COE alumnus Huiming Yin wins NSF Career Award

The US National Science Foundation has given a CAREER Award to Huiming Yin, alumnus（1998’）of the Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Peking University.

Professor Chunmiao Zheng wins University of Wisconsin-Madison Distinguished Alumni Award

Professor Mary Anderson, Zheng’s Ph.D. advisor, said the award is “For a seminal textbook and software that has transformed the groundwater consulting industry, and for distinguished research and sustained service.”

2014 Global Conference on Global Warming（GCGW）successfully held at Peking University

GCGW2014 is a multi-disciplinary international conference on the global warming and climate change issues and potential solutions.

Professor Quan Li of Kent University gives invited lecture

Professor Quan Li of Kent University visited MSE and gave a lecture entitled “Stimuli-Directing Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures：From Dynamic Photonics to Renewable Energy”.

New advances in the research on local mechanical properties of solid under electric and magnetic fields

The research papers were published in Scientific Reports, Applied Physics Letters, and Review of Scientific Instruments.

A new progress made in wetting on micro-structured surfaces

Recently, Dr. Huiling Duan’s group from Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, College of Engineering, made important progress in wetting transition on micro-structured surfaces.

COE organizes educational poverty alleviation projects

The College of Engineering（COE）recently organized a 20-day training program to teachers and students from poverty-stricken regions of China.

Capstone Design projects shine at Design Night 2014

The projects were all sourced from the industrial partners, this year including Siemens China, Schlumberger China, Bombardier, Boeing, Atmet Singapore, Ease-Med Trent and Litens.

The PKU sharPKUngfu Team shines in 2014 International Underwater Robot Competition

The competition, taking Intelligent Biomimetic Robotic Fish as the theme, attracted over 300 participants from 54 universities from China, Netherland, Australia, Korea and UK.

China Dominates the 2014 QS University Rankings BRICS

QS University Rankings：BRICS, which compares the Top 200 institutions in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, identifies China as the most likely of the BRICS nations to achieve its goal of developing world-class universities.