Events and Activities

Upcoming events

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Past events

Smart UWSS Symposium, June 21, 2017

Smart UWSS symposium has been held successfully in Lecture Theatre (LT)-F at HKUST on 21 June 2017. The symposium provides an oppotunity for team members having different background to share their knowledge, current progress and future plans of this project. The pdf of the presentation powerpoint can be downloaded here.

Inaugural Workshop for Smart Urban Water Supply Systems (Smart UWSS) during August 14-22, 2016

The inaugural workshop for the Smart UWSS project has been held successfully in the IAS building at HKUST during 14-22 August 2016. A series of professional meetings and technical activities have been arranged and conducted for this workshop, where the team members and advisory board experts (local and international) have shared their knowledges and experiences on the current progress and future plans of this project. Meanwhile, the research students as well as young scientists and engineers in the fields of water science and acoustic communication in Hong Kong were invited to attend for free the activities of this workshop.

A summary of the main contents and activities of this workshop is as follows:

(1) Four introductory lectures on Duct Acoustics (in total 12 hours) were given by Prof. SW Rienstra, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.

(2) Four seminars related to this project were given by the invited advisory board members:

(a) Prof. A Vardy, the University of Dundee, Scotland;

(b) Prof. V Nikora, the University of Aberdeen, UK;

(d) Prof. P Goodwin, President of IAHR, the University of Idaho, USA.

(Left) Lecture “Sonic booms from Railway tunnels”, Prof. A Vardy, on 17 Aug 2016; (Right) Lecture "Open channel turbulence: recent advances and implications for river engineering and stream ecology" Prof. V Nikora, on 18 Aug 2016.

Lecture Prof Garcia Lecture Prof Goodwin

(Left) Lecture “Coupling of urban hydrology, tunnels, and Chicago waterways models”, Prof. MH Garcia, on 20 Aug 2016;(Right) Lecture “Balancing Water Supply Reliability and Ecosystem Restoration: example of the San Francisco Bay–Delta in California, USA”, Prof. P Goodwin, on 22 Aug 2016.

(3) Current progress and achievements of the project were reported and discussed by the team members (Prof. MS Ghidaoui; Prof. JHW Lee; Dr. D. McInnis; Prof. B Brunone and Dr. S Meniconi; Prof. RD Murch). Meanwhile, a PhD Thesis work was presented by Mr. M Louati on high frequency waves in water filled pipes.

Report Prof Murch

Progress report on “Task 3: progress, challenges and plans for next year”, Prof. RD Murch, on 18 Aug 2016

(4) Professional meetings were held between the project team, advisory board members and the representatives from WSD, HKSAR to discuss on the missions and future plans of this project.

Meeting with WSD representatives on the morning of 19 Aug 2016

(5) Two technical visits were arranged to the large-scale drainage project in Hong Kong and the planned field test site of this project.

Field visit to the project “Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme” on 19 Aug 2016.

WSD training site Field test site

(Left) Water Supplied Department (WSD) leakage detection training facility under construction at Beacon Hill, visited on 19 Aug 2016; (Right) The measurement chamber in Ngau Tau Kok DMA, visited on 19 Aug 2016.

Lectures on underwater acoustics by Prof. Yang TC

One of our team member, Prof. Yang TC, has given a series of lectures on underwater acoustics in 16-24 May, 2016. The invaluable knowledge from Prof. Yang can guide the experiments on high frequency waves in HKUST.

Workshop on “Smart Urban Water Systems – defect localization and acoustic communication in water”, 12 Feb 2015, organised by Prof MS Ghidaoui and Prof R Murch