KE Stories

Full STEAM Ahead for Engineering Team

“As a university teacher of engineering, I think one of our missions is to promote the use of technologies and also inspire more students to study these subjects,” Dr. Wilton Fok said.

Drowning Detection with AI

Swimming pool safety enhancement by Artificial Intelligence

A 21st Century Learning Project

Hong Kong's 1,000-plus primary and secondary schools will soon all be equipped with wifi and other infrastructure for e-learning. But what does that learning look like? A team of engineering graduates are about to provide the first locally-developed answer.

Interaction is the Key Word in iClass

A teacher asks her students to name the causes of global warming and 10 hands shoot up into the air. Who will be chosen to answer the question?

The Buddy Programme

Secondary school students in Mainland China, like their counterparts everywhere, have to make major decisions about their future. But many Chinese students are at a disadvantage because their schools offer little opportunity to talk to people from different fields about their options. A group of HKU students tried to fill that gap through an outreach project that was inspired by personal experience.