6月7日，应土木工程与力学学院、西部灾害与环境力学教育部重点实验室王记增教授邀请，美国Southern Methodist University高信林博士来我校进行学术合作交流并做了题为“3-D printable Interpenetrating Phase Composites with a Re-Entrant Phase and Negative Poisson’s Ratios”的学术报告。
Dr. Xin-Lin Gao is currently a professor of mechanical engineering and the mechanics and manufacturing area director at Southern Methodist University located in Dallas, Texas. His other experience includes teaching at University of Texas-Dallas for 3 years, at Texas A&M University for 7 years, and at Michigan Technological University for 4 years. In addition, he was a visiting professor at University of Paris-East and has been a visiting chair professor at East China University of Science and Technology in Shanghai. He received an M.Sc. degree in Engineering Mechanics in May 1997 and a Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (with a minor in Mathematics) in May 1998, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has conducted research in a variety of areas in mechanics and materials and has authored 109 journal papers, 2 book chapters, and 126 conference and other publications. He has been a PI or Co-PI of funded research projects worth about $9.6M. He has been a reviewer for 105 journals, 9 publishers and 14 funding organizations and has organized 25 symposia at major international technical conferences. He has been an editor/guest editor of one book, proceedings of one conference, and four special journal issues. He currently serves on the editorial boards of seven journals. He was elected an ASME Fellow in January 2011. He was selected as an expert by the Shanghai Thousand Talents Program in 2013.