| Hong Kong Polytechnic University | |
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| 香港理工大學 | |
| Motto | To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind |
| Established | 1937 (as the Government Trade School) 1947 (as Hong Kong Technical College) 1972 (as The Hong Kong Polytechnic) 1994 (granted full university status) |
| Type | Public |
| President | Dr. Timothy W. Tong |
| Students | UGC-funded: 13,917 Total: 28,354 [1] |
| Location | Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| Affiliations | ASAIHL |
| Website | www.polyu.edu.hk |
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU, Chinese: 香港理工大學) specialises in professional education in Hong Kong. The University’s teaching units are grouped under six faculties and two schools; the Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles, Faculty of Business, Faculty of Construction and Environment, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, alongside with School of Design and School of Hotel and Tourism Management.
The University is the sole provider of full-time degree or higher diploma programmes in Hong Kong in the following areas: computing and management, design, engineering physics, fashion and textiles, geomatics, international shipping and transport logistics, medical laboratory science, optometry, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and radiography.
The University maintains strong partnership with the business and industrial sectors.
The current President of the University is Prof. Timothy W. Tong.[1] Prof. Chung-Kwong Poon retired on 31 December 2008 and the University Council decided to confer the title of "President Emeritus" on him in recognition of his dedicated and distinguished service to the University.[2]
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Founded in 1937 as the Government Trade School. Situated in Wood Road, Wanchai, the School was the first publicly funded, post-secondary technical institution in Hong Kong.
After World War II, the School became the Hong Kong Technical College in 1947, offering both full-time and part-time courses. The year 1957 saw the opening of the new premises of the College in Hung Hom.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic was formally established on 1 August 1972, taking over the campus and staff of the Hong Kong Technical College. Its mandate was to provide professionally-oriented education.
Having gained approval from the University and Polytechnic Grants Committee for self-accreditation of degree programmes, the Institution assumed full university status on 25 November 1994, changing its name to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Today, PolyU is an institution of higher learning and offers more than 130 postgraduate, undergraduate and sub-degree programmes, supported by more than 1,000 academic and research staff members from different parts of the world.
Among the top 200 universities in the world
In the 2011 QS World University Rankings[3], PolyU (the university as a whole) is ranked 177th in the WORLD, versus 198th in 2009. In THES's 2010-2011 ranking, PolyU is ranked 149.
Civil Engineering Research
According to a survey conducted by Thomson Scientific in 2006, an established authority in compiling Science Citation Index, PolyU has been ranked number one in the world on the number of papers published in leading journals from 2003 to 2005 in the field of civil engineering.
School of HTM
PolyU's School of Hotel and Tourism Management is ranked No. 2 in the world based on research and scholarship, according to a study released in the international Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Research in November 2009, the only institution in the top five not in the United States. Besides, the School was the recipient of 2003 Institutional Achievement Award from International Society of Travel and Tourism Educators for enhancing tourism education in Asia and innovativeness in student admission, curriculum design and industry partnerships. The School's strength is its international scope. Its faculty of 60 dedicated academic staff drawn from 18 countries around the world gives the School an international, innovative and creative learning environment. As the anticipation builds for the opening of its teaching and research hotel, Hotel ICON, in early 2011, the School expects ever-enhanced levels of excellence in the years ahead.
School of Design
Surveys by the U.S. magazine BusinessWeek in 2006 and 2007 ranked PolyU's School of Design ranked among the top 60 in the world and among the ten best in Asia. In 2009, the magazine further rated the School's Master of Design (Design Strategies) program as one of the World's 30 Best Design Thinking programmes.
Faculty of Business
PolyU's Graduate School of Business is ranked 66th in a worldwide ranking of business schools conducted by the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) in the United States. The ranking was based on the research contributions of staff to leading business journals during 2004-2008.
Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences
In 2010, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) [2] ranks PolyU as the world's top 75 in "Engineering/Technology and Computer Sciences". This places PolyU among the world's top 100 universities in the disciplines of engineering and information technology. PolyU's score is 69.2 for “Papers Indexed in Science Citation Index - Expanded in ENG fields”. For comparison, CityU has 65.4, HKUST has 55.5, CUHK has 44.8. HKU's is unknown because HKU is not among the world's top 100. This ranking accounts for (i) highly cited researchers, (ii) papers indexed in Science Citation Index-Expanded (SCIE), (iii) percentage of papers published in the top 20% journals of each field, among other objective factors.
In the 2010 QS World University Rankings[4] (QS Quacquarelli Symonds Limited,[3]), PolyU is ranked 70th in the WORLD, for "Technology and Engineering". PolyU's 2009 ranking was 91st in the WORLD.
According to the 2009 by-fields Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities (conducted by the Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation Council of Taiwan), PolyU was ranked 72nd in 2008 but 63rd in 2009, in the world in terms of engineering publication performance. That ranking employs objective indicators that evaluate both quantity and quality of a university’s scientific papers, and incorporates the assessment of long-term and short-term achievements in the composite measures.
Accountancy and Finance
The research output of PolyU's School of Accounting and Finance has been ranked second in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the November 2005 issue of the Pacific-Basin Finance Journal. The ranking was based on the research contributions of staff to leading finance journals during 2000-2004.
Operations Research and Management Science
According to a recent study published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research in 2008, PolyU ranks as the fourth most productive institution among all Asian countries in publishing research papers in the area of Operations Research and Management Science, topping other universities in Hong Kong.
