Guest professor Ching Hung

Creative Design in Geotechnical Engineering

Professor Ching Hung from the National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, will visit the Institute of Geotechnical Engineering in April-May 2025, and teach the course 873021 "Creative Design in Geotechnical Engineering". You are warmly welcome to participate!

The course “Creative Design in Geotechnical Engineering” aims to explore design principles and creative thinking in geotechnical engineering, equipping students with critical thinking skills to develop innovative, community-driven solutions. Through case studies, numerical and empirical tools, AI applications, and hands-on experience, students will refine their technical expertise while integrating creative problem-solving approaches. Students will develop and present a personalized design-thinking framework to tackle future challenges. 

Lecture times:
Monday 28.04.2025 from 13:30-16:30
Tuesday 29.04.2025 from 09:30-12:30
Friday 02.05.2025 from 09:30-12:30
Wednesday 07.05.2025 from 14:15-17:00

Lecture room: 
SR D1 / SIMH (SIMH-DG/01)
Simonyhaus, Peter-Jordan-Strasse 65/DG, 1180 Vienna

Prof. Hung, a professor at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Taiwan, specializes in geohazards and geosynthetic-reinforced soil structures, integrating field exploration, numerical simulation, life cycle analysis, and AI. He has received several prestigious honors, including the 2018 Young Scholar Fellowship (Taiwan) and the 2019 Bright Spark Lecture (ISSMGE). He also serves as an editor and board member for various journals and is a bestselling author, guiding young people in shaping their life paths.
Prof. Hung completed his Ph.D. in Geomechanics at Columbia University in 2013, during which he was awarded scholarships from Taiwan’s Ministry of Education, NASA National Space Grant Fellowship, NSF Student Fellowship, and the ISSMGE Foundation Grant.

03.04.2025