On the afternoon of October 19, Virginia Irwin, DeputyDirector of the Office of International Affairs from the University of Bath,visited Shanghai Ocean University (SHOU). Relevant SOU personnel in charge ofthe Office of International Exchange, Academic Affairs Office, College ofEconomics and Management, College of Information, College of Engineering andCollege of Foreign Languages attended the meeting.

On behalf of SHOU, Zhu Zhanghua, Deputy Director of the Office of International Exchange, extended warm welcome to theguests and introduced the history of our university, the general situation ofthe disciplines and the status quo of international exchange and cooperation.Each college also introduced its information on discipline arrangements andinternational exchange and its intention for cooperation. Virginia Irwin introducedthe history and campus of the University of Batch and an overview of the city.In particular, he introduced the related disciplines with SOU’s four colleges.The two sides conducted further communication on the forms of cooperation inrelevant disciplines and fields. The two sides held their first talk, intendingto strengthen communication and cooperation in personnel training in the fieldsof computer science, management and engineering.

After the talk, guests from the University of Bath met with SHOU students. At the meeting, Virginiaintroduced the University of Bath, answered the questions of thestudents and conducted in-depth exchanges of ideas with some of the students.Afterwards, the foreign guests visited the full-scale conceptual model of theRainbow Fish 10,000m-scale manned submersible, and watched thedistribution map of the global abyss accessible by the RainbowFish, admiring the vision of the Rainbow Fish.

University of Bath, UK, was founded in 1856, rankingthe 12th in the latest British Times listing. Among them, the School of Management of Universityof Batch has a leading position in Europe and even in the world and isrecognized as one of the best management institutes in the world. The Interpretation& Translation Institute of University of Bath is one of the three mostrespected simultaneous translation classes in the United Nations. It isdesigned especially for students originally majoring in English or studentswith distinguished English proficiency. The University of Bath has fourcolleges: School of Engineering and Design, School of Humanities and SocialSciences, School of Sciences and School of Management. The School ofEngineering and Design includes Department of Architecture and UrbanEngineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Electrical andElectronics Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering; the School ofHumanities and Social Sciences includes Department of Economics, Department ofEducation, Department of Health, Department of Politics, Department of Languageand International Studies, Department of Psychology , Department of Sociologyand Policy Science; School of Sciences includes Department of Biology andBiochemistry, Department of Chemistry, Department of Computer Science,Department of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Physics, Department ofPharmacy and Pharmacology; School of Management includes Departments ofFinance, Accounting, Management, Marketing and Human Resource Management.