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CityU X Sino Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Overview

More than 120 U.S. engineering schools announced plans to educate a new generation of engineers expressly equipped to tackle some of the most pressing issues facing society in the 21st century.  14 Grand Challenges (GC) are identified through initiates including the White House Strategy for American Innovation, the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Grand Challenges for Engineering, and the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.  The GCs are a call to action and serve as a focal point for society's attention to opportunities and challenges affecting our quality of life.

The CityU X Sino GCSP is a combined curricular and extra-curricular elements to prepare students to be the future engineers and scientists that solves the 14 GCs facing the world in this century.  The elements will be embedded into the curriculum so as to maximize the learning experience of students, through participation in research projects, Entrepreneurship schemes, interdisciplinary courses, service learning activities and overseas exchange program. The program was endorsed by the NAE in February 2009.  For further information about GCSP (NAE), please visit the website below:

NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Program

Grand Challenges for Engineering (Video)

 

Objective

CityU X Sino GCSP aims to prepare students to be the generation that solves the 14 GCs by embedding five curricular components into the program.  It serves to pilot innovative educational approaches that will eventually become the mainstream educational paradigm for all science and engineering students.

Five Curricular Components

  1. Hands-on Project or Research Experience: Related to a Grand Challenge
  2. Interdisciplinary Curriculum: A curriculum that complements engineering fundamentals with courses in other fields, preparing engineering students to work at the overlap with public policy, business, law, ethics, human behavior, risk, and the arts, as well as medicine and the sciences
  3. Entrepreneurship: Preparing students to translate invention to innovation; to develop market ventures that scale to global solutions in the public interest
  4. Global Dimension: Developing the students’ global perspective necessary to address challenges that are inherently global as well as to lead innovation in a global economy
  5. Service Learning: Developing and deepening students’ social consciousness and their motivation to bring their technical expertise to bear on societal problems through mentored experiential learning with real clients
  • A well-connected program would be one where a single component can be linked to one or more of the other components; e.g., interning at an organization (Entrepreneurship) and/or performing research (Research experience) on global health or clean energy (Grand Challenge(s) / Service Learning).
  • Each GC scholar should select or be assigned a faculty mentor to monitor student progress and ensure thematic continuity and connectivity.

The Steering Committee

Chairman

Name Email Tel. no. Office
Professor Chun-sing LEE
Dean
College of Science
Email address 3442 7826 YEUNG-G5137

Program Director

Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr H P CHAN, Andy
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 8444 YEUNG-G6512

Committee Member

Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Inez ZWETSLOOT 
Assistant Professor
Department of Advanced Design and Systems Engineering
Email address 3442 6155 YEUNG-P6626
Professor C W LIM
Professor
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Email address 3442 7285 YEUNG-B6406
Dr Chia-hung CHEN
Associate Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 9547 MMW-6420
Dr Chi Kit SIU, Andy
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Email address 3442 2272 YEUNG-G6622
Professor Antoni CHAN
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 6509 YEUNG-G7311
Dr C Y CHUNG, Jonathan
Associate Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Email address 3442 7835 YEUNG-G6713
Professor W C HO, Daniel
Chair Professor of Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 8652 YEUNG-Y6532
Dr Wing Cheong LO
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 2578 YEUNG-Y6622
Dr Jun LIU
Assistant Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email address 3442 9520 MMW-6403
Dr Condon LAU
Associate Professor
Department of Physics
Email address 3442 7882 YEUNG-P6708

Faculty Mentors

14 Grand Challenges
 

Sustainability Grand Challenge Theme:
 
(1) Make Solar Energy Economical
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Mei Yung LEUNG
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Email address 3442 7142 YEUNG-B6409
Dr Wing Shing CHAN
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7804 YEUNG-G6360
Dr Jonathan C Y CHUNG
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Email address 3442 7835 YEUNG-G6713
Prof Ya Yan LU
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 7436  YEUNG-Y6513

(2) Provide Energy from Fusion

(3) Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Chi Kit SIU, Andy
Department of Chemistry
Email address 3442 2272 YEUNG-G6622

(4) Manage the Nitrogen Cycle
 
(5) Provide Access to Clean Water
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Ting Hsuan CHEN, Cecil
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 4114 YEUNG-P6415

