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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
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Adaptation	Full Project

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Student Research and Writing Advisory Tutorials: a multi-faculty TD Project

Project Overview
Project Title	Student Research and Writing Advisory Tutorials: a multi-faculty TD Project
Project Leader	Prof Barry Sautman and Prof James Lee
School / Dept	SHSS / SOSC, HSS
Project Duration	Sep 2015 - Aug 2016
Project Description	The project proposes to address the following learners' needs: Undergraduate students taking HSS courses need to develop their research skills systematically through a step by step approach. Hence, we are devising a “think and write” tutorial series to enhance students’ ability to conduct small-scale independent research; in parallel, we have improved our awareness of the learning needs of students through a time-lapsed assessment of the extent to which they can achieve this particular Intended Learning Outcome (ILO); Undergraduate students taking HSS courses need to gradually equip themselves with stronger professional writing ability in order to attain a decisive advantage in their future employment and postgraduate study; however, few instructors in HUMA and SOSC can afford to use more than one class meeting to teach students how to write, even though most HSS courses share the ILO on strengthening students’ writing communication skills. To that end, our project can well provide the content-instruction of HSS undergraduate courses through assistance to students in analytic writing; Undergraduate students working with HSS faculty as junior Research Assistants (RA) need to demonstrate basic research skills in order to carry out their tasks well. The proposed project can also help them get up to speed on research skills.
Project Outcome	8 SHSS courses have joined the project with in total 23 tutorial sessions launched to the students covering 423 participants with increasing number of e-learning resouces. Newly launched research and writing tutorial workshops exactly for RPG TAs with 5 faculties joining as the guest speakers for the aim of training TAs better coach UG students on academic writings. Optimized resource efficiency by integrating the resources of RWAT teams, CEI and library to provide tutorial support. Developed a bunch of e-learning resources on research and writing in HSS undergraduate courses for students, faculty and HSS TAs in order to make the project as a long-term sustainable one.
Status	Completed
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Adaptation	Full Project

From Ideas to Action: Planning for sustainable CSR

Project Overview
Project Title	From Ideas to Action: Planning for sustainable CSR
Project Leader	Dr Mary Ho
School / Dept	SBM / MGMT
Project Duration	Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Project Description	The objectives of the experiential learning project are as follows: To enable students to recognize the CSR challenges face by businesses and understand stakeholder impacts of their actions; To facilitate students’ application of classroom-learnt knowledge to real life context in creative forms; and To enhance students’ leadership skills and teamwork ability. The learning outcomes of the project are as follows: To be able to recognize the key sustainability topics and high-priority issues of businesses to be socially responsible and sustainable; To be able to diagnose the CSR issues and understand the challenges of creating shared value; and To be able to enhance an entrepreneurial mind-set and design effective and innovative solutions in a professional and persuasive manner.
Project Outcome	A total of 4 NGOs and social enterprises, and 6 companies partnered with the course on the experiential learning student projects in 2015-16 and 2016-17. A total of 651 business undergraduates (Year 3 & 4) worked together with our community partners in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic year. 216 students (3 sessions) in Fall 2015 197 students (3 sessions) in Spring 2016 130 students (2 sessions) in Fall 2016 108 students (2 sessions) in Spring 2017 A total of 93 student projects were created in areas of CSR initiative creation, project impact evaluation, and corporate partner identification for our community partners. MaBelle Group (one of the community partner) invited 3 project groups to execute their project idea in Winter 2018.
Status	Completed
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Adaptation	Full Project

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Underwater Robot Community Engagement Project

Project Overview
Project Title	Underwater Robot Community Engagement Project
Project Leader	Prof K T Woo
School / Dept	SENG / ECE
Project Duration	Jul 2015 - Jun 2017
Project Description	This project proposes to develop an experiential learning project-based course that provides our undergraduate students an opportunity to work with their peers from other schools (i.e. SENG/SSCI/SBM/SHSS/IPO) as a team, to serve the identified community group who are from normal primary and secondary students as well as students with special education needs (SEN).
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
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Adaptation	Full Project

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Application of Building Information Modeling Technology and Blended Learning Technique for Teaching Civil Engineering Drawing

Project Overview
Project Title	Application of Building Information Modeling Technology and Blended Learning Technique for Teaching Civil Engineering Drawing
Project Leader	Prof Jack Cheng
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Jul 2015 - Dec 2017
Project Description	The project aims to enrich the present engineering drawing course by introducing the Building Information Modeling (BIM), a cutting-edge technolog in civil engineering; and blended learning approach will be adopted to achieve the purpose.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
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Adaptation	Full Project

