17, Sept. morning, President of United States Lehigh University Alice. Jester with other 11 people took a one-day’s long working visit. President of Southeast University Hongyi, Vice President Yuebu Pu, Jiamao Zheng, Jiong Shen and so on met the delegation in Four arched campus old library, and had a cordial and friendly conversation with Prof. Alice.
Prof. Yi introduced SEU’s current development situation and its achievement in international cooperation and communication, reviewed the exchange between the two universities and showed his desire that keep up the cooperation between SEU and United States Lehigh University
The relevant persons in Charge of the two Universities discussed with some professors about the cooperation between professors and cooperation between disciplines, and made it confirmed that the next may, United States Lehigh University will send sports delegation to visit SEU. Both side indicated that a positive cooperation in subjects fields like Pedagogy, Physics, Civil Engineering, etc will be built.
Lehigh University is an researching university, located in Bethlehem city which is 70 miles away from North Philadelphia of American. It was founded by industrialist Essay Parker in 1865, later it developed into ad comprehensive university famous for Engineering Science. In the authority of the "2008 U.S. News and World Report" college rankings, Lehigh University was 31th in the list. “The New York Times University Guide” gave it four star academic evaluations. Engineering Science is the University’s most outstanding subjects, one out of two students are majored in Engineering, College of Economics of Lehigh University is developing so fast to become one of the most famous business schools in Unite States, also its liberal arts college and education college enjoy a great fame in American academic circles.