From August 12 to 14, 2018, the “5th Global Chinese Professors Forum on Manufacturing Science” was held at SUSTech. President Chen Shiyi, acting as the head of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Shenzhen Science and Technology Commission, attended the forum.

The forum is sponsored by the NSFC Department of Engineering and Materials Science, SUSTech’s Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering as well as SUSTech’s Research Department, the Joint Research Center of SUSTech-MIT Mechanical Engineering, and the Frontier Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute.

The world’s outstanding Chinese experts and scholars were invited to take part in this exchange platform in the field of manufacturing science. The forum discussed the international development trends and cutting-edge problems in manufacturing science, as well as the development strategy of both manufacturing science and the manufacturing industry in China. Such a platform has been created in order to provide strategic advice and reference resources for the industry’s robust development over the next 5-10 years.

Rong Yiming, the director of SUSTech’s Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, presided over the opening ceremony. Fang Yilai, professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, officiated the special report.

Tan Jianrong, a professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering at Zhejiang University, and Zhang Liangchi, a professor at Australia’s University of New South Wales gave a keynote speech on the topic of first-class engineering discipline construction and manufacturing science innovation.

On the afternoon of the opening day, experts and scholars attended the sub-forum report in the lecture hall of our school library. The main contents involved non-metal precision processing, the additive manufacturing process, multi-physics multi-scale processing, special manufacturing environment and other fields. They contributed a lot of high-quality strategic research resources to the forum.

During the symposium on the second day, experts and scholars at the meeting conducted a more in-depth discussion of the topics from the previous day. The guests expressed their opinions and insights in a lively atmosphere.

After the meeting, some experts and scholars visited the laboratories of the Department of Mechanical and Energy Engineering to understand the Department’s development history, the current stage of development and construction, along with its future development plans. The visiting experts and scholars were impressed with what they saw and provided some valuable suggestions.