The Review 2008

52 53 Staff Number of Staff in Headcount (as of December 31, 2007) Regular Temporary Type of Staff Full-time Full-time Par t-time Honorary/ All Temporary Visiting Teaching Staff – 1,266 122 65 1,738 1,925 • Chair Professor 83 0 0 428 428 • Teachers (Professor, Reader, Associate Professor, 924 8 7 671 686 Senior Lecturer, Assistant Professor, Lecturer and Assistant Lecturer) • Teaching Support Staff (Tutor, Instructor, Demonstrator) 259 114 58 639 811 Research Staff 668 427 59 157 643 Technical Staff 876 197 48 0 245 Administrative and Support Staff 1,745 101 63 25 189 (Including Clerical and Secretarial Staff) Others (Including Minor Staff, e.g. Labourers, Ar tisans) 354 14 29 0 43 All Staff 4,909 861 264 1,920 3,045 (Note : Staff of University Companies are excluded in the staff numbers listed above.) Libraries Resources, IT Facilities and Services Libraries Resources Number Number of Registered Library Users (as of June 30, 2008) 102,676 Books and Library Materials (as of June 30, 2008) Number of Bound Volumes 2.64 million Number of Periodical Titles 119,985 Number of Non-print Items 1,892,837 Number of Electronic Titles – on CD-ROMs 6,015 –Web-based 1,638,561 Number of Rare Books Collections (Volumes) 23,660 On-going and New Research Projects by Discipline 2006-07 2007-08 Number of Amount of Number of Amount of Projects % Awards (in HK$) % Projects % Awards (in HK$) % Actuarial Science and Mathematical Science 78 3.1 20,849,022 1.8 84 2.9 19,577,822 1.4 Architectural and Town Planning 98 3.8 27,134,964 2.3 97 3.4 23,171,482 1.7 Ar ts and Designs 31 1.2 7,214,393 0.6 45 1.6 14,388,239 1.1 Biological, Physical and Marine Science 429 16.8 234,258,875 19.8 457 15.9 215,037,074 15.8 Business and Management Studies 70 2.7 15,665,718 1.3 85 3.0 17,528,704 1.3 Civil and Structural Engineering 97 3.8 61,674,568 5.2 110 3.8 61,664,674 4.5 Education 213 8.3 71,784,181 6.1 251 8.7 78,273,346 5.8 Electrical and Electronic Engineering 103 4.0 69,049,785 5.8 135 4.7 68,139,072 5.0 History and Philosophy 3 0.1 1,142,464 0.1 6 0.2 2,990,500 0.2 Information Technology, E-Business 76 3.0 53,157,854 4.5 84 2.9 40,477,104 3.0 Technology and Computer Science Languages 37 1.4 7,164,450 0.6 42 1.5 9,002,748 0.7 Law 34 1.3 7,043,283 0.6 52 1.8 9,363,427 0.7 Mechanical, Production and 140 5.5 42,769,089 3.6 150 5.2 41,545,697 3.1 Industrial Engineering Medicine, Dentistry and Health 965 37.8 515,319,702 43.5 1,069 37.1 707,675,755 52.0 Social Sciences 182 7.1 50,637,693 4.3 213 7.4 51,385,843 3.8 All Disciplines 2,556 100.0 1,184,866,041 100.0 2,880 100.0 1,360,221,487 100.0 Research Output by Type of Research Activities 2007-08 2006-07 0 20 40 60 80 100 Academic Research, Refereed Academic Research, Not Refereed Contract Research Other Output Library IT Facilities and Services Number Number of Public Computers 388 Number of ACEnet Connection Points 475 Number of Wireless Network Access Points 45 Access to LibraryWebsites (July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008) 196,888,091 hits Number of Library Instructions, IT Courses and Orientations 713 (July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008) Number of Attendances at Library Instructions, 16,148 IT Courses and Orientations (July 1, 2007 – June 30, 2008) The Review 2008 • The University Profile Regular Full-time Academic Staff by Faculty (as of December 31, 2007) Faculty/Centre Number Architecture 55 Ar ts 151 Business and Economics 105 Dentistry 53 Education 140 Engineering 184 Law 68 Medicine 645 Science 219 Social Sciences 199 Independent Centres 115 All 1,934 Computing and Network Resources (2008) Number Number of Wired Network Access Points 27,000 Number of Wireless Network Access Points 825 Number of E-mail Addresses for Staff, Students and Graduates 94,800 Total Bandwidth for Direct Connection to the Internet 1,370 (in Mbps) and Research / Education Networks Aggregated Central Computing Power for Teaching and Research Purposes 4,930 (in GFLOPS) (Theoretical Peak Computing Speed)