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)
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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
- Hands-on Project or Research Experience: Related to a Grand Challenge
- 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
- Entrepreneurship: Preparing students to translate invention to innovation; to develop market ventures that scale to global solutions in the public interest
- 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
- 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.
14 Grand Challenges
Sustainability Grand Challenge Theme:
- Make Solar Energy Economical
- Provide Energy from Fusion
- Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods
- Manage the Nitrogen Cycle
- Provide Access to Clean Water
Health Grand Challenge Theme:
Security Grand Challenge Theme:
Joy of Living Grand Challenge Theme:
The Steering Committee
Chairman
Name | Tel. no. | Office | |
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Professor Chun-sing LEE Dean College of Science |
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3442 7826 | YEUNG-G5137 |
Program Director
Name | Tel. no. | Office | |
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Dr H P CHAN, Andy Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering |
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3442 8444 | YEUNG-G6512 |
Committee Member
Faculty Mentors
14 Grand Challenges
Sustainability Grand Challenge Theme:
(1) Make Solar Energy Economical
(2) Provide Energy from Fusion
(3) Develop Carbon Sequestration Methods
Name | Tel. no. | Office | |
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Dr Chi Kit SIU, Andy Department of Chemistry |
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3442 2272 | YEUNG-G6622 |
(4) Manage the Nitrogen Cycle
(5) Provide Access to Clean Water
Name | Tel. no. | Office | |
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Dr Ting Hsuan CHEN, Cecil Department of Biomedical Engineering |
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3442 4114 | YEUNG-P6415 |
Health Grand Challenge Theme:
(6) Advance Health Informatics
(7) Engineer Better Medicines
Security Grand Challenge Theme:
(8) Prevent Nuclear Terror
(9) Secure Cyberspace
Name | Tel. no. | Office | |
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Dr Gerhard Petrus HANCKE Department of Computer Science |
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3442 9341 | YEUNG-Y6409 |
Dr Chee Wei TAN Department of Computer Science |
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3442 7652 | YEUNG-G7307 |