Based on interviews with industry professionals and recruitment specialists, this course helps you create a compelling CV / résumé that will get your foot in the door. Be the last they have to read - Be the first they want to call!
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:
Once you have successfully grasped the foundation of interview success by completing our English@Work: Basic Job Interview Skills course, how you persuade others to believe that you are as good as you say you are is now the challenge. Our instructors have had a 100% success rate in getting interviews and landing a job, and we hope to share that experience with you.
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:
prepare precise and persuasive answers to challenging questions
use verbal and non-verbal skills to impress the interviewers
perform professionally during and after interviews
Based on advice from accomplished professionals in the business, HR and academic field, we have created a course that helps you build a solid foundation to succeed in job interviews and get that ultimate call. This course will change the way you prepare for and perform in job interviews.
By the end of this course, you will have learned how to:
achieve interview success in six steps
find out how YOU can be an independent learner and become a life-long learner
stand out from the crowd using four strategies
avoid common mistakes
highlight soft and hard skills using appropriate vocabulary and expressions
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University organized a seminar series focused on green deck development, specifically designed for FCE undergraduate students. The series offers opportunities to learn about the development of green decks, relevant research, and gain exposure to the practical aspects of the industry. This PDF contains the presentation material from Dr. Mark Hsu, covering the cost-benefit analysis of green deck development.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University hosted a seminar series focusing on green deck development, specifically designed for FCE undergraduate students. The series offers opportunities to learn about the development of green decks, relevant research, and gain exposure to the practical aspects of the industry. This PDF contains the presentation material from Prof. Eric Chui and Dr. William Chan, covering the survey on public support for the Green Deck Project.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University organized a seminar series focused on the development of green decks. Specifically designed for FCE undergraduate students, the series offers a chance to delve into the research and practical aspects of the industry. This PDF contains the presentation material from Prof. Alex LUI, covering the project's inception and the introduction of the development process in the building industry.
The course aims to enable students to master the sounds of Cantonese and conduct basic conservations in Cantonese. It is suitable for learners of the following 3 categories:
(1) People from Hong Kong who may be expatriates, international students, ethnic minorities;
(2) People from the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) who may be expatriates;
(3) People from all over the world who may be heritage speakers of Cantonese, plan to study/work in Hong Kong/ the GBA, tourists… etc.
In fact, anyone who is interested in learning Cantonese are welcomed to join this course!
OER4AI features a collection of public resources on AI, with categorization of different AI topics. With this OER portal, teachers can use its teaching materials, while students can access it and attempt its exercises. We aim at: • Providing materials for students to gain hands-on experience; • Collecting the public resources on AI; • Giving teachers access to this website through PolyU OER Portal.
This CEO Report is about tapping into the psychological thought-processes of how great problem-solvers see, interpret and makes sense of being stuck with complexity and what they do (or fail to do) to progress. To uncover these underlying thinking patterns we administered a rigorous and systematic interview approach from clinical psychology called, Repertory Grid Technique (RGT). Our sample consists of fifty (50) seasoned CEOs /Executives spanning a wide range of industry sectors. Seven (7) inherent latent themes emerged from our analysis as to what are the core drivers (habits of mind) that help executives open up the alternatives whenever they find themselves stuck with complexity.
This case study analyzes how Hotel Maurice France succeeded in the competitive luxury hotel market by partnering with the high-end skincare brand Valmont to provide personalized services. At the same time, the case also highlights the trend of expansion strategies and strong alliances in the luxury hotel industry.
This case study discusses how the hotel practice internal marketing strategies, which collaborated with Greentown Group to customize exclusive mooncake gift boxes and promote them to related high-end customers of Greentown. It successfully achieved the mooncake sales target and increased the hotel's revenue.
This case study analyzes how Disney Cruise leveraged its advantages and innovative marketing strategies to release creative videos that attracted widespread attention. As a result, Disney Cruise Line achieved a good performance with $1.6 billion in revenue and $400 million in net profit in the 2019.
This case study discusses how Atour Light Hotel practiced brand concepts, YOL, new retail thinking frameworks, and social hotspots for marketing, successfully increasing the overall revenue of the hotel bar, opening up sales for mojito drinks, and also driving sales of other alcoholic beverages.
This case study discusses how Xi Bei Oat Noodle Village attracted many consumers by innovating their specialty products and turning Valentine's Day into their exclusive holiday, successfully creating a connection between the brand and consumers.
This case study discusses how Airbnb showcased local recommendations from its community and hosts through a 48-hour challenge to create the most suitable accommodation and experience routes for young travelers. The campaign leveraged the personalized travel needs of Generation Z and laid the foundation for Airbnb's market leadership.
This case study discusses how Fantawild Theme Park utilized the short videos and fan effects of Tik Tok and successfully created a phenomenon-level event by implementing customized marketing, multi-channel entry, and influencer interaction strategies, thereby increasing its market share in the industry.
This case study discusses how Tonglu City successfully converted the popularity of a TV program into actual economic benefits while promoting the development of the local homestay industry and rural tourism.
This case study discusses how Huang Bao Che seized the critical opportunity of outbound tourism by creating innovative videos that established emotional connections with potential customers and ultimately led to order conversions. It highlights the importance of personalized services, creative videos, and emotional links in marketing strategies.
This case study discusses the "Marriott Bonvoy" loyalty program, which offers members unique travel experiences. It has become the world's most famous hotel loyalty program, with over 133 million members, and has transitioned from a loyalty program focused on enhancing member loyalty to a travel platform.
