WPI’s Strategic Alliance with Lanzhou University
Lanhzou University of Technology is the home of China’s State Key Laboratory for Non-ferrous Metals. WPI’s Metal Processing Laboratory (MPI) has a strategic alliance with this State Key Lab and Prof. Li, its Director and Dean spent a year at WPI working with Apelian in 2009. There is ongoing collaboration in self-inoculation, semi solid processing, and magnesium research between MPI and Lanhzou’s State Key Laboratory. The Deputy President of the University, Dr. Xia Tian-Dong presented Apelian with a statue of the “Mother of the Yellow River”.