Six students from the Civil and Environmental Engineering and Building Services Engineering and Sustainable Development programme teamed up to participate in the CIC BIM Competition 2024 and took home the second prize. The team submitted a proposal to develop the CIC Innovation Academy as a hub for interdisciplinary knowledge exchange and collaboration, with a unique hexagonal design that brings the complex stronger resistance against lateral forces, a greater load-bearing capacity and more effective illumination.
Howard Duan Hantian, James Fong Cheuk-yeung and Lee Chun-leung from the School of Nursing and Health Sciences partnered with Chen Shujun of the Lee Shau Kee School of Business and Administration and designed an innovative product of gerontechnology — a smart pillow named Entrance of Your Dream, which aims to enhance the sleep quality of the elderly. The team then participated in the Hong Kong Applied Gerontech Innovation Challenge (HKAGIC) organised by Tung Wah College with this design and won a Gold Award in the Tertiary Group.
“Sleepless Night”, an animation directed by Animation and Visual Effects graduates Lau Wing-wa, Cheng Hoi-tong and Sau Cheuk-yiu, won Hong Kong Best Art in the 25th DigiCon6 ASIA Awards, representing yet another recognition of the artistic level of HKMU animators.
HKMU Creative Arts students and graduates took part in the National College Student Art Exhibition and Performance and earned multiple awards in recognition of their creative talents. Aarika Kan Sin-tung won a First Class Award in Photography with her photographic work SILHOUETTE, while Huang Xuanni received a Second Class Award in Drawing with her comic strip The Shining Girl. Graduates Lai Kwan-chak, Shamus Yu and Law Ho-yin’s animation “The White Hair Boy” came away with a Second Class Award in Micro Film.
Apart from the students’ accolades, the Tin Ka Ping Centre of Chinese Culture (TKPCCC) under the School of Arts and Social Sciences submitted a proposal on “Arts, Innovation and Chinese Culture Education” to the event and won the First Class Award in the Innovative Proposals on Reform of Moral and Aesthetic Education by Colleges category. HKMU is the only university in Hong Kong to receive the award.
