Zhuang Zuo, professor of Tsinghua University School of Aerospace Engineering, was elected vice president of the International Association for Computational Mechanics on July 26.IACM, established in 1980s, is an international mechanics academic organization with more than 5,100 registered members from 33 countries and regions in America, Asia-Oceania, Europe-Middle East-Africa. It has about 610 ...

A joint team from Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Institute of Satellite Engineering named TsinghuaLAD&509 has won the Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition, one of the prestigious international competitions in space mission design.This is the first time that a Tsinghua team has ever won this competition.The team won first place in the 11th Global Trajectory Optimisation Competition (...

A study by a research team from the Tsinghua School of Aerospace Engineering, in collaboration with Harvard University researchers, has revealed the key mechanisms behind deep brain stimulation (DBS) used to treat Parkinson’s disease.The findings will help to optimize treatment plans and improve the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease.Published in the journalAnnals of Neurolo...