President's Awards

Individual Award

Professor YEUNG Yau-yuen
楊友源教授
Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies

Professor Yeung Yau Yuen has wide research interests in areas concerning physics, computational science, physics education, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education and technology enhanced learning. Since 2015/16, Professor Yeung has been intensively applying or transferring his current and past research work and teaching-related projects in the ﬁeld of STEM education to various kinds of Knowledge Transfer (KT) activities, products and projects.

Since 2014, Professor Yeung as project leader or principal investigator, has been awarded for three externally funded KT or applied research projects in STEM education with total funding of HK$660,000. As a pioneer, Professor Yeung led the project teams and participated in the development of new multimedia course materials for gifted students. He initiated the first Hong Kong STEM Olympiad 2016 which received external sponsorship of about HK$189,000. In 2017, as Project Leader, Professor Yeung was selected for internal KT Funds amounting to about HK$100,000. All of these projects benefited STEM education.

In addition to developing innovative course materials for external users, organizing the STEM Olympiad 2016, and publishing the Asia-Pacific Forum on Science Learning and Teaching open-access refereed journal, Professor Yeung invented an innovative, multi-functional, low-cost data-logging system, called Mobile Logger, which won two international awards, the Gold Medal Award and Special Inventor Award, in the 2017 International Invention Innovation Competition in Canada, which was an international event for inventions and innovative projects and a celebration of the achievements of talented inventors from many countries. The Mobile Logger was also selected for local and overseas technology exhibitions. Professor Yeung’s Mobile Logger was judged much better than other commercial products not only because of its affordable price, but also because of the design’s implications for effective teaching and learning. It facilitates STEM education because it allows students to assemble and modify the instrument by themselves and code a small app to control or use the data-logger.

Professor Yeung has been very successful in transferring his research to the community over the past two years.