报告题目：A UK perspective on Civil & Environmental Engineering（英国的土木与环境工程）

报告人：Professor Alistair Borthwick (英国爱丁堡大学)

报告时间：2019年1月23日下午14:00~16:00

报告地点：上海大学宝山校区东区土木楼312

报告简介

Civil & Environmental Engineering is about to be transformed due to the digital revolution. This lecture will first describe the history of Civil & Environmental Engineering research and education from a UK perspective, focusing on the Universities of Oxford and Edinburgh. A comparison will then be made between different teaching approaches, notably the tutorial system at Oxford. Ongoing trends in research in Civil & Environmental engineering will be discussed. A summary will also be given of the speaker’s research interests relating to environmental engineering. The lecture will conclude with a vision of changes to come, primarily driven by advances in big data analytics, artificial intelligence, advanced materials, and the need for human creativity as many professional activities become automated.

主讲人简介

Professor Alistair Borthwick

Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Edinburgh, UK and Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

英国皇家工程院院士、英国爱丁堡皇家学会会员

Professor Alistair Borthwick has 40 years’ experience as a Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics at The University of Edinburgh and an Emeritus Fellow at St Edmund Hall, Oxford. He was previously Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, where he worked for 21 years from 1990-2011. He was Head of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University College Cork from 2011-13, where he was the Founding Director of the SFI Centre for Marine and Renewable Energy Ireland (MaREI). Prof. Borthwick’s research interests include environmental fluid mechanics, river basin management, coastal and ocean engineering, water and wastewater treatment, and marine renewable energy. Prof. Borthwick is a Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.