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History of the On-Campus Engineering Practice Teaching Base of Tsinghua University

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In 2014, Tsinghua University turned its Fundamental Industry Training Center to a Makerspace, a workshop over an area of 15,000 m2, where hundreds of CNC machines, 3D printers, 3D scanners and other tools are made available for Makers to use. Looking forward, the Makerspace is expected to be available to public, bringing together Makers from Beijing and even across the nation.

The last Saturday of every November has been chosen by Tsinghua University to be the “Tsinghua Makers Day”. On November 29 2014, the first Makers Day of Tsinghua University, YANG, Bin, Vice-Principal of Tsinghua University, declared “Tsinghua Makers Day” officially.

In 2014, seizing the opportunity of the relocation to Lee Shau Kee Science and Technology Building, the Training Center created Tsinghua ” i.Center”, whereas “i” refers to industry, international, interdisciplinary, innovation as well as “I” – the letter of dominant self-awareness by students. Working together with the School of Arts & Design, the Department of Industrial Engineering, the Alumni Association and other organizations, Tsinghua i.Center brings together Makers from fields such as engineering, science, arts and humanity, and provides full range of services for faculties and students’ creativity and innovation.

In April 2015, in order to further adapt to the needs of practice teaching and engineering training courses in the new situation, the Training Center made some effective restructure of its institutional framework. The result was a number of departments responsible for Center-wide activities in teaching, administration and training, including Teaching & Research Office of Engineering Training, Department of Electromechanical Practice, Department of Innovations, Department of General Training and General Office. Six specialized labs were founded for practical teaching and engineering training, including Mechanical Manufacturing Lab, Materials Processing Lab, Digital Manufacturing Lab, Electronic Technology Lab, Technology Innovation Lab and Smart System Lab.

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Tsinghua University was established in 1911 and was originally named “Tsinghua College”. In October 1912, Tsinghua College was renamed “Tsinghua School”. Since its early days, Tsinghua University has been placing great importance on practical teaching, paying special attention to cultivating students’ hands-on abilities with a “Handwork Course” woven into its curriculum that was not only compulsory but also regarded as an equally important and integral part of the education of theories.

In March 1922, Tsinghua commenced building, in the Civil Engineering Pavilion, the “Handwork Classroom” (also known as the Handwork Workshop, later renamed Technique Pavilion), for students undertaking their technical practice; upon completion in September of the same year, it began accepting students for basic training in woodwork and metalwork. The time when the Handwork Classroom was built has been widely considered as the time when the “Machinery Plant of Tsinghua University” was created.

In September 1925, Tsinghua School formally established its College Department, with the Handwork Course continuing to be a compulsory subject in the curriculum.

In August 1928, Tsinghua School changed its name to National Tsinghua University.

In June 1929, Tsinghua renamed its Handwork Course to be “Mechanical Skill Course”. With some additional equipment and technical workers and building upon the Handwork Classroom, it changed its name to “Woodworking Shop” and later, with metalwork added, renamed itself “Metalworking and Woodworking Plant” ready to accept students for training programs in woodwork, plastering, electrical work, casting, mechanical work and so on.

In June 1932, Tsinghua University founded its College of Engineering, under which there were the Department of Civil Engineering, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Electrical Engineering. The Metalworking and Woodworking Plant, affiliated to the Department of Mechanical Engineering, was put in charge of training and practice teaching to all students of the College.

In 1938, the Metalworking and Woodworking Plant was relocated to Kunming along with Tsinghua and was renamed “Mechanical Internship Plant of National Southwestern Associated University”. In addition to accepting students for internship, the Plant was also manufacturing mechanical products such as pumps and valves.

In August 1943, Tsinghua founded Tsinghua Services, the Mechanical Engineering Department of which took over the management of the Mechanical Internship Plant.

In 1946, the Plant moved back to Beiping (former name of Beijing) along with Tsinghua, and renamed to become “Metalworking Plant of Tsinghua University”.

In December 1948, Tsinghua University was liberated, marking the rebirth of the Metalworking Plant.

In 1952, Institutions of Higher Education underwent restructuring of their colleges and departments and, as a result, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Peking University and that of Yenching University merged into Tsinghua University, the Department of Mechanical Engineering of which branched into the Department of Mechanical Manufacturing and the Department of Power Machinery. In the meantime, the Machine Plant of the College of Engineering of Peking University and the Internship Plant of the Department of Mechanics of Yenching University merged into the Metalworking Plant of Tsinghua University and was then renamed to become the “Internship Plant” and was made affiliated to the Department of Mechanical Manufacturing.

In 1958, in order to carry out the education policy put forward by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China – “Education must serve the proletariat politics and be hand-in-hand with production and labor”, the Internship Plant expanded to become the “General Machinery Plant”. The Plant, in addition to accepting students for internship, was taking on a large number of students for work-for-study programs, part-work & part-study programs and participation in production and labor.

In 1960, the Department of Mechanical Manufacturing was divided into the Department of Metallurgy and the Department of Precision Instrument. The General Machinery Plant was placed within the administration of Tsinghua’s Scientific Production Office.

