The College of Engineering signed agreements with Baotou City of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region for entrepreneurship and technology transfer cooperation on March 12.
The program serves as a platform for experts in turbulence study to communicate the recent development with a hope to identify promising breakthrough directions.
Academician Gengdong Cheng, who received his Bachelor’s Degree in Solid Mechanics from the Department of Mathematical and Theoretical Mechanics in 1964, has been recently elected foreign member of Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).
Recently, a research team co-led by Maosheng Yao, a researcher at Peking University College of Environmental Science and Engineering, and Jue Zhang, an associate professor from the College of Engineering, achieved a major breakthrough in bioaerosol inactivation using non-thermal plasma.
After returning from Japan, PKU students who participated in the PKU-YNU Short-Visit Program submitted individual reports to COE, in which they spoke highly of this international exchange program.
A strong biomedical research team organized by PKU professors has received funding of 50 million yuan ($7.9 million) from the Ministry of Science & Technology (MOST) and the Ministry of Education (MOE) to carry out a project on molecular imaging equipment.
On March 5, nearly 50 University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering faculty and students paid a visit to Peking University to explore cooperation opportunities.
Material Scientist Haifeng Yu recently joined the College of Engineering (COE) Department of Materials Science and Engineering. He was awarded the "National Thousand Young Talents Program" recipient in 2011.
Paris Institute of Technology (ParisTech) had a dialogue with Peking University (PKU) on February 29, seeking greater cooperation.
On February 28, 13 students from Yokohama National University (YNU) received certificates of attendance for participating in the PKU-YNU Short-Visit and PKU-YNU Short-Stay Programs from Executive Vice-Dean Dongxiao Zhang.