This July, I attended my first international conference during my PhD in Manchester, UK, which is The European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring Series (EWSHM) 2018. Here I presented my paper : Long L., Thöns S., Döhler M. The effects of SHM system parameters on the value of damage detection information EWSHM 2018 , The 9th European Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring Series, Manchester, UK, 10-13 July 2018 Before the conference, I also attended a 3-day EWSHM workshop "Structural Health Mornitoring Using Statistical Pattern Recognition "by Los Alamos Dynamics,LLC in University of Manchester. Thanks Mr. Charles R. Farrar, Michael Todd and Eric Flynn for opening the door of Structural health monitoring to me. My presentation was on the second day of the conference under the special session of :Case studies and theoretical developments in quantifying the value of SHM. On the third day, a tour of Manchester United football stadium and museum at Old Tra