Dr. Hongwei Gave Lectures in School of Mechanical Engineering
From October 17, 2015 to October 27, 2015, Dr. Wu Hongwei was invited by School of Mechanical Engineering to teach one of the professional courses of "heat transfer" to the Class of 2012.
Dr. Hongwei received his BEng (1st Class Honours, 1998), and PhD (2004) with specialisation in Mechanical and Thermal Engineering (Thermo-fluids) from Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (now Beihang University), Beijing, China. Then he worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at The University of British Columbia (2004-2006) and University of Alberta (2006-2007) in Canada for 2.5 years, and then he was appointed as an Associate Professor at Beihang University (2007-2009). Afterwards, he came to UK worked as a research fellow at Brunel University London (2009-2012) and University of Birmingham (2012-2013) for over three years. Dr Wu joined the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) as a Lecturer in the School of Engineering and Computing since 1st August 2013.
Dr. Wu has been getting involved in various funded projects such as EU, EPSRC, NSERC (Canada), Royal Society, and he has published over 50 research papers in leading international journals as well as international conferences. Dr Wu has been a regular reviewer for over 20 leading journals, and he also serves as Technical Program Committee member in a number of international conferences. Apart from his academic background, Hongwei has a strong industrial link. He has developed research collaborations with leading companies in UK, Canada and China, who have supported his research.
Some full-time teachers were arranged as teaching assistant so as to achieve better teaching effect. Young teachers of Power Engineering Department and graduate students of Mechanical Manufacture and Automation, Process Equipment and Control and Chemical Engineering attended the classes. His lively and interesting lectures enlarged the vision of faculties. He also had an informal discussion with teachers and students about scientific research, open education, undergraduate education, etc.