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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
香港科技大學(科大)
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Motto	Hands on the Present and Eyes for the Future; ("求進，求新，創未來")
Type	Public
Established	1991
Chancellor	Donald Tsang
President	Paul Chu
Academic staff	453
Students	9,000
Undergraduates	5,772
Postgraduates	3,228
Location	Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
Campus	Urban 60 hectares (600,000m²)
Affiliations	ASAIHL, APRU
Website	www.ust.hk

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The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST, or UST) (simplified Chinese: 香港科技大学; traditional Chinese: 香港科技大學; Cantonese Yale: hēung góng fō geih daaih hohk, Jyutping: hoeng1 gong2 fo1 gei6 dai6 hok6; Mandarin Pinyin: Xiānggǎng Kējì Dàxué) was established in 1991 under Hong Kong Law Cap. 1141 (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Ordinance), as one of eight universities in Hong Kong. The current president is Professor Paul Ching-wu Chu.

Academically, the university has been ranked as among the top three universities in Hong Kong and one of the most prestigious universities in Asia. In 2005, the Times Higher Education Supplement ranked it 43rd in the world. [1] Many of its programs rank among the top in terms of admission scores for local applicants through JUPAS. Recently,the university is attracting more and more international students from different continents. In last two years, HKUST became famous among high schools in mainland China, and attracted a lot of outstanding students to HKUST.

Dominating the university's entrance plaza is a huge red sundial, which has become a distinguishing symbol of the university since its construction. As of January 2007, HKUST is home to 9,000 students and 453 faculty members.

History

In late 1980s, the centre of economic structure in Hong Kong shifted from secondary industry to tertiary industry. The Hong Kong Government expected there would be a strong demand of university graduates. A third university was much needed and it was first conceived of by Sze-Yuen Chung, and the the-Governor of Hong Kong, Edward Youde. The third university is later the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

After the signing of Sino-British Joint Declaration in 1984, the United Kingdom would transfer the sovereignty of Hong Kong to People's Republic of China. The British gradually removed their army from Hong Kong. The campus of the third university was built in 1986 on the Kohima Camp of garrison, in Tai Po Tsai on Clear Water Bay Peninsula.On November 13 2006, HKUST held the splendid celebration in the atrium for University's 15th anniversary.

During the construction of the first phase of university, Hong Kong suffered from high inflation and its construction cost escalated. After the completion of first phase, the university was criticised by the public for going over its budget. It was depicted as Rolls-Royce University, a luxury university. Another criticism was that the university was not based on the winning design, but rather the runner-up in an open competition. These criticism re-occurred in first few years of the university. Unfortunately, the original investment from Hong Kong Government and Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club was not sufficient to complete the third phase. The first Vice-Chancellor Woo Chia-wei was busy raising sufficient fund for the rest phases.

In November 2006, HKUST shocked the Hong Kong public and the school by giving a doctoral degree to former HKSAR Chief Executive Tung Chee-Hwa. The students, led by Christopher Tsoi, organized a campaign to object this proposal. "

In late January 2007,HKUST officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as "HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School" in memory of Fok Ying Tung,who have made great contribution to China and Hong Kong and given generous support to the HKUST.The campus covers an area 35,000 sq m in size and is expected to be completed by 2008. The purpose-built campus for the Graduate School would be equipped with cutting-edge facilities to spur the development of advanced research programs.

Achievement

Science and Engineering

Successful fabrication of the world's smallest single-walled carbon nanotubes (0.4nm) that can revolutionise microcomputers and other ultra-thin electronic devices, and the discovery that these nanotubes are superconducting

Development of a new generation of dielectric electrorheological (ER) fluids, which can change within milliseconds into a solid state

Development of a genechip technology for the identification, quality assurance, and standardization of traditional Chinese medicine

Development of a fast motion estimation algorithm recognized as part of MPEG-4, the international standard for multimedia applications

EEE faculty ranked No.1 among top universities worldwide in the number of papers published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices during 1998-2002

In 2005, the School of Engineering (SENG) ranked No.20 in the World's Top 100 Universities in Engineering & IT league table. The rankings were published by The Times Higher Education Supplement (THES) in December and HKUST was the only Hong Kong institution ranked in the top 50.

Business

Accounting faculty ranked first in the world for publications in the top five accounting research journals (2000 and 2001)

Top in Asia Pacific for research output in the world's three most important finance journals, and for research papers published in 30 most important economic journals (2002)

The School of Business and Management placed first in Asia Pacific by Financial Times (2001-2003 MBA average rank)

Customized executive education ranked first in Asia Pacific by Financial Times (2003 and 2004)

In 2005, the School retained its No. 1 position in the category of "International Experience" according to the Financial Times newspaper. Its research capability remains top 20 in the world. The career progression that its graduates enjoys is ranked No. 8 in the world.

School research ranked No. 25 in the world by University of Texas at Dallas (2005)

The MBA program ranked No. 44 in the world by Financial Times (2005)

The Kellogg-HKUST EMBA program ranked No.3 in the world by Financial Times (2006)

Economist Intelligence Unit(EIU) ranked its MBA program in No. 1 in Asia. (2006)

China Studies

The School of Humanities and Social Science, along with Harvard and Stanford, ranked in the top five in the world for the number of research papers published in the three most prestigious China studies journals between 1997 and 2001

Academic Integrity

All students must understand the Univarsity's policy on academic integrity and discipline and they are committed to the Academic Honor Code.

Honesty and integrity are central to the academic work of HKUST. Students of the University must observe and upholdthe highest standards of academic integrity and honesty in all the work they do throughout their program of study. As members of the University community,students have the responsibility to help maintainthe academic reputation of HKUSTin its academic endeavors. Sanctions will be imposed on students,if they are found to have violated the regulationsgoverning academic

Schools and Departments

Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management

*School of Science 理學院

*School of Engineering 工學院

*School of Business and Management 工商管理學院

*School of Humanities and Social Science 人文社會科學學院

Degree Program

Departments offer a variety of programs each year.

Undergraduate(UG) Degree Programs offered in 2006-2007

There are four requirements in a UG Program.

1. Major Program Requirement

Undergraduate are required to complete the courses related to their major.

There are three types of courses under this requirement. Core, Required and Elective. Core and required courses are the foundation courses of the major. Elective courses covers specific area of the major. Students can choose what elective courses they are interested to study in.

2. General Education Requirement

Apart from the major, students are required to study other course that are not relevant to their major studeies. These courses are called Designated General Education Courses. Each School would organize some Designated General Education Courses specifically for the students who are not in their school. For example, if you are studying in Computer Engineering. You are required to take courses offered by School of Science(Science General Education Elective), School of Business and Management(Business and Management General Education Elective) and School of Humanities and Social Science(Humanities and Social Science General Education Elective).

