From June 25 to June 30, 2017, the 27th International Ocean and Polar Engineering Conference (ISOPE & rsquo; 2017) was held in San Francisco, USA, and more than 1080 experts and scholars from universities, research institutions, enterprises and industrial circles from 55 countries and regions of the world attended the meeting.
At the dinner for the annual ISOPE conference in June 28th, the chairman of the ISOPE Institute, Hyun Woo Jin, announced that after the recommendation of senior experts and the vote of all technical committee members (TPC), Professor Wan Decheng, from the school of marine and architectural engineering of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, was elected as a member of the new international ISOPE society board (Board of Directors), and was appointed as the chairman of International Hydrodynamics Committee (IHC).