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It’s FUN!

  Around 60 staff and students explored IC’s interesting technologies and facilities during the IC Fun Tour held on yesterday (Thursday, 21 March). They were introduced to more than 10 technical workshops and various demonstrations on facilities and technologies. Commonly known technologies and engineering processes such as 3D Printing, CAM, PCM, etc. were introduced, explained and demonstrated to participants of various background and disciplines. Although some engineering technologies and processes are not easy to understand, participants still find them amazing as they were able to see the processes and touch some of the final outcomes and products. Such experience was really eye-opening and inspiring … Continue reading

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IC Fun Tour is back!

The coming IC Fun Tour is scheduled on Thursday, 21 March 2013, from 2.30 – 4.00 pm. If you haven’t been to IC before or know us just vaguely, here is a good opportunity to explore or re-explore us. Come and join our fun tour, learn more on our services, facilities and how they can help realizing your study, research or work. All PolyU staff members and students are welcome to join. To register, please send email to sally.chan.ic@polyu.edu.hk with you name, department and post. Please specify if you are a student. For enquiry, please contact Miss Sally Chan at 2766-7581.

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Hope you have fun!

The second IC Fun Tour was successfully completed on this afternoon (Friday, 11 May 2012), with around 20 staff members and students from 10 different departments, offices and faculty participated in it. Guided by experienced IC staff members, participants visited many technical workshops and saw different interesting demonstrations such as the machining of small brass chess and laser cutting of decorative acrylic items. The visit and demonstration not only widened the engineering knowledge of participants but also increased their understanding on the use and application of different technologies and processes in their disciplines and daily lives. Here below are some … Continue reading

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IC Fun Tour is back!

If you haven’t been to IC before or know us just vaguely, here is a good opportunity to explore/re-explore us. Come and join our fun tour, learn more on our services, facilities and how they can help realizing your study, research or work. All PolyU staff and students are welcome to join. Date: Friday, 11 May 2012 Time: 2.30 – 4.00pm Meeting venue: Room U202 Registration: reserve your seat by sending email to icsally@polyu.edu.hk with your name, department and post. Please specify if you are a student. Enquiry: 2766-7581 (tel), icsally@polyu.edu.hk Snapshots of the last IC Fun Tour:

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MIT Provost visits IC

Professor L. Rafael Reif (left, 2nd), Provost of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA paid a visit to PolyU including IC on Tuesday, 27 March 2012. Prof Reif was accompanied by PolyU’s Vice President (Research Development) Ir Professor Alex Wai (right, 1st). The photo was taken at IC’s Electrical & Building Services Engineering Workshop.

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Visit of Boeing

Visit of Mr Rajesh Talwar (left, second), Chief Engineer – Global Technology Operations, Boeing Research and Technology, USA on Monday, 14 November 2011. Photo taken at the Industrial Centre’s Building and Construction Workshop.

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Visit of Boeing

Accompanied by PolyU’s Vice President (Research & Development) Professor Alex Wai, Mr Al Bryant, Vice President (Research & Technology) (left, second) paid a visit to PolyU IC this morning (Wednesday, 10 August). In the 3-hour visit Mr Al Bryant was introduced to most of the Centre’s technical workshops, facilities and student projects. PolyU President Professor Timothy Tong also had a short meeting with Mr Al Bryant to explore on any collaboration possibilities.

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Let’s go “camping”

It’s summer. It’s hot. So what is the best thing to do now? Go camping. Yes. Camping. Thousands of local secondary school students are spending their splendid summer on a variety of activities. One of the hottest summer activities is to go camping – not in a field but somewhere in the city centre – PolyU campus and hostel at Hung Hom. The summer camps are organized by different academic departments at PolyU, aiming at providing University life and experience for school students in an interesting and enjoyable way. School students are able to visit the University campus and facilities as … Continue reading

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It’s Fun!

A group of staff and student joined the IC Fun Tour held on Thursday, 26 May. They visited most of the IC technical workshops and saw some interesting demonstration on the facilities and technologies. Coming from different departments with different academic backgrounds, they all shared the same feeling after the tour: it’s interesting and eye-opening! After all, engineering can be fascinating and interesting to all of us in a certain way. We look forward to organizing the next Fun Tour soon!

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IC Fun Tour!

It’s all about engineering and fun. The IC is organizing a Fun Tour to all PolyU staff members and students which will be held on Thursday, 26 May 2011, at 2.30 – 4.00pm. If you haven’t been to the IC before or know us just vaguely, here is a good opportunity to explore/re-explore us. Come and join our fun tour, learn more on our services, facilities and how they can help realizing your study, research or work. For more information on the Fun Tour or to reserve seat, please go to http://www.ic.polyu.edu.hk/activities/funtour/index.html . A special souvenir made by the IC … Continue reading

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