The presentation of the President's Award was made at the 33rd Annual Dinner. In recognition of the dedicated and valuable service of the member of any class who has served the Institution with distinctive achievements, the President's Award has been set up by the Institution. This year, Ir Dr Cheng Hon-kwan receives the honour of the President's Award.
Ir Dr Cheng Hon-kwan, the President of the Institution for the Session 1978/1979, our Honorary Fellow and the HKIE Gold Medallist in 2005 has devoted himself to engineering profession and the Institution. His professional achievements, service to the profession and the community were widely recognised, including his honours, OBE and GBS.
Ir Dr Cheng's contribution to the Institution is remarkable. Whilst serving in the Council, he has actively participated in the planned transformation of the Engineering Society of Hong Kong into the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers. The successful transformation in 1975 brought the Institution to a new height and made her the only engineering professional body that was incorporated by law in Hong Kong. Moreover, Ir Dr Cheng also represented the Institution on various external committees and working parties in late 1970s and early 1980s, for example, Review of Buildings Ordinance and Regulations Committee, Buildings Ordinance Authorised Persons' and Registered Engineers Registration Committee, Building Development Advisory Committee, University Engineering Advisory Committee of the University of Hong Kong, etc.
In early 1990s, under the leadership of Ir Dr Cheng, the Institution has successfully set up its own Accreditation Board, to take over from foreign agencies the responsibility for accrediting the engineering courses offered by the universities in Hong Kong. He was the first Chairman of the Accreditation Board. The setting up of the Accreditation Board provided a solid ground for the Institution to become one of the full signatories of the Washington Accord later. Ir Dr Cheng also attended to the prerequisite formalities and signed the agreement on behalf of the Institution in 1995, as a new, full signatory at the conference held in Ottawa, Canada. Since then, the Institution has been placed on the world map.
In view of his immerse contributions and achievements, Ir Dr Cheng Hon-kwan was conferred the President's Award 2008.
The President's Award 2006 - Ir Prof Ko Jan-ming |
 The presentation of the President's Award was made at the 31st
Annual Dinner. The Award was launched in 1994 in recognition of the dedicated
and valuable service of the member of any class who has served the
Institution with distinctive achievements. This year, Ir Prof Ko
Jan-ming receives the honour of the President's Award.
As the Vice President for Research Development of the Hong Kong
Polytechnic University, Ir Prof Ko has devoted his dedicated effort
to the tertiary education in general and engineering education
in particular in the past three decades. He is also the Chair
Professor of Structural Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic
University.
Ir Prof Ko is internationally recognised in the research area
of Structural Health Monitoring. Currently being the Chairman
of the Accreditation Board, Ir Prof Ko has served the Institution
in many capacities and has sigificiant contributions to the HKIE.
He was the Chairman of Structural Division in the Session 1997/1998,
and Chairman of Organising Committee of several major conferences.
He was the Chairman of the Structural Discipline Advisory Panel
from 2000 to 2001 and of the Education and Examination Committee
from 1996 to 2001. He has represented the HKIE in FEISEAP on the
Engineering Education and Training Committee.
Ir Prof Ko has been actively serving the local community. He
is a Governing Council Member of Construction Industry Institute
(Hong Kong) and a Council Member of the Hong Kong Institution
of Science. He was the President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical
and Applied Mechanics and the President of the Hong Kong Association
for the Advancement of Science and Technology.
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