The university received 18 awards in the "Challenge Cup" National Competition Hong Kong Regional Final – Hong Kong University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition 2018. The "Challenge Cup" National Competition Hong Kong Regional Final was organised by the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, with 188 projects submitted by some 560 participants from 19 tertiary institutions.

List of CUHK Engineering awarded projects:

Award	Name of Project	Name of Students	Affiliated Department
Category: Innovation
First-Class and Innovation Award	An Efficient Assessment Tool for Child Speech Disorders Based on Intelligent Speech Technology	NG Si Ioi, JIANG Yi	Department of Electronic Engineering
First-Class	Design and Control of a Biomimetic Robot Fish With Active Body and Compliant Tail	XIE Fengran	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Second-Class and Innovation Award	Capillarized Myocardium Biochips for Personalized Therapeutic	PANG Tak Keung Bruce, OOI Hon Son	School of Biomedical Sciences, Department of Biomedical Engineering
Second-Class	Development of a High -speed Stealth Laser Dicing System Based on Multi-depth Bessel Beams	LEE Hiu Hung	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Third-Class	IoT Fuzzer: Discovering Security Vulnerabilities in IoT through App-based Fuzzing	CHEN Jiongyi, SUN Menghan	Department of Information Engineering
Third-Class	ICOvisor	YING Yau Kit Stanley, Simon WONG, Max LAM, Renee LEUNG, LAM Yip Fu, CHOW Chi Choi	Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management, Quantitative Finance Programme, Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Merit	The detection of content of DEHP in food by the combination of NADP/NADPH Assay Kit and Enzymes	CHIU Wai On, FOK Chi Hong, LAM Hon Sum, LIM Lok Ping	Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cell and Molecular Biology Programme
Merit	The smart water dispenser that assists visually impaired people	CHEN Zetao	Department of Information Engineering
Merit	Large scale artwork painting for architectural designs using a cable-driven robot with serial robot arm end-effector	TAM Sau Wai	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Merit	The AuLaitino	SZE-TO Koon Fung, LAW Chi Leung, LAI Chun Kit	Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering
Category: Entrepreneurship
First-Class	Treasure Home-used Pill Manager	IAM Wai Yin, Chapmann Cheuk-man LI, (Nathaniel HO, HUANG Chuen-Wei, TSANG Ming Hei)	Department of Biomedical Engineering, (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Open University of Hong Kong)