Recently, Li Hui, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a distinguished alumna of QUT’s Class of 1984, returned to her alma mater to offer guidance on the university’s high-quality development. President Zhang Kai and Vice President Chen Shaojuan met with her and attended relevant activities.
During the meeting, Zhang Kai welcomed Li Hui on behalf of the university and introduced QUT’s overall development, disciplinary layout and future plans. He said Academician Li, as a distinguished alumna, has made outstanding achievements in civil engineering and brought wide recognition to the university. He hoped she would offer valuable advice based on her experience in major engineering research and top research team building, especially on overcoming bottlenecks in discipline development, exploring new pathways for research breakthroughs, and improving talent cultivation.
Academician Li Hui expressed her pleasure at the progress of the university. Drawing on her experience at the academic frontiers, she offered systematic and forward-looking suggestions on interdisciplinary development, research team cultivation and serving major national strategies. She encouraged students to build a solid professional foundation, keep abreast of academic frontiers and national development needs, and grow into outstanding application-oriented research talent capable of shouldering major responsibilities.
Li Hui visited the School of Civil Engineering History Museum, where she reviewed the school’s educational traditions with faculty and students, learned about its educational philosophy, and listened to reports on discipline development achievements and plans for the 15th Five-Year Plan period. She focused on distinctive areas including advanced marine engineering materials, multi-hazard resilience of marine engineering, intelligent operation and maintenance of sea-land transportation engineering, and marine resources and energy development. She praised the school’s recent reforms and innovation and offered suggestions on refining disciplinary directions and improving talent cultivation models. She then visited the Comprehensive Experimental Center for Disaster Prevention and Mitigation and the Rail Transit Comprehensive Experimental Center, where she learned about the operation of research platforms and recognized the laboratory development.
Heads of the Party and Administration Office and the School of Civil Engineering, as well as faculty and student representatives, attended the activities.