3. Required Courses in English Communication

These language courses are specifically organized for communication in the industry you are studying in.

4. Other Requirement

Courses that are not belong to the above categories. For example, Healthy Life Style course HLTH001. This course requires students to do a total of 45 hours of exercise within a year.

Principal Officers

Chancellor The Hon Donald Tsang, GBM, Chief Executive, HKSAR

Pro-Chancellor Dr the Hon Sir Sze-Yuen Chung, PhD, DSc, LLD, DEng, DBA, GBM, JP

Council Chairman Dr John C C Chan, GBS, JP

Council Vice-Chairman Dr the Hon Marvin K T Cheung, SBS, JP

Treasurer of the University Mr Tim Lui Tim-Leung, JP

President Prof Paul Ching-Wu Chu, BS, MS, PhD, JP

Vice-President for Academic Affairs (Acting) Professor Roland T Chin, BS, PhD

Vice-President for Business and Administration Prof Yuk-Shan Wong, BA, MSc, PhD, BBS, JP

Vice-President for Research and Development (Acting) Professor Tony Eastham, BSc, PhD

Faculty Members

All of HKUST's faculty members on regular terms hold doctoral degrees, and are recruited from a highly competitive international market. Of these, 87% obtained their highest degree from a U.S. or Canadian university, and 76% graduated from American Association of Universities - an organization of 62 leading research institutions in the U.S. and Canada.

Campus

The university campus occupies a 60-hectare (150-acre) site which is divided into a few sections. They are: Academic building, S.H.Ho Sports hall, Student halls, outdoor sports facilities, university center and apartments, staff quarters and the President's lodge. The campus view has been digitalized and can be viewed on the website of Campus Tour. Since the Legislative Council passed into law the Smoking (Public Health) (Amendment) Bill 2005on October 19, 2006. This latest legislation prohibits smoking at, among other facilities, university campuses inclusive of all indoor and outdoor areas. Starting January 1, 2007, smoking is prohibited on the entire campus; the only exception will be staff quarters occupied by individual persons or families.

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Location of the lifts and lecture theaters

The Academic Building

The Academic building is where all the lecture theaters and classrooms are located, there are 10 lecture theaters (Lecture theater A - H, J, K) in total, with capacity up to 400+. Nearby lift's numbers are always provided to help students when searching for the location of classroom. The Academic building has expanded significantly throughout the years with new phases under development. A new phase has been opened recently with classrooms (now only 4619,4620,4621), labs and two new lecture theaters, LT J and K.

Lifts in the Academic Building

There are 32 lifts in the Academic Building and the Library in total. For some rooms in the Academic Building, their four-digit numbers are related to the lift nearby. For instance, room 5503 locates on the 5th floor (referred by the first difit 5), near lifts 25-26 (the middle two digits 50 divided by two). However, not all rooms have this relationship with nearby lifts (Classroom 3207 is near Lift 21)

The University Library

The HKUST Library was established in 1991. One of the university library in Hong Kong. It occupies a central location of the campus. There are five floors with over 10,000 square metres of floor space, providing 1,850 seats and a computer lab. In 2005, the Library has a collection of more than 610,000 volumes of books and bound periodicals, as well as a collection of electronic and non-print materials.

Opening Hours of HKUST Library(during spring/fall semester):

Monday - Friday:	08:00 - 23:00
Saturday:	09:00 - 19:00
Sunday:	13:00 - 21:00

For detailed hours, please refer to [HKUST library home page]

Facilities of HKUST Library

Library Collection
．633,000 volumes of printed books and journals
．350,000 units of microforms
．25,000 titles of media resources
．99,000 titles of resources via internet

The Library has:
．1,800 seats, including 650 study carrels for individual use
．12 rooms for group study and discussion
．A fully equipped classroom and a computer laboratory for group instruction
．Self-service photocopiers on every floor
．Wireless Internet connection

Features of HKUST Library

Information Commons (IC) 綜合資訊坊
Information Commons (IC), located on the Ground Floor, was set up to provide students, staff and faculty members a technology-rich environment for information seeking, knowledge creation and collaboration.

At the IC, the high-end PCs are installed with the latest and highly-advanced hardware, software and other tools, which enhances the user's work efficiency. In addition, all the PCs at the IC are equipped with HKUST smart card readers, Chinese input handwriting pads and Headphones, and the PCs are connected to network printer and scanning stations, which brings convenience to users at IC.

Besides the facilities of the IC, the IC Help Desk is staffed with IC Officers and IC Helpers.

IC services are available during the Library Hours.

Services of HKUST Library
Borrowing
Copying
Reserving Rooms
Accessing to other libraries

Course Reserve

Course Reserve contains material that instructors set aside for students to read, listen, or view. The items might be copies of class notes, homework sets, assigned reading, or anything that an instructor wants to make available to as many students as possible.

These items may be borrowed for a short period (2, 24 hours, or 3 days) and have very high fines when overdue. They are usually required class material.

Some high use items such as test preparation guides or previous editions of textbooks may also be keep in Reserve.

To use reserve materials, users may search the Library Catalog by course name or instructor's name to identify material needed; then request the items by call number at the appropriate counter. Many reserve items are accessible electronically via the "View Document" link at the Catalog record.

Reserve materials are located at:

Reserve Counter
It is located on the 1/F. Users may request Reserve Counter staff to place manual holds on 2-hour Reserve books. Holds last for 15 minutes from the time of return.

Many articles and books are also linked to electronic copies from the Library Catalog. Lecture notes are scanned and also available on the Web.

Open Reserve
Is also located on the 1/F. Here you can find current annual reports of Hong Kong listed companies.

Media Reserve
Is located in Media Resources on LG1. You must use the call number to request an item.

Study Rooms
Twelve study rooms for group discussion are located on the first floor, LG1, LG3 and LG4. They can be reserved by students. When not reserved, they are available on a first-come-first-served basis. Groups that are 15 minutes late or leave a room vacant for 15 minutes may lose the use of the room.

Undergraduate Student Halls

There are six undergraduate student halls in the university: UG Hall One, UG Hall II - IV, PG Hall II and New Hall. Except the New Hall, all halls have their own House Students' Association which organizes various activities throughout the academic year for every member of their own hall. New Hall is newly built and opened in 2004, New Hall's warden,Computer Science Prof.CK Tang, doesnt permit the estabilsh of House Students' Association,which he claimed will damage the study atmosphere. Each floor has their own floor committee among the six UG Hall. UG Hall One is nearest to the campus. There are only twin bedrooms without any triple bedrooms. UG Hall II is quiet and suitable for studying. UG Hall III is nearest to the sea. The seaview is the greatest in the whole campus. UG Hall IV is nearest to the outdoor sports facilities. PG Hall II is reconstructed to bunked bedrooms for undergraduate students. There is also a band room in PG Hall II. New Hall is the newest UG student hall. The Seafront Cafeteria is located at G/F of New Hall.