This case discusses the Westin Pazhou Hotel's launch of a diamond card promotion for unlimited buffet dining throughout the year at the Canton Fair, along with Alibaba KOLs promoting it on multiple online platforms. They also developed a facial recognition system, which generated over 2 million in revenue and vital market feedback, opening up new ideas for promoting hotel industry catering products.
This case study discusses how Hyatt on Bund successfully marketed traditional Austrian culture by hosting "The BALL," attracting high-end consumers and participation from various consulates and improving the hotel's brand image and banquet sales. At the same time, the hotel also faces the challenge of maintaining the event's innovation and increasing profits.
This case study discusses how Wanda Realm Jinhua successfully increased the restaurant's popularity and revenue by upgrading the original Chinese restaurant to a Western-style buffet restaurant, transforming the dishes and optimizing the production process, and becoming a long-term promotion project for Wanda Group's F & B department.
This case study discusses how Li Ziqi's brand successfully built a personal brand and transformed from short video content production to e-commerce marketing by choosing the direction of ancient-style food production and Chinese traditional craftsmanship for personalized products, precisely targeted marketing, and signing with MCN agencies. Li Ziqi has become an Eastern food and lifestyle expert and a promoter of traditional culture.
This case discusses the Overseas Chinese Town Holdings Company (OCT) Cultural Tourism Festival, which aims to integrate culture and tourism. Through marketing strategies such as resource integration across regions and industries and employee participation in the promotion, the festival launches discounted products and moves and have achieved good results. At the same time, it also needs to explore local culture and continuously promote cultural inheritance through tourism.
This case study discusses how Hilton Hotels Group partnered with Xiamen Marathon by organizing the Hilton Running Team and providing runner packages to offer participants a comprehensive race-related experience, which increased Hilton's guest loyalty and the visibility of its Honors points auction platform.
This case study discusses how Xiang Ming Hotel Huangshan successfully reduced sales pressure and increased brand influence by attracting major clients through a nostalgic-themed event launched during Christmas.
This case study discusses how the Palace Museum successfully integrated traditional culture into contemporary craft production through creative cultural product design, public relations, and cross-border marketing strategies, thereby enhancing its products' artistic value and influence and forming a good reputation.
This case study discusses how JW Marriott Hotel Shenzhen attracted more high-quality customers to purchase gym memberships through integrated marketing communication, resulting in a total revenue of approximately 120,000 RMB, accounting for 32% of the total income of the fitness center that year.
This case discusses how the InterContinental One Thousand Island Lake Resort transformed unused office space into a children's playground using the popular IP character "Ali," attracting attention from families and self-driving tourists within the province and generating over 5 million in revenue, surpassing the same period last year by 30%. This successful promotion has effectively enhanced the hotel's brand image and income.
This study explained how it combined RV travel and camping, popular overseas, to create a brand that focuses on RVs' unique and personalized experience. It also analyzes how to create a new concept of RV travel and its financial benefits.
This study discusses a new concept of co-branding between a hotel and a tea brand, which has given both parties a unique understanding of IP cooperation, providing differentiated and personalized services to customers.
This study discusses a new concept of afternoon tea takeaway with a stylish box design - a calendar box and a Christmas bear developed by Conrad Hotels and its revenue outcomes.
This study analyzes how Shangri-La Hotel worked on the live-streaming room through platform promotion, increased live-streaming popularity, and order conversion rate.
This study discussed a new hotel package, "Study+vocation," a marketing program of Shanghai Pudong Mandarin Oriental Hotel during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. It takes the stress out of families with working parents and provides a comfortable and reliable learning environment.
This study discussed a new hotel package, "Study+vocation," a marketing program of Shanghai Pudong Mandarin Oriental Hotel during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. It takes the stress out of families with working parents and provides a comfortable and reliable learning environment.
This study analyzes how Disney designed a series of exciting new programs and themed offerings during the CO-VID 19 epidemic. As a result, more visitors were willing to pay for the experience, and it achieved Disney's goal of increasing revenue.
This study discussed Marriott BONVOY Wedding marketing progress and explained how to raise potential clients' enthusiasm on Chinese Valentine's Day. By providing one-stop wedding services, Marriott successfully inspires customers to influence, recommend and develop other users around them, thus better breaking through the market barriers.
Keep and Westin co-brands create a healthy lifestyle scenario for business travelers. Integrating the brand, industry, and user levels better serves and influences high-end consumers, passes on freedom of movement and self-discipline to businesses and travelers, and brings a new brand image to both parties.
By offering family guest activities that blend the Rabbit King theme with the "Shangri-La Happy Growth Program," this study works on how Jinan Shangri-La hotel integrates local cultural emblems to give families a unique hotel stay.
This study focuses on tourism destination development. It takes the example of TikTok KOL and explains why local governments should consider and address how to promote tourism destinations' development further.
This study uses Want Want as an example to show how co-branding helps companies increase their reputations. Influenced by social media and online popularity, the internet provides an enormous and low-cost avenue for firms to communicate with their fans, stabilizing consumer groups and improving network popularity.
Using a technology-based business model, Macau Venetian cooperated with Ctrip's chairman, dressed, and previewed The Londoner Macau launch at Sands Macau Resort. This study of the method indicates that live streams could stimulate potential customers' interest and encourage them to attend.
This study takes Klook, a Hong Kong-based technological online travel company, as a successful example of how to use a Mobile-first strategy and Celebrity Charm Strategy to provide customers with a unique and comprehensive travel products and services platform.
From the perspective of the 7 Ps as the marketing strategy, this study indicates how 'LinaBell,' the new Disney Ip, benefited from the branding effect, which leads to significant attention from loyal customers before the sale.
