CPEG Teams Shine at Embedded System Contest
Two innovative design projects put student teams from the Computer Engineering Program among the first and second prize-winners in the hotly contested 2006 Intel Cup Undergraduate Electronic Design Contest - Embedded System Design Invitational Contest.
The biennial competition, jointly organized by China’s Ministry of Education, Ministry of Information Industry and Intel China, has grown from Mainland China universities only at its launch in 2002 to this year’s regional event. A total of 158 teams from 70 universities, including the Mainland, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, India and the Philippines, were invited to join the 2006 contest, hosted by Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
The challenging event provided an exciting opportunity for undergraduate teams to design a real project based on assigned embedded hardware platforms. Two CPEG teams from HKUST took part. Chan Hong-ching, Lam Man-wa and Yeung Chi-ho scooped one of the first prizes with their Vision Game Platform, which allows players to use natural body movements and hand gestures, to participate in games. The HKUST project, Speech-controlled Room Service Assistant, developed by Chau Dong-yin, Rio Kwok Tsz-hin and Wong Yiu-fai, received a second prize. This system enables users to control electrical appliances via voice commands and a touch screen.
“The contest was a great chance to put our studies into practice,” Chi-ho said. “We not only enhanced our technical skills but also learnt how to sell our ideas and devise marketing strategies.”
Twelve first prizes and 26 second prizes were awarded, among other prizes, with a presentation ceremony held in August.
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.
