Vice-Chancellor's Report 1990-93

courses offered by the Faculty of Education. Apart from offering traditional diploma and professional courses for graduate teachers, research-oriented M.Phil. and Ph.D. programmes were first introduced in 1990-91, and a Master of Education (M.Ed.) Programme was launched in 1992 to train specialists for the local education sector. And in addition to part-time degree programmes in Primary Education and Physical Education, the faculty w i l l begin to offer full-time undergraduate courses leading to the degree of Bachelor of Education in 1994. Faculty of Engineering Another new faculty, the Faculty of Engineering, was formally established in August 1991. Its four departments offer undergraduate programmes in computer science, computer engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, and systems engineering leading to the degrees of B.Sc. (in computer science) and B.Eng. It also offers postgraduate programmes leading to the degrees of M.Phil. and Ph.D. Set up with a mission to train engineering leaders for the future and to conduct research to assist the technological and industrial development of Hong Kong, the Faculty of Engineering has concentrated its efforts in the inception years on the recruitment of staff and the building of an efficient research infrastructure. By the end of 1992-93 close to 60 teaching members have been recruited, and the four departments now 終端機螢幕顯示寬頻帶網絡傳來之醫療圖象 Medical images transmitted over a broadband communications network. possess an MOCVD machine and a network of some 200 workstations that are connected to Internet. It has also procured the use of a massively parallel computer with 8092 processors. Major research projects launched during the period include the HANZ IX project which aims at developing an open system on UNIX to support Chinese computing, the intelligent processing of Chinese text, and the development of amedical imaging network to transmit CAT scan and MRI images over a high speed communication network. Faculty of Medicine The Faculty of Medicine, on the other hand, celebrated its 10th anniversary in 1991-92. Over the years it has produced some 700 graduates, and achieved many significant breakthroughs in biomedical knowledge and techniques, bringing great improvements in health care for the local community. Notable developments over the last three years include the establishment of a Department of Nursing in 1991-92 which offers a post-registration degree pro- 11