The notion of expertise is integral to all forms of institutional and professional practice in many domains – in education, healthcare, social welfare, law, journalism, banking, information technology, marketing, translating and interpreting services etc. It is a concept addressed by scholars across many disciplines – cognitive science, sociology, anthropology, psychology, language/communication studies, among others. There are, however, enduring problems of definition, description and measurement of expertise. Some scholars draw attention to the ongoing ‘crisis in expertise’ and others pronounce the ‘death of expertise’ in contemporary society.
More humbly, I begin with a characterisation of professional expertise very broadly to include scientific, experiential, technological, organisational, legal, ethical and communicative knowledge. This then leads me to the notion of ‘distributed expertise’, which extends beyond the individual remit and the conventional lay-expert divide. For instance, in the healthcare domain, a significant development afforded by internet-based technology is the increased level of patients’ e-health literacy and, consequently, democratisation of expertise. This amounts not only to accessing health information digitally, but also the phenomenon of patients ‘doctoring’ themselves in ‘the now of its presence’, i.e., ‘expert patients’ becoming instrumental in self-diagnosis and even self-treatment.
Additionally, ‘distributed expertise’ is also constitutive of ‘expert systems’, e.g., diagnostic and interventionist technologies as well as decision aids mediated by algorithms and templates. This is what I refer to as the technologization of expertise. I suggest that there is overreliance on ‘expert systems’ by both experts and lay persons in everyday decision making. Access to and use of ‘expert systems’ in optimal ways inevitably necessitates a reconfiguration of the very conditions and consequences of professional expertise.
Event Date: 25/11/2022 Speaker: Prof. Srikant Sarangi (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities
DM Master is a gamification-based education Application. This is an interactive education tool to support you to learn more about Type 2 diabetes from a health professional perspective. The game has three levels: diagnosis of diabetes, its signs and symptoms, and common complications. You will also explore the goals and strategies of diabetes management, including healthy lifestyles and medications.
In this e-GAME environment, you will earn your virtual coins to enjoy digital shopping and exercises. The scoreboard shows your number of coins (your scores) and your ranking. Set a new score record and get your name on top of the ranking! You can also see the best rated food menu of the day in the ranking list. The DM Master Content is for informational and educational purposes only and is not a substitute for the professional judgment of a health care professional in diagnosing and treating patients.
Professor Yigong Shi will reflect on the challenges in global higher education, based on his 37 years of learning, scientific research, and teaching experience in academia. He will present Westlake University's educational reforms in university operations, governance, talent recruitment, student development, research and academic evaluation, and interdisciplinary studies, which altogether provide new opportunities for future-oriented higher education. Even date: 6/12/2022 Speaker: Prof. Yigong Shi Moderator: Prof. Qingyan Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
Before the advent of computers around 1950, optimization centered either on small-dimensional problems solved by looking at zeroes of first derivatives and signs of second derivatives, or on infinite-dimensional problems about curves and surfaces. In both cases, "variations" were employed to understand how a local solution might be characterized. Computers changed the picture by opening the possibility of solving large-scale problems involving inequalities, instead of only equations. Inequalities had to be recognized as important because the decisions to be optimized were constrained by the need to respect many upper or lower bounds on their feasibility. A new kind of mathematical analysis, beyond traditional calculus, had to be developed to address these needs. It built first on appealing to the convexity of sets and functions, but went on to amazingly broad and successful concepts of variational geometry, subgradients, subderivatives, and variational convergence beyond just that. This talk will explain these revolutionary developments and why there were essential. Event date: 1/11/2022 Speaker: Prof. Terry Rockafellar (University of Washington) Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
Geospatial information science is a discipline that focuses on using geospatial information technology to understand people, places, nature and processes of the earth. IoT refers to Internet of things, the combination of sensors, software and other technologies to connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet. The era of IoT brings us opportunities and challenges for geospatial information science. In the keynote, five characteristics and three scientific issues of geo-spatial information science in the era of IoT are summarised. Even date: 6/9/2022 Speaker: Prof. Daren Li Moderator: Prof. Christopher Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Panel members: Prof. Qingyan Chen, Prof. Qinhao Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
Adaptive computation is of great importance in numerical simulations. The ideas for adaptive computations can be dated back to adaptive finite element methods in 1970s. In this talk, we shall first review some recent development for adaptive methods with some application. Then, we will propose a deep adaptive sampling method for solving PDEs where deep neural networks are utilized to approximate the solutions. In particular, we propose the failure informed PINNs (FI-PINNs), which can adaptively refine the training set with the goal of reducing the failure probability. Compared with the neural network approximation obtained with uniformly distributed collocation points, the proposed algorithms can significantly improve the accuracy, especially for low regularity and high-dimensional problems. Event date: 18/10/2022 Speaker: Prof. Tao Tang (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College) Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
The course describes the theoretical underpinnings of USR. It showcases some effective practices and activities carried out in institutions around the world. The course also promotes understanding of the USR concept, its implications, impacts, evaluation, possible implementation methods, and replicability. In doing so, it contributes to the expansion and consolidation of the USR movement. It provides a knowledge base for designing, planning, implementing, and evaluating programs from the fundamentals of USR and some existing good practices. No prior knowledge is required to join the course. This course is for you especially if you are an administrator, a professor, or a professional staff member interested in learning new creative ways from the experts' at the universities to address the needs of society including SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). If you are a government official or a foundation representative seeking ways to strengthen higher education, this course will help you explore future opportunities and directions.
