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A university education is sure to help pave the way for your future success by taking your interests to ever-higher levels. In the third part of this year’s Why HKUST? Series, two Malaysians detail how their HKUST courses have enabled them to transform their academic interests into meaningful professional achievements.Bor  Hung CHONG first became interested in entrepreneurship while still at high school. Though he had never previously studied commerce, he elected to write a business plan for his grade-10 personal project. “I asked a business teacher to mentor me on my project which involved pitching the opening of a suit store in a nearby shopping mall,” says Bor Hung. His teacher was subsequently amazed by the in-depth and articulate nature of his research and strategic thinking.

I was quite a bad student until I found my passion.Having dreamed of working in the gaming industry from a young age, Prof. Kenneth LEUNG, Assistant Professor of Engineering Education at HKUST’s School of Engineering never thought he would become a professor one day, let alone winning a teaching award.  “I was quite a bad student until I went to college,” recounts the winner of the HKUST 2021 Common Core Teaching Excellence Award. “But then I discovered an interest in computer science and continued my studies in the graduate level. Before I realized, I became a teaching assistant (TA), and now, a professor at HKUST where I got my PhD.”  Expectations met Reality 

Bookcrossing has grown into a global phenomenon in the past decade, but the idea still hasn’t taken off in Hong Kong. A team of HKUST alumni are determined to build a local reading culture by releasing second-hand books into the wild, with the help of an app they designed.Book circulation was stagnant with the traditional way of bookcrossing. Thousands of books ended up sitting on our shelves.

In the second episode of the three-part series “Why HKUST?”,  two students from Kazakhstan obtained scholarships to pursue undergraduate studies at HKUST. They have immersed themselves in research projects, internships, and a dynamic campus life, adding up to an outstanding personal profile for future career or further education.

Addressing societal issues has become a topic of common interest for the HKUST-Sino One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition  this year, with two of the three winning teams proposing solutions hoping to help save the planet. With Hong Kong striving to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, two winning student groups came up with plans to help reduce the city’s waste by upcycling bread scraps and making cutlery that can be savored together with the food. Meanwhile, another team created a real-time, non-invasive, and easily accessible technology to monitor athletes’ stress and muscle fatigue level to keep them from possible injuries induced by overtraining.  All three winning teams have been working with their industrial partners on commercializing the products.