Director Robert Strehle thanked to president Xia Jianguo for the warm hospitality and talked about Zwick / Roell Group’s pleasing exchange history with Shanghai Universities; Zwick / Roell Group always attaches great importance to cooperation and exchanges with Shanghai universities, thus it will actively promote the bilateral exchange projects for teachers and students in the fields of engineering education, management, etc. and provide more exchange and visit opportunities for both teachers and students.
President Xia points out that the “Material and Component Reliability Testing and Analysis Laboratory” came into being in the fertile soil of the university’s specialty development and adapted to the needs of Shanghai industrial upgrading and construction of an international metropolis. With the rapid development of the city, all kinds of construction projects have been expanded in their scale; and such projects are inclined to be large-sized and thick-walled. Safety and reliability assessment is just like a mirror, continuously showing the weakness of materials, components, inherent structures and manufacturing process; so it can avoid accidents, protect lives and property of the people, guarantee normal living and production activities. It is on the basis of plenty of long-term safety and reliability assessment that new technologies, new processes, new materials, new diagnostic, testing and monitoring tools can be widely promoted and applied. Once the “Material and Component Reliability Testing and Analysis Laboratory” is set up, our university will better serve the needs of Shanghai economic growth and provide scientific and technological support for the industrial growth throughout the Yangtze River Delta and even across China.
Deputy Director of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission Ding Xiaodong indicates that the “Material and Component Reliability Testing and Analysis Laboratory” jointly built by SUES and German Zwick/Roell Group was an comprehensive project integrating training of professional teaching and research team, the innovative practice & research base and training of research and teaching personnel as a whole, and will play a supporting role for a number of disciplines. Finally, Deputy Director Ding Xiaodong sincerely hopes that by building the “Material and Component Reliability Testing and Analysis Laboratory”, SUES would aim at the significant demands of Shanghai Municipality and the State, orient its development direction, conduct collaborative innovation and significantly enhance the innovation capacity of the university; and on the basis of the laboratory and by relying on the university’s disciplinary advantages, SUES should define the objectives, tasks of serving Shanghai’s economy, implement the key projects and organizational management mechanism to promote the in-depth integration of development of the university and economic growth of Shanghai, and would make greater contribution to Shanghai economic and social development through effective initiatives and measures.
After the ceremony, Germany Zwick/Roell Group’s staff also visited the “Material and Component Reliability Testing and Analysis Laboratory” and highly appreciated the excellent facilities/equipments provided by the University for training students' practical abilities; and they were also greatly impressed by the beautiful university campus.