New Era of Mechanical Engineering – towards Digitalization
机械工程新时代(智能制造技术)–过去，现在和未来
报告时间：2019年11月21日（周四）10：00-11：00
报告地点：宝山校区东区9号楼604
报告题目：New Era of Mechanical Engineering – towards Digitalization
报告人：Professor Alan Kin Tak Lau (欧洲科学院院士、欧洲科学及艺术学院院士)
内容简介：Since the 18th century, the manufacturing industry in China has gone through a dramatic change due to low investment costs, in terms of labour, rents and facilities with the back by large enterprises their base from other countries. However, with the success of new technology development and the protection of knowledge, different manufacturing models were arisen to support the effectiveness and efficiency of product design and manufacturing. CAD/CAE/CAM was firstly introduced followed by product design platform. Recently, rapid development of computer processing capability has driven the new era of digitalized manufacturing technology which highly relies on data to design, monitor, adjust and control the precision and safety in the production process. Industry 4.0 has been introduced few years ago to further advance this technology by linking stakeholders from different sectors to implement the design and manufacturing processes via cloud data sharing. This technology also draws the users’ attention on issues related to data security, intellectual property protection and ethics. This change also brings the core business of mechanical engineering turning to the development of new materials (from macro down to nano scale), automation, 3D printing and computational modelling and analysis. In this lecture, an in depth discussion on aforementioned items will be given.
报告人简介：Professor Lau is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance and Development) of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His duty is to look after ranking strategy of the university and international research partnerships. Before he moved to Swinburne, he was appointed as Alex Wong/Gigi Wong Professor in Product Design Engineering and Associate Dean (Industrial Relation) in the Faculty of Engineering of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Professor Lau has received numerous research and teaching awards in the past 15 years. He has published over 230 articles and received citations over 17,500 times with h-index of 64 to date (Google Scholar Citations). He was elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences and European Academy of Science and Arts in 2007 and 2016 respectively. He was also elected as International Vice President of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (2014 to 2019) and appointed as an Independent Non-executive Director of King’s Flair International (Holdings) Limited. This year, he has been named as the 2019 Australia’s National Research Leader in Composite Materials.
