International Exchange

Students undertaking HKUST's Master's of Technology Management program are expanding their global view through a strategic alliance with the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science, established on 27 February 2002. Penn is an Ivy League university and one of the top 10 in the US. The partnership provides students with further international perspectives and access to a wider range of world-class faculty.

The past year also saw student exchanges with universities in the US, Canada, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Hungary, Germany, India and Japan.

Two Nobel Laureates in Physics visited HKUST on 14 June 2002 to share their experiences with over 100 physics students, alumni and faculty during the "Dialogues with Giants in Physics" event, organized by the School of Science. Prof Charles Hard Townes, awarded in 1964, is known as the "Father of the Laser". Prof Gerardus't Hooft received his Nobel Prize in 1999 for elucidating the quantum structure of electroweak interactions in physics.