Did you know that frailty can affect the quality of life of older people? Did you know that frailty can impose a burden on the significant others of older people? If you are a member of the general public and would like to know about the prevention of frailty and the promotion of healthy ageing, or if you are a healthcare professional who would like to provide the best care for older people and family members in order to combat frailty, this course is for you. The aim of this course is not only to provide theoretical knowledge about frailty, but also to give practical input to help our learners become familiar with frailty and how to manage it. Frailty is a common condition among older people. It is associated with ageing, which is a trend that is becoming a major concern around the globe. Frailty is not only costly in terms of medical expenses, but also imposes a mental and financial burden on the family members of older people with the condition. A person with frailty is also at an increased risk of disease, disability, and death. However, frailty is reversible. Preventing frailty is an important target in the promotion of healthy ageing. Apart from introducing concepts related to frailty, this course also provides some practical approaches to help individuals, including the older people themselves, caregivers, and healthcare professionals, to monitor and manage frailty in daily life. Short movies and videos are used for illustration. The techniques introduced in this course for managing frailty can be incorporated into daily life, making frailty easier to manage. This course is designed for anyone interested in the management of frailty. Taking this course will help you to manage the frailty and promote the health of older people around you.
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing the full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese culture in transformation. Key questions of the course: (1) What are the Four Great Classical Chinese Novels? What are the stories about? Why are they so famous and influential in Chinese literature? (2) What is special about the art of Chinese operas? What are the symbolic meanings behind the face make-up, gestures and costumes? How do the operas serve as a medium for transmitting knowledge in Chinese culture? (3) Why did the private Confucian academies thrive in the Song dynasty? Why was the famous Donglin Academy suppressed by the state in the Ming dynasty? How were the private academies engaged in the state educational reforms in the late Qing dynasty? (4) How did New Confucianism emerge as a movement in the 20th century? What were the aspirations of the New Confucians? How did they address modern challenges to the development of Chinese science, democracy and cosmology? Did they succeed in modernizing Confucianism? (5) What were the traditional expectations of gender roles in China? How was gender politics heightened in the labour force in early New China? What light does the film Li Shuangshuang shed on the gender awareness of Chinese socialism?
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has been in the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing a full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of Chinese cultural exchange and interaction with other countries in history. Key questions of the course: (1) How did the Silk Road emerge in history? Who was Matteo Ricci? What happened in history regarding the Chinese cultural exchange of religions, arts and sports with the West? (2) Where is Central Asia? What was Pax Mongolica? What role did silver play in the Saga of the Silk Road? (3) What cultural exchanges occurred between Vietnam and China? How did Vietnam contribute to the introduction of Buddhism to China through the maritime Silk Road? Which of the Vietnamese princes served as a high-ranking official in the Chinese court of the Ming dynasty? (4) How did China confront Western colonialism as a global trend in the early 20th century? Who was Sun Yat-sen? How did he connect China with the rest of the world? How did Pan-Asianism arise and go bankrupt? (5) What is the relationship between rituals, ghosts and alcohol in China? What are the stories behind Chinese medicinal food, correlative cosmology and tea? How many major types of Chinese cuisine are there? What sorts of food were exchanged between China and other countries in history?
With rapid globalization and proliferation of social media, businesses and organizations are in face of enormous communication challenges. How to communicate effectively on social media, how to manage social media data analysis as well as handling fake news are definitely at the top of the list. By seeing challenge as opportunity, this course aims to unfold the communication challenges induced by the rise of social media in business corporations and most importantly, offer solutions to overcome these challenges. In addition, the course serves presents a vantage point to forge an interface of synergy between academics and practitioners to discuss and address global communication challenges. Participants can benefit from meaningful synergy between academics and practitioners as well as learning materials and meaningful multilateral discussions surrounding authentic communication cases and industrial practices engaging both instructors and participants. In sum, this course provides insights for business leaders, senior managerial members, and communication professionals by discussing the major communication challenges encountered by businesses around the world which in turn, helps the participants to advance their career in the ever-changing communication environment.
Design thinking has become very popular recently. It is because many people believe that design thinking can help generate innovative solutions. Many business and non-business organizations are adopting it to resolving their problems. Even business schools and other disciplines include design thinking in their curriculum. Then, what is design thinking, really? And how can it benefit us? Design thinking is commonly recognized as a problem-solving process that includes five stages - Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test. However, when we compare the design thinking process with the conventional problem-solving process, there are no major differences, except the implementation part. Design thinking looks at problems with a holistic and human-centric perspective. It also tackles complex problems by using a non-linear approach. However, some people claim that considering design thinking as a problem-solving process is too simplistic. Actually, design thinking should be considered as behaviors and attitudes when dealing with problems. Design thinkers use different thinking styles and attitudes when approaching problems. Design thinkers possess certain personal traits like human-centeredness, having a flexible and creative thinking style, being comfortable with subjective and intuitive judgement, and high self-efficacy. These thinking styles and attitudes help not only in problem-solving but also in finding opportunities. In order to be proficient in design thinking, we should not only understand the design Thinking process, but also have to make ourselves become a design thinker. This MOOC provides you with core knowledge about design thinking and demystifies design thinking as a process for solving complex and wicked problems.
Owing to its rapid development in recent years, China has moved into the spotlight of the international arena. While understanding modern China's economy, technology and politics is important, knowing its cultural roots and evolution is no less crucial for seeing a full picture of Chinese culture. This course introduces 5 interesting aspects of traditional Chinese culture. Key questions of the course What was the origin of ancient Confucianism? How does ancient Confucian wisdom help us address the modern human predicament? How does Daoism enlighten us with a butterfly and fish? What is the connection between Daoism and the equality of all living organisms? Why does Buddhism see our present lifetime to be nothing but suffering? How do the Four Noble Truths help liberate us from suffering? What is special about Chinese ancient warfare? Who is Sunzi? What is his book The Art of War about? What can we learn from this famous book?
