Calendar 2005–06

148 Part 3 • Research Units and University Extensions Department of Systems Engineering. When the latter changed its name to the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management in 1994–95, the unit too was renamed the Systems Engineering and Engineering Management Consultancy Unit. It provides the industrial sector and the academic community with consulting services such as expert advice, feasibility studies, system analysis and design, simulation, software and hardware development, customized seminars, and training courses. The unit is fully supported by the academic staff of the department, whose areas of specialization and industrial experience cover the main branches of systems engineering and engineering management, including information systems, financial engineering, logistics and supply chain management, e-commerce, machine intelligence, system sciences, system modelling, systems optimization, production management, management and decision science, and information management. Telemedicine Centre Tel.: 2632 3337/2145 5215 Fax.: 2647 2763/2635 2521 E-mail: telemed@med.cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://tele.med.cuhk.edu.hk The Telemedicine Centre consists of a conglomerate of facilities at the Prince of Wales Hospital that include state-of-the-art teleconference equipment, a broadband LAN that links all offices, outpatients, operating theatres, classrooms, as well as rooms dedicated to international teleconferences. It is also linked to the main University campus as well as hospitals in the New Territories East Cluster of the Hong Kong Hospital Authority. It organizes programmes in teleneuroradiology, telegeriatrics, teleendoscopy, and telepathology, as well as regular international teleconferences. It is also home to the Hong Kong Telemedicine Association. UGC-AoE Plant and Fungal Biotechnology Centre Tel.: 2609 8133 Fax.: 2603 6382 E-mail: aoe-biotech@cuhk.edu.hk Website: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/bio/aoe/index.htm In the first round exercise of the Area of Excellence (AoE) funding scheme, the University Grants Committee allocated HK$38.8 million to ‘Plant and Fungal Biotechnology’. It was the first time that the Hong Kong government had invested so substantially in developing existing areas of strength of Hong Kong’s academic institutions into AoE and maintaining them among the world leaders. This project was the only science project of the first three AoEs selected for support. Led by the Chinese University, four tertiary institutes including the University of Hong Kong, the University of Science and Technology and the Hong Kong Baptist University pooled their expertise to establish a research and teaching centre that excels in state-of-the-art plant and fungal biotechnology. The mission of this project is to help develop Hong Kong’s high technology industry and to help meet the world’s increasing demands for food and healthcare products in the 21st century. This will be accomplished through innovative