The names of the halls and responsible House Students' Assoication are as follows:
UG Hall One , The Undergraduate House One Students' Associaiton, HKUSTSU (香港科技大學學生會本科生社一學生會)

UG Hall II ,VERTEX, House II Students' Association, HKUSTSU (香港科技大學學生會翱峰社二學生會)

UG Hall III ,Glacier, HOUSE III Students' Association, HKUSTSU (香港科技大學學生會冰川社三學生會)

UG Hall IV ,Vista, House IV Students' Association, HKUSTSU (香港科技大學學生會嶄越社四學生會)

PG Hall II ,Endeavour, House V Students' Association, HKUSTSU (香港科技大學學生會卓毅社五學生會)

New Hall , -

On the ground floor of Hall VI (New Hall) is the Seafront Cafeteria . It is the only place to eat among the Undergraduate Student Halls. Most students living in hall will choose to have meals there after 9 p.m because all restaurants except McDonalds close at that time. Actually, seafront cafeteria only provide set dinner to customers because it open from 6:00p.m. The last order of the Seafront should place before 1:30 a.m. and its closing hour is 2:00 a.m.

Postgraduate Student Hall

PG Hall I : Stephen Kam Chuen Cheong Hall

University Apartments

There are four university apartment towers, Tower A, B, C and D. The towers are only for postgraduate students and visiting staffs.

Health Service

Located on LG1, the Health Center consists of the Medical Clinic, the Student Dental Clinic and the Staff Dental Clinic. It can only be reached by lift no. 4 next to the Indoor Sports Complex.

The Medical Clinic provides free out-patient service to full-time students. Students are reminded to bring along their student ID card when attending the Clinic. Specialist services in Allergy, Dermatology, ENT (Ear, Nose & Throat), Internal Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Ophthalmology, Respiratory Medicine, Surgery and Physiotherapy are also available subject to a charge.The charge for specialist consultation is $160(up to 7 days'medication), and the charge for physiotherapy is $210(30 minutes per session). Prior appointments can be made by calling 2358 6670. Dental service at the Student Dental Clinic is subject to a charge of $70 per time unit of 20 minutes. The charge for oral examination is only $10. Prior appointments are required and should be made in person. When making an appointment, a non-refundable and non-transferable deposit ($10 for oral examination and $70 for each time visit) is required.

Hair Salon

Operating Hours:
Mondays to Fridays: 10:30 - 19:30
Saturdays: 10:30 - 18:30
Sundays : 11:00 - 17:00

Telephone:2358 6341
Location:LG4(Elevators no. 3 in the Sports Hall)
Price List

Computing Environment

ITSC operates and manages three computer barns for students access. There are teaching areas and general areas in each barns. More than 100+ computers with Windows XP platform in Computer Barns are used fulfill various teaching, learning and research needs. Hardware and software in barns are upgraded regularly in order to bring the latest information technologies to our students and academics.

Computer Barns

There are some available services in Computer Barns

Current snapshot of Computer Barns: View

Print Budget

Each student will have an Assigned Print Budget of $120 each year for printing on the network laser printers in the computer barns. Additional Print Budget shall need to be purchased.

Please refer to ITSC Computer Barn Laser Printing Services[2]for details.

Unix Time-sharing Systems

The Undergraduate Unix Time-sharing Systems pool in HKUST consists of 2 SUN Sparc systems running with Solaris 9. Their specific hostnames, aliases and mail spool mounting status are as follows.

Hostname	Alias	Operating System	Mail Spool Mounting Status
uststu1	ug	Solaris 9	No
uststu2	ug	Solaris 9	No

Remote Dialup Access Service

Monthly Dialup Budgets of 40 hours and 45 hours are assigned to all staff and all students respectively. These budgets can be spent between 8pm - 1am (for staff) and 8pm - 2am (for students) everyday. Logons on any pool will be accumulated towards the total. Please click here to enter Remote Dialup Access Service for more information. Details[3]

Express Station

The Express Stations are World Wide Web terminals for students, staff and visitors to gain quick and convenient access to campus network and limited Internet access. Location of the Express Stations[4]

Anti-Virus in Campus

ITSC provides F-Secure Antivirus for staff/student free to download[5].

MobileNet

Since notebook computers nowadays are becoming more affordable and portable, a growing number of our users are now equipped with a notebook, and would certainly like to get easy and convenient network access when they carry along their notebooks in campus. MobileNet is an ITSC initiative to address such an emerging IT trend, with the target objective to provide Internet access anytime and anywhere in campus in due course through different phases. Both wireless and wired MobileNet are available in different location of HKUST campus.

Some common area are currently providing wireless MobileNet access:

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Browser will be automatically redirected to a logon page. Users have to login with ITSC network account username/password.

Areas of Coverage	Speed support^*	No. of Access Points^#
Library	11g	28
Atrium	11g	1
Academic Concourse	11g	1
1/F Coffee Shop	11g	1
Lecture Theaters A to H	11g	2 per Theater
Computer Barn A, B and C	11g	1 per Barn
Central Classrooms	11g	1 per Classroom
UG Hall 1 G/F Snack Room	11g	1
UG Hall 2 G/F Seafront Common Room	11g	1
UG Hall 3 G/F Sitting Room	11g	1
UG Hall 4 G/F Sitting Room	11g	1
PG Hall 2 G/F Common Room	11g	1
UG Hall 6 1/F Common Room	11g	1

For the wired MobileNet, users should bring their own network cable to any available locations, which listed below as followings:

Location	No. of wired MobileNet network sockets
Computer Barn A	2
Computer Barn B	14
Computer Barn C	8
4/F Students' Union Area (Lift 2)	10
LG4 Student Common Room	20
Multi-Purpose Rooms LG1027 & LG1031	12
Student Hall 6 Common Rooms	53

Restaurants and Canteens

There are six restaurants and one food court in the campus. All restaurants are managed by The Campus Services Office (CSO) in the university.

The Student Canteen at LG7 includes four lunchroom: a fast food store (Asia Pacific), two Chinese style and a western style (Deli).

The Food Court business at LG5 is participated by a large variety of restaurants. There are fast food (McDonalds's and Pizza Box), Japanese food, Thai food and also Chinese food (Gold Rice Bowl Food Centre).

There are three restaurants at LG1, one is western style (Maxim's) and two are Chinese style (one of which is HKUST Restaurant).

The one at the ground floor is the HKUST Restaurant (China Garden). People go there to Yum cha.

