主办单位：苏州科技大学土木工程学院

土木工程学院青年教师发展委员会

土木工程学院关工委

报告内容简介：

The fear to challenge the status quo in geo-engineering is an obstacle to advancing the science. There are many indicators to know that previous knowledge developed by our predecessors, while useful at the time of their development have reached their limits of applicability. While this observation may seem obvious to trigger the debate necessary for change, the fear of retribution from our predecessors with a potential to stifle the progress of the younger generation has restricted this debate. Consequently, the advancement of the science of geo-engineering is now limited what we have known in the past half-century with the result that this previous knowledge is recycled and sometimes with arguments that support flawed previous concepts and theory, all because of fear of retribution. This talk is intended to initiate legitimate debates on our pioneering predecessors’ contributions to geo-engineering, while acknowledging them as such, to enable us to move forward in advancing the science of geo-engineering with open-mindedness.

主讲人简介：

Dr. Suorineni is currently Professor of Mining Engineering in the School of Mining and Geosciences at Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan. He was Acting Dean and Dean of the School of Mining and Geosciences from 2018 to 2020 and Professor and Inaugural Chair of Mine Geotechnical Engineering at the School of Mining Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney), Australia from 2013 to 2017. Dr Suorineni obtained his B.Sc. from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana; M.Sc. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (now Newcastle University), Britain, and Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Suorineni is a globally recognised award winning academic and consultant with over 30 years’ experience in teaching, research and consulting in Africa, North America, Australia, and Europe. In 2016, Dr. Suorineni was appointed as International Member of the Technical Committee on Mining Engineering of China ENFI Engineering Co Ltd. Beijing and was reappointed as an International Expert of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of China Mining Innovation Beijing Engineering Research Centre in 2019. Dr. Suorineni is a visiting Professor to the Northeastern University, Shenyang, China. Professor Suorineni has the rare distinction of winning the Douglas Hay Medal twice for best papers published in the Transactions of the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (Section A): Mining Technology in 2012 and 2015, respectively. He was also co-Author of the best paper published at the 13th Congress of the International Society for Rock Mechanics (ISRM) in Montreal in 2015. Dr. Suorineni is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), London. In 2016, Dr. Suorineni was admitted as permanent member of the International Organizing Committee (IOC) of the World Mining Congress. Professor Suorineni has given many invited lectures around the world including in Australia, Canada, Poland, Turkey, Chile, South Korea, Ghana, China, Brazil, Japan, and Kazakhstan. Dr. Suorineni has published over 200 technical papers and holds two Ips, including the Combined Compression and Shear (C-CAST) testing system now used around the world.