Second prizes, and 72 Third prizes. In the 2014 National Olympic Contest in Mechanics, HCMUT became the leading institution with prizes awarded to 5 winning teams and 49 individuals. In 2015, HCMUT continues to assert its leading position in this national competition with more prizes awarded to 8 winning teams and 60 individuals. In particular, the winning teams won 1 First prize, 2 Second prizes, and 5 Third prizes. Among those 60 individual prizes, there are 1 First prize, 14 Second prizes, 21 Third prizes, and 24 Consolation prizes. The students have also brought back the Championship of Asia-Pacific Mini Robots Contest in 2002 (held in Japan), 2004 (South Korea), and 2006 (Malaysia). With a total amount of 314 million VND, the school has sponsored two high schools of Thanh Hóa, Long An Province and Khanh Thuong-Khanh Vinh City, Khánh Hòa Province. 225 million was used by the labour union of HCMUT to build houses of gratitude and 118.6 million VND was used for building houses for unfortunate people over the past 10 years. 253 million VND is spent on gifts offered to orphanages, charity schools, disabled children, and children who suffer from dioxin. International partnership and Research collaboration The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the Ho Chi Minh University of Technology have established a partnership to share the academic curriculum and create an exchange programme. Some of HCMUT's brightest undergraduate and master's students will do their PhD research at Illinois. The Norwegian group Roxar AS has established a partnership with HCMUT. Roxar will assist the university in building a high-tech lab. The group hopes that some students will choose to work for it after they graduate. International research collaborations: University of Applied Sciences Mannheim, Germany Protestant University for Applied Sciences Freiburg, Germany Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria University of Leeds, UK Kryvyi Rih National University, Ukraine Waseda University, Japan Hokkaido University, Japan Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Annual International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Applications (ACOMP) Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA) Notable alumni Trương Hòa Bình - Former Deputy Prime Minister of Vietnam, Former Chief Justice of the Supreme People's Court of Vietnam Prof. Ph.D. Nguyễn Thiện Nhân - Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee, Former Chair of the Central Committee of the Vietnamese Fatherland Front, Former Deputy Prime Minister of