University centre locates outside the acadeic building. It is next to the towers.

Coffee Shop at the first floor serves western food, such as sandwiches, salad and pasta. There is also a stand next to its entrance.

Seafront Cafeteria situated at the side of undergraduate halls. Its opening hour is 6:00pm to 2:00am. It is a Chinese style restaurant. It serves both dinner and dessert.

Sports and Recreational Facilities

Sports and Recreation Facilities are free for students and staffs to use. Bookings of the facilities can be done seven days in advance through the Facilities Booking System. Some sports equipments are also available for users to borrow when needed(eg. table tennis bats). For the people who are not the students and the staffs of the HKUST wish to use the sports and recreational facilities, they are required to pay twenty dollars fee for the whole day to use all the sports and recreational facilities.

Indoor Facilities

Indoor Facilities	Opening Hours
S.H.Ho Sports Hall	9:00 am - 10:00 pm
Multi-purpose Rooms	7:30 am - 10:00 pm
Fitness Center	7:30 am - 10:00 pm
Climbing Wall	8:00 am - 10:00 pm
Table-Tennis Room	7:30 am - 10:00 pm
Squash Courts	7:30 am - 10:00 pm
Indoor Swimming Pool	7:30 am - 9:30 pm
Music Room
Piano Room

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Outdoor swimming pool

Outdoor Facilities

Outdoor facilities are free for all students.

Outdoor swimming pool ($20 for those neither student nor staff)
Athletics Field
Basketball Court
Tennis Courts
Mini-soccer Pitch
Lawn area[6]

Activities: Archery, Golf, etc

Beach Balls Sand Pit
Seafront BBQ site

Coastal Marine Laboratory

The Coastal Marine Laboratory (CML) was established in April 2002 to provide cutting-edge facilities for frontier marine science research in Hong Kong and other parts of Southern China. The CML brings together regional and international scientists and graduate students from various fields of marine sciences, with major foci on marine natural products, antifouling, biogeochemistry, eutrophication and red tides, and environmental impact assessment.
The CML has a number of unique features that make it a model facility for marine science research:

Ideal location on the shoreline of Port Shelter which provides direct access to high quality seawater
On campus site to allow easy access to the existing major research infrastructure of the University a large-scale aquarium to support a board diversity of research activities
Close vicinity to a variety of marine habitats

Book Store

Name of Contractor	The Commercial Press (HK) Ltd
Discount Offered (UST Students/Staff/Alumni)	Campus Bookstore : 10 - 22% Off-Campus shops : 10 - 15% (excluding cyber bookshop & magazines, periodicals & certain publications)
Services	I. Order & sell adopted books for faculty and offices; II. Sell selected stationery, non academic books & other miscellaneous items.
Operating Hours	09:00 - 18:00, Mondays - Fridays 09:00 - 17:00, Saturdays Closed on Sundays & Public Holidays
Email Address	shopust@commercialpress.com.hk
Telephone / Fax Number	2358 6400 / 23326413
Location	G/F Across the Entrance Piazza

Good Stargazing location in campus

Since HKUST is located at country side, problem of Light Pollution is less serious than many other places. So HKUST is a good place for Stargazing.
The best Stargazing location: the pier
Other good Stargazing locations:
Entrance Piazza(火雞)
outside LG7 canteen
balcony of Atrium(蘑菇)

How to get there

It's easy and convenient to get to HKUST by public transportations.

From Choi Hung Road 1S minibus ($8.5)
From Choi Hung MTR station 91($6.1) or 91M($4.9) or 11 minibus($5.5) or 11S minibus ($7)
From Diamond Hill MTR station 91($6.1) or 91M($4.9)
From Hang Hau MTR station 91M or 11 minibus or 11S minibus or 11M minibus($4)
From Po Lam MTR station 91M or 12 minibus($8.5)
From Ngau Tau Kok MTR station 104 minibus($6)
From Tiu Keng Leng MTR station 792M($6.5)
From Sai Kung: 792M or 12 minibus($8.5) or 1S minibus

Shuttle buses are also offered.

International Programs Unit

The internetional programs aims to bring HKUST to the world and the world to HKUST.It is the first contact international relations at university level. HKUST's academic and research programs, with universities worldwide, aims to create an international environment for our faculty,students and staff.

Souvenir Center

Business Nature It sells souvenirs of the University e.g. clothes, desk top items, watches and other accessories.

Discount 10% discount on selling price for HKUST University members.

Location G/F Information Center, Room G027 (across the Piazza and next to the Bank of China)

Operating Hours

Mondays to Thursdays:	9:00 a.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Fridays :	9:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Saturdays :	09:15 to 11:45
Sundays & Public Holidays:	Closed

Payment by cash or credit cards

Telephone no 2358 6699

Fax no 2335 0258

Exchange Programs

Internationalization is an integral element of the undergraduate experience. The importance of allowing students to learn global perspectives first-hand by immersing themselves in another culture is highly recognized. To support this objective is the Business School's long established exchange program. The School has the most extensive student exchange network in Asia, with close to 100 partner schools worldwide. Our partners consist of highly-renowned universities in America, Asia, Australia, and Europe. Continuing negotiations for new exchanges agreements mean a constantly widening choice of options for students.

Around 2,000 students have been chosen for academic exchanges since the program's inception in 1995. Every year close to 400 undergraduates, that is over half of the School's BBA/BSc student population, spend a semester at renowned Business Schools overseas. To allow for greater global exposure, some students can be selected for two semester exchanges at separate universities in two different continents.

With such a large exchange program, HKUST Business School provides an excellent environment for both outgoing and incoming students to broaden their horizons.

Exchange-out program partner institutions
- Oversea partner institutions
- Mainland China partner institutions

In school of science, the exchange program is organized by Science for Success. Links: Exchange-out program partner institutions for science students

Enrichment Program

Enrichment activities provided by business school offer students valuable opportunity to broaden eye horizon, and acquire a wider range of knowledge other than concentrating a specific discipline.
Enrichment program consists of seven different activities, which are:
- Student Exchange Program [7]
- Internship [8]
- Case competition [9]
- Business Mentoring Program [10]
- Company Visit [11]
- Leadership Development [12]
- Community service [13]

Students' Union

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Students' Union (HKUSTSU) aims to promote social, culture, sporting and academic activities for the students. It consists of four mutually independent bodies, the Executive Committee, the Council, the Editorial Board and the Court. Each of them has different functions in the Union. All students' societies are affiliated under Students' Union

The Executive Committee

It is the executive branch in the Students' Union. It consists of different standing committees to take care with different issues regarding the Union and its members such as:

Academic Affairs
External and Current Affairs
International Affairs
Public Relations
Publication
Social Activities
Orientation Affairs
University Affairs
Welfare Matters

The Council

The Council acts as the legislature branch, which is responsible for legislation and regulation of finance and operations of Union. Its duties include:

Hold all elections regarding Students' Union
Consideration and approval of applications for affiliation to the Union
Supervision, advice, proposing and passing rules and regulations on all sub-organizations
Interpretation of and proposing amendment to the Constitution of Union
Consideration and approval of Master Budget of the Union
Consideration and approval of application of Union subsidies

In order to practice the above duties, the Council has four standing committees. They are Affiliated Societies Committee, Constitution Committee, Election Committee and Finance Committee.

