CBE PhD student, Usman Bin SHAHID, received the Champion Award and the People's Choice Award in the HKUST 3MT Competition 2023
Usman Bin SHAHID, CBE PhD student under the supervision of Professor Minhua SHAO, received the Champion Award and the People's Choice Award in the HKUST 3MT Competition with his presentation “Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis”. Usman will also represent HKUST at the 2023 Virtual Asia-Pacific 3MT® Competition.
The Three Minute Thesis (3MT®) Competition is a research communication competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ). It "cultivates students' academic, presentation, and research communication skills" and "increases their capacity to effectively explain their research in three minutes, in a language appropriate to a non-specialists audience".
The School of Engineering (SENG) started hosting the 3MT® Competition in 2014. In 2018, through the collaboration of SENG and the Fok Ying Tung Graduate School (then the Office of Postgraduate Studies), the Competition was expanded to the university level and welcomes research students from all the schools and program offices to participate.
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (https://hkust.edu.hk/) is a world-class research intensive university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. Over 80% of our research work were rated “Internationally excellent” or “world leading” in the Research Assessment Exercise 2020 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee. We were ranked 3rd in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2022, and our graduates were ranked 23rd worldwide and among the best from universities from Asia in Global Employability University Ranking and Survey 2021.
