IE International Exchange Program IE1 What Makes New Ideas in Fluid Power Succeed? Wolfgang BACKÉ (IFAS,RWTH Aachen University) 　 Resume of Wolfgang BACKÉ 　 Back� Nikolaus, Wolfgang em. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.hc. mult. ba@ifas.rwth-aachen.de Date of birth July 25, 1929 Place of birth: Kidifu/Tansania Nationality: German Married with Rosemarie Back� � four children Education: Abitur 1950 Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen 1950 - 1955 Career History: Research Officer at the Institute of Machine Tools at RWTH Aachen 1955 - 1959 Doctorate (Dr.-Ing.) 1959 Senior Research Officer at the same Institute 1960 - 1962 Qualification as University Lecturer for 'Hydraulic Drives and Control for Machine Tools' 1962 Deputy Director of the Institute for Machine Tools at the Technical University of Karlsruhe 1962 - 1963 Industrial occupation at a renowned Machine Tool Company, at last as Development Manager 1964 - 1968 Call to the Chair for Fluid Power Drives and Control, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, RWTH Aachen, Director of the same named Institute 1968 - 1994 Emeritus Professor 1994 Member of the Board resp. Scientific Consultant of companies Scientific Honours: Honourary Professor of the Technical University of Tajyuan, , VR China 1981 and the Technical University Hangzhou, VR China 1989 Honourary doctorate by the University of Tampere, Finland 1992 Joseph Bramah Medal of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, England 1993 Honorary doctorate by the University of Linköping, Sweden 1993 Presentation of the 80th Thomas Hawksley Memorial Lecture, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London 1993 Honourary doctorate by the University of Bath, U.K. 1994 A&M-Award for Technology and applied 2000 Natural Sciences Public Honours: Distinguished Service Cross of the Federal Republic of Germany 1988 First class Service Cross 1997 Publications: About 150 Papers in Technical Journals and Conference-Publications; 8 books Doctor Thesis: 'Investigations in steady and unsteady copying systems for lathes' 1959 Post doctorate Thesis: 'Dynamic stability of hydraulic controls under consideration of flow forces' 1962 Hobbies: Golf and Cycling 　 　 IE2 Recent Research of Fluid Power at Yanshan University Xiangdong KONG(Vice President of Yanshan University), Shan DONGSHENG (Yanshan University) 　 Resume of Xiangdong KONG 　 I graduated from Zhejiang University in July 1982 and obtained Master and Doctor Degree in Yanshan University in 1985 and 1991. I am a full professor now. I teach Control Engineering Basis, Electro-hydraulic Control System, Hydraulic Transmission System and System Simulation etc. and yet direct postgraduate students. In the same time, I do some researches work in the area of the electro-mechanical control engineering and machine design. Meanwhile, I do some managerial work in education and research. My major foundation projects are Development of new DC type of 4-high-mill supported by National Doctoral Foundation of China, Application research of pipe dynamic characteristics supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China and Research of dynamic rolling process simulation of strip mill supported by Natural Science Foundation of Herbei Province of China, etc. My major research directions are Mechtronics engineering, Fluid power transmission and control system, Rolling mill control system and Computer application in machinery design, etc. I obtained many awards from our Chinese Government, Hebei Province and our university such as first prize in Nation Science and Technology Award (1999), prize in Nation Youth Science and Technology Creation Award (2000), etc.