Building Services Engineering
Department of Building Services Engineering has been honoured with the Happold Brilliant Award for Excellence in Teaching 2005/06 by the UK-based Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers, in recognition of its contributions to the education and research in the field.
Mathematics
PolyU has been ranked among top 100 universities in the world in terms of its academic and research performance in mathematics, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2009 announced by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Arts and Humanities
In the sub-category of Arts and Humanities in the THE-QS ranking exercise (From 2010 two separate rankings will be produced by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings and the QS World University Rankings)[4], PolyU has been ranked 198th in 2009. The "Arts and Humanities" discipline at PolyU has been ranked among the top 40 in Asia and one of the top 4 in Hong Kong (QS.com Asian University Rankings 2009).
New drug for liver cancer
PolyU researchers have developed a new drug for treating liver cancer: BCT-100. Winning Special Gold Award in the 33rd International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products of Geneva in April 2005. BCT-100, is the first drug developed in Hong Kong that has been able to come to the stage of clinical trial. Further breakthrough in developing cancer drugs through has been made using advanced biotechnology. The innovation was awarded the Prize of the State of Geneva (third runner-up prize) and a Gold Medal with Jury’s Commendation at the 37th International Exhibition of Inventions, New Techniques and Products of Geneva.
Development of space tools
Mars Rock Corer, a rock sampling tool jointly developed by leading PolyU engineers and a local dentist, became the first Chinese made instrument launched to space in a European Space Agency spacecraft, Beagle2 Lander, for Mars exploration on 3 June 2003. In March 2007, following the signing of space collaboration agreement between China and Russia, scientists at PolyU started to develop another sophisticated space tool, known as the Soil Preparation System, for a mission to Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, onboard a Russian spacecraft. These space tools were critically important to help unlock the mystery of exobiology on Mars.
Lunar mission
The University signed a collaborative agreement with the Lunar Exploration Programme Centre of China National Space Administration (CNSA) on 27 April 2006 to nurture talents and foster academic exchange and research collaboration in support of the lunar exploration projects. At the invitation of CNSA, PolyU's Institute of Textiles and Clothing has designed anti-static work clothes for CNSA staff at the Control Centre during China's space mission.
Partner in research and technology development for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
With the expertise available in the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, PolyU has been designated as a collaborative partner of the Chinese Olympic Committee in preparation for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has sent forth experts to prepare national athletes for the Olympics.
Pao Yue-kong Library was established on August 1, 1972 to serve the then Hong Kong Polytechnic. Between 1973 and 1976, Library services were provided at two centres, one at the present University site at Hung Hom and one at the Quarry Bay Centre. The two centres were consolidated when they were moved to the present Library Building in 1976. On November 25, 1994, the Polytechnic assumed full university status and was renamed The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. On December 20, 1995, the University Library was officially named after the late Sir Yue-kong Pao in appreciation of a generous donation to the University by his family. Opened by Princess Alexandra on February 7, 1977, the Library Building is a six-storey purpose-designed building with an area of 16,662 square metres, providing approximately 3,623 study places. The Library also houses a 24-Hour Study Centre, group discussion rooms, a seminar room for library instruction classes, AV carrels and group rooms for use of audio-visual materials, study carrels for private study, and a special room for the visually disabled.
The Library comprises one of the largest collections of scientific, engineering and business materials in East Asia. Other areas of strength are information technology, computing, nursing, textiles and design. The present holdings exceed 2.2 million, to which more than 40,000 volumes are added annually. Over 4,100 active print serial titles are held in the Library. The Library also provides Internet access to over 32,610 unique full-text e-journal titles, almost 225,100 e-books, and a wide array of multi-media and e-learning programmes.
The Library also maintains several special collections and self-developed databases, including a comprehensive Standards Collection, the PolyU Examination Paper Database, the PolyU Course Scheme Database, the Senate Paper Database, a Digital Image Gallery, and a Slide Collection. In addition, a unique and heavily used collection of over 24,000 local Chinese and English language television programmes and the Hongkongiana Online database (an index to Hong Kong information found in periodicals published in Hong Kong) all constitute important resources for the study and research of Hong Kong.
PolyU Student Halls
PolyU Student Halls of Residence is probably the largest single block of hall premises in the world that can house over 3,000 student residents. There are 8 Undergraduate Halls and 1 Postgraduate Hall on the hall premises. The 8 Undergraduate Halls are named after PolyU's motto of "To learn and to apply, for the benefit of mankind" ("開物成務 勵學利民") :
Big Mouth Corner (BMC)
The Big Mouth Corner, first started in 2002 following the success of its predecessor the Chat Point, is a weekly English conversation forum organised by the English Club of the University. Local students and young native English speakers (who serve as English facilitators) participate in the BMC.
PolyU International Film Society (PIFS)
PIFS is a student society run by the English Language Centre. It screens up to 5 movies each semester with an objective to show a range of movies from around the World. PIFS has its own blog. Notable speakers at screenings include Leung Kwok Hung
Sports Affairs Committee (SAC)
There is also an organisation called Sports Affairs Committee(SAC), which is a part of the Student Union. Their responsibilities are organising different sports competitions and promote sports to students. They are sporty, sunny and healthy. They have a long history and this year(2009) is the start of 38th SAC. There are 16 members in 38th SAC.
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