On the afternoon of October 18, the Honorary Professor Awarding Ceremony was held in the first Conference Room of the Administration Building. President Ying Yibin awarded letters of appointment to Norman Roy Scott, a Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and former Vice President of Cornell University, and Andreas Cangellaris, Vice President of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He officially appointed them two honorary professors of our university. Vice President Shen Xi presided over the ceremony and the persons in charge of the Personnel Division and International Office attended the ceremony.

At the ceremony, President Ying Yibin extended thanks to the two professors for attending our university's 60th anniversary celebration and introduced the university's current situation and cooperation with the two international universities. He said the appointment of two honorary professors will undoubtedly promote cooperation, academic exchanges and research between the two parties. Academician Norman Roy Scott and Vice President Andreas Cangellaris introduced their universities respectively, hoping to take this opportunity to deepen exchanges and cooperation with our university. President Ying Yibin presented Certificates of Honorary Professor to the two professors. The two parties exchanged gifts and posed for a picture together.

Norman Roy Scott, now a Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and former Vice-President of Cornell University, has been working on sustainable development research since 1998, focusing on the fields of biofuels, renewable energy, recycling, ecosystem management and industrial ecology. Andreas Cangellaris is currently Vice President of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1985, and has been a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign since 1997.