Jiangsu University owns the only National Key Discipline of Fluid Machinery and Engineering featuring the study of pumps in China, whose academic leader Yuan Shouqi was invited this time to chair Pump 4 Session. At the Conference, Dr. Pei Ji from the Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering Technology gave the initial speech of the Conference titled Numerical Investigation on Periodic Flow Unsteadiness in a Centrifugal Pump with Volute, which greatly aroused the interest of the guest specialists and delegates to the Conference. Then Kang Can, Vice Dean, and Gao Bo, an associate professor from the School of Energy & Power Engineering, Zhang Desheng, an associate professor, and Dr. Peng Guangjie from the Research Center of Fluid Machinery Engineering Technology, together with five postgraduates from the above-mentioned school and research center, made their academic presentations one after one at the Conference. These academic exchanges promoted the international influence of the Discipline of Fluid Machinery and Engineering.
In addition to the above activities, President Yuan Shouqi and his delegation visited the Caltech on the invitation of Prof. Christopher Earls Brennen, one of its former vice presidents. President Yuan made intimate exchanges with Prof. Brennen, Prof. Tim Colonius and Prof. Zhen-Gang Wang, and called on Pan Zhongyong, an associate research fellow who is now staying in the CIT campus as a visiting scholar. President Yuan made further exchanges with Prof. Christopher Earls Brennen on issues of the cooperation between Jiangsu University and MIT, the internationalization of teaching staff, the joint training of students, etc., and signed a copyright agreement on translating and publishing Prof. Brennen’s Cavitation and Bubble Dynamics in China. Finally, during their stay in the United States, Jiangsu University delegates also visited the Guggenheim Laboratory where Hsue-shen Chien once worked and the Exhibition Room for Albert Einstein’s Works.