The real-life stroke scenario presented in ANA101x Human Anatomy has invited vigorous discussions on whether fully recovery from a severe stroke is possible and how it could happen. The knowledge of anatomy has arisen a series of queries on body functioning that are commonly implicated in stroke. An extension of human anatomy fundamentals towards functional anatomy has formed the basis of intervention approaches for functional recovery undertaken by different healthcare professionals, which is guiding the ultimate goals of post-stroke rehabilitation program for regaining independence and quality-of-life of the individuals. Therefore, this course is particularly designed to delineate the stroke recovery process and its underlying scientific rationales. Continuing using the same clinical case of Mr Law, this course walks you through the recovery journey, known as stroke care pathway involving multiple healthcare professionals to compose module ONE. In module TWO, intervention approaches practiced in key healthcare disciplines underpinned by the functional anatomy will be explored. Finally, the course knowledge will be assessed using an experiential approach using a set of mini case studies derived from the mainstream scenario of Mr Law.
Operations management deals with operational planning and control issues, and is needed in all sectors of the society. One of the challenges to operations manager is how to make use of the available resources in the best way for meeting a certain objective. Quantitative approaches are inevitably needed in tackling many of such problems. Operations Research (OR) deals with problem formulation and application of analytical methods to assist in decision-making of operational problems in planning and control. The techniques of OR are useful quantitative tools to assist operations managers, and has a wide applicability in engineering, manufacturing, construction, financial and various service sectors. Operations Research is an applied mathematics subject and is also a course in many engineering and management programmes. This course is designed for both students learning OR and learners who are practitioners in their respective professionals. The mathematical procedures for the OR techniques are introduced in details in the examples provided in the course. This helps learners to master the methodology and the techniques and apply them to achieve their goals through active learning. This course introduces two prominent OR techniques and their extended topics. The Simplex Method for Linear Programming (LP) has been considered one of the top 10 algorithms of the 20th century. LP is an optimization technique for solving problems such as finding the optimal product mix, production plan, and shipment allocation, in order to maximize the profir or minimize the cost. The Critical Path Method (CPM) is a popular technique employed by project managers in scheduling project activities. Some extended topics of CPM are also introduced to deal with certain special situations in project management. In reality, many systems operate under stochastic environment and the operational problems cannot be solved by the known analytical methods. To this end, the simulation approach is introduced in the last chapter of this course. Simulation is a powerful technique for tackling OR problems under such situations.
This award-winning course aims to sharpen your competitive edge in work and life. It empowers you with positive values and practical problem-solving skills, including creative strategies for addressing challenges from COVID-19. Enriched with interesting animations, a new success story and breakthrough pedagogies, this updated version (2.5) effectively helps you master knowledge and skills requisite for a successful life.
Everyone wishes to know the future! Although we do not have the magic crystal ball to show us the future, we have interviewed more than forty (40+) international industrialists, academics, and business leaders. They are experts in their area and the drivers behind the industry. Our guests will share their views of the future and potential of the fashion industry with you. During the interviews, we focused on the following questions: What are the current challenges? What are the new main directions in the coming five to ten (5 – 10) years? What kind of new technologies will become popular? Will there be any new business models (new ways of doing business)? What role can a government play? Will there be any ideology that may bring a big impact? We fully understand that learners may face the obstacle of terminology and background. We will introduce the background of the fashion supply chain first. Then, we take the learners to attend the interviews week by week, sector by sector. Most importantly, the course content is bilingual in Chinese and English. Learners will enjoy our learning supports. Suitable for students, consumers, anyone who is interested or working in the fashion business.
This course will equip you with the knowledge relevant to pulmonary diseases and broaden your understanding on the patient’s journey in healthcare from a holistic perspective – starting from symptoms emerge to the disease diagnosis and assessment, and finally, disease management in an interdisciplinary approach. In addition, as psychological intervention is also an important part in the all-round care of patients, this course also covers topics about the psychosocial needs of patients and caregivers. What you'll learn: The causes, signs and symptoms of common pulmonary diseases Understand the psychosocial needs of patients and caregivers Interpret the results of medical examinations for pulmonary diseases Differentiate the roles of different healthcare professionals Integrate the knowledge learnt from different disciplines in the management for patients with pulmonary diseases
This data analytics course takes an interdisciplinary approach to demonstrate the data analytics process in the context of accounting and finance. The growing volume of both structured and unstructured data has pushed forward a more data-driven form of decision-making in accounting and finance. In order to keep up with the Big Data era advancements, accountants and finance professionals need to have a data analyst mindset to excel in their jobs. This course will illustrate different concepts of accounting and finance with the application of data analytics. It will not only help the learners to develop their skills to ask the right questions but also teach them how to master the data and use different tools like Excel and Tableau to analyze the data. In the end, the learners will be able to interpret the results and make their decisions effectively. This course will use a simple framework that helps the learners to develop an analytical mindset. This framework (QDAR) has four major components: 1. Ask the right Q uestions to address an issue in accounting or finance contexts. 2. Understand the different data types and how to retrieve and clean D ata. 3. Conduct different data A nalyses to answer the questions 4. Communicate the R esults to the decision-makers using graphs, visualizations and reports. The whole course will cover different aspects of the framework in conjunction with different types of analyses. There will be additional datasets for the verified learners through which they can practice what they have learned during the course.
Aviation is essential for global business as it supports worldwide travelling and cargo transportation. Before COVID-19, the economic benefits generated by the industry across countries showed a growing trend. This course is aimed to provide learners with a broad understanding of airport services in different phases in terms of design and engineering. Learners will receive basic knowledge of how an airport operates. Key topics include the future perspective of air traffic control, air traffic flow management, airport management, facility planning, airport terminal design for the post-pandemic world and ground services.
