The three distinguished projects by ECE students and other Engineering students highlighted at the Disney-HKUST Grant Project Press Conference
[The Walt Disney Company (Hong Kong) and the teams of HKUST Engineering students receiving the first “Disney-HKUST Grant for Technology and Well-being” unveiled their creative inventions designed to give back to the Hong Kong community.
The teams of HKUST Engineering students were given the mission in September 2015 to develop projects that improve the lives of people with physical disabilities, support local productivity, or promote health and wellness in affordable ways, as a core requirement for the grant application. They were also tasked to work within their resources and co-design with alumni mentors in giving their creations eye-catching and futuristic looks. The total grant for the initiative was USD75,000 or HKD580,000.
The three distinguished projects highlighted at the Press Conference are: 1) The “Real-time Sign Language Translation Device”, inspired by the hand of C3PO from “Star Wars” (episodes I-VII) who is ‘fluent in over six million forms of communication’; 2) The “Gaze and Mind Controlled Robot Car”, which resembles the Sandcrawler vehicle (episode IV); and 3) The “Airship UAV Crop Doctor”, themed after the charismatic and mischievous astromech droid, R2D2 (episodes I-VII).]
Source:
HKUST School of Engineering - News Centre. 3 May 2016. Web
<http://www.seng.ust.hk/web/eng/news_detail.php?id=963>
Group Photo
ECE students who involved in the projects:
Gaze and Mind Controlled Robot Car
- TANG, Ka Hei, BEng(ELEC), Year 4
- WONG, Tsz Ching, BEng(ELEC), Year 4
An Airship UAV Platform for Environment Monitoring in Hong Kong
- Gursimran SETHI, BEng(ELEC), Year 4
Real-time Sign Language Translation Device
- YUEN Cheuk Ho, MPhil, Year 1
- SIU Ka Lok, MPhil Electronic & Comp Engg, Year 1
- CHAN Wing Hong, 2014 ECE UG Graduate, currently MPhil Tech Leader & Entrepre, Year 2
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