ZHOU Fu-lin, professor, academician of the China institute of Engineering, a well-know expert in earthquake engineering and Director of the University's Earthquake Engineering Risearch & Text Center. Being the firs academicinan of the China Institute of Engineering nurtured by GU, he is primarily engaged in teaching and research in the fields of architectural struture and earchquake engineering. He has been is charge of 11 research projects supported by the National Science Fund and the US Science Fund. He has also been in charge of Sino-US joint technological projects and UNIDO scientific and technological research projects. Professor ZHOU has had up to 100 research papers(in Chinese or English) published. He is the winner of one 2nd Clas National Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement, one 1st Class Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement awarded by the Ministry of Construction and one 1st Class Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement awarded by Guangdong Province..