“Easy Vlogging – making Interactive Self-introduction Videos” is an online course for people to learn, in self-paced format, how to create effective job interview videos for either academic pursuit or career needs. With the contents learned from this course, it helps learners apply for dream jobs easier and more successfully, producing self-introduction videos with good visual quality, superior self-expression and professional presence. The purpose of this course is to offer students with: • An overview of digital video production, including script writing and other preparation works; • An introduction on various video production techniques, including the use of camera, lighting and video editing techniques; and • An understanding on the role of digital self-introduction video for interview purposes.
Convex Matrix Optimization (MOP) arises in a wide variety of applications. The last three decades have seen dramatic advances in the theory and practice of matrix optimization because of its extremely powerful modeling capability. In particular, semidefinite programming (SP) and its generalizations have been widely used to model problems in applications such as combinatorial and polynomial optimization, covariance matrix estimation, matrix completion and sensor network localization. The first part of the talk will describe the primal-dual interior-point methods (IPMs) implemented in SDPT3 for solving medium scale SP, followed by inexact IPMs (with linear systems solved by iterative solvers) for large scale SDP and discussions on their inherent limitations. The second part will present algorithmic advances for solving large scale SDP based on the proximal-point or augmented Lagrangian framework In particular, we describe the design and implementation of an augmented Lagrangian based method (called SDPNAL+) for solving SDP problems with large number of linear constraints. The last part of the talk will focus on recent advances on using a combination of local search methods and convex lifting to solve low-rank factorization models of SP problems. Event date: 11/10/2022 Speaker: Prof. Kim-Chuan Toh (National University of Singapore) Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
We introduce a Dimension-Reduced Second-Order Method (DRSOM) for convex and nonconvex (unconstrained) optimization. Under a trust-region-like framework, our method preserves the convergence of the second-order method while using only Hessian-vector products in two directions. Moreover; the computational overhead remains comparable to the first-order such as the gradient descent method. We show that the method has a local super-linear convergence and a global convergence rate of 0(∈-3/2) to satisfy the first-order and second-order conditions under a commonly used approximated Hessian assumption. We further show that this assumption can be removed if we perform one step of the Krylov subspace method at the end of the algorithm, which makes DRSOM the first first-order-type algorithm to achieve this complexity bound. The applicability and performance of DRSOM are exhibited by various computational experiments in logistic regression, L2-Lp minimization, sensor network localization, neural network training, and policy optimization in reinforcement learning. For neural networks, our preliminary implementation seems to gain computational advantages in terms of training accuracy and iteration complexity over state-of-the-art first-order methods including SGD and ADAM. For policy optimization, our experiments show that DRSOM compares favorably with popular policy gradient methods in terms of the effectiveness and robustness. Event date: 19/09/2022 Speaker: Prof. Yinyu Ye (Stanford University) Hosted by: Department of Applied Mathematics
Machine learning can deliver unprecedented performance. Its application domain has expanded into safety-critical cyber-physical systems such as UAVs and self-driver cars. However, the safety assurance of vehicular control has two conditions: 1) an analytical model of system behaviors such as provable stability, and 2) the software safety certification process (e.g., DO 178C) requires that the software be simple enough so that software safety can be validated by a combination of model checking and near exhaustive testing. Although ML software, as is, does not meet these two safety requirements, the real-time physics model supervised ML architecture holds the promise to 1) meet the two safety requirements and 2) enable ML software to safely improve control performance and safely learn from its experience in real-time. This talk will review the structure of the proposed architecture and some methods to embed physics into ML-enabled CPS control. Event Date: 12/05/2022 Speaker: Prof. Lui Sha (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) Hosted by: Graduate School
An online lecture on the topic of "Fashion & Chemistry". The Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles (FAST) and the Institute of Textiles & Clothing (ITC) organized the mini-lecture series for more than three years. The lectures aim to enrich students' knowledge in creative perspectives and arouse their interest in Sciences, Fashion and Textiles. In view of the unpredictable development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming mini-lecture Series will be switched from face-to-face mode to online mode.
An online lecture on the topic of "Wardrobe of Marie Antoinette - the last queen of France before French Revolution". The Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles (FAST) and the Institute of Textiles & Clothing (ITC) organized the mini-lecture series for more than three years. The lectures aim to enrich students' knowledge in creative perspectives and arouse their interest in Sciences, Fashion and Textiles. In view of the unpredictable development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming mini-lecture Series will be switched from face-to-face mode to online mode.
An online lecture on the topic of "Art Therapy". The Faculty of Applied Science and Textiles (FAST) and the Institute of Textiles & Clothing (ITC) organized the mini-lecture series for more than three years. The lectures aim to enrich students' knowledge in creative perspectives and arouse their interest in Sciences, Fashion and Textiles. In view of the unpredictable development of the COVID-19 pandemic, the upcoming mini-lecture Series will be switched from face-to-face mode to online mode.
In this video, it covers the topic of (1).2D layered transition metal dichalcogenides; (2) Theoretical study on opto-electronic properties of 2D materials; and (3) Molecularly thin 2D quantum ruddlesden-popper perovskites.FAST is organizing the Research at FAST Seminar Series 2021/22 in the coming months to explore collaboration opportunities within PolyU community. The series also serve as a platform for colleagues to get to know FAST researchers.
An online lecture on the topic of "Bone and Joint Health on Earth and in Space".This lecture of “Science World: Exploring Space to Benefit Mankind” Education Programme in the 2021/22 school year for secondary students, which aims to cultivate the interest of local youth in space science and elevate their enthusiasm for participating in the development of space technology.
