The ‘One to Three, and Beyond’ Celebration Gala DinnerThe Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) on the University of Macau (UM) hosted the ‘One to Three, and Beyond’ Celebration Gala Dinner on 27 May. Nearly 300 company, together with business leaders, company executives, authorities representatives, and college and college students from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, attended the occasion to mark the beginning of a brand new chapter for the college.
Starting from 1 August this yr, UM FST might be restructured and reorganised into three distinct entities—the Faculty of Information Science and Computing, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Faculty of Science. Yonghua Song, rector of UM, stated that the restructuring of FST represents a pivotal milestone within the college’s improvement. The newly established Faculty of Information Science and Computing and Faculty of Engineering will lengthen their operations to Hengqin. This strategic transfer will improve analysis, innovation, and expertise improvement, and is carefully aligned with nationwide improvement plans for the Greater Bay Area and the Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone in Hengqin. Song added that with its two campuses, UM will speed up the interpretation of analysis into sensible purposes, thereby injecting new momentum into the area’s high-quality improvement.
Xu Cheng-Zhong, dean of UM FST, gave an outline of the college’s progress and transformation over the previous 37 years. He famous that FST has not solely fulfilled its mission of cultivating science and expertise expertise for Macao, however has additionally developed from a teaching-focused college into one which leads via innovation. He added that the three newly established colleges will proceed to uphold the spirit of looking for fact, appearing with pragmatism, and pursuing innovation. These colleges will concentrate on key analysis areas, together with synthetic intelligence, robotics, and microelectronics, via new platforms such because the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Brain Sciences, thereby integrating extra deeply into the nationwide innovation system.
Lam Kam Seng Peter, chair of the UM University Council, additionally attended the gala dinner. Rui Martins, vice rector of UM, and Kou Kun Pang, affiliate professor within the UM Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, spoke in regards to the improvement and journey of FST. Distinguished alumni, together with U Seng Pan, director of the Macao International Science and Technology Industry Centre, in addition to founder, chairman, and CEO of Hanlinhao Technology, and Wu Fei, Qiushi Distinguished Professor at Zhejiang University, shared how UM FST had formed their careers. Tam Iek Wang, a graduating scholar from the UM Department of Electromechanical Engineering, additionally gave a speech on behalf of the scholars.
In addition, UM FST held a collection of talks, in addition to the Dean’s Honours List Awards Presentation and Project Exhibition. The exhibition showcased over 60 progressive analysis tasks, together with final-year tasks from undergraduate college students and grasp’s thesis tasks. During the awards ceremony, FST additionally introduced appreciation awards to twenty main enterprises within the Greater Bay Area, in recognition of their long-standing assist in offering internship alternatives for the college and the college, facilitating experiential studying, and selling the mixing of business and academia.