Guodong Qin, Master of Science in Technology, will defend his doctoral dissertation in the field of Mechanical Engineering at LUT on the 19th of December at noon, Auditorium 1318. His dissertation is titled “Research on key technologies of snake arm maintainers in extreme environments”.

Professor Youmin Hu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China and Ph.D William Brace, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd will act as opponents. Docent Huapeng Wu of LUT University will act as custos.

The dissertation has been published in the Acta Universitatis Lappeenrantaensis research series number 1064 of the university. ISBN 978-952-335-908-ISBN 978-952-335-909-3 (PDF) ISSN 1456-4491 (Print) ISSN 2814-5518 (Online).