主题：What is engineering research

时间：2016年6月15日（周三）上午9:30-11:30

特邀嘉宾：澳大利亚詹姆斯库克大学何英和教授

地点：邵科馆一楼接待室

嘉宾简介：

 澳大利亚詹姆斯库克大学终身教授、博士生导师。从事和主持了多个不同领域的课题研究， 涉及面广泛并多学科交叉。 所涉及的学科包括化工，食品，机械与材料工程和提取冶金。 其范围涵盖特性微胶囊及粉体的设计与制作，多相流过程，界面现象， 纳米材料和生物材料， 从微流体，纳米技术到大规模的多相流技术在储能， 制药和食品等工业的应用。 尤其对非连续相 (固体颗粒或粉末，液珠或气泡) 的形成， 制作， 表征，以及它们之间的相互作用有较深的研究。共出版了三本专著中的 3 个章节， 58 篇杂志论文， 62 篇会议论文， 11 篇工业研究报告以及 16 次特邀报告。 论文它引次数超过 1880 次。 1 项专利。担任英国化学工程师协会会士 (Fellow, IChemE)、 注册工程师 (CEng)；澳大利亚工程师协会会士 (Fellow, IEAust)、澳大利亚詹姆斯库克大学工程与数理学院院长等职务。

主题简介：Traditionally, engineering is a profession that translate scientific discoveries into useful technologies. In research, however, the advancement of knowledge at present is such that the boundary between science and engineering is becoming increasingly vague. Many engineering professionals are in fact conducting research in domains of basic science and vice versa. In the other end of the spectrum, most industry driven engineering research is still taking the empirical or try-and-error approach, which is very restrictive and can only lead to incremental improvements. In this presentation, I will use two examples (microparticle production and acid mist suppression) to illustrate the different approaches that are used in engineering research and argue that engineering professionals are better equipped to conduct translational research than discovery type of basic science research. To be effective, however, engineering research must make full use of basic scientific principles.