The 10th East Asia Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Workshop

The 10th East Asia Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Workshop (EAMAE-2024) was very successfully held in National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan on 21-23 November 2024.

EAMAE-2024 was the tenth one in this annual workshop series. Four top-notch universities in the East Asia region, i.e., Hokkaido University, Korea University, National Cheng Kung University and Hong Kong Polytechnic University, are the main participating universities. This workshop series has created a platform not only for academics from these four universities to exchange ideas and views in the broad area of mechanical and aerospace engineering, but also for research students to mingle together and exchange their learning and research experiences. The workshop has been interrupted since 2020 as a result of the COVID. Now, the alliance of four universities has decided to resume this annual event, EAMAE-2024 has extended the success that has been well maintained by previous workshops in Seoul (2011 & 2015 & 2019), Tainan (2012 & 2016), Sapporo (2013 & 2017) and Hong Kong (2014 & 2018).

Approximately 100 participants participated in EAMAE-2024, delivering about 35 oral presentations in 4 parallel sessions, i.e., Energy, Biomechanics, Aerodynamics as well as Control and Structure. Professors from each of the four universities were invited to deliver keynote lectures. The event also featured poster presentations by students, showcasing their research and fostering engagement. Meanwhile, discussions were made among the participating departments on continuing the facilitating of student exchange programmes. All these elements contributed to making EAMAE-2024 one of the significant events in this series history.

Our PolyU ME team won four awards this year. We are very proud of their fabulous presentations and excellent research work. They demonstrated exceptional academic presentation and research communication skills, effectively explaining their research and its significance to audiences.

EAMAE-2024 was also highlighted with elaborately designed social activities reflecting the culture of Taiwan. These activities include traditional lunch at the Local Chicken Restaurant, Excursion Trip in Wushantou Reservoir and some others in which participants mingled together and had a lot of fun.

Prof. SU Zhongqing, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Chair Professor of Intelligent Structures and Systems, attended this annual event with 7 academic staff and 14 research students who had fully committed themselves to preparation of this event. It was the aspirations, hard work, and devoted efforts from this group of staff and students that have made EAMAE-2024 another successful event in this workshop series.

The next EAMAE will be hosted by Hokkaido University in Sapporo in 2025.