, on tape and on disc, in English and a range of other languages.
Teaching Staff Director:
Gregory C.A. JAMES, MA, MSc Edinburgh; MPhil Reading, PhD Exetec CertEd Wales; DipUniv Geneva; DipHRM Macao; DipRSA
Principal Instructor:
J. Rhodri H. JONES, MBE; BA Durham; MLitt, DipAppLing Edinburgh; MDes Royal Coll of Art; DipRSA
Senior Instructors:
Michael J. COURTNEY, BA East Anglia; MA Essex; CertEd Noffingham Christopher F. GREEN, BA Reading, MEd Hong Kong, CertEd North Buckingham-
shire CoC AdvDip TESOL London
John C. P. MILTON, BSc Dalhousie; BA Offawa and Toronto; MEd Brock Richard PEMBERTON, MA Cambridge and Leeds; CertEd Leicester Lisa STEWART, BA London; MA Reading, DipTEO Manchester Keith Sai-tao TONG, BA, CertEd, AdvDipEd Hong Kong, MA Reading
Anthony Kin-kwok TONG, BSc California State Univ, Fresno; MEd, CertEd Hong Kong, PGDipTESL City Polytech of Hong Kong, MIL
Instructors:
Sarah CARMICHAEL, BA, CertEd Reading, DipRSA Kenneth Kwan-Pang CHAN, BSc Surrey
Susanna Pui-san CHlU HO, BA Manitoba; CertEd Hong Kong Elsie CHRISTOPHER, BA Acadia; MA Dalhousie
Austin CONWAY, BA University Coll, Dublin; HDipLit, Cert Ed Trinity Coll, Dublin;
DipRSA
Lynne FLOWERDEW, BA, CertEd Liverpoot MA Birmingham
Pionie Kim-ling FOO, BA, DipEd Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, MEd Hong Kong Anna GUNN, BA Sheffield; LTCL
Claire HICKLIN, MA Edinburgh; DipEd Sydney Keven KASTEN, BA Wichita State
Jacqueline Kam-mei LAM, MA Exeter, TeachCert Granham Coll & Northcote Colt MIL
Pansy Mi-Ying LAM, BA, CertEd Hong Kong
Joyce Yuen-Yee LEE, BA Hong Kong, MA Chinese Univof Hong Kongand London;
Higher Cert City Polytech of Hong Kong .
Edward Siu-Leung LI, BA, DipEd Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, MA Reading Irene Wai-Yee NG, BA Chinese Univ of Hong Kong; MSc Edinburgh; CertEd Hong
Kong
Ian SMALLWOOD, BA, Dip Ed Stirling, Cert TEFL Lund; Dip RSA
Grace Hoi-Yee WONG, BA, Dip Ed Chinese Univof Hong Kong, MEd Hong Kong AnnaYU Wai-Yin, BA, Brigham Young Univ, Hawaii; MA, CertTESL BrighamYoung
Univ, Utah
Centre of Computing Services and Telecommunications (CCST) Director: W. Max IVEY, BS Arizona; MS Houston; PhD Arizona State
The Centre of Computing Services and Telecommunications develops and manages the computing and networking infrastructure of the University. It provides computing support to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and research applica- tions in all schools. The Centre also serves the University's administrative needs by providing an integrated information system to support the day-to-day routines as well as to satisfy the need for information in management decision making. CCST also manages the University's PABX telephone system.
The HKUST computing environment is highly distributed, and modelled after client-server architecture. The cornerstone is an advanced, high-speed FDDl (Fibre Distributed Data Interface) network backbone, which operates at 100 million bitslsecond, with distributed wiring junctions from which various local area networks emanate. The networkcovers not only all the campus buildings but also reaches out to staff quarters and student dormitories.
