To promote academic exchanges and knowledge sharing, and enhance the knowledge and understanding of science and engineering fields among college students and teaching staff, the Faculty of Innovation Engineering of MUST conducts the Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering (ISE) Lecture Series (2025) by inviting well-known scholars and professionals from different fields to share their insights on the latest research results and application practices in science and engineering. The second seminar of the ISE Lecture Series were held on the afternoon of April 1, 2025 at the MUST LIU’s Innovation and Technology Center.
The lecture was hosted by the Head of Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Professor Ma Yibing, and attended by Associate Professor You Yan from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor Wang Qun and Assistant Professor Zhang Kai from the Department of Environmental Science and Engineering. Faculty of Innovation Engineering sincerely welcomed the graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from the FIE, as well as people interested in science and engineering to participate in this ISE Lecture Series and discuss the importance of interdisciplinarity studies and future development directions.
Professor Ma Yibing was hosting the lecture
The second lecture of the series, "Marine Environmental Crisis: Phenomena and Their Human-Driven Causes" was given by Professor Gao Huiwang, Dean of the Chongben Honors College, Ocean University of China. In the speech, he introduced that due to human activities and global warming, the marine environment is undergoing rapid changes. This lecture first outlined the brief history of marine environmental issues, then analyzed several typical marine environmental problems and their causes, such as ocean acidification, microplastic pollution, and green tide disasters. Professor Gao further discussed the main
factors affecting the marine environment through examples like the impact of Yellow River water and nutrient discharge on regulating primary production in the Bohai Sea and the trend of ocean desertification in the North Pacific over recent decades. This lecture emphasized the significant importance of integrated land-sea management and pollution reduction for marine environmental protection.
Professor Gao Huiwang was giving the speech
The lectures series is an important initiative of the Faculty of Innovation Engineering to cultivate outstanding talents with innovative thinking and interdisciplinary abilities. Lecture topics will cover a variety of fields, such as artificial intelligence, environmental engineering, materials science, and biomedical engineering, etc. Participants have the opportunity to learn from experts in academia who introduced cutting-edge technologies and research progress, and provided an in-depth discussion of challenges and opportunities in related fields for college teachers and students to stimulate innovative thinking in science and technology. The Faculty of Innovation Engineering will continue to hold more academic lectures to provide more practical information and platforms for our teachers and students to promote interdisciplinary integration and sharing of academic achievements, and to cultivate more outstanding leaders in science and engineering disciplines.
