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Extension of Safety Education to Industrial Chemical Plant Safety by Anlysis of Process and Instrument Diagrams (P and ID) integrated with a HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) Methodology and Industrial Case Studies

Project Overview
Project Title	Extension of Safety Education to Industrial Chemical Plant Safety by Anlysis of Process and Instrument Diagrams (P and ID) integrated with a HAZOP (Hazard and Operability) Methodology and Industrial Case Studies
Project Leader	Prof J P Barford
School / Dept	SENG / CBME
Project Duration	Jan 2016 - Sep 2017
Project Description	The project aims to extend the present safety training at CBME by introducing 1) the Process and Instrument Diagrams (P and ID) that are commonly used in the industry; and ) industrial accident case studies.
Project Outcome	A HAZOP training package was developed for undergraduate teaching which incorporated both laboratory and industrial safety examples. Specifically, P.&I.D. symbols and P.&I.D. drawing were addressed for laboratory application. Industrial safety was addresses usinga Plant HAZOP Quiz and videos of Industrial Accidents. The intention is for the package to be a self- contained and self- learning package.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

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Bringing Chemistry to Life in Common Core Chemistry Course

Project Overview
Project Title	Bringing Chemistry to Life in Common Core Chemistry Course
Project Leader	Dr Jason Chan
School / Dept	SSCI / CHEM
Project Duration	Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
Project Description	This project aims to enable students to develop a strong connection between theories and real-lifephenomena, and learn to perceive the processes and materials of this world with the chemical understanding they have learnt by re-developing the textbook-driven course, CHEM1004, preparing a course website as well as introducing demonstration materials into lecture courses.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Science Education with Case Method - a pilot project to develop cases in life sciences

Project Overview
Project Title	Science Education with Case Method - a pilot project to develop cases in life sciences
Project Leader	Prof King L CHOW
School / Dept	SSCI / LIFS
Project Duration	Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Project Description	The objective of this project is pilot-building a number of science cases that center on issues that demand sufficient understanding of the scientific knowledge, but at the same time require thorough consideration from social, economic and political viewpoints. With the cases, students are expected to acquire the ability to critically evaluate any scientific issues with a comprehensive consideration of all related information and different perspective, but not solely based on hard facts.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

Flipping the Classroom with iPad

Project Overview
Project Title	Flipping the Classroom with iPad
Project Leader	Dr Kenneth Wai-Ting Leung
School / Dept	SENG / CSE
Project Duration	Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Project Description	The purpose of this project is to apply flipped classroom approach to COMP1001 Exploring Multimedia and Internet Computing, by: Redesigning and revamping the in-class activitiesand standardize them on iPad. Updating the lecture slides with reference to the features of the iPad learning tools. Preparing interactive online video lectures with in-lecture quizzes to help students pick up the required knowledge and assess their study. Revising the assessment methods of COMP1001. The revamped course will be offered to students in Fall 2015. Flipped classroom approach will be adopted. We will collect feedbacks from the students to evaluate the learning impact of the project.
Project Outcome	The project outcomes are yet been updated.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

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Effective Learning of Physics

Project Overview
Project Title	Effective Learning of Physics
Project Leader	Prof Xiang Rong Wang
School / Dept	SSCI / PHYS
Project Duration	Jan 2014 - Dec 2015
Project Description	The objective of this project is to develop a collection of paper-based or pdf formatted problem solutions and notes in such a way that students is likely to learn critical thinking through a pictorial understanding of the problems and a good understanding of the logics of each step in the solutions. A pilot study will be run by focusing on the first 3 chapters of the course textbook for a Physics course, PHYS5250 “Quantum Mechanics I” . Students will take initiative to learn the logics and rationale behind the concepts and problems covered in the course with this new pedagogical approach.
Project Outcome	The project outcomes are yet been updated.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan
Adaptation	Full Project

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Blended learning – a summer course of “the science of gastronomy” for HKUST students

Project Overview
Project Title	Blended learning – a summer course of “the science of gastronomy” for HKUST students
Project Leader	Prof King L CHOW and Prof Lam Lung YEUNG
School / Dept	SSCI / LIFS & CHEM
Project Duration	Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Project Description	This project aims to develop and offer a six week "Gastronomy" course in the summer 2014 using a blended learning mode. This new course very different from the original gastronomy course will enable students to apply knowledge learned from video and in class lectures, project exercise, discussion in tutorial sessions, and skills learnt to real life situations (practices at home or in class experiments) so that they would fully integrate the learned knowledge and apply in their cuisine preparation eveyday. This credit base course offered on campus would be developed to combine the merits of the flexibility, active engagement and interaction of online course, the face-to-face oral communication and instant feedback of instructor-to-student and student-student discussion in class.
Project Outcome	A fully blended course with extensive flipping of the classroom was delivered as a package of our own HKUST students, which served well as a pilot operation ot cover over 23,000 students online and a small cohort of students for the HKUST student on campus. A full set of in-class materials, inlcuding numerous experiemental demonstrations, in-class and off-class group project manual and detailed organization plan was developed. The course was taken as a refernce for blended learning in other courses. The experience we gathered were disseminated to colleagues at HKUST, local institutions and in international conferences.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Ethics Education among HKUST Business School Undergraduate

