Products showcase creativity, talents of aspiring engineers and designers at IVE
Students from various campuses of the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (IVE) tapped their creativity and came up with innovative products that could be used in daily life.
The first IVE Student Projects Competition, organised by the Vocational Training Council, attracted more than 140 entries. The judging panel selected seven entries as finalists for display at the Tsing Yi campus open day.
The contest aimed to encourage students to come up with innovative yet practical products.
The public has been invited to cast their votes on the winning project both online and off-line.
Since last month, the students have been demonstrating their inventions at the Education and Careers Expo and at open days at the various campuses.
The first product, the Talking Web and Telephone Systems, was designed by second year electronic and information engineering students Kong Chiu-chun and Yu Pak-yeuk at the Chai Wan campus.
The product features automatic speech recognition technology which allows users to listen to e-mail and look up information on the telephone.
The second product, Coefficient of Friction, was designed by second year electrical and telecommunications engineering student Sam Tsui Yip-sum at the Tsing Yi campus.
The model, made of toy bricks, can be used for teaching physics in senior secondary classes.
Yip-sum said the product was environmentally friendly because the bricks could be re- used. The model can be controlled by computer.
The design won the Most Impressive Award from visitors at the open day.
'It is like a virtual experiment. Students can do it at home,' Yip-sum said.
The third entry, the Da-Da- Dial, was designed by second year product design student Chan Hiu-nam at the Sha Tin campus. It is a sundial designed to teach children science in a fun way.
Contactless Personal Identification was designed by Wong Ho-yin and Yu Yuk-fai, third year electronic and information engineering students at the Chai Wan campus.
It employs radio frequency identification technology and advanced encryption technology to store personal information.
The Washing-ball was designed by Lee Ka-po, a second year student at the Sha Tin campus majoring in product design. The product aims to make hair-washing fun and safe.
The Model of Wong Chu Road Associated Interchanges Improvement and Noise Barri er was the joint efforts of Chan Chi-wing, Tang Fu-wing, Hon Sai-yui, Mok Chi-hang, Lam Ho-fung and Kong Siu-leung, year two civil engineering students at the Tuen Mun campus.
The Three Little Pigs, designed by second year product design student Chu Wing-yan, is a dining set. It comprises three containers with heads, bodies and legs drawn on them and the containers can be mixed and matched.
The overall champion will be announced on Tuesday.
