校友会受邀参加华工澳门校友会成立26周年庆典暨理监事就职仪式

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2015年10月18日,华南理工大学澳门校友会成立26周年庆典暨理监事就职仪式在澳隆重举行,校友会会长杨照林受邀参加。

华工澳门校友会会长、澳门建信工程有限公司总经理刘毅翔,澳门校友会理事长、澳门麒麟集团有限公司董事长黄灿文,澳门校友会监事长、澳门形创顾问有限公司合 伙人蔡子梁等理监会成员及澳门校友及家属近两百人欢聚一堂。七旬银发的华工大大师兄、风华正茂的青年校友、活泼俏皮的校友子女因华工而结缘,因澳门校友会 盛典重聚,共同见证美好而难忘的一刻。

中央人民政府驻澳门特别行政区联络办公室文化教育部部长徐婷、澳门治安警察局局长梁文昌、澳门土地工务运输局局长李灿峰校友、副局长张润明、澳门民政总署 部长罗志坚,学校党委副书记、校友会常务副会长刘琪瑾,原学校党委书记、校友会名誉会长刘树道,校长助理、土木与交通学院院长苏成,校友会秘书长陈艳、土 木与交通学院党委书记罗毅、校友会副秘书长麦冬宁等学校代表参加了本次活动,与澳门校友交流。来自我校香港校友会、新加坡校友会、深圳校友会、珠海校友 会、东莞校友会、中山校友会、佛山校友会、肇庆校友会、江门校友会、青岛校友会以及北京大学、中山大学、华南师范大学、澳门台湾大学等高校的澳门校友会代 表应邀出席,交流校友会事务。

活动中,新一届理监事会成员共同宣誓,誓为澳门校友会的发展尽职尽责。刘毅翔会长代表澳门校友会向母校捐赠澳币100万元,同时,校友会向在读的二十余位澳门籍在校学生每人派发澳币1万元,激励他/她们更好地完成学业。此外,澳门校友会向前来参会的新加坡、香港、深圳、珠海等兄弟校友会以及其他高校在澳校友会代表赠送了纪念品。

刘琪瑾副书记代表学校向参会校友们致以亲切的问候,对校友们取得的成绩表示赞许和肯定,她表示澳门校友会新一届理监事会成员在联络校友、汇聚校友资源等方 面做了大量工作,充分发挥了校友会的桥梁和纽带作用,密切了澳门校友间的感情,加强了与母校之间的联系。刘琪瑾副书记简要介绍了学校发展近况,她指出,学 校近年来紧抓内涵建设,深化办学综合改革,各项事业也取得了快速的发展,学校学术水平和整体实力有了显著提升。在上海交大发布的“世界大学学术排名”中, 我校的总体排名跃前400位。此外,学校坚持服务社会,不断创新产学研合作模式,积极融入国家和广东省经济社会的发展,加快科技成果转化和服务区域创新发展,在研发机构和转化平台的建设方面,广大校友给予了学校大力的支持。11月14日,将是2015年的校友返校日,刘琪瑾副书记盛情邀请广大校友届时返校同庆这一华工校友专属的节日。

澳门校友会新任会长刘毅翔发表了热情洋溢的讲话。他首先对广大校友及社会各界友好人士给予澳门校友会的支持表示感谢。他指出澳门校友会成立26年来,走过了从组织初创阶段到发展兴旺的光辉岁月,也经历了一段沉寂内敛再次充实的艰苦历程。自2014年下半年以来,澳门校友会进一步加强与校友的联系,为换届改选做足准备。经过数月的蕴酿磋商、协调讨论,澳门校友会完成了新的章程草议及推荐吸收形成新一届会员大会及理监事会后选人名单,并在5月30日举行新增会员登记及修章换届选举大会,随后完成了校友会的所有合法登记程序。回顾发展历程,澳门校友会走过的每一段历程都凝聚了校友们的奉献和汗水。他希望本届理监成员携手并进,把澳门校友会建设得更好,也祝愿母校在建设“中国一流 世界知名”高水平研究型大学的道路上再创辉煌!

在澳期间,刘琪瑾副书记一行与中央人民政府驻澳门特别行政区联络办公室文化教育部副部长浦海龙、澳门中华学生联合总会理事长梁子豪等人座谈交流,就我校在 澳门的招生、澳门籍学生的培养以及澳门高校学生代表来校交流等方面进行了意见交流。我校校长助理、土木与交通学院院长苏成教授应邀做了题为“结构健康监测 系统的建构与工程实践”的专题报告,为澳门校友及其他社会人士带来一场学术盛宴。

