Developments and Perspectives
The Estates Management Office - Technology to ToiletHaving been initially established by seconded staff from Government, the Estates Management Office began to take shape following the appointment of its Director, Mike Hudson, in June 1989. Three senior staff, each of whom is responsible for a specific section within the Office, were soon recruited: Steven Wong - Development Manager, George Lomas - Estates Man-ager, and KL Lam- Building Services Manager. The organisation structure has b1:3en designed to fulfil the future needs of the University.
Without an estate to manage, what do these people and their support staff do?
A major part of the work of the office is of course linked with the design and construction of the new campus at Clear Water Bay. The project is large by any standards and, although our academic colleagues can be relied on to provide input into the design of laboratories and other academic areas, there are other parts of the University where our needs have to be communi-cated. These include senior and junior staff residences, post-graduate and underpost-graduate housing, catering provisions, sports and recreation facilities, the health centre, entrance areas, circu-lation space, toilets (!)and many others. The EMO will be respon-sible for providing the best posrespon-sible environment to support the University's objectives and this will mean running the sophisti-cated building management system which monitors and controls air conditioning operations, energy consumption and security. Preventive and remedial maintenance schemes will be estab-lished along with cleaning and refuse disposal procedures.
Another aspect of the EMO's work involves providing resi-dential quarters for staff and, although the University plans to build nearly 200 senior staff residences on campus, we will
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TVB filming at construction site (photo by Tony Chung) continue to be active in the rental market.
Prior to our move to the permanent campus the EMO
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continue to cater to the University's eve-ryday needs by fitting out our newly acquired space on the 5th and 13th floors of the World Shipping Centre and to provide the necessary furniture to new staff as they arrive.To carry out these duties the director and sec-tion managers are currently supported by eight staff who are introduced in this issue of Genesis.
*Prof HK Chang has an article in
The Nineties Magazine,
March issue; it is based on an after-dinner speech he gave at the Society of Hong Kong Scholars' Annual Meeting last December.rr
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*VC/P spoke at the dinner meeting of the Convocation ofHKU on the topic," Teaching, Research, and Service--The University as a Dynamic 3-Dimensional Organism" on 8 May 1990.
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CODANA CHAN, Executive Officer, is responsible for
leasing and administration. Formerly of the University of Hong Kong, she enjoys hiking, travelling, aerobics, movies and reading.
CHENG KWAI-WAH, STELLA, Clerk, is responsible for
estates management and furnishing. Her hobbies are travelling, Chinese painting, calligraphy and reading. She came to HKUST from the University of Hong Kong.
TAMMY LAM, Clerk, periorms general clerical duties.
Her hobbies are travelling, reading, cycling, bowling and shopping. Previously she worked for City Poly
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LAW WING-SAU, JOSEPH, Senior Technician, is
re-sponsible for estates management and maintenance. He enjoys soccer, swimming and chess games and was formerly employed by Hong Kong Government.
HO MAN-SHEUNG, WILLIAM, Senior Technician, is
responsible for estates management and maintenance.
His hobbies are picnicking, soccer and fishing. He came to HKUST from Hong Kong Polytechnic.
WENDY PANG, Clerk, periorms general clerical
du-ties. She enjoys listening to radio, reading, travelling and singing. Previously she worked for the Hong Kong
Staff Movement in April
Welcome Aboard, New Staff!
Library Services: Ms Min-min Chang, Director. Admissions, Registration and Records: Mrs Lung Wong Mi-wo, Anne, EO I; Mrs Wong Yeung Yuk-ling, Cecilia, EO II.
c'entre of ComputinQ Services
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Telecommunications:Mr Tsang Kit-chi, Andrew, Senior Computer Officer; Mr Cheng Pat-leung, Victor, Senior Computer Officer; Mr Tam Kee-kui, Computer Officer; Mr Chan Hin-man, Computer Technician
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Estates Manaoement Office: Mr Law Wing-sau, Jo-seph, Senior Technician.
Finance Office; Miss Wong So-fan, Clerk II.
General Administration
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Committee Office: Mr Chan Lai-yin, Office Assistant.Personnel Office: Ms Wan Mei-sheung, Emily.Clerk II. Resignation:
Public Affairs Office: Ms Lai Mei-yuen, May, EO
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From left to right: (back row) William Ho, Grace Wong, Codana Chan, Stella Cheng, Joseph Law; (front row) Tirzah Wu, Wendy Pang, Tammy Lam.
Housing Society.
GRACE WONG, Personal Secretary of Mr Mike
Hudson, previously worked for Omelco. Her hobbies are swimming, picnicking and badminton.
TIRZAH WU, Clerk, performs general clerical duties.
Her hobbies are reading, fishing, chess games and cycling. She came to HKUST from a private firm.
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This Month: A Matter of Statistics
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Statistics Don't Lie(?)One of the things I do as part ofmy job is look at various statistical profiles of our institution as
com-pared to others in Hong Kong and around the world.