The Editorial Board

Editorial Board(EB) maintains the official publication of Union. Its main functions are:

Promotion of the objects of the Union
Providing chances for and encourage free expressions of opinion by students

The Court

It is the judiciary body of HKUSTSU. Its main duties are:

Settle disputes within the Union
Provide interpretation to the Constituion

Different from other bodies, the Court holds office from arbitration to arbitration.

Affiliated Societies

The application of Students' Societies in HKUST are approved by the Students' Union Council. They are the affiliated societies of the Students' Union. Student can join the Societies freely during the orientation period. At that time, Societies will design different membership package to attract students join in. After being a member, student can participate in different functions freely or at discount price which organized by the that society.

There are five types of Affiliated Societies of Students' Union in HKUST.

Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs
Sports Association and Sports Clubs
House Associations
Departmental Societies
School Societies

The list of Affiliated Societies shows all the affiliated societies and their corresponding links.

Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs

Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs are the interest club for the students, such as the Astronomy Club, the Band Society, the Drama Society and the Magic Club. Now there are over 30 independent clubs at HKUST, which make great contribution to the diversity of campus life. The functions provided by them also enrich the students in a variety of ways.

A list of the Independent Clubs Association and Independent Clubs in HKUST:

Independent Clubs Association, HKUSTSU

AIESEC-LC-HKUST, HKUSTSU

Astronomy Club, HKUSTSU

Band Society, HKUSTSU

Beauty Club, HKUSTSU

Campus Crusade for Christ, HKUSTSU

Catholic Society, HKUSTSU

Chinese Culture Society, HKUSTSU

Chinese Folk Art Society, HKUSTSU

Chinese Orchestra, HKUSTSU

Comic and Animation Club, HKUSTSU

Contract Bridge Club, HKUSTSU

Culinary Art and Culture Society, HKUSTSU

Current Affairs Research Enlightenment, HKUSTSU

Debating Society, HKUSTSU

Film Society, HKUSTSU

Fishing Club, HKUSTSU

Games Society, HKUSTSU

Golden Z Club, HKUSTSU

Linguistic Society, HKUSTSU

Magic Club, HKUSTSU

Nature Club, HKUSTSU

People's Campus Radio Society, HKUSTSU

Photographic Society, HKUSTSU

Rotaract Club of HKUST, HKUSTSU

Social Dance Society, HKUSTSU

Student Christian Fellowship, HKUSTSU

Drama Society, HKUSTSU

Student Social Service Society, HKUSTSU

Students' Internet Society, HKUSTSU

The Award of Young People User Unit, HKUSTSU

University Choir, HKUSTSU

University Philharmonic Orchestra, HKUSTSU

Visual Arts Society, HKUSTSU

Yo-hoo Club, HKUSTSU

Sports Association and Sports Clubs

Sports Association and Sports Clubs are the students' societies that promote sports activities to students. A list of the Sports Association and Sports Clubs in HKUST:

Sports Association, HKUSTSU

Archery Club, HKUSTSU

Dance Society, HKUSTSU

Distance Runners'Club, HKUSTSU

Dragon Boat Club, HKUSTSU

Fencing Club, HKUSTSU

Gymnastics Society, HKUSTSU

Handball Club, HKUSTSU

Judo Club, HKUSTSU

Karate Club, HKUSTSU

Kendo Club, HKUSTSU

Netball Club, HKUSTSU

Rugby Club, HKUSTSU

Sailing Club, HKUSTSU

Shaolin Martial Arts Society, HKUSTSU

Softball Club, HKUSTSU

Sport Climbing Students' Society, HKUSTSU

Squash Club, HKUSTSU

Student Basketball Club, HKUSTSU

Student Rowing Club, HKUSTSU

Student Tennis Club, HKUSTSU

Students' Badminton Club, HKUSTSU

Students' Football Club, HKUSTSU

Students' Swimming Club, HKUSTSU

Table Tennis Club, HKUSTSU

Taek-Won-Do Club, HKUSTSU

Taichi Club, HKUSTSU

Track and Field Club, HKUSTSU

Volleyball Club, HKUSTSU

Wing Chun Martial Arts Society, HKUSTSU

House Associations

House Association is the students' society of the undergraduate student hall. Each undergraduate student hall would have its own House which is responsible to organize extra-circular activities for the House Association's members. Since the New Hall is the newly built undergraduate student hall, it does not have its own house for organizing activities.

The Undegraduate House One Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh1@stu.ust.hk

VERTEX, House II Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh2@stu.ust.hk

Glacier, HOUSE III Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh3@stu.ust.hk

Vista, House IV Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh4@stu.ust.hk

Endeavour, House V Students' Association, HKUSTSU su_ugh5@stu.ust.hk

Departmental Societies

Each department in HKUST would have its own departmental society. The departmental societies would organize different activities to their departments' students.

Providing activities to students, departmental societies are also responsible for promoting their corresponding department on outreach day which is for giving information of the university to high school students.

Engineering Students' Union, HKUSTSU

Business Students' Union, HKUSTSU

Science Students' Association, HKUSTSU

School Societies

Apart from the departmental societies, each school would have its own School Society. The School Societies coordinate with the departmental societies which belong to the same school and orgainze different activities to the students belong to that school.

Promotion Period

The first few weeks of both the spring semester and the fall semester is the promotion period of the students' societies. Every year, each students' society needs to hold the annual election for the next session of executive committee members. The nominated cabinets hold the promotion in the atrium of HKUST during the Promotion Period.

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Nominated ISM Student Society during Promotion Period

The nominated cabient will promote themselves by distributing leaflets, small gifts like files and sponsorships from companies, demostrating their logo, holding some games in the atrium. They also promote in canteens, outside lecture theatres, and at the bus stop. Most of the nominated cabinets have their slogans. They will shout them out during the shouting period(12:45pm - 2:00pm) in order to draw people attention. Yet, there is no shouting period at the past. The nominated cabinet could shout at anytime. Since they are too enthusiastic in shouting, school has restricted them to shout in the shouting period two years ago.

