Specially For You · Name Address Class Year : Degree and Major Phone Please tell my classmates &' Phebe Chan Pui-sze (’95 MARK) is a manager in the Institu-

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I am very pleased to send you this first issue of a “stand alone”Alumni News. UST is now seven years old. Despite our tenderage, the alumni body is expanding fast. Currently, we haveover 8,000 members in our alumni family, with around 2,200new recruits every year. We thus feel there is a need for apublication dedicated to alumni, one that will serve theimportant function of facilitating communication and build-ing a strong alumni network.

We need your support to make Alumni News a publica-tion you will be proud to call your own. You can participatein many ways, such as by sending us story ideas, referrals, orarticles written by yourself, and by letting us know how tomake improvements.

You may notice that Alumni News is sent to you withthe University’s Newsletter and Genesis. While Newsletterand Genesis report on UST’s development and campusactivities, Alumni News concentrates on topics of particularinterest to alumni.

Alumni Jenny Yeung Fei (’95 CIVL), Benny Lam Wing-kin(’96 CENG), Apple Leung Suk-ping (’96 ISMT), Issac Hsu Kuan-chun (’97 ELEC), Josiah Chan Chun-wai (’98 PHYS), KennyChan Siu-keung (’98 PHYS), Carl Cheung Chung-kit (’98SOSC) and Jackson Lee Chi-yung (’98 PHYS) have given ususeful comments on the content, style, and story ideas ofthis publication. We wish to express our gratitude to them.

As the Year of the Rabbit dawns, may I wish you happi-ness, health, and prosperity.

Loretta PangDirector of University Development

• On-line alumni email and homepage directory• Visitors’ book dedicated to UST alumni• Links to alumni associations• Information on campus facilities and services• University contact points

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Job Information

HKUST alumni can obtain information on job vacanciesthrough the Joint Institution Job Information System(JIJIS) Direct Line at the Career Center. Just show yourHKUST identification when using the Direct Line. Pleasepick up a JIJIS User Guide from the Career Center if youare new to the system.

Job information is also available on the followingHKUST ENB folders: “GRADJOBS”, “IMMEDJOBS”, and“CAREERNEWS”. Please refer to the Alumni InternetServices Group’s homepage at http://www.alumni.ust.hk fordetails on access via the alumni dial-up pool.

Individual Consultation

Alumni are welcome to visit a Student Counselor forindividual consultation. Appointments can be made inperson or by phone at 2358 8590.

Thinking of a job change?

Need information? Need advice?

Come to the Career Center and makeuse of its resources and services.

Career Center

Identification

Acceptable identification documents for alumni to use atthe Career Center are: your former HKUST Student IDCard, or HKUST Alumni Association Membership Card,or HKID card (in this case, you will be required to registeryour name, HKID number and UST Student ID numberfor verification).

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Editorial Board: Loretta Pang, Daisy Chan, George Leung • Design and Production: Timothy Ngan

Career Center Now Open to Alumni

Room 4001 (lift 3 or 4)Academic Building, HKUST

Phone: 2358 6688 Fax: 2719 9412

World Wide Web:http://home.ust.hk/~ustscs/index.html

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Since we last reported in Alumni News on the alumni computer accounts provided by the Alumni Internet Services Group (AISG),many alumni have registered and are now using their accounts to communicate with fellow alumni on the Internet.

Here we are happy to introduce two new functions:

EEE Alumni Association Elects New ExcoAt the second annual Electrical and Electronic Engi-neering Alumni Day held last November, the EEEAlumni Association elected the second session of theirExco. The new president Issac Hsu Kuan-chun (’97BEng, MPhil student) and other Exco members wish tothank all EEE alumni and faculty for their support overthe past year. They are now calling for suggestions onthe kinds of activity to organize, and promise to trytheir best to respond to members’ requests.

The EEE Alumni Association can be contacted [email protected], or by fax on 2358 1485.

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Don’t miss out. If you haven’t registered, do so now! The HKUST AlumniAssociation mailed you your account name and first-time registrationpassword last December. If you have any queries, please check theirhomepage at http://www.alumni.ust.hk or contact them [email protected].

AISG is an alumni-run body affiliated to the HKUST AlumniAssociation, and was established in 1997 with the objectives of providingInternet services to UST graduates and strengthening the alumni network.

To provide you with more up-to-date news about UST, all alumni accountsare automatically added to the University’s email distribution lists so thatthey can receive the latest information on seminars, talks, art activities, andpress releases, etc.

Alumni accounts can now connect to UST’s intranet, andhence the Student ENB, including the job folders. Just followthe steps below:

1. Choose “get on internet” (Accessory) in WIN 95/98;2. Choose “manual setup”;3. Set the internet connection such that it will bring up a

message window for you to login;4. Set the DNS entry as 143.89.14.7;5. Use the alumni account to login;6. Set it to PPP and then continue;7. Set the intranet page (www.ust.hk/intranet/stu) as the

default page;8. Choose ENB in the page.

Access to UST’s Intranet and ENB1

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Successful Launch of the Civil Engineering AlumniAssociation: On 12 December 1998, over 40 CivilEngineering alumni and faculty including graduatesfrom all four graduation classes, Prof Wilson Tang,head of department, and many other teachers enjoyeda warm and memorable evening at the first annualdinner and Exco inauguration of the Civil EngineeringAlumni Association.

