about us
The SIGHT Journey
SIGHT Camp
Fall
SIGHT Camp usually where students start their SIGHT journey, it is a non-credit bearing activity where you're introduced to ideas and trained to prototype solutions.
ENGG1300
Fall
If you want a taste of Design Thinking with a side of Common Core credits, this is for you! You'll be going through the Design Thinking cycle with a topic updated every semester.
ENGG4930
Fall & Spring
Ideas generated from SIGHT Camp have a chance at life as a 3-credit project course. As a letter-grade course, it is one that you get to decide what the exam questions are!
Implementation
Summer
As projects take shape, they are put to the test and deployed with our partner users. Teams will deploy overseas for 2 weeks for testing and feedback gathering.
SIGHT Scholar Scheme
Summer & Winter
Taking the projects to a whole new level as students receive funding to work full-time on projects in Hong Kong or overseas.
Final Year Projects
Fall & Spring
Working with other departments, students work on global health technologies ranging from gas detectors to surgical training platforms.
SIGHT Leaders
Fall & Spring
Selected students who went through SIGHT Camp and the project course stay on to mentor new students and further their projects,
Who we are
SIGHT stands for Student Innovation for Global Health Technology (中文：視野無界). Our motto: Simple Technology, BIG Difference. Innovation is designed by undergraduate students from different backgrounds working together, who aim for tangible solutions that are appropriate for poor communities. Deployment is driven by undergraduate students sharing the same goal of overcoming the social, cultural and economic barriers. SIGHT is hosted by the Office of the Dean of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Mission
- To inspire and empower UG students to brainstorm and create health technology innovation for sustainable implementation in developing regions around the world
- To engage interdisciplinary strengths of university for UG education
- To channel student innovations to global communities
- To develop tomorrow’s leaders who are visionary, creative, socially responsible and collaborative
Their words not ours
SIGHT taught me that in the real world, there won't be a solution manual that tells you the answers to your problems
Dawn
SIGHT Leader 2017-2018
Year 4, Chemistry
Throughout my time in SIGHT, it created a way for me to learn the perspectives in which engineering, humanities and business students tackle a problem and come up with a solution.
Ziuwin
MedEasy Team 2017
Year 3, Biotechnology
I have learnt how to turn my insights acquired from papers into practical models step-by-step through experiments and prototyping.