DATE:2018-11-26  Source：Official Website

In the afternoon of November 25, professor Kulatilake from university of Arizona, an international famous expert in mining rock mechanics, came to visit our university and held an exchange forum in conference room A608, Shaw Building, golden campus. Zhao kui, dean of the school of Resources and Environmental Engineering, and teachers from related majors attended the symposium. At the meeting, zhao kui first expressed a warm welcome to professor Kulatilake's visit, he briefly introduced the basic situation of our school from the development history, college setting, faculty and other aspects, explained the basic situation of our school from the historical evolution, faculty scientific research, students' work, teachers' work, management planning five aspects in detail, and emphatically introduced the major of mining engineering. Professor Kulatilake gave full recognition to the achievements of our school in recent years and praised the scientific research of mining engineering. Kulatilake said that the purpose of this visit is to understand the general situation of our school, focus on the research of mining engineering, and look forward to establishing a long-term cooperative relationship with us. Afterwards, the two sides exchanged and discussed the problems of teaching and scientific research and the introduction of doctoral talents, and the teachers of mining engineering shared their teaching and scientific research experience. Kulatilake is currently a professor of geological engineering/geotechnical engineering at the university of Arizona, USA, an internationally renowned expert in mining rock mechanics, director of the rock simulation and computational rock mechanics laboratory at the university of Arizona, a registered civil engineer in the United States, and a senior member of the American society of civil engineers. He has nearly 40 years of research experience in rock mechanics and rock engineering, which mainly involves mining, geotechnical, geological and petroleum engineering fields. His research interests include rock fracture network simulation, mechanical and hydraulic characteristics of jointed rock mass, rock slope stability analysis and probability geotechnical mechanics.

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