Generally speaking, all they do is to introduce they are the nominated cabinet of students' society. As they have to gain enough member's votes to be elected, and this process is called polling. Nevertheless, polling may not be involved in the election process in certain societies as election process depends on constitutions of different societies and they are not necessary the same. After they are elected, they have to attend the annual general meeting(AGM) of the students' society to let the society's members know more about their year plan and the financial budget for the activities which they will organize in the coming year. This is sure the most tough time for the nominated cabinet since they should cope with all the questions raised by the former exectutive committee and also the members of the society. The AGM is progressed in several sections and usually takes a few days. When the annual general meeting (AGM) is finished, they successfully become executive committee members of the next session of the society.

Campus Life

Teams of experienced and multi-culturally trained counsellors, hall wardens, and tutors are available to help students in adapting to, and participating in, campus life, as well as to assist them in solving problems affecting their studies.

Overseas full-time students are normally offered on-campus accommodation. Most rooms of the undergraduate halls are designed for double or triple occupancy, and are air-conditioned and furnished. There are provisions for linking personal computers to the university network.

There are a number of cafeterias, restaurants, and food courts on campus, offering northern and southern Chinese, Asian as well as international food.Student Catering Committee

Confluence Dinners attended by guests from the business sector and other walks of life are organized to broaden students' knowledge and skills for personal development.

Student Cultural Exchange Program and Delta Forum are organized to enhance students' international exposure.

Over 100 student organizations and societies provide opportunities for a wide variety of academic, extra-curricular, and social activities.

HKUST 15th Anniversary just held on 2006.

Center Of The Arts

The Center for the Arts has the mission to bring arts and culture to technology-oriented UST and to nurture artistic awareness and an appreciation for beauty within the University. The Center stages exhibitions, concerts, films and performances on campus; supports students and staff in organizing various arts activities; and organizes student cultural exchange activities with mainland universities and international institutions.
Visit its homepage for more informations and the recent activities
- Center of the Arts

Career Center

The objectives of the Career Center are assisting students in career planning and obtaining short-term or graduate employment. The Career Center usually provides career talks, workshops and programmes to train students' job search skill and interview skill. Beside that, it also provides job vacancy information about full-time, part-time and summer jobs for students.

Inquiries

Telephone:	(852) 2358 6688
Fax:	(852) 2719 9412
E-mail Address:	saocc@ust.hk
Web Site	http://career.ust.hk

Location

Career Center and Joint Center: Room 4001, 4/F, Academic Building (via Lift 3 or 4) (for holding career-related activities e.g. talks, exhibitions, job fairs, interviews etc.)

Career Resource Room: Room 5003, 5/F, Academic Building (via Lift 3) (for holding career-related resource materials e.g. literature and videos on career fields, career planning, company information, professional qualifications, starting a business etc.)

Opening Hours

Career Center and Joint Center (Room 4001)

Mon - Fri:	9am - 1pm
Sat, Sun & Public holidays :	Closed

Career Resource Room (Room 5003)

Mon - Thu:	8:45am - 5:30pm
Fri:	8:45am - 5:45pm
Sat, Sun & Public holidays :	Closed

General Counselling Service

The General Counselling Service is provided by SAO to assist students solving psychologic problems. Students can make appointment for personal counseling, and register for variety of counseling programs(emotional, intellectual, occupational, physical, social, spiritual etc.)

Location & Contact

Location:	Room 5003, 5/F., Academic Building ( via Lift 3 )
Inquiries:	2358 6696
Fax Number:	2719 9412
E-mail Address:	counsel@ust.hk
WebSite:	http://www.ab.ust.hk/sao/counsel/

Opening Hours

Mon - Thu :	8:45 am - 5:30 pm
Fri :	8:45 am - 5:45pm
Sat, Sun & Public Holidays :	Closed

Language Center

The objectives of the Language Centre are helping students to learn more new languages and improve their language skills, so that increase students' ability of communication with the world beyond and their competetive ability. Language Center provides courses for many foreign languages. Such as French, Japanese, German, Spanish. They are non-credit courses. They are only for students who are interested in learning those foreign language. Extra charges are required for attending those courses. Also, it provides different kinds of learning materials, such as fictions, practical books and movies. They can enhance students' learning interest.

Inquiries

Tel:	(852)2358 7880
Fax:	(852)2335 0249
Website:	http://lc.ust.hk

Location

Room 3396 (near lifts 17/18)

LIBRA (Language Immersion by Residence Abroad)

LIBRA is a language immersion programme that enables undergraduates to visit an English-speaking country for language study and cultural exposure.

Under the LIBRA Programme, selected students will:
．be enrolled on a two-week English Language course at a local college in an English-speaking country; take formal lessons in small classes and engage in some project work;
．go on guided excursions to places of interest;take part in varied activities organised by the college;
．stay in the home of a local English-speaking family.
All year one students are welcomed and have the priority. Applicants have to write an apllication letter telling why they want to join LIBBA and predict what can learn through the progamme. After that the interviewing section will take place and every applicant has a chance of interview. The interview is a discussion and there are two interviewers and four to five candidates. The discussion is about twenty mimutes. At last, the approval applicants will receive a confirmation letter

LIBRA was first offered in January 2005, and a total of five sessions have been held, taking students to Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Jersey, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Over 640 students have gone overseas on the LIBRA Programme.

Orientation Camping

Each university in Hong Kong holds Orientation Camp that is normally called "O Camp". It is held for the new arrival year-one students to know more about their university such as the culture, new study environment, meet more new classmates or friend in the O Camp. The O Camp can be divided into two types. One is organized by the Department Student Union and the other union is held by the Housing Student Union. So it obviously contains two different types of purposes although they help the students know more their university. To help new arrival students know more about the rule or regulation on the academic field, that is the major aim of the O Camp held by Department Student Union. Housing Student Union is definitely to help their new hall mates to get accustomed the environment of the hall and meet more friends. As a result new arrival students won't be afraid of the new environment. At least, they know some friends in the O Camp and Group-pa and Group-ma who are the team leader in the O camp. When new students are confused on studying or living in the campus, they can get a hand from others. That's the main purpose of the O Camp. The O camp normally begins within several days after new-year one students register. There two round of the O camp. The Department Student Union usually organizes it first and then followed by the Housing Student Union. O Camp is commonly lasting for about 5 days but it could be longer or shorter that is up to the organizers. Most of the O camp will be hold in HKUST campus since that gives more chances for new arrival students to be familiar with the campus like where the academic building is , where the laboratories are , how to go through each part of the main building without taking lift in the ground floor and where the facilities of exercise are and so on. But some will held it outside the campus and book the camp site somewhere. There are some typical activities in O Camp. Firstly, There is an activity called "Ice Breaking" which let the teammate of each group to know each other. Secondly, Students take part into a game called "Orientation Route" which participants have to go to each check point and ask the questions. Those questions are related to the university or the housing. So students can know and recognize the campus when they walk around it. Thirdly, it is a special function at night; the organizers would invite the star or singers or band to give a performance. Each group standing around the stage will sound out their group slogans. The four one is "Water Bomb Game". It's held in the foot pitch and each group has to fight to others and lastly every student will throw the water bomb to each other. Lastly and also the most traditionally activity in the O Camp, it is called Camp Fire Dance. Students will stand around the fire and singing the UST songs or songs of each housing and then dancing around the fire. Those are the popular and typical activities in the O Camp of HKUST.

