Report The 39th Electrical Division Annual Symposium was successfully held on 21 October 2021. It was the most challenging event insofar among those organized by the Division, as it was the first ever conducted in hybrid mode - as a physical and a virtual one, bringing local speakers and those at other corners of the world to the same time zone, and with participants attending on-site and online. Much prior coordination work and real-time interfacing effort were made to ensure seamless flow, and we did it.
The main theme was “Powering the New Normals”, focusing on new development and applications of electrical engineering to match with the current trends and new normal. Papers on smart grid and cyber security, digitalization of industrial IoT, smart building technologies, high voltage battery energy storage system, critical power supply for healthcare, dynamic UPS, condition monitoring of power grid, new edition of Code of Practice on electrical safety, smart operation & maintenance of MTR rolling stock, and automatic parking systems were presented. Speakers from local, the Mainland and overseas presented their papers and took part in discussion periods either physically or via the net, and up to 350 participants attended.
The Symposium was kicked off by HKIE Past President, Ir Professor C.C. Chan, by giving a keynote speech, followed by an opening speech from Immediate Past President, Ir Professor P.L. Yuen. Ten technical papers by speakers from public and private sectors, academic institution, power utilities and mass transit were well received by audience. We were honored to have Ir Eric Pang, JP, Director, Electrical & Mechanical Services Department, concluding the Symposium that marked it a great success.
The Division would like to express our greatest gratitude to all persons and parties, including authors and speakers, sponsors, the working team and liaison Committee members on their contributions, and the support from participants. Their concerted efforts, coupled with the application of advanced technology, enabled us to resolve all technical issues to make our Symposium this year another success. We believe that this hybrid mode arrangement may become a new normal of our similar events in the near future.
Electrical Division Symposium 2021 – Group Photo