The "High-level Overseas Cloud Class" of the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture opened

                                       May 8, 2020   Author

In order to further expand students' academic horizons and improve the quality of graduate training, with the support of the school's international cooperation and exchange office, the "High-level Overseas Cloud Classroom" of the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture officially opened on May 2, 2020. This time, the School of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Cloud Classroom invited Professor Mardelle McCuskey Shepley of Cornell University to give a lecture on the "Building Environment Assessment" course for design graduates of the school. Associate Professor Erwin Oh from Griffith University in Australia and Hongyu Qin from Flinders University in Australia Ph.D. gives lectures on "Basic Engineering" for geotechnical engineering graduate students.

The first lecture was given by Professor Mardelle McCuskey Shepley of Cornell University in the United States on May 2 and was conducted online through Zoom. The provincial special-appointed professor Wang Zhe presided over the lecture. All graduate students majoring in design participated in the listening and exchanges. This course helps to consciously incorporate research into the design process: the assessment of the built environment. In addition to description and evaluation, it also describes the process of conducting these studies. The design team must be responsible for the environment and users. A well-regulated assessment is a means to objectively verify whether we have achieved the expected goals.

The second lecture was given by Professor Erwin Oh from Griffith University in Australia on May 5 and was conducted live on DingTalk. Vice President Zhang Jianwei hosted the discussion. Dr. Hongyu Qin and Dr. Hao Wang participated in the discussion online. This course mainly applies the principles of soil mechanics to solve basic engineering problems in actual engineering, especially the analysis and calculation methods in the process of basic engineering design. It mainly includes: site investigation and in-situ test; analysis of bearing capacity and settlement of shallow foundation; analysis and design of pile foundation under vertical load and horizontal load, etc.

Professor Shepley: Chairman of Cornell Environmental Design Center, Chairman of Healthy Future Center, former professor of Texas A&M University, Chairman of Healthy Design Center. He has written 6 books and published 101 papers. In order to strengthen the connection between research and practice, Dr. Shepley has worked in the practice field for 16 years and has been a consultant for construction companies regularly since 2000. She is the founder and design research consultant of ART® Science.

Dr. Oh: Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Built Environment, Griffith University, Australia, and Director of International Affairs, Science Department, Griffith University, Australia. His research expertise is geotechnical engineering and roadbed engineering. As a co-author, he published a monograph at CRC and published more than 120 papers. Dr. Oh has strong cooperative research with international partners. He is the principal researcher of two ARC-LIEF funds. Dr. Oh served as Chairman of the Gold Coast Regional Group of the Australian Society of Engineers (2011-2013) and Chairman of the Queensland Chapter of the Australian Geotechnical Engineering Society (2012).

Dr. Hongyu Qin is currently a lecturer at Flinders University in Australia, responsible for the teaching and research of geotechnical engineering. Mainly engaged in the research of pile foundation and soil-structure interaction, soil limit analysis and plastic theory, tunnel and underground excavation, and numerical calculation methods of rock and soil mechanics.