On October 17-18, relying on the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission's Young Talent Acquisition Project, hosted by the Shanghai University of Engineering Science (SUES), and co-organized by the School of Materials Engineering and Human Resources Department of SUES, “the 2nd International Academic Forum on Advanced Materials and Intelligent Manufacturing，AMIM2020” was held at SUES, Songjiang. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the forum was conducted in a combination of online and offline mode. The offline live report was held in the Third Lecture Hall of the Information Center of Songjiang Campus, while the online report was simultaneously broadcasted on Tencent conference platform. Experts and scholars from France, the United States, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Switzerland, Singapore, Iran, South Korea and China gathered together to have a lively discussion and exchange on the hot issues in the field of advanced materials and intelligent manufacturing (mechanical, electrical, chemical engineering, etc.).
11 experts from home and abroad, including Prof. Xiaoqin Zeng from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Dr. Peng Guo from UCLA, USA, Prof. Wenzhong Wang from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Prof. João Pedro Oliveira from University of Lisbon, Portugal, Prof. Jinbo Bai from CNRS, France, Prof. Fatemeh Zabihi from Donghua University, gave keynote speeches.
The forum focused on a number of international frontier hot issues on advanced materials and intelligent manufacturing such as nanomaterials, energy materials, advanced laser processing, advanced welding processes, etc. The forum built an effective platform for academic exchange and cooperation between domestic and foreign experts and the faculty and graduate students of the School of Materials Engineering, and also provided a diversified channel for young scholars at home and abroad who are interested in joining SUES to learn more about the university. During the conference, nearly 300 key teachers, young teachers, graduate students and undergraduates from the School of Materials Engineering participated in the international academic exchange activities through online or offline channels.