General University Admission Requirements

Local Students(Hong Kong)

For entry to an HKUST undergraduate program for academic year 2007-08 through the JUPAS scheme, ALL of the following requirements must be met:

(A) Hong Kong Certificate of Education Examination (HKCEE)

Passes in at least seven subjects at the first and if necessary second HKCEE attempt, of which

 (i) At least five must be passed at a single sitting; and 
 (ii) Three must be Mathematics, English Language (Syllabus A or B), and either Chinese or an alternative language

(B) Hong Kong Advanced Level Examination (HKALE)

 (i) Passes at the same sitting in 
   a. either one Advanced Level (AL) subject plus two Advanced Supplementary (AS) subjects, or  
   b. two AL subjects; 
       
 (ii) Pass in AS Chinese Language and Culture (CLC)
 (For applicants who use an alternative language, rather than Chinese, to satisfy the language requirements in the HKCEE, an AL/AS subject may be used as a substitute for the Chinese Language and Culture requirement.) 
     
   and 
     
 (iii) Pass in AS Use of English (UE)

The University admission requirements listed above are minimum requirements for entry to the University. Admission to the University is selective and holding these minimum requirements does not guarantee admission. Applicants may be requested to attend personal interviews or take additional tests administered by the University.

2002-2006 admission grades can be found at Admission Grades

Admission grades in: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.

=>Median: A median is a number dividing the higher half of a sample, a population, or a probability distribution from the lower half.

=>Lower Quartile: Cuts off lowest 25% of data = 25th percentile.

Jupas Code of all the UST programs

Course Code Abbrev Title Full Title

5103 MBMS BSc Molecular Biomedical Sciences
5115 BICH BSc Biochemistry
5141 BIOL BSc Biology
5177 CHEM BSc Chemistry
5218 MATH BSc Mathematics
5220 MAIE BSc Mathematics (Mathematics and IT Education)
5232 MAEC BSc Mathematics and Economics
5244 PHYS BSc Physics
5256 APHY BSc Applied Physics
5309 BEng & BBA Dual Degree Program in Technology and Management
5311 CENG BEng Chemical Engineering
5323 CEEV BEng Chemical and Environmental Engineering
5347 CBPE BEng Chemical and Bioproduct Engineering
5361 CIEV BEng Civil and Environmental Engineering
5373 CIVL BEng Civil & Structural Engineering
5414 COMP BEng Computer Science
5426 CSIE BEng Computer Science (Information Engineering)
5464 CPEG BEng Computer Engineering
5517 ELEC BEng Electronic Engineering
5529 EEIC BEng Electronic Engineering (Information and Communication Engineering)
5567 IEEM BEng Industrial Engineering & Engineering Management
5579 IELM BEng Logistics Management and Engineering
5610 MECH BEng Mechanical Engineering
5622 MEBS BEng Mechanical Engineering (Building Services)
5701 BBA Bachelor of Business Administration
5751 ECOF BSc Economics and Finance
5787 QFIN BSc Quantitative Finance
5816 IS BBA Information Systems
5921 GBUS BBA Global Business

Source: http://web.jupas.edu.hk:6118/jupas/bin/jo.progSearch.ProgSearch?type=inst&inst=E

Overseas Student(Mainland China)

HKUST have been recruiting students from mainland China for a few years. More and more mainland students are getting to know this reputable university.

Usually, students recruited from mainland China also need to take GEE(高考 pinyin: gāo kǎo) and should take an extra interview in addition. However, for those who perform excellently in competition organised by the country or provinces, they may have privilege to be admitted without taking GEE.

Career Prospects

HKUST graduates are well prepared for the careers of today. Our graduates are popular with employers. Managers of local and multinational corporations have described them as "diligent", "flexible", "professional" and "possessing leadership qualities". The employment rate is consistenly high, with the commerce and business sector employing over 70% of the graduates.
Among those who decided to purse further full-time studies, nearly 70% chose to stay at HKUST.

Other graduates went abroad to top universities around the world, including Stanfoard, Princeton.

Distribution of Graduates by Employment Sector, Year 2004

Commerce & Business	Manufacturing & Industries	Education	Community & Social Service	Construction	Government
70.3%	15.9%	6.6%	2.8%	1.3%	3.1%

General Education

All undergrauate students need to take general education courses from the School of Humanities and Social Science.
The courses are an important part of your program. They will broaden your horizons, enrich yout analytical skills and critical thinking, and deepen your knowledage of human cultures in different social, political and economic contexts.

Grading System in HKUST

At the end of every semester, it is common to hear students talking about CGA or SGA. Actually these reflect their academic result as SGA, CGA and GGA are 3 grading method used by HKUST.

SGA , CGA and GGA are the short forms of Semester Grade Average, Cumulative Grade Average and Graduation Grade Average respectively. SGA actually calculates the average academic result of each semester while CGA calculates the average academic result of all studied courses. It means that every SGA is calculated into the CGA. Finally , GGA calculates the average academic result of all courses that are recorded into the graduate result.

HKUST used a 12 point system which means SGA, CGA can be rated from 0 to 12. In order to calculate SGA and CGA , it is essential to know the course grade and each course can graded in 12 levels as shown below.

	Excellent	Good	Satisfactory	Marginal Pass	Conditional Failure	Unconditional Failure
Letter Grades	A+ ,A ,A-	B+ ,B ,B-	C+ ,C ,C-	D	E	F
Grade Points	12 ,11 ,10	9 ,8 ,7	6 ,5 ,4	2	0	0

For example a student get A+, A-, B, C and C+ for 5 courses in a semester, and the credits for the 5 courses are 2, 4, 3, 3, and 3 respectively. Then the SGA for the student can be calculated as below (12x2+10x4+8x3+5x3+6x3)/(2+4+3+3+3) = 8.07

Dean List is a honor awarding students for having excellent academic performance. Whenever a student having a SGA higher than 10 points (providing that studying not less than 12 credits with no failure), then the student can be recorded into the Dean List

Honors Track Study

For some departments like The Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Honors Study Track offers an exciting new opportunity for elite students, starting from Fall 2004.

