Bridge Design Contest Inspires Young Engineers
Four closely matched teams from St Catharine’s School for Girls, Kowloon True Light Middle School, Po Leung Kuk Wu Chung College and Baptist Lui Ming Choi Secondary School provided an exciting finale to this year’s Secondary School Bridge Design Competition, organized by the Civil Engineering Students’ Society, HKUSTSU and the Civil Engineering Department.
The student teams, selected from 12 original entrants, each spent over two months in their bid to design the most effective cable-stayed bridge. In the finals, held in January, the four model bridges were subjected to load-carrying tests to test their strength and judged on their appearance. Each team also had to give a five-minute presentation explaining their design concept.
Baptist Lui Ming Choi was eventually named the overall winner. The contest was sponsored by Alris Technology Ltd.
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.