Project Overview
Project Title	Ethics Education among HKUST Business School Undergraduate
Project Leader	Prof Melody Chao; Prof Jiing-lih Farh
School / Dept	SBM / MGMT
Project Duration	Aug 2013 – Feb 2016
Project Description	This project is a longitudinal study that aims to examine how ethics education and university experiences contribute to the development of the students’ professional and ethical responsibility, as well as their career success upon graduation. In this project, focus groups and large scale surveys will be conducted to identify and validate an assessment tool kit for measuring students’ personal value, document the development and changes in value endorsement of the students through a longitudinal design, identify factors (e.g., activities or experiences) that are conducive to the development of student’s personal reflection ability, and provide suggestions to improve ethics education.
Project Outcome	Ethics education enhanced students' understanding of their professional and ethical responsibility through fostering critical reflection on their personal values, judgements, and decision-making processes. Identified and adopted a set of personal reflection exercises that can be used to help students reflect on their personal value and decision-making processes and to facilitate discussions about how personal values and judgement processes shape individuals' attitudes toward real life business practices and social issues (e.g. personal privacy, gay rights, diversity policies, etc.). Fostered personal reflection and critical thinking.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Progress Report
Adaptation	Full Project

Heuristics for Work Plan Preparation, Particularly Strengthening the Link between Experimental Procedures and Risk Assessment/HAZOP and Interpretation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)

Project Overview
Project Title	Heuristics for Work Plan Preparation, Particularly Strengthening the Link between Experimental Procedures and Risk Assessment/HAZOP and Interpretation of Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
Project Leader	Prof John Barford
School / Dept	SENG / CBME
Project Duration	Aug 2013 – Dec 2014
Project Description	In this project, a safety training module is provided to CBME undergraduate students to enhance their learning by the use of heuristics. By using this module, the students are asked to prepare work plans, which will be reviewed by faculty members to the extent the work plans have identified and mitigated risks and that the proposed actions would have prevented the occurrence of the safety incident.
Project Outcome	A heuristics approach to safety education and training was developed, resulting in a novel teaching tool (Hazard identification Software H.I.S.) A software base training safety module HIS (Hazards identification system) developed, it specifically addressing the link between experimental procedures and risk assessment / HAZOP and the interpretation of MSDS safety data sheets. An work plan evaluation rubrics was developed. This provided a clear guideline for self and peer evaluation of the completeness of the work plan.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

Making Capstone Experience towards Knowledge Sharing Business Cases for Student Learning

Project Overview
Project Title	Making Capstone Experience towards Knowledge Sharing Business Cases for Student Learning
Project Leader	Prof Mike So
School / Dept	SBM / ISOM
Project Duration	Jul 2012 - Mar 2015
Project Description	This project develops a knowledge sharing system to make personal capstone experience towards business cases for student learning. The knowledge sharing system in this project emphasizes on enhancing students’ learning and presentation abilities and improving their reflective thinking. Moreover, the system can gradually become part of the assessment of capstone projects.
Project Outcome	The major deliverables of the project are: Business case studies on risk management and business intelligence; Guidelines in preparing executive summary of project results; Videos on the business cases; A online platform sharing business cases and videos.
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report Project-end Review by Project Leader
Adaptation	Full Project

The Language of Chinese Business Cases

Project Overview
Project Title	The Language of Chinese Business Cases
Project Leader	Dr Linda Tsung
School / Dept	LANG
Project Duration	Nov 2004 - Jun 2005
Project Description	Case-based learning is now a core feature of business education programs in many parts of the world including China. This problem-based methodology, however, can pose difficulties in a context where students are more familiar with traditional didactic models of teaching and learning. The use of online case studies developed under this project assisted in breaking down these traditional barriers to this type of learning. This project aimed to support the case-based approach of teaching and learning used in the Chinese curriculum. While the face-to-face classroom teaching sessions of the course, “Chinese Business Communication”, focused on oral discussion and presentation skills, the online materials provided a collaborative and flexible medium of support for the course, especially with regard to reading and writing tasks associated with case analysis.
Project Outcome	Designed and developed a website platform to host online teaching and learning activities by disseminating various course materials, providing online support for discussion and analyses of course texts and providing links to relevant reference materials. Designed and developed online interactive tasks on case analysis that include examples and exercises to help students develop their skills in understanding and analyzing business cases in Chinese. Developed individual and small group Chinese learning materials based upon the texts of 2 business cases collected from Mainland China. Adapted word templates which include guided questions on case analysis to encourage the students to exchange ideas and express opinions during classroom interaction
Status	Completed
Project Documents (Only accessible by HKUST users)	Project Plan Final Report
Adaptation	Adaptation from The Language of Business Cases

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