President Song Yonghua took a group photo with the Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory delegation

On September 4, Ou Bingguang, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Laboratory of Civil Engineering of Macau (LECM), led a delegation to visit the University of Macau and was warmly received by the President of the University of Macau, President Song Yonghua. Representatives of the Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory who attended the visit included Liang Hongxi, Deputy Coordinator of the Coordination and Consultation Office, Shen Qiang, Director of the Department of Geotechnical Engineering, Cui Weijian, Director of the Department of Building Structures, Deng Yuanming, Director of the Department of Building Materials, and Director of the Department of Quality and Standards Zhou Xiaoyu, Director of Training and Documentation Center Li Jinjian.

Zhou Wanhuan, director of the Department of Civil Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, accompanied Chairman Ou Bingguang and his delegation to visit the geotechnical engineering laboratory, hydraulic laboratory, and structural laboratory of the Department of Civil Engineering and Environment, and heard about the civil engineering teaching courses and laboratory construction of the University of Macau. and the planned development of the newly established Regional Marine Research Centre. Subsequently, members of the delegation visited the State Key Laboratory of Smart City Internet of Things at the University of Macau to learn about the laboratory’s scientific research team and its research interests in smart sensing and network communications, urban big data and smart technology, smart energy, smart transportation, and urban public safety. The latest scientific research progress in disaster prevention and control.

After the period, Song Yonghua, President of the University of Macau, had an in-depth meeting with Chairman Au Bingguang and his delegation. President Song Yonghua introduced the academic development and department reform of the University of Macau to the delegation, especially the development positioning and goals of the civil engineering major, the Regional Ocean Research Center and the National Key Laboratory of Smart City Internet of Things. Chairman Ou Bingguang introduced the history and development of the Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory since its establishment, including a series of large-scale transportation, infrastructure, environment, ocean and other engineering construction projects in Macau that the laboratory has participated in, and also reviewed the relationship between the laboratory and the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Macau. An agreement on talent training and scientific research cooperation reached at the beginning of the establishment of the institute. Both parties agreed that the University of Macau and the Macau Civil Engineering Laboratory should further enhance exchanges, carry out in-depth cooperation, jointly carry out research on Macau civil engineering monitoring and safety assessment, marine civil engineering and marine disaster prevention, and jointly promote progress in related fields in Macau and development.