Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2004

Student Achievements BBA Team Ranked Top 3 in Danish Competition The University's BBA team was selected as one of the three best teams in the Third Copenhagen Business School Case Competition held in Denmark on 5th March 2004. The team comprised four final-year BBA students —(from left) Cynthia Lau, Peggy Chau, Evelyn Chan, and Catherine Chan, who flew to Denmark under the guidance of Prof. Gordon Cheung, associate dean of the Faculty of Business Administration. This year the competition drew teams from 12 internationally renowned business schools from the world over, including the Wharton School of Business, University of Pennsylvania, and Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The CUHK team managed to outperform them to enter the finals with Copenhagen Business School and the University of California at Berkeley. The champion was Copenhagen Business School. CUHK Student Wins Speech Contest in Shantou Ms. Wendy Choy (left), a Year 1 translation major, beat 11 other candidates from Hong Kong and mainland universities to win first place at the Intercollegiate Speech Contest of Shantou University. The Speech Contest, which ran from 19th to 21st December 2003, was part of Shantou University's English Festival. Contestants came from CUHK, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Xiamen University, Zhongshan University, and Shantou University. The other programmes of the festival included a game fair, talent quest, and the Intercollegiate Singing Contest. This was the first time that the English Festival had participation from Hong Kong institutions. New Centre to Advance Mobile Phone Technology The Mobile Technologies Centre (MobiTeC) was formally established by the Faculty of Engineering on 19th November 2003. The centre will advance mobile technology by conducting high-end R&D, facilitating technology transfer of applied R&D, nurturing technical talent, and developing methodology and techniques to gauge performance indices and improve the quality of wireless data services in Hong Kong. The centre is set up with the advice and encouragement of SmarToneMobile Communications Ltd. and Ericsson Ltd., and headed by Prof. Yue On- ching of the Department of Information Engineering. The number of mobile phone users in Hong Kong ranks among the top worldwide. Apart from conventional voice applications, users demand better service in mobile networking, content delivery quality, and innovative wireless services. MobiTeC hopes to extend its linkages with mobile communication companies locally, nationally and internationally, with the aim of enhancing the functions and technologies of mobile phone applications. 5 8 Chinese University Bulletin Spring • Summer 2004