May 20, Dr. David Hui, a professor of Mechanical Engineering and director of Composites Materials Research Laboratory at University of New Orleans, delivered an excellent lecture entitled “Composites under Harsh Environments: Civil Engineering and Aerospace Engineering perspectives” at Dongtangting in 13th building of School of Food Science and Engineering. The lecture presents an overview of the current state of the art in low temperature effects on materials in terms of durability and safety of vehicles. During the course, the relative graduate students and staff members actively exchanged some ideas and the experience of processing with Prof. David.

Dr. Davidreceived his Ph.D. from University of Toronto in Aerospace Engineering, and Master of Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has edited over 40 widely cited books, as evidence in the Google Search showing on these books. Other books includes, editor of Army Research Office workshop Dynamics of Structures proceedings, ICCE/1-24, SES, ASME books and numerous special issues of journals, and served as numerous keynote lecturers. He has served as founder and editor-in-chief of one of the most prestigious journals in composite materials, Composites B Engineering journal, currently in its 25th year of publication and impact factor is 2.983 in year 2015. This journal ranks in top 6% among 83 journals in Engineering Multidisciplinary catagory in ISI. Now, he serves on the editorial board of 11 SCI journals, seven of them are nano journals, and the rest are mostly composite materials journals. Dr. Hui is ASME Fellow, ICCE Life Member, AIAA Associate Fellow and CASI Associate Fellow. Dr. Hui was awarded for his excellent work with The Ohio State University Research Award, ASME Pressure Vessels and Piping Certificate of recognition, ASME Ralph James Award (ASME Petroleum Division), NASA Certificates of Recognition, ASME ETCE Service Awards, the University of New Orleans Alumni (lifetime) Career Research Achievement Award and the University of New Orleans, University Research Professor. Dr. Hui is the chairman of ICCE, which has grown to be one of the world's pre-eminent annual technical composite materials or nano-materials conference.