An Experiential Extension of IELM2100: a controlled parallel trial

Project Overview
Project Title	An Experiential Extension of IELM2100: a controlled parallel trial
Project Leader	Prof Richard So
School / Dept	SENG / IELM
Project Duration	Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Project Description	The project aims to provide students opportunities to enhance their learning through experiential learning projects developed based on real scenario from the industry. At the same time, the project will conduct a controlled trial to study and compare the learning experience of student taking IELM2100 with 1) a regular lecture and lab mode of learning and 2) an experiential project and lecture mode of learning.
Project Outcome	- an introductroy video providing the industrial relevance of the EL project - a customized TA's manual on how to guide the UG students through a modified Master/Apprentice mode of learning (FACDEV, 2014) - sets of rubrics for different stages of the EL projects for continuous feedback and evaluation of learning outcomes - an enhanced video for the EL projects from start to finish for future promotion - the delivery of the dual-mode of IELM2100 in Spring 2016 and 2017 - a report analyzing the effectiveness of the new experiential model of learning
Status	Completed
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Adaptation	Full Project

Enhancing the Experiential Aspects of COMP4441 Computer Music

Project Overview
Project Title	Enhancing the Experiential Aspects of COMP4441 Computer Music
Project Leader	Prof Andrew Horner
School / Dept	SENG / CSE
Project Duration	Aug 2015 - Jul 2017
Project Description	The project was proposed to achieve the following objectives: To increase the experiential aspects of COMP4441 Computer Music and to adopt a more open-ended approach so that students can reflect on and apply what they learn. In particular, to incorporate musical effects into interactive, hands-on, experiential labs where students can experiment with the parameters and hear the effects directly for themselves to deepen their understanding and appreciation. Students will follow-up their lab work with short reflective exercises to understand how what they have learned in lecture and lab applies to ambient sounds in daily life, listening to recorded music, and live concerts. They will generalize and apply what they have learned in the lecture and labs to develop a music app or game for the student-led course project on a topic of their choosing, where students can build anything that combines music and computers. This allow them to explore and deepen their interests.
Project Outcome	Redesigned the Computer Music class as an experiential class with a sense of adventure, magic, fantasy, and mystery like a Harry Potter potions or charms class at Hogwarts. Made each lab assignment a wild and seemingly unachievable musical adventure, and structured the entire course around these challenges The list of the labs created: Lab1: Music in a Universe without Time Lab2: Interstellar X Lab3: Alien Ringtones Lab4: Music for Kings and Congregations Lab5: Congregation Horror Story Lab6: Congregation Love Song Lab7: Congregation Misery Lab8: Hello Kitty Soundbites Lab9: Gatekeeper of Hell Lab10: Star Wars Lightsaber Duel Final Project: Mind-Bending Mood Warping or Mutant Animal Orchestra
Status	Completed
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Adaptation	Full Project

Reinvent CIVL1140 with Flipped Classrooms and Team-based Experimental Learning

Project Overview
Project Title	Reinvent CIVL1140 with Flipped Classrooms and Team-based Experimental Learning
Project Leader	Prof Chii Shang
School / Dept	SENG / CIVL
Project Duration	Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Project Description	The objective of this project was to evolve the common core course, CIVL1140, from a conventional large-class classroom into an interactive learning environment by integrating team projects, experimental learning, service learning and peer learning into a flipped classroom.
Project Outcome	Step-wise inclusion and integration of team project-based experimental learning and flipped classrooms to CIVL 1140. An innovative teaching and learning approach that integrates flipped classroom learning, peer learning, team-project bases experimental learning, and service learning. A set of real-world practical problems that ask students to tackle these problems from identifying problems, acquiring knowledge, formulating and analyzing strategies, to the end of project delivery A few sets of environmental quality control gadgets made by the student teams, with multidimensional considerations of social constrain, science and engineering, cost-effectiveness, etc. This course is successfully reinvented to become an adventure to develop students' passion and interest through continuous exploring knowledge, overcoming properly-planned challenges, and making achievements in "saving-the-world" projects beyond their anticipation.
Status	Completed
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Adaptation	Full Project

Enhancing students' self-efficacy through inquiry-based assessment techniques

Project Overview
Project Title	Enhancing students' self-efficacy through inquiry-based assessment techniques
Project Leader	Prof Karen Chan
School / Dept	SSCI / LIFS
Project Duration	Jun 2015 - May 2017
Project Description	The goal of this project is to research if shifting the emphasis of assessment to mastery of skills concerning scientific inquiry would help increasing students’ internal motivation to learning, and ultimately improve learning outcome. The goal will be achieved by: Modifying and further developing a set of problem sets that are data-driven and inquired-based on core concepts of ocean sciences Engaging students in an online virtual lab as a final project Adopting a scientific approach and quantify the effectiveness of these intervention through the use of concept inventories, attitude surveys and focus groups.
Project Outcome	The project is still ongoing. Project outcomes will be updated upon project completion.
Status	Ongoing
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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

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