The 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition was organized by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association. Winning teams will represent the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in the biennial “Challenge Cup” National College Students’ Extracurricular Academic and Technology Contest, the China College Students’ “Internet+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and the Beijing-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Cup
Entrepreneurship First-class Award: LaSense Ultra-sensitive Gas Sensing and Control System
Coal-fired thermal power plants are the main source of electrical power in China, accounting for more than 60% of the total power generation. They are also the main source of air pollutant emissions. A large number of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) are produced in coal combustion, which are toxic gases in various forms. In recent years, with the more strict environmental protection policy, coal-fired power plants have been urged to carry out ultra-low emission renovation work. PhD student Xu Ke and Prof. Ren Wei from the Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering at CUHK, established a startup named LaSense Technology in November 2019, and have designed and developed a real-time, calibration-free and ultra-sensitive (sub-ppm) gas sensing and control system, which can meet the requirements of the simultaneous measurement of NOx and NH3, in order to meet the urgent market demand from the energy industry. The system will be used in the denitration process control to improve the denitration capacity and efficiency of the power plant, and to achieve the source prevention of air pollution as well.
Entrepreneurship Second-class Award: Soft Wearable Exoskeleton for Rehabilitatio
Heung Ho Lam, Tang Zhi Qiang and Shi Xiangqian, PhD students from the Department of Biomedical Engineering have won Entrepreneurship Second-class Award with the project “Soft Wearable Exoskeletons for Rehabilitation” in 6th Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. The team, supervised by Prof. Li Zheng and Prof. Raymond Tong, has started a company Soft Wearable Robotic Limited since 2017.
Their company dedicated to the development of latest soft wearable robotics technologies for rehabilitation of people after stroke and the elderly with joint diseases. Their missions are to get disabled people moving again and enable them to reintegrate to the society with better activities of daily living (ADL).In partnership with the Neurorehabilitation and Robotics Laboratory in CUHK, they introduce the pioneering soft wearable robotic exoskeletons to hospitals, rehabilitation centers, and even every stroke individual for recovering normal body function.
Winning engineering projects are listed below.
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Award
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Name of Project
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Name of Students
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Affiliated Department / Programme
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Category: Innovation
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Third-class
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Optical activation of TrkB signaling
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HUANG Peiyuan
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
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Third-class
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Annealing of strontium titanate based thermoelectric materials by graphite mechanistic analysis by spectroscopic and chromatographic techniques
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LI Haoran
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Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
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Third-class
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Modularized ROV
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KWOK Chun Keung
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Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
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Merit
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Portable Microscope System for Real-Time Aerosol Measurement
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GU Songyun, CHEN Bingxu, LAI Huasheng
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Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, Department of Surgery
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Category: Entrepreneurship
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First-class
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LaSense Ultra-sensitive Gas Sensing and Control System
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XU Ke, Professor REN Wai
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Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
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Second-class
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Soft Wearable Exoskeleton for Rehabilitation
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HEUNG Ho Lam, TANG Zhiqiang, SHI Xiangqian, Professor LI Zheng, Professor TONG Kai Yu
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Department of Biomedical Engineering
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