Invention Turns Waste Heat into Electricity

More than 60 per cent of the electricity generated by power plants and industrial processes is lost as waste heat, and more than half of that is low-grade heat that is difficult to recover. Dr Tony Feng Shien-Ping of the Department of Mechanical Engineering has broken...

Seeing the LITE

The Law Faculty’s Law, Innovation, Technovation and Entrepreneurship (LITE) Lab@HKU is barely two years old, but it is already making an impact. Students and staff have been developing tools and systems that are nudging current and future legal professionals in Hong...

Shedding Some Light

In 2018, two Computer Engineering students, Desmond Wong Chi-ping and Felix Wong Kwong-yat, were sifting through numerous ideas to submit for contention in the China Collegiate Computing Contest, when Felix read a news article about the severe shortage of guide dogs...

Mindful Health

Described on its website as ‘a mental health companion for you and your therapist’, Hollo was first conceived three years ago as a solution for young people with mental health issues who tended to fall between the gaps when it came to getting treatment.The concept...

Lessons from E-Learning

Asking teachers to show their faces is an unlikely takeaway from research into online learning. Yet that is what Dr Timothy KF Hew of the Faculty of Education has discovered in the case of MOOCs. Dr Hew has studied some of the world’s top-rated MOOCs and did a...