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Ir. Wong Chun Kau, Chief Telecommunications Engineer, Information Systems Wing, Hong Kong Police was the Guest of Honour to present awards to 8 teachers. They have won the prizes awarded by academic and professional bodies of Hong Kong, Mainland, Britain, Canada and the United States for outstanding achievements in research and teaching which include the Honorary Doctorate of Science awarded to Professor Lee Chack Fan by The University of Western Ontario, the NSFC Young Researcher Award to Professor Wong Sze Chun by the National Science Foundation of China, and the Rosenhain Medal & Prize, by The Institute of Materials to Professor Alfonso Ngan who is the only Chinese on the recipient list since 1984.

Ir. Wong also presented medal and certificates to 35 students winning faculty-based prizes and HKU Foundation Entrance Scholarship.

HKU Pro-Vice-Chancellor Professor Lee Chack Fan presented awards to 27 students who have won external prizes.

Professor Lee also presented this year's Best Teacher Award of the Faculty to Dr Chow Kwok Wing, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

Professor Chew Weng Cho, Dean of the Faculty, thanked the teachers who have made tremendous effort in offering the best education to HKU students and have contributed to the community at large.

"Our Faculty is committed to enhance students' multi-disciplinary endeavors so that they can embrace the challenge and opportunities of globalization and knowledge-based economy," said Professor Chew.

"The introduction of double-degree programmes, more inter-disciplinary programmes, and the common admission in the next academic year are means to sharpen the competitive edge of students with training and knowledge of other fields on top of engineer expertise," he said.  

Under the common admission scheme, fresh students admitted to the Faculty would only need to decide on their majors after the first semester. This would provide them greater flexibility and wider choices before entering into a specialty.

For enquiries please contact:-

• Ms Denise Wong, External Relations Office, HKU (Tel: 2859 2600 / E-mail: denise.wong@hku.hk ) or
• - Miss Bowin Fung, Faculty of Engineering, HKU (Tel: 2859 2483 /6544 3235 / E-mail: bowin@hku.hk)

Photo Captions:

Picture 1:
Mr Wong Chun Kau, Chief Telecommunications Engineer, Hong Kong Police, （right） presented the award to Professor Lee Chack Fan, HKU Pro-Vice Chancellor, who has awarded the Honorary Doctorate in Science by The University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Picture 2:
Professor Lee Chack Fan, HKU Pro-Vice Chancellor, presented this year's Best Teacher Award of the Faculty of Engineering to Dr Chow Kwok Wing, Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (left).