Overseas Alumni Association of Dalian University of Technology

Dear Alumni:
 
DUT President Cheng GengDong visited Boston from Dec.9 to Dec 11.

Thanks to the great organizational effort of Dr. Liu RuiMing, Professor of University of Massachusetts at Boston, about a dozen local alumni gathered in Boston's Ming Garden Friday evening to welcome President Cheng and Prof. Yuan YiJun, Director of Economic Research Center of School of Management at DUT. 

During the gathering, President briefed alumni on DUT's recent development and news.    DUT made good strikes in getting outside funding.   President Cheng is very confident that with continued efforts, DUT will be among some of the front runners in Chinese Universities as far as research funding is concerned.  Detailed information cannot be disclosed since the competition for government funding is very intensive.   There are a few ranking systems in China that rank universities every year.   DUT was runked 11th, 10th, 15th at times by  different ranking organizations.  President Cheng said, DUT is within top 15~30 ranges among all the universities in China by any ranking.

So far, DUT has nine Academicians and Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and   Engineering.   Sixteen  DUT graduates are Academicians and Members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Engineering, in addition to 17 Acamedician   and Members (of  the two Academies) who were former DUT faculties.

President Cheng said that he welcomes each and every support from alumni, especially overseas alumni . DUT faces some challenges in the number of scientific/engineering papers to be published overseas.   President Cheng encourages overseas alumni  help DUT on the following:

1. Help professors review and polish their English papers for publication.  Other Universities in China have already done so, and it was very effective.   This is much needed.
2. Help DUT professors in directing their research.  Now, there are about 30 overseas alumni in the rank of Professors in universities abroad.   He sincerely hope that these professors have active collaborations with DUT professors.   
3. President Cheng invites all home-visiting alumni to give academic presentations at DUT.
4. Found raising.   He indicated that the influence of Overseas Alumni Fund in DUT is invaluable.  Each dollar donated to DUT has made some great difference in changing a student's life and career.  He said DUT truly appreciates all the fund-raising efforts by overseas alumni, and the special efforts made by Alumni Wang Jun, Gu ZhiHao, Jim Yang and Zhang JiGuang
who were the Fund Chairs. Basically, as Dr. Wang XiaoGang said,  if DUT are strong, alumni feel strong.   Every penny donated, in return, will make alumni more glorious.
5. Help DUT develop its Web Site using state-of-the-art Technologies and host the site in the States.   He praised the efforts by Lu Ming Liang,  Lei Jiang, Wang WenHua, Zhu DongPing and other team members. 
6. DUT welcomes any suggestions from alumni.  The DUT leadership is very open to suggestions and critics.

President Cheng thanks those alumni who attended the Boston Gathering and those who called or tried to reach him.   He appreciated all the excellent suggestions by alumni during the meeting.   

The following Alumni attended the Welcome Party:

Name           DUT Major

Du KaiSheng Engineering Mechanics
Gu Hong EE
Guo Qin CS
Jing ZhiYing EE
Li ShiPing EE
Liu Rui Ming Math and Management
Li YuFeng EE
Li YuFeng's Daughter
Wang ShanKun EE
Yong Mei EE
You GuangHua EE
Zhu YiZu ChemE

The following alumni called or met President Cheng in NY or Boston:
Ji Jiang ChemE
Song DongMing Mech. Eng. (Met President Cheng in Columbia University)
Wang ZhenYu Math (Professor of Columbia University, Senior Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of New Yrok).
Wang WenHua EE
Xie XueLi EE

Article by
Yizu Zhu in Boston

P.S.  Some of the information is based on my recollections, please correct if there is any inaccurate information.

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