The recipients of the 14th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize were announced today (30 May), the sixth National Science and Technology Practitioners’ Day, at the 16th General Meeting of Members of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). The prize is regarded as the ‘highest award in the field of engineering in China’. University of Macau (UM) Rector Yonghua Song made the list for his outstanding contributions to the field of power system operation and control. He is the only scholar of science and technology from Macao to receive the award this year.
The Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Prize is administered by the CAE and is awarded every two years to honour Chinese engineering experts who have made significant contributions to and outstanding achievements in the fields of engineering technology and engineering management. The prize is regarded by the industry as the ‘highest award in the field of engineering in China’ and has greatly encouraged Chinese engineers and scientists to engage in the research, development, and application of engineering technology. A total of 340 candidates were nominated this year, and 40 awardees were selected after a rigorous evaluation process by nine academic departments of the CAE and the judging committee for candidates from Hong Kong, Macao, and Taiwan.
Prof Song has long been engaged in research studies in the field of power system analysis and control, and has made creative achievements of international leading standards in large-scale projects of new energy consumption and safe operation of the power system. He broke away from the traditional framework of power system regulation where the regulation of power generation follows the change of load. On the new path of exploring the flexible load regulation ability to follow the changes of power generation, he has developed flexible and in-depth regulation technology for regulations systems of industrial centralised load and decentralised load, with high proportion of new energy on the demand side. The research results have been applied in a number of large-scale projects. Prof Song also led the establishment of UM’s State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City, which provides substantial support for low-carbon smart technological innovation in the energy sector in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. He is also recipient of a second prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award, four provincial and ministerial first awards, and the prize for Scientific and Technological Progress from the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation.
適逢第6個“全國科技工作者日”，“第14屆光華工程科技獎”獲獎名單今（30）日於中國工程院第16次院士大會上公佈。澳門大學校長宋永華榮獲光華工程科技獎，以表彰他在電力系統運行與控制領域做出的傑出貢獻，成為今屆澳門地區唯一獲此殊榮的科技工作者。
光華工程科技獎由中國工程院主管，每兩年評選一次，用以表彰在工程科學技術及工程管理領域做出重要貢獻及取得傑出成就的華人工程科技專家，被業界視爲“中國工程界最高獎項”，極大地激勵了中國工程師、科學家從事工程科技研究、發展、應用的積極性和創造性。今屆光華工程科技獎，全國共推薦了340名候選人，經中國工程院9個學部及港澳台地區評審委員會的嚴格評審，産生了40名獲獎人。
宋永華教授長期從事電力系統分析與控制研究，在大規模新能源消納、電力系統安全運行等方面做出了具有國際領先水準的系統性、創造性的成就。他突破發電調節跟隨負荷變化的電力系統調控傳統框架，在挖掘靈活負荷調節能力跟隨發電變化的新路徑上，研發了工業集中負荷的靈活深度調控技術和含高比例新能源的需求側分散式負荷調控系統，獲規模化工程應用。領銜組建澳門大學智慧城市物聯網國家重點實驗室，為粵港澳大灣區低碳智慧能源科技創新提供重要支撐。獲國家科技進步二等獎一項、省部級一等獎四項及何梁何利科學與技術進步獎。
宋永華獲第14屆光華工程科技獎
Yonghua Song receives the 14th Guanghua Engineering
Science and Technology Prize