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CCEA Holds International Evaluation Committee Meeting on Civil Engineering Academic Degree Awarding Program

Editor: 熊思尘 Date: 2018-02-08 Hits: 70

CCEA holds International Evaluation Committee Meeting on Civil Engineering Academic Degree Awarding Program on January 27th-28th. Seven world-class experts have come to assess the education and research level of civil engineering discipline. The evaluation committee is led by Prof. Bruce R. Ellingwood from CSU, and other experts include Prof. B.F. Spencer from UIUC, Prof. Emeritus C.B. Yun from KAIST, Prof. Erol Tutumluer from UIUC, Prof. Wei Wu from BoKu, Prof. Junke Guo from UNL, and Chair Prof. Hai Yang from HKUST.

 

Dean of ZJU Graduate School Prof. Lizhong Wang, and Vice Dean Prof. Gongyin Ye attend the meeting. CCEA leaders Yaozhi Luo, Wengang Guo, Chaofeng Lv, Bin Zhu, Xiaoqian Qian and teacher representatives were also present. The meeting was chaired by Prof. Chaofeng Lv, Vice Dean of CCEA.

 

After welcoming speech, self-evaluation report was given by Prof. Yuanfeng Duan of civil engineering discipline. The report covered the mission, foundation, feature, service and vision of the discipline, fully elaborating the education and management systems, with the emphasis on its international innovative talents cultivation. A “three-step” strategy of discipline development in 30 years’ time was also raised in the report.

 

Then, the evaluation committee inspected college history and experiment hall. They highly praised the high-level experiment facilities like centrifuge, boundary layer wind tunnel, large structure loading experimental platform, high performance material and structure fatigue testing facility. Members of the evaluation committee discussed with teacher and student representatives on discipline status and trend, and offered valuable suggestions on graduate training.

 

On the closing ceremony of the meeting, prof. Bruce R. Ellingwood, on behalf of the evaluation committee, announced the final evaluation report. The report fully affirmed the education and research achievements of civil engineering discipline, and offered a series of feasible advice on the talent training, first-class discipline construction and international cross-disciplinary cooperation in future development.

 

Dean of CCEA, Prof. Yaozhi Luo and Dean of ZJU Graduate School, Prof. Lizhong Wang expressed sincere gratitude to the evaluation committee on behalf of the school and the university respectively. The “high-pass” is an encouraging evaluation result to better construct the civil engineering discipline to meet future challenges.