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Note: This programme
is offered for students admitted in the academic
years from 2000-01 to 2003-04. Starting from
the 2004-05 admission, the IDE discipline will
be susumed into the ACE programme as one of
its specialization streams.
With the on-going transformation
of the Hong Kong industry into a more design-original
and knowledge-intensive nature, the growing
importance of technological innovation and innovative
design increasingly demands that engineers be
equipped with creative thinking and design skills.
The introduction of the Innovation and Design
Engineering Programme is to prepare engineering
graduates to face the new challenges. Design
engineering concerns itself with the conception
and design of products for the benefit of society.
A major characteristic of the Programme is the
integration of engineering and artistic design
knowledge. With the advance in computer and
information technology, new product designs
are no longer restricted to physical commodities,
but also include innovative applications of
computing and information technology. The philosophy
adopted in the Innovation and Design Engineering
Programme is to maintain a balance in engineering,
computing, and design techniques so as to prepare
students with an inter-disciplinary educational
experience aimed at the resolution of functional,
aesthetic, manufacturing and human values issues
to create successful designs.
The objective of the Programme
is to develop the ability of students in perceiving
the need of the society, and to translate the
needs into products using creative and analytical
design methods. Graduates of the Programme are
expected to be able to design not only the outlook
of a product, but also the functional components
of the product. The Programme will cover three
major areas: fundamental knowledge in engineering,
innovation and creative design techniques, fundamentals
of computing techniques and applications in
product design.
Graduates of the Programme
are expected to develop careers in product and
system design of inter-disciplinary fields.
As a result of their multi-facet education,
they will be able to excel in their works and,
in time, to advance to leadership positions
in either existing corporation, or depending
on their talents and self-development, enterprises
of their own. They will be engaging in a market
which requires ever increasing number of advanced
technological and innovative ideas to be competitive,
where their inter-disciplinary training will
be indispensible. These include companies which
conduct design and manufacturing in the related
fields of electronics, consumer products, toys,
video games, graphics, animation, web page design,
and more. With their training, our graduates
will be able to assume the roles of a product
designer, responsible for new and improved design
of products, or a system designer, responsible
for an efficient overall architecture of the
process and composite systems.
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