Issue No. 4 (August 2007) - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

AWARDS
25
Young Scientist Paper
Award from American
Academy of Sciences in
ICEST 2006
美 國 科 學 學 會
青 年 科 學 家 論 文 獎
The Young Scientist Paper Award offered by the
American Academy of Sciences, at the 2nd International
Conference on Environmental Science and Technology
(ICEST) held in Houston, Texas, USA, from 19 to 22
August 2006, was given to Dr. Chan Kwai-hing Ada,
Postdoctoral Fellow, and Dr. Chu Wei, Associate
Professor from the Department of Civil and Structural
Engineering. There were 55 technical sessions and over
500 platform and poster presentations from all over the
world at the ICEST 2006.
The winning paper was entitled “Transformation
Mechanism of the Degradation of EDC by Photo-Induced
Fenton’s Process”. The winning paper successfully
demonstrated and compared different treatment
processes involving photo-induced catalytic oxidations on
a selected endocrine disrupter chemical (EDC). EDC is an
environmental issue currently well researched in the field
of environmental engineering, owing to its world-wide
impact to the aquatic life forms and public health.
Dr. Chu Wei and Dr. Ada Chan
(second and third from the left)
receiving the Award
Professor Shengwei Wang
Received the First Prize on
Science and Technology
Development of the
Ministry of Education on
Building Energy Research and
Applications
王 盛 衛 教 授 等 建 築 節 能 研 究 榮 獲
教 育 部 科 學 技 術 進 步 一 等 獎
Professor Shengwei Wang
and his Award Certificate
Professor Shengwei Wang, Department of Building
Services Engineering (BSE), received the (2007) First
Prize on Science and Technology Development of the
Ministry of Education. The award is in recognition of
joint research work achievements of “The Research and
Applications on Building Energy Efficiency Principles and
Air-conditioning Technology” coordinated by Hunan
University. Professor Wang was an overseas collaborator
in the joint research project. His major contributions
were in the development of fault diagnosis methods
of building air-conditioning and control systems, and
the system identification method for building dynamic
models.
The work has taken place over the last four years, during
which, key contributors from Hunan University, such
as Professor Chen Youming, have worked jointly with
Professor Wang and his research group in The Hong
Kong Polytechnic University as post-doctoral researchers
to conduct other aspects of the research leading to the
above award.