Visiting Tongji – Part 2
Information exchange and discussions
After delivering a colleague of ours from Nottingham, UK to the School of Surveying and Geo-Informatics on Siping Campus we visited the School of Mechanical Engineering at Jiading Campus where we were welcomed by Linda Wang from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (www.imeorg.com). Together we joined a meeting with Prof. Lin Jianping, and his colleagues, one of them working in the field of Micromachining.
Because our journey from Ningbo to Shanghai took longer then expected we tried to keep the presentation part shorter (free speech instead of PowerPoint) moving quickly to the discussion part: Professor Lin Jianping introduced the School of Mechnaical Engineering to us and gave us a couple of marketing brochures. Kuan Yoong then introduced the Ningbo Campus and our Engineering Division in general terms before I presented the NIMRC, its research areas introducing particularly our efforts (including the work at UNNC) and initiatives related to green manufacturing. Over a working lunch a presentation about Microelectrochemical Machining was given to us (based on a CIRP paper 2008).
At Tongji they are currently expanding the area of green manufacturing, however, the laboratory was not finished yet. Instead we managed to expand the lab tours by a tour through the “Central Lab of Automotive College“, a true highlight of the day.
