Welcome to

Division of Integrative Systems and Design

Welcome to

Division of Integrative Systems and Design

Welcome to

Division of Integrative Systems and Design

Welcome to

Division of Integrative Systems and Design

About ISD

The mission of the Division of Integrative Systems and Design is to nurture a new generation of innovators who can work across multiple disciplines and create disruptive innovations to solve the world’s great challenges.

Unique Pedagogy

One of the unique strengths of the Integrative Systems and Design program is the integration of design and technology to solve real-world problems. We adopt an experiential project-based pedagogy to nurture the new generation of innovators and technologists. Most of the ISD courses are project-oriented, and each year students are required to complete a year-long multi-disciplinary team project. Students apply their design skills and knowledge to identify user needs, define problems and generate different design ideas. In addition, they use their technical skills and knowhow to create realizable solutions, design and implement the solution through prototyping, test and refine their ideas, and finally put their solution into practice. A purpose-based learning approach prepares students to work on the year-long projects. Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the projects, the teams comprise students with different expertise. Each student has a different role in the team. Depending on his or her role and interest, an individual learning pathway is designed for each student to acquire the skills and knowledge required to complete the project. Each course in the program contributes to the completion of the project. Active learning and team-based experience are also important components of the ISD program.

 

News & Events

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Events 18 Sep 2025
[ISD Seminar] From Fragmented Conversations to…
Grounded in Fano’s research-built stack, this session examines how advanced Language AI converts fragmented…
News 02 Sep 2025
Prof. Qijia SHAO Selected as Emerging Rockstar in…
Prof. Qijia SHAO was selected as an Emerging Rockstar and featured in an interview in IEEE Pervasive…
News 21 Aug 2025
Minister of Education of China Jinpeng HUAI…
Minister of Education of China Jinpeng HUAI visited our makerspace, ISDworks! and witnessed our students'…
News 28 Jul 2025
InnoBay Summer Camp 2025 - Turning Marine…
July 2–12, 2025 | HKUST x Dongguan Songshan Lake  InnoBay Summer Camp 2025, was a transformative innovation…
News 07 Jul 2025
ISD PhD Students Won Red Dot: Best of the Best…
Congratulations to our PhD students Tony CHUI and Jacky SHIN on receiving the Red Dot: Best of the Best…

Contact Us

Division of Integrative Systems and Design
  • address Room 5591, Lift 29-30, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Hong Kong
  • phone +852 3469 2723
  • fax +852 3521 0943
  • email isd@ust.hk