On Sep.12 to 27, Prof. Chen attended the 15th Advances in Materials and Processing Technologies conference in Australia as the invited speaker， the Invited Paper “Intelligentized Technologies for Welding Manufacturing，” and preside over the meeting as a session chair. During the AMPT’2012, Prof. Chen, along with Dr. Fang Gu from the University of Western Sydney, Dr. Pan Zengxi and Dr. Li Huijun from Wollongong university, discussed about further collaboration on ARC project and academic exchange matters.