The great value of this kind of analysis is that statistics is a purely mathematical science, and therefore one can be confident that the conclusions one draws are accurate and unbiased.
In the process of examining some of our more recent statistics I came across some rather
remark-able facts about the great nation of Canada. Re
-garded by some as sort of a suburb of the United States, Canada is in fact a vast nation rich in natural resources (especially ice and snow) that stretches all across the North American continent. It is famous
for its Royal Canadian Mounted Police (of whom it is
said they always get their man), its acid rain (made in the USA), and its many immigrants from Hong Kong.
It just so happens that we have a scientifically selected s-ample of Canadians among our recent aca-demic hires. I know this sample is scientifically selected, since it consists entirely of scientists, and they are a very select group indeed. From this sample one can draw some rather surprising conclu-sions about the population of Canada. Especially
surprising if you thought of Canada as populated
mainly by descendants of British and French colo
-nists.
According to our sample, fully 83.3% of the
population of Canada bears the surname Wong! That's right, five out of six Canadians is named Wong
and -- get this -- two of those five are named Ray
Wong! Just think what a panic you could cause at Vancouver International Airport by making the
announcement "Will Ray Wong please come to a
white courtesy telephone .... " Of course, mostofthose
injured in the ensuing stampede of Ray Wongs will
aJso be named Wong. (Just for the record, everyone else in Canada is named Hui.)
Our same sample, by the way, indicates that there are no Wongs in the United States. Just why all the Wongs were driven north of the border is a matter for speculation, and naturally cannot be de-termined bv such an unbiased method as statistics.
May 1990
One Year of Development
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CCST at the Half-way Point
About one-half of the two-year pre-student development period has passed. During the past year CCST, the Centre of Computing Services and
Telecommunica-tions, has grown from one person to about 25 staff members. Over the remaining year
before students arrive, it will expand further to about 50 staff members in total. Although a great deal remains to be done, much has been accomplished. One year ago we had no computers, in fact no hardware at all. Now we have about two hundred micro-computers, four or five mini computers, and a fairly large Ethernet network. Even though our network is in its very early stages, it is larger than those of HKU, CUHK, BC - only being exceeded in size by HKP and CPHK.
CCST now has four distinct departments: Computing Systems and Operations, Information Systems, Computing Information Centre, and Systems Engineering. Computing Systems and Operations has designed most of the Harbour City network, participated in the design of the campus network and developed all of the systems software for our mini- and micro-computers. Very soon CCST will
be releasing Electronic Mail services and other network services to the general
staff of HK.UST; this project has been developed by Computer Systems and Op-erations Department.
Information Systems is in charge of the development ofHKUST's information systems. Recently the first part of the General Ledger and the Personnel Systems were released for use by the University. The Finance Department and the Per-sonnel Department worked long hours with CCST to develop these two systems. Over the next few months, Information Systems will expand beyond these two areas and begin development of the Student System and the Estates Management system - two major developments.
Computing Information Centre is just now forming. It will not begin serious
operation until some staff report for duty in August and September. This Centre
will offer an extensive set of courses for all HK.UST employees. (More on these courses in a future article.)
Systems Engineering Unit is also in the early stages of formation. It will offer hardware maintenance services for the University's many PC's and mini comput-ers and network, greatly reducing the total HK UST maintenance bill, and also design and develop the hardware components of the campus computer network. Space does not permit funher elaboration of the many tasks which will be undertaken in the future by CCST. Over the next year you can look for many additional information and computer systems to be developed. By the time class
opens in October 1991, CCST expects to be able to provide the needed and expected
support for all major HK.UST systems which will be required for the institution to
function effectively.
SOCIAL CLUB
The HKUST Social Club Management Committee held its first meeting on 20 April 1990 during which the following office bearers were elected:
Chairman: Vice Chairman : Hon Secretary : Hon Treasurer :
Mr George M Scott Prof Peter N Dobson Mr Mervyn M P Cheung Mr Michael K M Cheng
Those who are interested to join the Social Club are invited to contact Mervyn Cheung on ext 1415 for application forms.
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Mr Bobby Sham, the Graphic Designer of OPA, married Miss Linda Tse, the Managing Editor of
Elegance Magazine, on 12 May 1990.
Congratulations to the happy new couple/ Steering the pioneering Asia-SAT I from ground control sounds exciting, and that's the job of Prof Dobson's daughter, Ms Laurel Noel, who works for the Hughes Communications' ground control centre in LA. After the launching of Asia-SAT I, which Lau-rel assisted by working as Orbital Analyst, and by helping to train other earth controllers, she came all the way from the States to HK and China. The trip was part holidayandpartwork, as Hughes had asked her to review the work in other control centres as she travelled. Here's the picture of Prof Dobson with Laurel and her husband, Jeff in front of the Jumbo Restaurant.
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