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ICE Breaker 2023 Knowledge – Hong Kong Association

Civil Engineering Outreach career talk-

Shaping the future as an engineer

By Linda Hui

It is important for secondary students to is a good project for the student to know the
understand the industry and career development variety of professions that they could work in the
possibilities before they choose their university development as a civil engineer.
major and future career path. In the vision to
promote engineering to the secondary student, We have invited our speaker and leader of CEO,
the Civil Engineering Outreach (“CEO”) sub- Mr Raymond Tang and the resident engineer at
committee of ICE Hong Kong Association invited CKR to share their experience as an engineer,
secondary school students and teachers to to introduce the CKR project and take the
participate in our visit to the Community Liaison participants to view the displays and innovation
Centres (CLC) of Hong Kong’s signature projects technologies in the CLC, which are excellent
cum career talk. In our first event of this series on examples of conceived infrastructure being
7 January 2023, we organised a visit to the Central materialised for the society by civil engineers,
Kowloon Route (“CKR”). whom students could become.

CKR is a dual three-lane carriageway with a The students actively participated in the visit,
total length of about 4.7km, linking Yau Ma they were interested to know the procedures of
Tei Interchange of West Kowloon with Kai the drill and blast works in CKR, and enjoyed the
Tak Development Area and road network of innovation technology showcase in CLC, especially
Kowloon Bay, forming a trunk road across central the immersive CAVE experience.
7-1 Kowloon. It is one of the signature projects from The CEO subcommittee will continue to organise
Highways Department, which could demonstrate
the secondary school CLC tours cum career talk to
civil engineer’s work from geotechnical, civil,
7-2 construction management and innovation. It different schools and students throughout the year.

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