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Centre operates powerful server computers to provide campus- wide network services such as network printinq, e-mail and electronic notice board. One important characteristic of the university's computing environment is its Chinese-English bilingual capability. Increasingly, more n e t w o r k s e ~ ~ e s will have this feature. To support com~utation intensive research. CCST provides solutions in different forms. High performance computing resources include a workstation cluster, an 8-processor SGII Onyx symmetric multi-processor machine and an 140-node Intel Paragon massively parallel machine, providing a powerful environment for scientific computing. All micro- computers and scientific workstations are connected to the campus network, providing desktopcomputing power as well as windows to avast array of information and computing resources, such as the Library system and various scientific and business packages, on the University's own network or that of other institutions in Hong Kong, and through the Internet, on networks of educational and research institutions worldwide. In addition, the Centre also manages a number of "computer barns" in various locations in the academic buildinas. providina PC, Macintosh and Unixworkstationfacilitiesforteaching and student use. fach academic department also has one or more computing facility rooms.Educational Technology Centre (ETC)
Director: Donald M. BOEHNKER, BS, MS Cincinnati; EdD Indiana
The University is committed to high standards and up-to-date methods in teaching and in the communication of research results. To this end] the Educational ~echnology Centre sustains a com~rehensive service for all academic and research staff. It provides and maintains a wide range of instructional media resources for academic purposes, and it assists academic staff in producing teaching and learning materials, including those generated with computer graphics technology, such as slide presentations, overhead transparencies, video tapes and print materials. In addition, the Centre provides high- speed, high-volume reprographic and off-set printing services.
To underpin these services, ETC organises workshops and seminars for faculty, teaching assistants and tutors on educational issues and instructional practices in higher education, including selection and use of mediated instructional materials, production of teaching and learning packages and methods for student feedback on teaching effective- ness. The Centre also serves as a resource for information on teaching methods, instructional formats and materials related to research on teaching. In addition, ETC
Academic Services
administers the student evaluation of all undergraduate and postgraduate lecture classes, and English language enhancement courses.
lndustrial Training Centre (ITC)
Acting Director: Mr. Lawrence LEE, CEng, MIEE, MHKlE
The lndustrial Training Centre provides practical training for Engineering students to give them a broad and structured understanding of engineering practice, and help them satisfy training requirements of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE) and the UK's Engineering Council for certification/registration purposes. lndustrial training is currently conducted at the Hong Kong Polytechnic lndustrial Centre.
An important aspect of the programme is the integration of the workshop experience with the knowledge acquired in classrooms and laboratories, so that students' understanding and appreciation of the knowledge acquired from the academic courses is enhanced. Workshops are desianed in modular form and each academic de~artment works with ITC to des'ign and specify combinations of modules that meet the needs of its students. Training periods for students range from six to 12 weeks, to cater to the specific requirements. The introductory phase of training consists of basic engineering practice, safety procedures, handling hand, powerand machine tools. Beyond this phase, training is designed to arouse the interest of students in engineering practice, stimulate their imagination and help them develop their talents. This is accomplished in a simulated industrial environment in which students are assigned an intearated desiqn-and-make project requiring an intellectual level to match their ongoing academic activities. The goal of this integrated approach is to train students to be orofessional enaineers. The modules are designed to sthite a balance between the development of skilG and an appreciation of engineering processes.
INTERDEPARTMENTAL RESEARCH UNITS
To both support and supplement research based in academic departments, the University has established a number of research institutes and centres to identify and
~rovide focus for research at HKUST. All oDerate across traditional disciplinarv bounda-
;ies, and provide a full range of research and specialised research services from developmental and applied activities to basic investigations. Together with disciplinary research in academic departments, these specialised research organisations provide underaraduate and postaraduate students with a wide ranQe of opportunities for partici- pationin exciting and projects that deal with $e extension and application of knowledge. Several hundred research projects have been funded and are in operation.
These research units are described briefly in this section of the Calendar in three groupings: the Research Centre, Research Institutes and Central Research Facilities.
