Teaching Excellence Honored
Three professors from different departments have been recognized for their innovative and continuous excellence in undergraduate teaching and promotion of students’ learning in the School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Award 2011-12.
Prof Jack Cheng, Civil and Environmental Engineering, received the Distinguished Teaching Award for his work on outcome-based education and enhancement of students’ exposure to real-world engineering practice. A graduate of HKUST, he has also provided great mentorship to undergraduate students as an advisor to the Civil and Environmental Engineering Students’ Society and a clan chief to the School’s four-year degree students. A clan chief is one of the important figures in the School’s innovative student support system.
Prof David Rossiter, Computer Science and Engineering, and Prof Ling Shi, Electronic and Computer Engineering, received Teaching Awards. Both have made substantial contributions to the four-year curriculum. In addition, Prof Rossiter has secured remarkably high student evaluations over different courses and a number of years. Prof Shi has developed a key, hands-on introductory course, actively seeking and using feedback to improve it. He also serves as the Department’s Mainland Student Coordinator.
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research 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. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is ranked as the world’s best young university in Times Higher Education’s Young University Rankings 2019. Its graduates were ranked 16th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global University Employability Survey 2018.
