After being deeply involved with the Acoustical Society of Hong Kong for the past twenty two years, I am particularly honoured and excited to be elected as the chairman of HKIOA. I will try my best to uphold the traditions and values of the society with the new executive committee which took effect after the AGM held on 12th March, 2008.
We will continue our usual activities such as technical visits, both local and abroad, seminars on various noise and vibration topics and Meyer Poon awards for students. We intend to strengthen our education and professional
development programs through more structured certified training courses such as Traffic Noise Measurement and Assessment, Construction Noise
Management and Building Acoustics, etc.
We are continuing our association with "Technical Acoustics" journal with
Shanghai Institute of Acoustics. Dr. C M MAK and Dr. Randolph LEUNG will be
members of the editorial board.
Members are encouraged to submit papers to the Journal to share their knowledge on Acoustics and contribute to our own "Sounding Board".
We will endeavor to reach out farther than before regarding our contacts with other Acoustical Societies in Asia. We welcome all members to join us on these fun and meaningful trips. Some of our activities are also open to non-members and we hope to share knowledge and expertise with professionals of other fields.
We plan to improve our communications and interactions with our members
through our newly updated website. I am pleased to inform you that after
years of discussions and planning, we are ready to launch our Advertisement
Program for our members and other colleagues in the acoustical or other
related community. We will also post a current events and membership
list on our website for reference. We hope to have a members forum for
feedback and exchange of ideas.
We would like to maintain our connections and partnership with counterparts over the world. That's why we will be participating in InterNoise 2008 in Shanghai(26th-29th Oct, 2008) in full force. We strongly encourage all our members to join us in Shanghai because we will also be bidding for InterNoise 2011 to be held in Hong Kong.
We wish all our members a fruitful and successful year.
Chairman's Message 