 

Health Grand Challenge Theme:
 
(6) Advance Health Informatics
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Prof Minming LI
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 9538 YEUNG-Y6316
Dr Shuaicheng LI
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 9412 YEUNG-G6520
Dr Ho Man CHAN, Rosa
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7651 YEUNG-G6356
Dr Wing Shing CHAN
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7804 YEUNG-G6360
Dr Wing Cheong LO
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 2578 YEUNG-Y6622
Dr Weiyin MA
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email address 3442 9548 YEUNG-Y6707
 
(7) Engineer Better Medicines
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Ting Hsuan CHEN, Cecil
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 4114 YEUNG-P6415
Prof Dongan WANG
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 9542 YEUNG-Y7523
Dr Lidai WANG
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 6157 YEUNG-Y6619
Dr Hongyan SUN
Department of Chemistry
Email address 3442 9537 YEUNG-B6716
Dr Ho Man CHAN, Rosa
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7651 YEUNG-G6356
Dr Wing Cheong LO
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 2578 YEUNG-Y6622

 

Security Grand Challenge Theme:
 
(8) Prevent Nuclear Terror
 
(9) Secure Cyberspace
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Gerhard Petrus HANCKE
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 9341 YEUNG-Y6409
Dr Chee Wei TAN
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 7652 YEUNG-G7307
 
(10) Restore and Improve Urban Infrastructure
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Mei-yung LEUNG
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Email address 3442 7142 YEUNG-B6409
Prof C W LIM
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Email address 3442 7285 YEUNG-B6406
Dr Chee Wei TAN
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 7652 YEUNG-G7307

 

Joy of Living Grand Challenge Theme
 
(11) Reverse-Engineer the Brain
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Chung TIN
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 5145 YEUNG-P6416
Dr Lidai WANG
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 6157 YEUNG-Y6619
Dr Antoni B CHAN
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 6509 YEUNG-G7311
Dr Ho Man CHAN, Rosa
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7651 YEUNG-G6356
Prof Hongyu LIU
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 7155 YEUNG-Y6511
 
(12) Enhance Virtual Reality
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Dr Ho Man CHAN, Rosa
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7651 YEUNG-G6356
Prof Hongyu LIU
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 7155 YEUNG-Y6511
Dr Xiaosheng ZHUANG
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 5942 YEUNG-Y6510
Dr Weiyin MA
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Email address 3442 9548 YEUNG-Y6707
 
(13) Advance Personalized Learning
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Prof Minming LI
Department of
Computer Science
Email address 3442 9538 YEUNG-Y6316
Dr Shuaicheng LI
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 9412 YEUNG-G6520
Dr Chee Wei TAN
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 7652 YEUNG-G7307
Dr Ho Man CHAN, Rosa
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 7651 YEUNG-G6356
Prof Hongyu LIU
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 7155 YEUNG-Y6511
 
(14) Engineer the Tools of Scientific Discovery
Name Email Tel. no. Office
Prof C W LIM
Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering
Email address 3442 7285 YEUNG-B6406
Dr Ting Hsuan CHEN, Cecil
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 4114 YEUNG-P6415
Dr Chung TIN
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 5145 YEUNG-P6416
Dr Lidai WANG
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Email address 3442 6157 YEUNG-Y6619
Dr Chi Kit SIU, Andy
Department of Chemistry
Email address 3442 2272 YEUNG-G6622
Dr Hongyan SUN
Department of Chemistry
Email address 3442 9537 YEUNG-B6716
Dr Chee Wei TAN
Department of Computer Science
Email address 3442 7652 YEUNG-G7307
Dr Hau Ping Andy CHAN
Department of Electrical Engineering
Email address 3442 8444 YEUNG-G6512
Dr Xiaoyan ZHONG
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Email address 3442 6850 BOC-R7124
Prof Hongyu LIU
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 7155 YEUNG-Y6511
Dr Wing Cheong LO
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 2578 YEUNG-Y6622
Dr Xiaosheng ZHUANG
Department of Mathematics
Email address 3442 5942 YEUNG-Y6510