FST presents the 2021/2022 “Teaching Excellence Award” and “Research Excellence Award”
澳大科技學院今頒發年度「優秀教學獎」及「卓越研究獎」

The Faculty of Science and Technology (FST) of the University of Macau (UM) presents the 2021/2022 “Teaching Excellence Award” and “Research Excellence Award” to 4 professors today (23 March). After the selection by FST management committee, the “Teaching Excellence Award” were presented to Prof Hu Guanghui, Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Prof Chi Chiu Lam, Angus, Associate Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The “Research Excellence Awards” were presented to Prof Zhou Wanhuan, Hannah, Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and Prof Wong Fai, Derek, Associate Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Science. The award aims to commend these professors for their constantly improvement in teaching and perseverance and innovation in research. They successfully enhance the quality of teaching and research of UM, as well as setting up a role model for other academic staff and students.

Prof Hu Guanghui has been teaching in UM since 2018. He has made a lot of contributions to innovative teaching. He is committed to build an online learning platform for students so that they are allowed to conduct coding exercises such as numerical analysis at anytime anywhere. During the class, he introduced interesting historical stories, and constantly stimulated students’ desire and fun of exploration and learning, which was widely praised by students. He also encouraged students to use numerous electronic resources to enrich their extra-curricular knowledge, so as to cultivate their self-learning ability. He makes important contributions to the promotion of Mathematics.

Prof Chi Chiu Lam has been teaching in UM for many years. He has rich teaching experiences and teaches a variety of disciplines, such as drafting in civil engineering, material strength and steel structure design. As an alumnus of UM, Prof. Lam aims to carry on the past heritage and open up the future by building up correct engineering awareness and professional judgment for the new generation. He provides guidance and visits construction sites with students after class. Over the years, he has cultivated many engineering elites for Macau.

Prof Zhou Wanhuan’s research interest is about prevention and control of geotechnical engineering disasters. Her research projects such as urban rail transit safety monitoring technology, tunnel excavation technology and the integrated application of intelligent operation and maintenance technology for the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, have been awarded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. Funded by NSFC, MOST and FDCT. In the past 2 years, a total of 18 Category A articles have been published in prestigious journals and academic conferences in the field of geotechnical engineering. The total number of citations in Web of Science has reached more than 2,000, and the h-index is 30. In addition, Prof Zhou is the vice chairman of the Macao Geotechnical Engineering Association and the director of several geotechnical engineering academic associations. She is the associate editor and member of the editorial board of many international journals such as International Journal of Geomechanics and Canadian Geotechnical Journal. She was selected as the awardee of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong and Macau) in 2020. Her works have successfully brought broader influence and international reputation to UM and the Faculty.

Prof Wong Fai’s research interest is machine translation. In the past, research and resources on Chinese-Portuguese machine translation were seriously inadequate, and many core technologies had to be developed by himself. He and his team released the “Online Chinese-Portuguese Computer-Aided Translation platform”. (UM-CAT) has successfully transformed knowledge into products, providing more professional and accurate full-text intelligent translation for Chinese-Portuguese-English translation, and the platform was adopted by Macau government, local enterprises and students. As the first scholar in the field of machine translation in Macau, Prof Wong was honored with the first Macau Science and Technology Award Technology Progress Award for his remarkable achievements in promoting the research of machine translation.

FST presents the “Excellent Teaching Award” and the “Research Excellence Award” as a recognition to academic staff in making unremitting efforts in teaching and research. It reflects the pursuit of the qualities of teaching and research of FST, as well as the aims of stimulating talent development, scientific progress and local competitiveness of the university.

澳門大學科技學院今 (3月23日) 頒發2021/2022學年年度「優秀教學獎」及「卓越研究獎」予四位教授。經過學院相關管理委員會的遴選，「優秀教學獎」由數學系副教授胡光輝及土木及環境工程系副教授林智超奪得，而「卓越研究獎」則由土木及環境工程系教授周萬歡及電腦及資訊科學系副教授黃輝獲得。獎項旨在表揚他們以身作則、至臻完美的教學以及在科研上鍥而不捨的精神，為澳大及科技學院提升教學科研水平，同時為師生們樹立良好榜樣。

數學系副教授胡光輝自2018年在澳大任教，在創新教學上貢獻良多，他致力為學生構建線上學習平台，令學生可在任何時段進行數值分析等編碼練習。教學上他介紹歷史知識相關的有趣故事，不斷激發學生求知欲及探索的樂趣，廣受學生好評。他同時鼓勵學生運用眾多電子資源，充實他們的課外知識，以此培養自學能力，為澳大及數學教育推廣作出重要貢獻。

土木及環境工程系副教授林智超在澳大任教多年，擁有豐富的教學經驗並教授多門學科，如土木工程製圖、材料強度和鋼結構設計等。作為澳大的校友，林教授希望能承前啟後，薪火相傳，為新一代的學子建立正確的工程意識及專業的判斷力。課堂上全力以赴，課後也積極指導學生的研究，林教授耐心地與學生交流並與他們到工地實地考察，多年來培育不少工程界精英，貢獻良多。

土木及環境工程系教授周萬歡的研究方向是岩土工程災害防治，多個研究項目如城市軌道交通安全監測技術、隧道開挖技術及港珠澳大橋智能化運維技術集成應用等皆獲國家自然科學基金、國家科技部及澳門科學技術發展基金資助。過去2年共有18篇A類文章獲發表於岩土工程領域著名期刊及學術會議上。在Web of Science總引用次數達2,000多次，h-index 為30；周教授兼任澳門岩土工程協會副理事長及多個岩土工程學術協會理事。擔任 International Journal of Geomechanics, Canadian Geotechnical Journal 等多個國際期刊副主編及編委會成員。 2020年入選獲批國家自然科學基金優秀青年科學基金項目（港澳），在學術上精益求精，成功為澳大及科技學院帶來更深的影響力及國際聲譽。

電腦及資訊科學系副教授黃輝的研究方向是機器翻譯，過去中葡機器翻譯的研究及資源嚴重匱乏，很多核心技術都需要由自己親自研發，他與團隊發佈的「在線中葡英輔助翻譯平台」（UM-CAT）已成功將知識轉化成產品，為中葡英雙語及三語互譯提供更專業、準確性更高的全文智能翻譯，受政府部門、企業及學生歡迎。作為澳門機器翻譯研究的第一人，黃教授過去曾獲首屆澳門科技獎技術進步獎，成績斐然，在推動機器翻譯的產業上功不可沒。

科技學院頒發「優秀教學獎」及「卓越研究獎」以表彰教職員在教學及研究上堅持不懈的努力。反映學院對教學及科研質量的重視及追求，期望借此激勵更多高質量的教學和研究的誕生，繼續推動大學的教學研究質量水平。