Distinguished Prof. Erik D. Goodman from the college of engineering at Michigan State University visited SOU in the morning of Oct 16, he is also the director of US National Beacon Research Center. During the meeting, President Pan Yingjie proposed directive advices on the further cooperation between the college of engineering, SHOU and Michigan State University. Afterwards, Prof. Erik D. Goodman delivered an academic report entitled “Using Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization in Land Use Management by Stakeholders”.