To be announced.

Symposium on Hydro-environment Research for Smart Cities during December 12-14, 2017

Through fundamental and applied research, water engineering in the 21st century is evolving to meet the increasing need for efficiency, robustness, and reliability. It will transform large-scale 20th century urban water systems into “smart” monitored and self-diagnosing sustainable mega-infrastructure systems that are more efficient, safer, more resistant to failures and increasingly sustainable. Talks at this symposium delivered by world renowned experts in hydro-environment research and practice focused on topics and themes relevant to smart cities such as: i) climate change impacts; ii) environmental hydraulics; iii) smart urban water supply system infrastructure; iv) eco-hydraulics and eco-hydrology; and v) water quality.

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 knowledge 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.

(Left) Group photo of the Inaugural workshop; (right) Lecture by Prof. Vardy A, our advisory board member.

(Left) Site visit to the Happy Valley Underground Stormwater Storage Scheme; (right) Visit of the advisory board member to the field test bed in Ngau Tau Kok

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.

Group photo after the lecture series by Prof. Yang TC

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

The workshop focuses on the use of acoustic waves as a new diagnostic paradigm of urban water systems that will enable timely detection of UWS system defects and proactive mitigation measures, thus ensuring the proper functioning of critical water infrastructures in intelligent cities of the future. The speakers include a leader of the water supply department (WSD) of the Hong Kong SAR and renowned academics in acoustic communication in water, hydraulics of urban water systems, wireless communication, robots for water applications and sensor technology. This workshop is an integral part of our Theme-Based Proposal entitled “Smart Urban Water Supply Systems.”

Presentation powerpoints in pdf format:

• Smart Urban Water Supply Systems (Smart UWSS) : Prof MS Ghidaoui, HKUST
• The Experimental Facility for Wave-based Defect Detection at University of Perugia, Italy : Prof B Brunone, University of Perugia, Italy
• Waves as Defect Detection – The Italy Experience : Prof S Meniconi, University of Perugia,Italy
• Fluid transients and Fluid-structure Interaction – Issues of Resonance and Noise : Prof AS Tijsseling, Department of Mathematics and Computing Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
• Frequency versus Time Domain Methods for Defect Detection : Prof HF Duan, The Hong Kong PolyU
• Underwater Acoustic Communication : Prof YR Zheng, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA
• Digital Communications – Introduction to Key Concepts and their Relations to Acoustic Water Column Channels : Prof RD Murch& V Lau, HKUST
• Modern Signal Processing Methods for Sequence Design : Prof DP Palomar, ECE, HKUST
• Low Power Sensors for Urban Water System Applications : Prof A Bermak, HKUST
• A Probabilistic Framework for solving Inverse Problems : Prof L Katafygiotis, HKUST
• Mathematical Challenges in Using Waves as Defect Detection : Prof J Zou, CUHK
• Real-time Data Acquisition for Urban Water Systems : Prof JHW Lee, HKUST
• Role of High Frequency Waves in Acoustic Imaging of UWSS : Mr M Louati, HKUST

Some photos in the Workshop on “Smart Urban Water Systems – defect localization and acoustic communication in water”