Transdisciplinary Education in the Red Bird MPhil Program

  1. Don’t set boundaries

  2. Goal:

    Achieve : Function Hub

    Promte : Information Hub

  3. Flux

    Cross-Disciplinary Clusters

RBM Program

Red Bird MPhil Base : 4 hubs, 6 skills development

Core: Future Leaders in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

AI era: not knowledge, (how to teach students in ai era)

Skill development

But not to skip knowledge development

Overall Process of Student-Centered PBL

  • Phase 1 (6 months)

    Project Establishment : to free of your mind

    Not professors to release task

    You can talk to a professor, just knock his door

  • Phase 2 (18 months)

    A group , from different areas

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Go to company to do some projects (don’t do fake things)

So there is different trips to different company.

3 Types of professors:

  • Project Supervisor (full time teaching) : Design Thinking So Important

    • Design Thinking has 3 modules

  • Academic Supervisor : teach the domain knowledge

  • Course Supervisor

  • Industry Advisor : expert in the industry

    A guidline to invite experts

    42 experts

    Provide field trip

    Match your project really address to a real world problem

You need to design, to establish a real-world project

Get a PQA (domain change) , declare which class

Don’t look at the result, but the entire process(how do you develop your skills). Don’t care about whether is fail

Don’t a assesment

Every 2 weeks, work with a professors. Get the feedback

Make sure your skills can really development

An example :

Project Title : Transforming the Logistics Box Ecosystem

5 Areas :

  1. Robotis system
  2. Carbon Footprint
  3. MCA Thust
  4. FTEC
  5. Micro electronics

Faculty Support

Academic Supervisor

Project Supervisor

Industry Advisor

Admission Philosophy and Strategy

Students should be selected based on holistic evaluation of capabiities, instead of only GPA or University ranking

  • Application - Review (6 - 7 rounds / yr)

    On site interview

  • Red Bird Challenge Camp (3 Rounds / yr)

    students with different talents

  • Recommendation - Review

    Applicants recommended by institutions endorsed by HKUST(GZ)

  • Nomination-Admission

    Applicants nominated by Friend University

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Process of REd Bird Challenge Camp

  • Application & Selection : based on Holistic Abilities (to demonstrate your talent)
    • Art Works, Entrepreneurship, Industry Design
  • 10 day Challenge Camp
    • Carry out your project
    • TA to monitor, professor to record your milestone
  • Committee

Very competitive

Internationalization

PIE (Program for International Exposure)

We should go to other country

  • Experience : Project Initiation, Pollinate/Annov8 Field Trip, NTU Visting, CEO Fireside Talk, Project Field Trip, Final Project Presentation

    Observe the problem and how address

  • Output

Rise Week CAMP (RBM International Student Experience)

Major Activities:

  • Orientation & Campus Immersion
  • PBL & Design Thinking Experience
  • Industry & Innovation Exposure

Strategies and Features of Career Development

Three Integrated Efforts:

  • Career Development Education
  • Career Competence Enhancement
  • Career Placement Events

Student Gradation Placement

7% / 11% : Entrepreneur ship

The Bridge Program : Entreprenueurship Education

RBMS

Six workshops

Lab of Tuture Technology(LFT)