Admission Information

Summer programme for secondary schools students.

With effect from 2008-2009, the HKU Faculty of Engineering has introduced the common admissions scheme, through which applicants can use one single code 6963 to apply for all its 12 B.Eng. programmes. During the first semester, students will study some common Engineering core courses. Students will then select their respective degree programme after the first semester of study. For details, and possible changes, please see the Common Admissions Scheme. This department offers two BEng programmes:

• BEng in Mechanical Engineering and
• BEng in Mechanical Engineering (Building Services Engineering)

for the selection of engineering students.

Trolley experiment in Dynamics Lab.

With the help of External Examiners, our B.Eng. Programmes are maintained at international level and accredited by the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers (HKIE). In other words, our students graduated with honours fully meet the educational requirements for the corporate membership of not only HKIE but also many other overseas institutions such as the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK).

Courses offered in our programmes can be broadly categorized into core, optional and complementary studies courses. Core courses are technically or scientifically indispensable for an engineer in the respective discipline. Optional courses are often the advanced counterparts of the core courses. Further information on our core courses are illustrated in the section on Teaching Areas. Complementary studies courses include subjects in humanities, business, management and communication skills.

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All students are also required to undertake Engineering Training in the Year 1 summer vacation period and may opt for taking Industrial Training in Year 2 summer. In Engineering Training, students learn practical engineering skills such as how to operate conventional industrial equipment and tools and also attend a series of talks given by successful engineers and industrialists on real life challenges in engineering. In Industrial Training, students will attach to a local or overseas company or an institution as engineering trainees. Besides having to take individual projects on areas of their interest, Year 3 students also have to do group design projects, that are mostly sponsored by local companies, through which they will learn how to participate in team work to solve practical engineering problems.

Students may elect to spend an additional year in industry to follow an integrated study-work programme at the end of Year 2. The programme will enable them to gain valuable engineering experience before proceed to Year 3. They may also join the Exchange Student Programme to study overseas.

Students may apply to overload by no more than 6 credit units in a semester to pursue a minor study programme in business, economics or finance, so as to enhance their business knowledge. On the other hand, they may also apply to pursue the double-degree BEng/BBA, subject to some prescribed admission requirements. By fulfilling the requirements of the BEng curriculum and passing the relevant courses required by the Faculty of Business and Economics during their study for BEng, these students will be awarded the degree of B.Eng. and also be eligible for proceeding to the BBA programme in the 4th year. After acquiring the required credits in the 4th year, students will be awarded the degree of BBA in addition to the degree of B.Eng.

Entrance Requirements

In addition to the University entrance requirements, applicants will HKAL qualification shall satisfy one of the following requirements:

• 2 Advanced Level subjects*; or
• 1 Advanced Level subject + 2 Advanced Supplementary Level subjects.

* at least one subject is Pure Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Computer Studies or Applied Mathematics.

Applications with other qualifications, such as GCE, IB, Associate Degree and Higher Diploma, students under the Early Admissions Scheme and Mainland students will be considered on individual merit basis. Please contact our admission tutors for further details: