Haking Wong

This centre provides advanced IoT, 5G equipment and facilities to advocate Smart City Blueprint in HK. Students can use the hardware and software provided for analyzing data received by smart sensors in their IoT projects.

This centre also provides IoT Worldskills Training Kit which is designed for teaching and learning for the IoT Technology Trade of WorldSkills (tentative). The Kit consists of sensors, wireless communication protocols and mobile applications connecting things together and displaying values on dashboard. Through the Internet, students are able to read and write signals to various input and output electrical parts. This training kit also serves one elective module in the Higher Diploma in Computer and Electronic Engineering.

This zone provides different types of hardware and software for students’ use to complete their AR and VR projects, such as Unity, Adobe, HTC Vive Pro Eye, Microsoft Hololens 2 etc

This studio is a mockup of a theatre stage lighting system. Students can learn the stage lighting design and acquire the skills of controlling the stage lighting.

Nowadays, the stage lighting system of town halls and theaters is maintained and repaired by electrical engineers. Through practice in this Creative Lighting Studio, students can learn more useful knowledge and skills about stage lighting system.

This laboratory is set up for learning the knowledge and theories related to the Electrical Drives System. In Electrical Engineering, it is very common to have an electrical drives system, e.g., controlling the motor rotation direction and speed is one of the functions of electrical drives.

Through running these motors, students can learn the characteristics and performances of different types of motors. Students can also use measuring instruments on the Electrical Drive Circuits to obtain data for further analysis.

One of the most important elements in learning electrical and electronic engineering is to understand the electrical principles and use of electronic instrumentation. To achieve these objectives, this laboratory provides sufficient hardware and software to the students to explore the knowledge of electrical and electronic engineering.

In this laboratory, students will set up simple and safe analogue and digital circuits to understand the electrical and electronic engineering theories in different conditions, and have opportunities to explore some of the most common types of measuring instruments.

This lab is used to study the basic elements and theories which are engineering related. Through practices, students can understand and acquire more knowledge about electrical and mechanical engineering. There are learning kits for understanding some mechanical engineering theories, such as studying the characteristics of pulley system and investigating the relationship between weight and the extension of the hanging spring.

The lab has several sets of academic kits on renewable energy which can enhance students’ understanding on green power and their interests in engineering.

The energy sector has a high demand for people conversant with high voltage power engineering expertise. In the past, only few utility companies could provide their staff with a full-range on-the-job training in the field. Hence, the High Voltage Training Centre has been established to provide trade practitioners with various related programmes, ranging from Diploma up to Professional Diploma (PD)/ Professional Certificate (PC), for practical training in high-voltage engineering.

Those who have completed the PD/PC programmes and fulfilled related requirements are eligible to apply for the Grade H Registered Electrical Worker qualification for serving in the high voltage engineering industry. The training centre is equipped with six 11 kV switchboards of different technologies and power transformers to form two ring circuits interconnected with the remote control and monitoring systems that provide students with real learning environment for practising high voltage engineering works, e.g., operation, testing & commissioning, fault diagnosis, etc. in accordance with the safety rules.

The Smart Grid Operation Centre within the Lab is equipped with a real-time smart grid simulation and testing system that mirrors real-life community power supply and analyses the data. Students will learn how smart grids operate and explore solutions for enhancing energy efficiency. The centre is also stocked with equipment, such as smart meters and photovoltaic panels that can be looped into the simulator. For example, using the simulation and positioning system, students will be able to test how the solar energy generated by photovoltaic panels can be best integrated into the smart grid system. Through these wide-ranging installations and systems, students will learn to apply the latest industry technologies. This will enrich their knowledge of smart grids and relevant new technologies, thereby raising their employability and helping to promote a smart development ofclean energy.

The Low-voltage Training Workshop is equipped with low-voltage training switchboards, motor testing benches, and practising walls for the installation of electrical services. The workshop can provide extensive practical training to the pre-employment students and other adult-learners in a real working environment for practising the works of inspection, operations, trouble-shooting, maintenance, testing and commissioning on the low-voltage switchboards, and control of circuit boards in compliance with the prevailing industrial safety standards, code of practice and government regulations. In Hong Kong, the workshop is one of the training sites, which is able to offer the EMSD’s approved programmes in low-voltage electrical engineering for meeting the requirements of registration as Registered Electrical Worker (REW) of Grades “A” or “B” under the Electricity (Registration) Regulations.

The area outside the Waterfront Annex is the Keystone Cable Detection Testing Center which has installed underground more than 40 cables, one Towngas pipe and one water pipe. Students can learn to locate these underground cables and pipes by using some testing instruments.

Nowadays in Hong Kong, the EMSD has accredited three underground cable detection courses and one of these courses is delivered at this training center. Apart from teaching full time students the skills of underground cable detection, IVE (HW) also organizes short courses on underground cable detection, which are open to the public.