Honors Track students must be academically equipped to keep up with the demanding pace of the accelerated courses. Minimum entrance requirements are:

Outstanding A-Level results with B average or above in three subjects, one of which must be A-Level Pure Mathematics, Early admissions students, or Students who have completed Year 0 with at least a CGA of B+, obtained a grade of B+ or above in both Mathematics courses. Students in the Honors Track are required to maintain a cumulative grade average (CGA) of A- or above every semester. Students with lower CGA will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Current students with good academic results will also be invited to join the honors study track halfway.

Scholarships at HKUST

A variety of Scholarships at HKUST such as Designated Scholarship, General Scholarship, Continuing Awards, Scholarships for Overseas Studies, Scholarships for Non-local Students, Alphabetical Listing of Scholarships are provided for excellent students both UG and PG. You can click the below link to know more detailed.

Scholarships at HKUST

Student's ITSC account

Each student is provided with a ITSC account that can login to UST system. The account of UG student is in the following format, xx_yyyzz; xx = the department of student belonging to yyy = the first letter of the student's name

e.g. My name is So,Wing Shun ; belonging to the Mathematics Department ;

    Then my ITSC account is "ma_sws"
    However, if there is another student called Siu,Wai Sum ;also belonging to the Mathematics Department 
    Then his account is "ma_swsaa"
    And again another student So,Wa Sin
    Then , "ma_swsab"

Some of the other departments' initials:

Biology--bo

Chemistry--ch

Biochemistry--bc

Physics--ph

Finance--fn

Business and Mangament--bm

And each account are also provided with a sum of $120 print qouta, which can be used in Student Barn A, B or C. Student can also recharge their print qouta when it is not enough.

Student's CSD account

By default, every UG doing CS courses will get a CSD PC account. For those UGs doing CS courses which require UNIX will also be assigned a UNIX account. Both accounts will have the same username as your ITSC account.
New CSD accounts (PC and UNIX) are not activated by default. To activate your CSD account, go to an ITSC Computer Barn, login (with your ITSC login name and password), start a web browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape), and access the following URL:

https://cssu3.cse.ust.hk:8443/pass.html

This will give you more information.
Students should be aware that they have 50 free print quotas per CSE course they had taken. These quota can only be used within the CSE lab printer. It is independent of ITSC print quote and will be remove at the end of each semester. Students cannot recharge thisprint quota by mean of cash or other payment methods.

Print quota inside the CS Laboratory can be checked through the CSE Website.

http://www.cse.ust.hk/

 On the left menu, click Computing Facilities > CS System office, it will then turn into new page.

 On the top menu, click Undergraduate > Print Quota Usage Summary , here you can enter your student ID and CSE Username 

 After that, you can get the summary of the print quota.

HKUST Card

HKUST Card in Campus Computing Environment

HKUST Card has been issued to all students through Admissions, Registration & Records Office in Feb 2003. The HKUST Card contains the user's name , student ID and a photo which is took at the day of registration and cannot be changed. It is also a smartcard stored with user's information such as student ID, name, department, etc. Students can use this card as their personal identification for access to University resources and services.

To further enhance our computing environment, ITSC has designed a new type of digital certificate, namely Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert specifically for the HKUST Card. Students can apply for their digital certificates and store on the HKUST Card. Within the first 3 weeks after issuing the HKUST Card, more than 2,000 students have applied for their Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert certificates. It is expected that more and more HKUST members will get their Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert for electronic transactions on both Intranet and Internet when the HKUST Card will be issued to faculty and staff members in the coming future.

We believe this smartcard, together with the Personal (Smartcard) e-Cert, will play an important role in our campus IT infrastructure in various aspects like

   * Efficient Proof of Identity
   * Secure Authentication
   * Improved Access Control
   * Reduced Administration Overheads
   * Faster Electronic Transaction, etc.

With the HKUST Card, you can enjoy a number of services in a different way now and in future.

For more information, you may refer to our web page at

   http://www.ust.hk/itsc/hkustcard/

We look forward that, with more and more applications developed by us and other departments, this smartcard will bring us to a secure and efficient computing environment and lead us to a new digital era.

Annual Function run by Student Affair Office and students' societies to students in the South East Asia

There is two activities organized by HKUST to South East Asia:

1) Delta Forum

      The Business Students’ Union, Engineering Students’ Union, and Science Students'
 Association of HKUST jointly organize a program entitled “Delta Forum’ for tertiary
 students of the Pan-Pearl River Delta region. The Delta Forum is a program which aims to
 stimulate our fellow students’ awareness of the cultural, social and economic influences
 of the Pan-Pearl River Delta Region and to provide an opportunity for students from
 different backgrounds to exchange and share intellectually as well as culturally.

      In Delta Forum 2007, international exposure and cultural exchange will also be a
 special new feature. We plan to invite university students from Singapore, Malaysia and 
Australia to join the Delta Forum. It will help to widen the participants’ exposure and
 perspective through the sharing and exchange.

2) Aearu Camp

      The Association of East Asian Research Universities (AEARU) was formed in January 1996
 to promote cooperation and exchange among universities in East Asia.AEARU bring stogether
 17 universities from the following regions: Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea 
 and Taiwan. These universities all have significant strengths in science and technology,
 sharing common traits in their academic profiles, educationalgoals, R&D interest and 
 faculty composition. Being in the same geographical area, they also share a similar
 culture and a strong sense of affinitywith one another. AEARU was formed to identify 
 areas of mutual interest for productive collaboration and the AEARU Student Camp is one
  of the activities organized to achieve this.
 
      The first AEARU Student Camp was held at Pohang University of Science and Technology
(POSTECH) in South Korea in 1997. Since 1998 summer, four AEARU Student Camps (Topical)
 were held at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) . All of them were
 successfully held. After four years, the Student Camp (General) will be held in HKUST.

by Lau Chi Kwan
== —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Omegadonald (talk • contribs) 16:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC).

Extracurricular Activities

Auxiliary Police (University scheme)

It is a programme held by Hong Kong Police force to recruit the university student to become an Auxiliary Police. It is a programme that allows student to become police on the world. HKUST student is one of the major applicant in this program.

Fok Ying Tung Graduate School

January 25th,2007,the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) officially named its Graduate School in Nansha as "HKUST Fok Ying Tung Graduate School" in a ceremony that combined the official opening of the Graduate School and the ground breaking of its Nansha campus. [14]

The Hong Kong University of "Stress and Tension"

Due to the same initials (HKUST), The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is sometimes joked as The Hong Kong University of "Stress and Tension" by students.

External links

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 *Confluence Dinners attended by guests from the business sector and other walks of life are organized to broaden students' knowledge and skills for personal development.