Prof Mansun Chan Received IEEE Electron Devices Society Education Award
Prof Mansun Chan, Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE), received the 2017 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Education Award for his pioneering innovative approaches in electronic engineering education. Presented annually since 2006, the award is EDS’s highest honor to recognize distinguished contributions to education within the field of interest of EDS.
“The recipients of this award were all highly recognized individuals in the field including Profs Chenming Hu (UC Berkeley), Roger Howe (Stanford University), Robert Dutton (Stanford University) and Prof Jesus Del Alamo (MIT). I am happy to be among them and being the youngest at the time the award is given,” said Prof Chan.
Prof Chan has devoted himself to the education of the next-generation engineers. At HKUST, he has been recognized for his effective approaches to convey complex concepts in semiconductor physics to students using modern multimedia tools including computer animations and instant-feedback in-class Q&A systems. His innovative approach to teaching has earned him the School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Appreciation Awards twice. In addition, he has given many short courses for the semiconductor industry (e.g. Motorola, ON Semiconductor, Solomon Systech and GlobalFoundry) and universities (e.g. UC Berkeley Extension, Tsinghua University, Peking University and Fudan University). Since 2002, he has served as an IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer and has given more than 50 lectures to the EDS community.
One of Prof Chan’s most notable contributions to educational activities is his effort to motivate, attract, and nurture young future engineers. Since 2008, Prof Chan has initiated the IEEE Electronic Camp which has become an annual event that attracts over 100 participants. This has become a signature event of EDS and has been repeatedly reported in the EDS Newsletter. Recently, Prof Chan has re-branded the Electronic Camp as an equivalent to IEEE Conference for Student Chapters with a standard and easy-to-follow event template. Since then, the newly branded Electronic Camp has already been launched in Shenzhen, Beijing and San Diego, benefiting more than 500 students aged from 10 to 18. The events also serve as a means of getting student chapters involved since income from the camps can help to sustain their activities. It has a significant impact on the student activities in EDS. Furthermore, Prof Chan also started the IEEE Electronic Endeavor Match in April 2017 which has become an annual competition for primary and secondary school students to compete in breadboard circuit construction. The competition has helped EDS to become more visible among the pre-college students. In the longer term, the objective set for the match is to become an international competition to showcase the achievements of pre-college and college future engineers.
Prof Chan received the award at the 2017 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting on December 4, 2017 in San Francisco, US.
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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.