An online lecture on the topic of "What is Microgravity? Discovering Interesting Phenomena in Microgravity".This lecture of “Science World: Exploring Space to Benefit Mankind” Education Programme in the 2021/22 school year for secondary students, which aims to cultivate the interest of local youth in space science and elevate their enthusiasm for participating in the development of space technology.
An online lecture on the topic of "Beidou Navigation Satellite System and Our Daily Lives".This lecture of “Science World: Exploring Space to Benefit Mankind” Education Programme in the 2021/22 school year for secondary students, which aims to cultivate the interest of local youth in space science and elevate their enthusiasm for participating in the development of space technology.
An online lecture on the topic of "Challenges in Developing the Chang’e 5 “Surface Sampling and Packing System".This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
An online lecture on the topic of "Evidence-based Myopia Control".This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
An online lecture on the topic of "Food as a Universal Language in World Tourism".This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
An online lecture on the topic of "Robot Alice: The Science behind an Application that Stole the Hearts Worldwide".This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
An online lecture on the topic of "A First Look into AI+ Investment".This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
An online lecture on the topic of "Fundamentals of Modern Marketing".It introduce the basic understanding about what is marketing the importance of marketing and also how would the marketers develop the marketing plan and strategies. This lecture is suitable for secondary school and university students as well as the general public.
Brewing your own coffee at home these days? Perfect your skill by joining Mr Jonathan Sutton’s “A Crash Course into Coffee Basics” of the PolyU & You Online Lecture Series.
Dr Angela Tse's lecture on the topic "Be a Fashionable Pop-word User! (潮爆英文你要識)" received over 800 registrations and was attended by around 500 participants.Her lively presentation plus interactions with the participants made the talk very interesting. Many participants also expressed they liked the talk very much. Can LongTimeNoSee and AddOil be used in formal occasions? Find out more interesting and practical knowledge about #PopWords from the video!
Have you ever come across times when you get particularly nervous, say during a presentation, you find it extra hard to speak smoothly? Most of us may stop at times when we talk, so how do we differentiate between Normal Dysfluency and Stuttering? Are kids struggling with words due to language ability or are they stuttering? Will they naturally outgrow stuttering? How do speech therapists help adults and children who stutter? 大家有否試過在某些時間特別緊張,例如在發佈會中,你覺得難以流暢地說話? 其實每一個人說話時也會有停頓的時候,到底我們如何分辨「口吃」和正常的不流暢呢? 孩子到底是口吃還是因語言能力較弱而在找字呢?是否長大後自然會沒有口吃的問題? 言語治療師可以如何幫助受口吃困擾的小孩和成人呢?
The textile and fashion industry is in troubled times. Hong Kong is no exception. Our traditional market, the US, while difficult since 2018, has been dire in the covid pandemic. The industry is in the mist of disruptive changes brought by technological revolutions, in particular digitalization, and the retreat of globalism. But troubles always come with opportunities. Dr Henry Tan will give an overview on the outlook of the industry and his view on where opportunities are knocking. Event date: 25/02/2021 Speaker: Dr Henry Tan (CEO, Luen Thai Group Ltd) Hosted by: Institute of Textiles and Clothing
Ms Shirley Chan, BBS, JP, Vice Chairman of YGM Trading Ltd. shared her insights on the trend of global fashion supply chain under the "New Normal". Event date: 24/11/2020 Speaker: Ms Shirley Chan (Vice Chairman, YGM Trading Limited) Facilitators: Dr Chris Lo (ITC), Dr Fan Di (ITC) Hosted by: Institute of Textiles and Clothing
Air transport liberalisation has been marked by two major developments, i.e. the advent of the hub-and-spoke network and the emergence of Low Fare Airlines (LFAs). All major Full Service Network Carrier (FSNCs) have heavily relied on hub operations to effectively compete in the long-haul market against LFAs which until recently focused on point-to-point, short-haul services. Recent competiton dynamics, however, have led to the gradual blurring of the different airline business models. LFAs have now established strong bases in satellite/airports and/or in low-cost terminals of major airports. Moreover, they have introduced long-haul flights thus competing with FSNCs at a new level. The lecture will highlight all the above issues focusing on their strategic business and geopolitical implications for aiport hubs. It will also discuss how Hong Kong International Airport can build on its current advantages to play focal role in the new environment. Event Date: 16/06/2017 Speaker: Prof. Andreas Papatheodorou (University of Aegean) Hosted by: School of Hotel and Tourism Management
Using UC Berkeley as an exemplar, Prof. Koshland gave us a distinguished lecture on ‘Lighting the Way with Interdisciplinary Research since 1868’. One of the hallmarks of UC Berkeley has always been engagement of its faculty and students in research and education that expand in cross disciplines, joining on multiple approaches to address major challenges facing the world today, which is also what we are seeking to do at PAIR of PolyU. Moreover, Prof. Koshland shared with us the ways in which individuals and institutions can engage in interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research and education and how they can be creatively intertwined. Event Date: 22/4/2022 Speaker: Prof. Catherine P. Koshland (University of California, Berkeley) Moderator: Prof. Christopher Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Panel members: Prof. Xiang-dong Li, Prof. Yuguo Li (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
This presentation will discuss the future of global universities within the evolving context of current international education systems. It will begin with an overview of the challenges posed to modern day universities by the breadth and diversity of international further education curricular between the ages of 16 and 18 and the accessibility of world leading universities to international students, in general. Having established potential global trends in further education, the implications for global universities and higher education will be discussed within the context of both teaching and research Event Date: 17/05/2022 Speaker: Prof. David Cardwell (University of Cambridge) Moderator: Prof. Christoper Chao (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) Panel members: Prof. Wong Kwok-yin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Prof. Andrew Cohen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Hosted by: PolyU Academy for Interdisciplinary Research
In this course, we have incorporated up-to-date theory, multimedia, and peer-to-peer interaction to bring our own expertise together with the benefits of collaborative learning to create an engaging instructional environment. We have brought our own institutions' expertise in service-learning together with experienced teachers from around the world, and academic experts in the field to give you a range of perspectives and make the material as useful as possible.
