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Mr. Hailiang Wang, a PhD candidate at the Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering, under the supervision of Dr. Calvin Or, wins the Champion in the 2016 Hong Kong Institution of Engineers-Safety Specialist Committee (HKIE-SSC) Student Project Competition (Doctorate Group). The competition aimed to promote safety and health engineering as well as science innovations. It also aimed to provide engineering students with an open platform to demonstrate their engineering capabilities and share the learning experience in safety and health regime. It also allowed students to explore safety and health engineering for a touch of both life-critical systems and popular science innovations.
 

The winning project of Mr. Wang is about the applications of Human Factors Engineering to address medication errors. In the project, he used simulation and eye-tracking techniques to examine how task- and environment-related interventions affect the performance in the differentiation and visual searching of drugs that have look-alike names. The project has significant implications for medication management and patient safety.