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A HK$3 million donation from the Hong Kong Hua-Yan Buddhist Association will be used to set up an endowment fund for student scholarships at CityU.
In his address at the first opening ceremony for the MPA + EMBA programme offered by CityU and Tsinghua University on 24 August in Beijing, Professor Way Kuo, CityU President, encouraged students to address social responsibilities when doing business.
This year the Elder Academy at CityU celebrates its 10th Anniversary. The celebration ceremony was held on 22 August.
The 3rd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications at CityU from 19 to 21 August brings together more than 300 engineering specialists from over 30 countries and areas.
CityU will confer honorary doctoral degrees on Professor Michael Kotlikoff and Dr Edward Leong Che-hung in recognition of their significant contributions to education and the well-being of society.
If a group of management sciences professors at City University have their way, the Centa-City Index, a winner of CityU's prestigious Applied Research Excellence Awards in 2001, may become as widely accepted and creditable as the Hang Seng Index in measuring the territory's economic health.
In a display of its commitment to the advancement of teaching and research in the region, IBM China/Hong Kong Ltd has donated an e-business software package worth more than HK$14 million to CityU.
Research and postgraduate education were the focus of CityU's ninth University Development Forum, held on 18 September. The open presentation gave four focus groups the opportunity to present their observations and members of staff the opportunity to provide feedback on the recommendations.
CityU's Department of Manufacturing Engineering and Engineering Management (MEEM) has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with Dassault Systemes and MTECH Engineering Co Ltd that will help boost innovation, productivity and competitiveness in small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Pearl River Delta region.
"I wish the industrial training could be longer than it is now," said Ada Chan Hiu Kei, a third-year student in the computer engineering stream of the Department of Electronic Engineering. "I also think that the scheme should be extended to students from other faculties as well."