高校校友会系列主题论坛第二期”新加坡生活与高尔夫”活动圆满结束

2015年10月10日,由华工新加坡校友会发起,同济大学/集美大学新加坡校友会共同主办,多个高校协办的高校校友会系列主题论坛第二期活动,在新加坡春天国际学院圆满结束。此次论坛的主题是“新加坡生活与高尔夫”,由集美大学新加坡校友会副会长展杰,同济大学校友/新中高尔夫球会秘书长袁金荣博士担任主讲嘉宾,近20位听众出席。
展杰”船长”以幽默诙谐的语言介绍了他的航海经历以及上岸后在新加坡的吃喝玩乐等多个方面的经验和体会。袁金荣博士以严谨的PPT介绍了他作为一个”地下工作者”隧道专家在新加坡工作生活的经验。两位嘉宾介绍了共同的爱好高尔夫运动,涵盖了国内与新加坡高尔夫运动的不同,相关调查研究数据,新马高尔夫爱好者组织,以及自己的打球成长经历等多个方面的话题。引起了在座的听众的共鸣,在论坛结束后,有多位感兴趣的听众过微信群进一步参与到高尔夫的交流活动。

[转自TodayOnline] Wang Danwei 校友 Rise of the machines

[全文转自 http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/rise-machines?singlepage=true]

SINGAPORE — In a future of shrinking birth rates and manpower shortages, Professor Chen I-Ming sees an obvious solution: Robots.

Driverless vehicles smart enough to make decisions about their routes, robots that do the heavily lifting and sorting in an airport or other logistics facility, coordinated groups of robots that can be deployed in dangerous places to carry out disaster rescue or surveillance work — our future could look just like that, with robots making our lives easier, if engineering researchers from Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have their way.
Robots give us hope to move our jobs from a lower paying level that no one wants to do, and upgrade them to a level we all want to do.
Associate Professor Ang Wei Tech
Associate Chair of Research, School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

With an ageing population and low birth rates, Singapore faces the problems of maintaining productivity and manpower constraints, worsened by foreign labour policy restrictions, said Prof Chen. “People no longer want to do dirty jobs,” he said.

In 10 to 20 years, Prof Chen, who develops wearable robots such as those that can be used for physiotherapy, expects robots to be deployed in industries such as manufacturing, construction and cleaning. He is developing robots that can help stroke patients, such as by providing sensory feedback to a patient during physiotherapy sessions, with minimal supervision.

Associate Professor Ang Wei Tech, who is also Associate Chair of Research at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, agreed: “Robots give us hope to move our jobs from a lower paying level that no one wants to do, and upgrade them to a level we all want to do.”

Robots that can function in Singapore’s airport, seaports and distribution centres — key to Singapore’s economy — could be just five years away, said Professor Wang Danwei of the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

For example, at the airport, which calls for labour-intensive operations, multiple robots will work together to transport luggage from the check-in counter to the baggage claim area with minimal or no human intervention, minimising the number of human operators needed. The robots will be controlled by people in a central command and control station, said Prof Wang, whose work involves multi-robot coordination, where, using advanced computer algorithms. He has already reached out to Changi Airport to discuss testing the technology.

On the defence front, for example, coordinated robots in groups could be sent to fight our wars in place of soldiers. “That’s something very critical (because) in Singapore we have a very limited number of boys, and we want to save them for better jobs and better lives,” said Prof Wang.

Prof Wang, a recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellowship, also sees robots playing a part in surveillance, monitoring Singapore’s surrounding waters and detecting illegal immigrants or terrorists, as such tasks are tiring for humans. Because the robots can be made small, they can also move underwater without being detected.

They could also be sent into disaster-hit areas — where aftershocks could still endanger people — to search for and locate survivors and their vital signs in the disaster zone. The robots will also be able to convert sensor data into images that their human operators can easily understand, allowing crisis responders to optimise tasks and deploy resources efficiently, Prof Wang said.

In the years to come, Prof Chen, who is also Director of the Robotics Research Centre and the Intelligent Systems Centre at NTU, believes robots will become more intelligent. Cloud data could provide collective intelligence for robots, allowing them to learn not only from their experiences with humans, but also from other robots.

And, said Prof Wang, robotic technology could also pervade aspects of our daily lives by providing an additional transport option such as driverless vehicles. “This way, most of the population can use a combination of mass transportation and local networks of autonomous vehicles,” he said. “People don’t need to buy cars.”

While the researchers acknowledge the gap between building lab prototypes and robots that are robust enough to be deployed in real-life applications, as well as the challenge of moving research to the commercial market, they are certain that more collaborations between researchers and companies will bring it to fruition.

A joint research lab, the ST Engineering-NTU Corporate Lab, was started this year and will receive S$53 million in funding. Prof Wang and ST Engineering’s Vice-President Paul Tan are co-directors of the lab, which focuses mainly on technology development for airport operations and disaster rescue missions.

For robots to become commonplace, public acceptance is also needed. Prof Wang believes that having autonomous vehicles on busy urban roads is likely to come only after society accepts the presence of autonomous robots in other sectors, like logistics.

Assoc Prof Ang, who is working on a surgical robotic arm to reduce hand tremor for surgeons, as well as a robotic arm for packing work in hospitals, added: “A lot of things that use robotic technology will eventually become mainstream, and people won’t realise that it’s in fact robotics technology in the first place.”