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Phebe Chan Pui-sze �� =(’95 MARK) is a manager in the Institu-tional Department of Baring Asset Management (Asia) Ltd. She canbe reached at [email protected].

Allen Cheng Wai-lun �� (’95 ISMT) treasures the time he spentstudying at UST. He graduated three years ago, but still feels likeit’s just a few minutes ago because all the mo-ments at UST are held deep in his heart. Hestarted his career path in the computingindustry, joining Group Sense Limitedas a systems administrator, thenworked as a systems engineer atAutomated Systems Limited.Allen is currently a technicalconsultant at Eclipse Comput-ing Ltd, specializing inMicrosoft’s and SunSystems’ financialaccounting products.Any alumni who wouldlike to know more aboutthese products can giveAllen a call on 8200-2616. Allen’s email [email protected], andhomepage: http://www.hkstar.com/~allen.

Keh Hean-tat �� (’93 MBA full-time) completed his Ph.D. inmarketing at the University of Washington, USA, in October 1998.Originally from Malaysia, Dr Keh has taken up an appointment asan assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. Hisresearch and teaching interests include distribution channels,retailing, productivity, global marketing and entrepreneurship.

Li Kin-kei �� (’97 MARK) would like to say “kon-ni-chi-wa”(Japanese) to all UST graduates. He works at Sony ElectronicDevices (HK) Ltd on the sales and marketing of radio integratedcircuits in Hong Kong and China. He thinks business-to-businessmarketing is very different from consumers-goods marketing. Thisis true as far as strategies, and, most importantly, negotiation areconcerned. He thinks radio IC is a miracle. Being unaffected by the“leapfrogging of technology” as in the case of CPUs, the radio IC

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Do you miss your old UST friends? Now alumni can keepin touch with each other through this section in AlumniNews! Tell us about your recent news: marriages, births,appointments, promotions, new company start-ups, furtherstudies, moving house, ...etc., so that we can spread the newsto your classmates. Or, if you are organizing a reunion,looking for a long-lost friend, seeking business partners, ormay have read a good book, taken a nice picture during yourvacation, or have a brilliant idea to share, then this is theplace for you!

Please send news to us by mail, fax or electronic mail.By fax: +852 2705-9119. By email: [email protected]. Sendmail to: University Development Office, Room 6342,Academic Building, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon,Hong Kong.

Deadline for submissions for the summer issue is April20.

Li Kin Kei’s new bike—Honda Shadow 750.

Allen Cheng and hisgirl-friend Alice.

Want to show the campus to your friends? Miss the good olddays on campus? Need a break? Why not come and spend a nightat UST to recharge your batteries! Relax by playing sports, havea sumptuous meal with your friends or family, stay overnight,and breathe some clean air.

Now, alumni and their guests can enjoy a discounted roomrate at the Visitor Center during weekdays. A nicely-furnishedapartment with two bedrooms, sitting room, a kitchenette anda bathroom is available for ONLY $700 up.

Most of the apartments have magnificent sea-view. Guestsare welcome to use the sports facilities on campus, and enjoy acomplimentary breakfast at UC Bistro.

For details about the facilities at the VisitorCenter and for reservations, please check theCampus Services Office’s homepage at http://www.ab.ust.hk/cso/home_vc_frame.htm or callRicky Yu at 2358 6158 during office hours.

HKUST Visitor Center—Special Mid-Week Rate for Alumni

Alvin Lo �� (’94 COMP) wrote from the United States: “It’s apleasure to be able to write something for the new alumni newsletterafter all these years. I still vividly recall the good old days when I was astudent at UST: the professors I learnt from, the friends I made, and ofcourse, the canteen food that I had to put up with...(I heard it improveda lot, but that was after I left, unfortunately). Since then, almost fiveyears have flown by. I finished my graduate studies at the University ofTexas, landed a job in database software development with TandemComputers, and last summer married my beloved Joana. Looking back,it seems so much has happened in so little time. That’s probably why Ihardly get a chance to catch up with my fellow UST graduates and tocheck on how they are doing. I guess the same kind of things musthave happened to all my old friends. So, I think this is really a good timefor us to update each other with our whereabouts and start to get intotouch with each other again. I hope to hear from all of you soon, and

wish you all a very fruitful new year!”

has a very long life-cycle measured in the tens of years. In the past,only electronic components can be used to manufacture a radioset. After the invention of the IC, production of radios has stabi-lized at over 120 million sets a year, just in Hong Kong and Chinaalone. So you can imagine how big the business is. In fact, HongKong and China now account for over 80% of world production ofportable radio set! Any alumni who would like to share theirexperience of this industry may contact Kin-kei [email protected] or [email protected].

Sean Lin �� (’94 MGMT) married Karen on November 27,1998. He would like to take this opportunity to thank all USTerswho attended his wedding banquet and ceremony, especially hisClass of 1994 schoolmates, the SU guys and gals, and friends fromSAO including Luke Wong, Pandora Yuen andDonny Siu. “The memories you gave me arethe best gift of all;” says Sean, “and, one lastword for the ladies: sorry for jumping thequeue, please hurry up!”

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