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The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA (EMBA) Program has stayed among the top and claimed No.2 in this year’s Financial Times EMBA Ranking. Since 2010, the EMBA Program, jointly offered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, has been consistently ranked among the world’s best clinching No.1 for seven times and No.2 for three times in the past ten years. According to the latest Financial Times EMBA Ranking 2019, the Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Program continues to achieve an outstanding performance overall. On career progress, our graduates have achieved the highest average salary three years after graduation, reaching US$513,014 (HK$4,001,509) per annum and standing out among the top 100 surveyed programs.

Three School of Engineering faculty members were honored in the Ministry of Education’s 2018 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Science and Technology). These significant national awards recognize leading contributions to scientific discovery and technological innovation carried out in tertiary institutions across China.

The HKUST Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team was crowned the All-Around Champion and Engineering Presentation Champion in the MATE International ROV Competition 2019, which was held on June 20-22 in Kingsport, Tennessee, US. This marks the second time that the team receives all-around championship in this international competition since they first participated in 2011, after the first time in 2017. They are also the only Asian team so far that gained this top accolade in the 18-year history of this competition.

The HKUST Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) Team defended their champion title in the 14th Hong Kong Regional of the MATE International ROV Competition. The ROV Team, a sub-team of the HKUST Robotics Team, has been named champion in this competition for the ninth consecutive year. They will represent Hong Kong to take part in the MATE International ROV Competition 2019 in Kingsport, Tennessee, US on June 20-22.

IAS Bank of East Asia Professor Ching Tang is awarded 2019 Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology

Prof. Ricky Lee Received Outstanding Sustained Technical Contribution Award of IEEE Electronics Packaging Society

Prof. Kwok Hoi-Sing, who has spent over a quarter of a century researching on display technology, said he felt tremendously honored to receive the prestigious Jan Rajchman Prize.

A team of 5 HKUST School of Engineering (SENG) students brought home the championship at the Kerry Logistics Hackathon in February, a competition that sought to explore the possibility of using drones to help run smart warehouses. Joined by 50 local undergraduate and postgraduate students in 8 groups, as well as 50 industry participants, the competition comprised two sessions. In the “Drone Flying Competition” session, contestants had to create the best path for the drone to race and capture information about the warehouse at the Kerry Cargo Centre in Kwai Chung, by leveraging the power of autonomous drones and Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in this 24-hour overnight hackathon. Contestants were judged on criteria such as how accurate, efficient, stable and well-planned their drone flights were.