From May. 24 to May. 28, 2013, the 20th International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering and Scinece (ICCES’2013) was held in Seattle, USA. More than 400 experts and scholars in the fields of engineering calculations, experiments and mechanics attended the conference. Prof. Zhu Hehua from college of civil engineering of Tongji University was rewarded the T. PIAN MEDAL due to his outstanding achievements in research of geotechnical mechanics and engineering. This reward is named after Theodore Hsueh-Huang Pian, tenured professor of MIT and member of the National Academy of Engineering, who is the authority in computational mechanics and also the founder of hybrid finite element method.