School of Business and Management Homecoming Dinner —
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The weekend of 6 and 7 October saw the largest group of alumni ever return to the HKUST campus, for the 10th Anniversary Alumni Homecoming Dinners.
Close to 1400 alumni, deans and faculty, staff, family and friends from the Schools of Science, Engineering, Business and Management, and Humanities and Social Science, together with President Paul Ching-Wu Chu and President Emeritus Prof Chia-Wei Woo, celebrated the joyous gatherings amidst laughter, games, dancing and conviviality, and even a special sing-along of the alumni song Fei Xiang (Soaring) led by the composer and lyricists. Organized by the four Schools, the dinners served to further strengthen ties between the University and alumni, adding yet another chapter to our graduates’ fond memories of HKUST.
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Business School Alumna : “It made me realize just how much my life has been enriched since becoming part of HKUST.”
More than 600 people enjoyed an evening filled with warm conversation and laughter to celebrate HKUST’s 10th anniversary. Over 100 MBA alumni attended this homecoming dinner. I was amongst one of them.
That evening, I met so many familiar faces. Some of them were old friends whom I got to know from the first day I was an MBA student. Others were acquaintances made after graduation through the network of the MBA Alumni Association. Seeing them all in one occasion made me realize just how much my life has been enriched since becoming part of HKUST. Apart from a c q u i r i n g a f o r m a l b u s i n e s s education, I learnt a great deal from
t h e p e o p l e o f t h i s f r i e n d l y a l u m n i community; playing golf with them, interacting with them in personal and career development, and even got business referrals.
I have a great sense of pride in being an HKUST MBA graduate. I am proud not just because of the MBA program’s rapid advancement in both global and regional rankings, but even more importantly, because my fellow alumni have both keen minds and warm hearts, and are generous in giving, sharing, suppor ting, and promoting each other’s interests for their mutual growth and for the benefit of the University.
The Homecoming Dinner was a truly memorable occasion. I just wonder what will happen ten years later when we celebrate the 20th anniversary. My crystal ball tells me that we would host it in a much bigger venue. This should come as no
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SinoCDN, an HKUST startup u n d e r t h e U n i v e r s i t y ’s Entrepreneurship Program, has won two 2001 Hong Kong Awards for Industr y: the Machinery and Equipment D e s i g n A w a r d , a n d t h e Technological Achievement
Certificate of Merit. The awards were presented on 19 November at a ceremony officiated by the Hon Tung Chee-Hwa, Chief Executive of the HKSAR. SinoCDN was founded by PhD candidate Mr James She (2000 MPhil (ELEC)). Winning the awards identify the firm as being committed to the pursuit of excellence, and producing quality products and services in which customers can have full confidence.
Mr Nelson Lam —Gold Award in
Accounting Case Competition
Mr Nelson Lam (1998 Part-time MBA) has won the Gold Award of the first “Accounting Case Competition” organized by t h e H o n g K o n g S o c i e t y o f A c c o u n t a n t s ( H K S A ) . The competition aims to encourage and recognize high quality accounting case writing in Hong Kong, and to promote the development of accounting cases suitable as training and reference materials for HKSA Qualification Program a n d a s i n s t r u c t i o n a l
materials for Hong Kong undergraduate or post-g r a d u a t e a c c o u n t i n post-g programs. The topic of Nelson’s winning case i s “ P a c i f i c C e n t u r y Cyberworks Limited — The Acquisition of HKT”.
Prof Danny Tsang of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department (middle), Mr James She (2nd from right) and their team members of SinoCDN at the 2001 Hong Kong Awards for Industry ceremony.
Mr James She,
SinoCDN — 2001
Hong Kong Awards
for Industry
Mr Nelson Lam received the trophy at the HKSA Accounting Case Award Presentation on 12 October.
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UNIVERSITY’S SPOTLIGHT
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International Award
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Manufacturing
Technology
The Advanced Manufacturing Institute (AMI) of the University has recently received a major international award — the University Leadership and Excellence in Application and Development Award — from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and its Computer and Automated Systems Association, in recognition of its achievements in research and education in the area o f e n t e r p r i s e - w i d e i n t e g r a t e d manufacturing technology.
The University’s second large-scale sculptural installation, and the first of its kind in Asia, was officially unveiled on 3 October. The One-World-Fountain, overlooking the sea from the LG7 lawn, is a symbolic water sculpture created by world-renowned water sculptor Prof Hans Muhr of Austria. The sculpture was commissioned and donated
World Harmony in Water and Stone
to the University by Dr Helmut Sohmen, University Court member and Chairman of the World-Wide Shipping Agency Ltd.
Five massive stones comprise the sculpture, with a large onyx marble quarried in China as the centerpiece. The stone represents the pivotal place Asia holds in the world, and each of the four other stones arranged around it are from a different continent. Water shoots upwards from each stone, and the arcs formed by the streams of water crisscross each other in different patterns, signifying the harmony between man and the world. The sculpture was given the Chinese name Tien Yi Chuan ( ) by members of the Humanities and Social Science faculty.
University; and Prof Wang Debing, Chairman of the University Council of Peking University and a distinguished h e m a t o l o g i s t . T h e U n i v e r s i t y ’s t o p teaching award — the Michael G Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching was awarded to Associate Professor Andrew Horner of the Department of Computer Science. Germaine Chan Chore Man, former President of the HKUST Students’ Union, received the Stephen Cheong Kam-chuen Medal for Distinguished Service to the Student Body.
The Ninth Congregation was held from 7 to 9 November. Among the 2,488 graduates, 1,812 are bachelor’s degree h o l d e r s , 6 0 2 a re m a s t e r ’s d e g re e recipients, and 74 are PhDs. On 9 November, in addition to installation of President Prof Paul Ching-Wu Chu, the University also conferred honorar y doctorates on four distinguished persons, including Prof Leo Esaki, President of the Shibaura Institute of Technology and the 1973 Nobel Laureate in Physics; Dr Lau Wa h - S u m , C h a i r m a n o f t h e U r b a n Renewal Authority; Prof Leo Ou-Fan Lee, Professor of Chinese Literature at Harvard
Ninth Congregation
cum Installation of
President
Green Light on
New Student Hall
T h e G o v e r n m e n t h a s g i v e n HKUST the green light to build a new hall of residence for students on campus. The new undergraduate hall will be located between UG Hall II and UG Hall IV and will overlook the lily pond. Designed in-house by the E s t a t e s M a n a g e m e n t O f f i c e (EMO), the 11-storey structure will comprise accommodation for 527 undergraduate students above two floors of catering and recreational facilities. Construction is scheduled to be completed in time for the second semester of 2003/04.
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NEWS FROM OUDPA
New Internet Services
for Alumni (ISA)
The Office of University Development and Public Affairs (OUDPA) and the Information Technology and Services Center (ITSC) jointly established a new Internet Services for Alumni (ISA) system in September 2001. With this service, alumni can have a free email account of 5MB storage capacity for personal communications. The service will be implemented by phases. The first batch is for all fresh graduates in July 2001. For alumni of other batches, please watch out for our announcement later. (ISA website: http://www. ustalumni.ust.hk).
