2009 CAFOE Program

2009 China-America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

Chinese Academy of Engineering – U.S. National Academy of Engineering

October 17-21, 2009
Beijing and Changsha, China

 PROGRAM

Saturday, October 17

18:15

Buses depart Guohong Hotel for CAE Headquarters

19:00-21:00

Welcome reception for U.S. Participants and Chinese Organizers at the Headquarters of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Beijing

Sunday, October 18

07:00

Breakfast at Guohong Hotel

07:30

Depart Guohong Hotel for sightseeing on the way to the airport

11:25

U.S. participants travel from Beijing to Changsha (CA1349)

13:00-18:00

Registration (Lobby, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

18:30-20:30

Reception (Ginkgo Cantonese Restaurant, 2nd Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

Monday, October 19

07:00-08:00

Breakfast (Crape Myrtle Hunan Restaurant or Red Forest Western Restaurant, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

08:15

Opening Ceremony (Xiaoxiang Hall, 3rd Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

Welcome

Chuanxian Zhang, Secretary of Hunan Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China

Professor Kuangdi Xu, President, Chinese Academy of Engineering

Dr. Charles M. Vest, President, U.S. National Academy of Engineering

08:30-08:45

Photo-taking

08:45-09:00

Dr. Zhihua Zhong, President, Hunan University, and CAFOE co-chair

Dr. Zhigang Suo, Professor, Harvard University, and CAFOE co-chair

09:00-10:30

Engineering and Public Health: Ensuring Food Safety
Co-chairs: Ning Li, China Agricultural University and Bradley Marks, Michigan State University

Capability Building of Food Safety: Where Do We Stand in China?
Yongning Wu, Professor, Department of Monitoring and Control for Contaminants, National Institute of Nutrition and Food Safety, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention

The Food Safety Objective Approach to Risk-Based Process Design
Nathan Anderson, U.S. Food and Drug Administration

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Engineering and Public Health: Ensuring Food Safety (cont’d)

GMOs Analysis in China 
Dabing Zhang, Professor, Department of Life Science and Biotechnology Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Implementing Novel Food Technologies by Ensuring the Public Health – A Risk-Based Process Validation Approach
Ferhan Ozadali, Principal Scientist and Global Process Authority, Nestlé

12:30-13:45

Lunch (Food Street, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

13:45-14:30

Poster sessions I (odd numbers)

14:30-15:15

Poster sessions II (even numbers)

15:15-15:45

Break

15:45-17:15

New Energy-Saving Technologies     
Co-chairs: Suping Peng, China University of Mining and Technology, and Tina Salguero, Chemistry and Materials Science Research

Materials Solutions for Energy Conversion and Storage: Fuel Cells and Solar Fuel Generators
Sossina Haile, Professor of Materials Science and of Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Development in China
Minfang Han, Professor, China University of Mining & Technology (Beijing)

18:00

Banquet (Hunan Hall, 3rd Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

19:00

Dinner Speech-Wenchuan Earthquake and its Implications in Engineering
Baitao Sun, Research Professor, Deputy Director of Institute of Engineering Mechanics, China Earthquake Administration

20:30 (approx)

End of the dinner

Tuesday, October 20

07:00-08:00

Breakfast (Crape Myrtle Hunan Restaurant or Red Forrest Western Restaurant, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

08:30-10:00

New Energy-Saving Technologies (cont’d)

New Approaches to Hydrogen Storage
Jason Graetz, Assistant Scientist, Energy Sciences & Technology, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Direct Coal Liquefaction & CO2 Abatement Demonstration Project
Yuzhuo Zhang, President and CEO, Shenhua Group Corporation

10:00-10:30

Break

10:30-12:00

Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Systems
Co-chairs: Reginald DesRoches, Georgia Institute of Technology, and Jinping Ou, Dalian University of Technology      

 

Bridges for the Flat World: Next-Generation Highway Bridge Structures
Bozidar Stojadinovic, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Berkeley

 

Natural Disaster Evaluation and Mitigation of Electric Power Grid Infrastructures in China
Qiang Xie, Associate Professor, Department of Building Engineering, Tongji University

12:00-13:00

Lunch (Food Street, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

13:00-14:30

Sustainable and Disaster-Resilient Infrastructure Systems (cont’d)

Ubiquitous Sensing at the Cyber-Physical Interface for Sustainable and Safe Infrastructure
Jerome Lynch, Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan

Monitoring, Evaluation, Design and Control for Life-Cycle Performance of Key Civil Engineering
Hui Li, Professor, Harbin Institute of Technology

14:30-15:00

Break 

15:00 -

Technical or cultural tour
1. Yuelu Academy 
2. State Key Laboratory of Advance Desing and Manufacturing for Vehicle Body, Hunan University
3.State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, Hunan University

19:00-21:00

Dinner (Xihulou Hotel, Golden-horse Food Street, Hongshan Tourism Region, Changsha)

Wednesday, October 21

07:00

Breakfast (Crape Myrtle Hunan Restaurant or Red Forest Western Restaurant, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

08:30-10:00

Intelligent Transportation Systems
Co-chairs: Darcy Bullock, Purdue University, and Jianping Wu, Beijing University of Posts and Communications

Estimating Arterial Travel Time Using Vehicle Signature Re-identification
Brian Fuller, Sensys Networks

The Intelligent Transport Systems in Beijing Olympic Games
Jianping Wu, Beijing University of Posts and Communications

10:00-10:25

Break

10:25-11:55

Intelligent Transportation Systems (cont’d)

 

Developing Procedures for Estimating Capacity of U-turn Movement at Median Openings
Pan Liu, Professor, School of Transportation, Southeast University in Nanjing

 

Application of Probe Data for Transportation System Management
Jay Wasson, Indiana Department of Transportation

11:55-12:00

Concluding Remarks

12:00

Lunch (Food Street, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

Afternoon

Culture Visit

18:00

Dinner (Food Street, 1st Floor Building One, Vaya International Hotel—TBC)

Thursday, October 22

07:00-08:00

Breakfast (Crape Myrtle Hunan Restaurant or Red Forest Western Restaurant, 1st Floor, Building One, Vaya International Hotel)

Depart