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Book Release - Consolidation Analyses of Soils

A book titled Consolidation Analyses of Soils written by Prof. Jian-Hua Yin and Dr Guo-Fu Zhu was published on 29 December 2020. This book focuses on the consolidation of fully saturated soils, as well as covering both classic solutions and state-of-the-art work in consolidation analyses of soils.  For more details, please refer to https://www.routledge.com/Consolidation-Analyses-of-Soils/Yin-Zhu/p/book/9780367555320

Joint Seminar with HKIE & HKIHT

The first joint seminar with HKIE Civil Division was successfully held on 3 February 2021. Prof. Yuhong Wang delivered a wonderful seminar with the topic of “Develop Prefabricated Urban Road Pavements For a More Sustainable and Smart City”, which attracted around 500 participants. They have known more about the technologies to create different pavements for a more sustainable and smart city. Missed this seminar? Never mind! Please stay tuned for the upcoming ones. Details can be found at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/news-and-events/event/.

Online Seminar - From 'Research to Publication'

CEE Research Scholars Alumni Association has invited Prof. Xiangdong Li to deliver an online seminar “From Research to Publication” on 27 Jan 2021.  Over 790 past and current CEE research students and staffs joined the seminar. Participants have gained an understanding of conducting high-quality research and writing high-quality journal papers.   

News Release on Research of Halogen's Role in Air Pollution

In collaboration with partners, Prof. Tao Wang’s research team measured a suite of reactive halogen gases and other chemicals in winter 2017 in northern China which frequently suffers from severe air pollution in winter. Strong evidence was found that rural coal burning was a major source of the detected reactive halogens. The highly reactive halogen can boost formation of haze. They call for more research to better understand the source(s) and the spatial extent of the role of the halogen chemistry in the polluted continental regions. They also suggest need to control halogens from coal-burning, in addition to well recognized CO2, sulfur, nitrogen, particulate, and mercury. Their work was published at National Science Review and reported by Science China Press at EurekAlert!, ScienMag, and Phys.org. More details can be found at https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-01/scp-rhf012521.php.  

IACIP Best Student Poster Award

Congratulations to our PhD students, Danning LI, Fuliao ZOU, and Linyi Yao, for obtaining the “Best Student Poster Award” in the 11th International Association of Chinese Infrastructure Professionals (IACIP) Annual Workshop, 2021.  

CEW Best Presentation Award

Congratulations to Mr Zhifei Tan (PhD candidate supervised by Dr Zhen Leng) on winning the Best Presentation Award in the 6th Chinese-European Workshop on Functional Pavements (CEW) hosted by Southeast University in October 2020. His presentation title is “3D Numerical Modeling of the Aggregate Contact Effect on the Complex Modulus of Asphalt Concrete”.

CEE Researchers Won International Competition Awards

Congratulations to Yao Du, Xiaoyou Wang, Lingfang Li, Wei Tian and Rongrong Hou, who won two Third Prizes in the 1st International Project Competition for Structural Health Monitoring. The two teams ranked No. 5 over 30 and No. 3 over 15 respectively. They are PhD students/Postdoc fellows under supervision of Prof. Yong Xia.

PolyU Info Day for Taught Postgraduate Programmes

The PolyU Info Day for Taught Postgraduate Programmes was successfully held on 9 January 2021. Applicants got the chance to learn more about the Postgraduate Scheme in Construction and Environment and join the programme consultation sessions hosted by individual programme leaders. Still have questions? Feel free to visit our website at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cee/study/taught-postgraduate-programmes/. 

Best Oral Presentation Award of CMA 2020

Dr H C Ho has made a presentation entitled “Determination of true stress strain characteristics of structural steels using Instantaneous Area Method” in the 2nd International Conference on Metals and Alloys (CMA 2020) in December 2020, which was well received by the Conference. Dr Ho was awarded the “Best Oral Presentation” in the area of innovation engineering application of metals and alloys by Prof. M. A. Wahab, Chairman of the CMA 2020. 

Major research funding from NSFC awarded to Prof. Xiangdong Li

Prof. Xiangdong Li has recently been awarded RMB 15,000,000 from the NSFC Major Research Plan for a two-year (2021-2022) Integrated Project entitled “Joint toxicity mechanisms and contributions of key bioactive components in airborne fine particulate matters (PM2.5) from typical urban areas of China”.   In collaboration with the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, and Tongji University, Prof. Li will employ advanced approaches from computational toxicology to machine learning, live cell imaging, multi-omics, and genome editing to answer what key toxic constituents and their mixtures are responsible for health effects of PM2.5, and, more importantly, to provide scientific evidence and technical support for precise mitigation of high-risk bioactive components that is essential for China’s strategies in the low-to-medium PM2.5 pollution scenario in the future.