On the morning of December 18th, the ceremony aiming to appoint Cheng Xiangsheng, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, as a part-time professor of HNUST was held in Lide Building. President Zhu Chuanqu issued the letter of appointment to Academician Chen and wore the school badge for him.
At the ceremony, Academician Chen introduced the origin of his relationship with Xiangtan, and put forward preliminary expectations for later cooperation and exchanges, discipline construction, scientific research project application and other work. He said that it was not only his pleasure and honor but also his responsibility to personally participate in and witness the development of his hometown and local universities. With this feeling, he joined the School of Civil Engineering of HNUST, hoping to contribute to the school's characteristic development, new engineering construction and high-quality talent training.
President Zhu extended his warm welcome to Academician Chen’s participation and thanks to his years of care for the development of universities in his hometown and support for discipline development of the School of Civil Engineering. He said HNUST was in a critical stage in which the construction of "double first-class" disciplines and Emerging Engineering were facing new challenges. Academician Chen’s participation will definitely bring new opportunities for the development of civil engineering disciplines. President Zhu also hoped that Academician Chen could give more guidance to our school's discipline development and scientific research, bringing school's discipline construction, scientific research, innovation and talent training capabilities to a new level. He requested that the relevant departments of HNUST and relevant schools should coordinate, plan initiatively and act actively, taking this opportunity to promote the development of civil engineering disciplines and the output of high-quality talents in HNUST.
The heads of relevant functional departments, leaders of the School of Civil Engineering, and relevant heads of the Geotechnical Laboratory attended the meeting.
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Chen Xiangsheng, born in June 1956, Xiangtan, Hunan, is an Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Dean of the College of Civil and Transportation Engineering of Shenzhen University, Director of the Technical Committee of Shenzhen Metro Group Co., Ltd., Dean of Beijing Jianjing Research Institute of Coal Research Institute, Director of the Key Laboratory (Construction) of the Ministry of Education for Resilience Infrastructure in Coastal Cities and a renowned expert in artificial frozen soil mechanics, underground engineering and tunnel engineering, urban rail transit engineering, geotechnical engineering, special well sinking, etc. He has completed more than 60 scientific research projects at home and abroad, and is in charge of the management of 64 major national projects with a total cost of more than 165 billionyuan. In recent years, he has actively advocated and developed new concepts and technologies in intelligent geotechnical engineering, intelligent underground engineering, resilient city concepts and paradigms, underground sustainable structural system theory and algorithm development, and smart city rail transit.
(Translated by Zhou Yao)