Sponsored by the ECUST President’s Office, the Office of Academic Affairs and the Ministry of Education and Industry，and hosted by the International Institute of Outstanding Engineers, the 40th high-end academic lecture “Tonghai Academic Lectures” was held at  Fengxian Campus, ECUST, on September 26, 2019. At the invitation of the International Institute of Outstanding Engineers,  Academician Keith Gubbins of the American Academy of Engineering presented a lecture entitled “Micro-nano Confined Thermodynamics”. Mr. Zhao Shuangliang, Dean of the International Institute of Outstanding Engineers, presided over the lecture. All the freshmen of the institute and representatives of students from the Institute of Chemical Engineering attended the lecture.