Education | UM students win award for barrier-free car seat design

Three students from the University of Macau’s (UM) Department of Electromechanical Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology received the Best Paper Award at the annual symposium of the Control, Automation and Instrumentation Division of the Hong Kong Institution of Engineers for a paper titled ‘Advanced Car Seat Design for Extendable Barrier Free Service’.
The award-winning paper was co-authored by PhD student Lin Bin and master’s students Luo Zicong and Cong Yufang, and supervised by Dr Wong Seng Fat. It proposes a barrier-free car seat design for people with disabilities. The seat can be controlled via mobile applications and can be optimized to enable people with disabilities to enter and exit the vehicle with ease.
The design’s potential for industrialization was an important contributor to its win, according to a statement by UM.
Held at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, the symposium attracted more than 200 experts and scholars from around the world, including experts from the Royal Academy of Engineering and Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom, as well as engineers from Hong Kong. Participants discussed future trends in engineering control, automation and instrumentation.