RESEARCH CENTRE
Director: Jay-Chung CHEN, BS ChengKung; MS, PhD California lnst of Tech (Professor of Mechanical Engineering)
The Research Centre has been established to encourage and conduct multidisciplinary, contractual and applied research, the results of which may lead more directly and quickly to implementation and economic benefit. Some of its objectives are to conduct missioi-oriented scientific, engineering, industrial, and management research relevant to Hona Kona's technoloaical and socio-economic development: to establish and manage research failities that &e critical to the need for deve~o~ment'of technology in Hong Kong; to incubate critical technologies required by government and industry; to establish research and scientific databases; to provide institutional management and planning support for research to faculty members; to co-ordinate collaborative overseas research programmes; and to develop and maintain research sponsorship and contrac- tual relationships. The Research Centre has a programme of wide-ranging R&D initiatives with research topics and projects chosen in the collaboration with faculty and staff. The selection process gives consideration to the impact of research results on the local community, availability of the University's skills for conducting outstanding research, involvement of Dostaraduate students and academic faculty, and potential to strengthen existing areas of activity or to build areas of future research sirength. ~ x a m ~ k s of technology and research initiatives in current operation are:
. operational windshear warning system at Chek Lap Kok airport . Hong KongIPearl River Delta contaminated sediment research . satellite remote sensing technology on environmental studies . pollutant source identification; air quality index and prediction
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productive electrochemical desulphurisation of fuel gas . abatement of diesel air pollution and clean technoloav. biological wastewater treatment
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using immobilised microalgae and mangrove wetland systemRESEARCH INSTITUTES
Each research institute is managed by a Director who is responsible for pro- grammes, projects, facilities and personnel. Faculty, staff, students and visitors should contact the director if they wish to become involved in a particular programme. Presently, the following institutes have been established or are being established:
InterdeDartmental Research Units Interdepartmental Research Units
lnstitute for Environmental Studies
Director: Gary W. HEINKE, BASc, MASc Toronto; PhD McMaster (Professor of Civil and Structural Engineering)
The lnstitute for Environmental Studies was formally opened on November 4, 1993 to assist government and industry in the solution of the many urgent environmental problems facing Hong Kong and its surrounding region. A further aim is to assist departments in the development of interdisciplinary applied educational programmes, particularly at the Mastets level and in continuing education. Postgraduate and under- graduate students play an important contributing role. Approximately twenty projects worth about $1 5 million are under way in areas such as
air quality (measurement, dispersion and reduction of pollutants, characterisa- tion of aerosols)
water qualitylquantity (measurement, water resource management, water and wastewater treatment by physical, chemical and biological processes) industrial processes (waste minimisation and prevention, noise control, proc- ess control and management)
health Studies (toxicological, epidemiology, microbiological and bacteriologi- cal studies)
ocean (transport, dispersion and sedimentation of pollutants, air-sea interac- tions, marine pollution studies)
Biotechnology Research lnstitute
Director: Tian Yow TSONG, BS Taiwan Chung Hsin; PhD Yale (Professor of Biochemistry)
The mission of the Biotechnology Research lnstitute (BRI) is to assist Hong Kong in its economic development, and in so doing contribute to the economic well-being of the Asia-Pacific region through research, development and training of specialists in biotechnology. The biotechnological industry worldwide is entering into a period of unprecedented growth opportunities. Besides rapid scientific advances that are bringing a constant stream of new processes and products, the business environment of the industry is also undergoing dramatic changes in the form of increasing globalisation, as new entrants, both national governments and corporations, seek participation. The founding of BRI helps Hong Kong strive to become one of the important centres of biotechnology in the world.
Biotechnology covers a wide range of fast-growing areas of economic impor- tance. The five research areas that have been targeted for development by BRI are:
1. Biomedical instrumentation and diagnostics 2. Drug delivery and development
3. Agricultural and Plant Biotechnology 4. Genetic engineering and protein design 5. Environmental biotechnology
Hongkong Telecom lnstitute of Information Technology Director: Ming L. LIOU, PhD Stanford
(Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
This lnstitute was founded with a grant of $100 million from Hong Kong Telecom-
This lnstitute was founded with a grant of $100 million from Hong Kong Telecom-