5月29日，美国工程院院士、美国哈佛大学机械与材料系锁志刚教授在逸夫楼二楼演讲厅为我校师生作了题为《从哈佛求学到成为美国工程院院士》和《活性软物质力学（Mechanics of Soft Active Materials）》的报告。
报告中锁志刚教授通过自己求学和工作的经历，给广大师生展示了一个曾经懵懂的学生成长为国际知名学者所必须的准备。他告诉同学们：“Learn from great teacher, learn from fellow student, learn from great book, find something that you like to do and do it as well as you can, study English”，并激励同学们“要让自己先成为千里马”，因为“伯乐常在”。他也提醒老师们，合作非常重要，好的研究工作者要与不同学科的工作者合作，博采众长，有时甚至可以在学生身上获取灵感。
Lecture 'Mechanics of Soft Active Materials' by Zhigang Suo was successfully held in Tongji Univ.
On May 29th, Prof. Zhigang Suo, a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and professor of Mechanics and Materials at Harvard University, made two lectures for teachers and students in Tongji University, titled “from study in Harvard to be elected to the US National Academy of Engineering” and “Mechanics of Soft Active Materials”.
In the former lecture, Prof. Zhigang Suo showed the necessary preparations of becoming internationally renowned scholars from common students. “Learn from great teacher, learn from fellow student, learn from great book, find something that you like to do and do it as well as you can, study English”, said he, and encouraged students to be excellent for being chosen. In addition, he suggested teachers importance of cooperation and get inspiration form their colleagues, from peers of different fields and even from students.
In the latter report, Prof. Zhigang Suo vividly introduced the establishment of gel material model in a concise way, in which physical phenomena and mechanism were illustrated reasonably from basic concepts. Teachers and students at presence were strongly attracted by new research ideas- emphasizing on concepts and experiments-proposed by Prof. Zhigang Suo. Inspired by the lectures, the teachers and students questioned enthusiastically, and had a lively discussion about some questions.
About 180 teachers and students from Tongji, Fudan and Shanghai universities attended the lecture.
