{"id":3266,"date":"2012-01-12T13:21:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T23:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=3266"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:36:10","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T23:36:10","slug":"zhejiang-university-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/01\/12\/zhejiang-university-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese agreement promotes joint engineering research"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Zhejiang University<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A new international five-year agreement promotes research collaboration between the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa College of Engineering<\/a> and China’s Zhejiang University College of Civil Engineering and Architecture<\/a> in various areas of civil and environmental engineering.<\/p>\n

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C.S. Papacostas<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering is ecstatic about our new international collaboration” with Chinese colleagues, said C.S. Papacostas<\/strong>, department chair.<\/p>\n

In addition to joint research endeavors, the recently signed memorandum of understanding between the two institutions calls for development of exchange programs for faculty and doctoral students and possible establishment of a new English instruction-based curriculum for Zhejiang.<\/p>\n

Ten years older than the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and based in Hangzhou, Zhejiang is a key comprehensive institution offering studies in philosophy, literature, history, education, science, economics, law, management, engineering, agriculture and medicine.<\/p>\n

Mānoa’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering<\/a> has expertise in construction management, environmental and water resources engineering and geotechnical, structural and transportation engineering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Civil and environmental research is focus of five-year agreement with Zhejiang University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[179,182,9],"class_list":["post-3266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t