Population ageing is a global phenomenon profoundly affecting the well-being of communities. Disciplines such as Social Sciences, Design, and Engineering offer unique, insightful innovations for ageing societies. Along with providing solutions catering to their professional niche, these disciplines achieve creative and practical innovations through interdisciplinary collaboration. This course intends to explore and examine the process of incubating innovations in these three disciplines and help the learners to appreciate the synergy created when working toward innovations by adopting an interdisciplinary approach.
Whether you are a university student trying to make sense of a difficult major course project or struggling to add value during your internship placement; or you are practicing manager struggling to find a resolution to a complex problem, issue or challenge, this course will guide you through a framework designed to help you open up the alternatives. Through this structured framework designed to help you better deal with your unstructured problems, you will learn BETTER, learn FASTER and learn MORE than you are used to. In essence, this short course will help you “HOW” to learn to (un)learn during knowledge transfer.
How do we see the world? How do we see details at different viewing distances? How do we see in three dimensions? How do we see colour? How can we avoid getting cataracts or prevent short-sightedness? This course will help you develop your understanding of vision, how visual functions relate to your daily life, and how you can better take care of your eyes. Spanning six modules and with content aimed at both optometry specialists and the general public, the course begins with a detailed look at the structures and functions of the eye. It then moves on to explore critical issues such as the limits of the eye’s resolution, depth perception and colour vision, before examining the impact of common eye problems on daily life and outlining strategies for improving eye health. Engage with content and fellow learners through videos, animations, hands-on experiments and forum discussions, and check your understanding through quizzes and peer-assessed tasks at the end of each module. Learners who pursue the verified track gain access to a complete 3D eye model, virtual labs, live sessions and detailed instructor feedback on assessment.
This course is about resonating with your experience and meaningfully engaging patients to make good decisions and to address the significance of interprofessional collaborations in health care. Service users’ experience and views across all points on health promotion, management and support services are crucial to developing optimal health care practice. Join Prof Elwynis a leader committed in Shared Decision Making (SDM) practice and research to promote high quality decision making. Taking into account the best scientific evidence available, he will explain to you how this collaborative process and the use of decision-aids help eliciting patients’ beliefs and integrating patient preferences and priorities to treatment options after thorough considerations of the trade-offs. Together, we are oriented to the interprofessional collaborative initiative that synergizes the strengths among health care allies toachieve optimal clinical practice and health outcomes. Renowned experts in various health care fields share their first hand experiences, eliciting profound insights and wisdoms about interprofessional collaborations. This is aspirational in learning to reflect, decipher, interpret and construct ways in enhancing effective coordination of care to meet health needs. Making sense of the SDM and IPC concepts and recognizing the available evidences and resources is crucial to enabling good team dynamics. Using a docu-drama, it takes you through a patient’s journey having a stroke due to his hidden assumptions in receiving treatment to atrial fibrillation (an abnormal heart rhythm). His attitude and struggles point to a challenging recovery process. Contemplate on how SDM and IPC could step in at different stages to improve health outcomes. Identifying gaps in the existing scientific evidence and services will help you to pursue influential strategies and design innovative programs or products to attain better outcomes. Your understanding and participation in this course will create positive impact over time in advancing the present health system to deliver the best possible outcomes to various stakeholders. We are excited to see your passion in affecting health decisions and determination in accomplishing excellent care delivery. Get connected with a global community of learners and simply enjoy gaining new ideas about making a difference in health care.
This course aims to introduce you to the concept of Service-Learning, and to equip you with the basic knowledge, attitudes and skills required for planning and implementing a Service-Learning project effectively. It consists of an Introduction, 4 instructional units, and an End-of-Course Test. You will be awarded a Certificate of Completion upon successfully completing all the requirements of the course.
Welcome to the official YouTube channel of the English Language Centre of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. English Language Centre Objectives: 1. To enhance students' communication skills so that they can pursue academic and professional excellence 2. To foster students' independent, life-long English language learning and whole-person development 3. To support the pursuit of English language excellence within the PolyU and in the wider Hong Kong community Find more about us here: https://elc.polyu.edu.hk/
This open access book is the first to systematically introduce the principles of urban informatics and its application to every aspect of the city that involves its functioning, control, management, and future planning. It introduces new models and tools being developed to understand and implement these technologies that enable cities to function more efficiently – to become ‘smart’ and ‘sustainable’. The smart city has quickly emerged as computers have become ever smaller to the point where they can be embedded into the very fabric of the city, as well as being central to new ways in which the population can communicate and act. When cities are wired in this way, they have the potential to become sentient and responsive, generating massive streams of ‘big’ data in real time as well as providing immense opportunities for extracting new forms of urban data through crowdsourcing. This book offers a comprehensive review of the methods that form the core of urban informatics from various kinds of urban remote sensing to new approaches to machine learning and statistical modelling. It provides a detailed technical introduction to the wide array of tools information scientists need to develop the key urban analytics that are fundamental to learning about the smart city, and it outlines ways in which these tools can be used to inform design and policy so that cities can become more efficient with a greater concern for environment and equity.