On the afternoon of November 2nd, 2009, the delegation of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne headed by the vice president - Martin Vetterli visited Tongji University. The University Vice-President Dong Qi met with the guests, vice dean, Chen Airong representing the school of civil engineering participated in the meeting and introduced to the guests the general information of our school. They made extensive exchange for strengthening the cooperation in the field of civil engineering between two universities in the future and expressed strong interest in carrying out various kinds of cooperation.