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HKU weekly notice (from April 27 to May 3, 2012)

27 Apr 2012

 

HKU Faculty of Engineering to hold Inaugural Engineering Centenary Distinguished Lecture
The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) will hold the inaugural Engineering Centenary Distinguished Lecture on 2 May 2012 (Wednesday).  The lecture entitled "Hong Kong's Role in the Development of PRD in China's 12^th Five-Year Plan" will be delivered by Dr Victor Fung Kwok-king, GBM, GBS, CBE, OBE. He will share his thoughts and insights on:

-Strengths and Challenges of Hong Kong
-Positioning of Hong Kong in the Economic Development of GPRD
-Measures to be adopted to Reinforce Hong Kong's Positioning

HKU Vice-Chancellor Professor Lap-Chee Tsui will be the officiating guest at the lecture.  The lecture is sponsored by Paul Y. Engineering Group Limited.

Media representatives are cordially invited to cover the event, the details are:
Date: May 2, 2012 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:15pm (Reception) 6:00pm (Lecture)
Venue:    Rayson Huang Theatre, HKU
Language: English

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606, email: pychoy@hku.hk; Ms Melanie Wan (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600, email: melwkwan@hku.hk; or Ms Veronica Leung, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 2219 4707 /2546 9142, email: veronica.leung@hku.hk).

New breakthroughs by HKU research team on Wireless Power Transfer
A century ago, renowned scientist Nicola Tesla successfully demonstrated that electric power could be transfer wirelessly between a pair of coils called coil-resonators. This breakthrough in wireless power has now found many applications for "short-range" applications such as wireless charging pad for mobile phones.

One hundred years later, an HKU research team, led by Professor Ron Hui, Philip K H Wong Wilson K L Wong Professorship in Electrical Engineering, and Dr. Chi Kwan Lee of the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, has developed a new wireless power domino-resonator system concept for "mid-range" applications.

The new wireless power domino-resonator systems provide new means of power transfer without using continuous cables over a few metres. This is an emerging technology that enables power to be transmitted in a highly flexible manner. On a small scale, it has the potential to be used in medical surgery, where energy will be guided through a narrow tube to heat up and kill tumor cells in microsurgery. On a larger scale, it can be used to transmit power through non-metallic materials with great electrical isolation, e.g. electrical appliances without wire connections.

Further research is being conducted by the HKU team to further improve the transmission distance and efficiency under the support of an Innovation & Technology Fund (ITF). Their new discovery, new theory and practical verification have been peer-reviewed and published in the prestigious IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics in April 2012.

Professor Hui and team members will demonstrate to the media this new technology in a press conference with details as follows:
Date:  3 May 2012(Thursday)
Time:  11 am
Venue:  Rm 701, Knowles Building, HKU

For media enquiries, please contact Ms Trinni Choy (Assistant Director (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2606, email: pychoy@hku.hk; or Ms Melanie Wan (Manager (Media), Communications and Public Affairs Office) tel: 2859 2600, email: melwkwan@hku.hk.

HKU weekly notice is sent to its subscribers on Friday afternoons. If you want to receive the event highlights, please regieter with Ms Helen Ho by email at hmsho@hku.hk.