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How to Make Cities More Livable? The Second MEM Forum: Experts and Scholars Offer Suggestions for "Smart City"

发布时间:2019-06-21

  College of Management and Economics

  May 25th

  On May 25th, the Second MEM Forum was successfully held in Weijin Road Campus of Tianjin University (hereinafter refer to as TJU). The theme of the Forum was "Build a Smart City, Create a Bright Future". Sponsored by TJU MEM project,the Forum reviewed the development process of TJU MEM project, and discussed the future development direction of the industry based on the concept and ideas of Smart City.

  Professor Bao-feng Huo, Dean of CoME, and Professor Nan Feng, Vice Dean of CoME, Xue-qing Wang,Professor of CoME and Vice Director of Guidance Commission on Engineering Cost Education under Ministry of Education of P.R.C, Tie-jun Cui, Distinguished Professor of College of Geography and Environmental Science, Tianjin Normal University, Zi-jian Bai, Director of Traffic Planning Research Center of Tianjin Municipal Engineering Design and Research Institute, Tao Wan, Traffic Model Expert of Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute,Hai-na Wang, General Manager of Tianjin Guangzheng Construction Project Consulting co., LTD., and other senior experts and scholars in related industries attended the Forum. More than 200 people including MEM teachers and students, alumni and industry peers were present to exchange ideas. The Forum was hosted by Professor Hui Sun, Director of MEM project.

  Professor Nan Feng gave a welcome speech. He pointed out that Smart City is a highly interdisciplinary subject, not only involving Engineering Management, but also Transportation, Environmental Information and other fields. It is not only the development of technology, but also the transformation of development ideas.

  Professor Xue-qing Wang made a detailed introduction to the development of MEM major in China. She deeply analyzed the current situation and development direction of MEM major, and introduced the advantages and features of MEM program in TJU, such as training mode, teaching staff, curriculum arrangement and alumni resources.

  Professor Hui Sun talked about what an ideal Smart City looked like based on her own experience, and encouraged the students to study hard and contribute to the construction of Smart City.

  Professor Bao-feng Huo pointed out that the industry would enter the era of big data and artificial intelligence in the future, and would face many challenges. We had the obligation to integrate school resources, government resources and industry resources to provide impetus for reform and innovation and contribute to social development.

  Professor Tie-jun Cui discussed the development of information, mining information value from massive data to provide services for decision-making. Director Zi-jian Bai discussed how to realize the intelligent, quality and scientific Road Engineering through scientific design. Tao Wan explained how to collect urban big data information, match urban traffic model and refine the model to provide basis for urban scientific planning. Hao Chen had drawn lessons from the concept of manufacturing asset management, and strove to provide decision makers with asset data collection, asset data collation and asset information model.

  In the question session, students put forward questions on the topic selection of Master's thesis, career planning, refined development of Urban Management, solving problems of visualization of traffic big data based on BIM information and other aspects. Experts and scholars answered questions from professional perspectives based on their own experience.