In 1961~1963, the Plant was downsized and regulated. In order to carry out the “Higher Education 60″ regulations, Tsinghua’s Metalworking internship was transformed from the previous approach of “going through the motions” and “practicing for the sake of practice” to a new gradually evolving metalworking internship pattern adopting the practical teaching and the product manufacturing with Chinese characteristics.

In 1968, the General Machinery Plant and Equipment Manufacturing were merged and renamed to be the “Machinery and Equipment Plant”.

In 1970, Tsinghua founded its “Automobile Plant” that took over the Machinery and Equipment Plant, and started accepting worker-peasant-soldier students for ” training and working” of a single specific work skill type.

In 1972, the Plant stopped making automobiles and changed its name to the “Machinery Plant”.

In 1975, the Machinery Plant, the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Department of Precision Instrument merged with each other to become the “Plant of Department of Mechanics” and to undertake all Tsinghua’s teaching and production tasks.

In 1977, the Machinery Plant resumed its former name following a plant-department split.

In 1978, the Machinery Plant was named the “Machinery Plant of Tsinghua University”, upon completion of industry and commerce business registration, thus becoming an independent legal entity undertaking practical teaching and production tasks while being under direct Tsinghua leadership. In the same year, Tsinghua University took the lead nationwide to get metalwork teaching back on track by resuming the Metalworking Course and by rebuilding its Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Group.

In 1983, Tsinghua renamed Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Group to Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office.

In 1985, Tsinghua pioneered nationally by setting up its Electronic Technology Practice Teaching and Research Group and Electronic Practical Teaching Base, offering its Electronic Technology Practice Course to the entire campus. In the same year, Tsinghua included in its curriculum “Metalworking Practice” as one of the twelve courses of the first key construction.

In 1988, Metalworking Internship was rated the “Class I Course of Tsinghua University”; in 1989, the “Metalworking Teaching and Practice Development and Breakthrough” Project won the National Excellent Teaching Achievement Award and the Metalworking Practice Teaching Group was awarded the title of Advanced Collectives of Model Workers in Beijing. As of 2000, Metalworking Internship was rated, for five consecutive times, “Class I Course of Tsinghua University”.

In 1996, the Beijing Municipal Education Commission named the Machinery Plant of Tsinghua University one of the first “Beijing Exemplary Center for Designated Practice Base”. In the same year, Tsinghua restructured its administration, removed its Industry Management Office and founded Tongli Company that took over the administration of the Machinery Plant of Tsinghua University. Meanwhile, by combining the Teaching Divisions of the Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office, the Electronic Technology Teaching and Research Group, the Machinery Plant and the Science and Education Instrument Plant, Tsinghua founded the Fundamental Industry Training Center to take charge of and coordinate the overall metalwork practice, electronic technology practice and other practical teaching work. The Fundamental Industry Training Center consequently became the largest engineering practice and teaching base on campus, creating an open and resource-sharing engineering practice and teaching system at the service of Tsinghua while opening to the city of Beijing and extending nationwide, a system that, in the context of major projects with modular course selection as its core feature, was integrating engineering fundamental training with advanced technical training, innovative practice training and general quality training as well as linking disciplines of science and engineering with humanities and social science.

In 1997, the Science and Education Instrument Plant of Tsinghua University was awarded the title “Beijing Exemplary Center for Designated Practice Base” by the Beijing Municipal Education Commission. In the same year, Metalworking Practice was incorporated into school-level core courses for the first time.

In 2001, the Mechanical Manufacturing Practice (previously known as Metalworking Practice), was included by Tsinghua in a school-level key construction project – “Project of the Development of Top 100 Quality Courses”.

In 2004, the Mechanical Manufacturing Practice (previously known as Metalworking Practice) was rated a municipal-level high-quality course in Beijing and a national level high-quality course, a national first in its field.

In 2005, the Project – “Creating a Leading Engineering Training and Teaching Demonstration Center in China” was awarded the second prize in National Teaching Achievement Award. In 2006, the Fundamental Industry Training Center was rated a Beijing Municipal-Level Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center and a National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center.

In 2009, Tsinghua transformed the Fundamental Industry Training Center into a real entity to be included in the School of Mechanical Engineering, thus including it into Tsinghua’s teaching-work system for overall planning and for specifically implementing engineering practice teaching and relevant scientific research work on campus. Tsinghua directly managed the Center’s personnel, finance and the appointments and dismissals.

In 2014, the center was awarded China National Exemplary Center for Digitized Manufacturing System and VR/Simulation Education.

In 2015, the center moved into the Lee Shau Kee Science and Technology Building and used it as an opportunity to build an interdisciplinary iCenter platform. The curriculum system integrates engineering capability training, engineering quality training, technological innovation and entrepreneurship education. Students as main body, Maker driven, cross boundary integration, knowledge imparting, ability training and value shaping are coordinated development.

In 2017, the metal technology teaching and research group was set up 65th anniversary. Under the joint efforts of the six generations, the engineering practice teaching of Tsinghua University has been developing continuously, and great achievements have been achieved.

History of Metalworking Teaching and Research Office of Tsinghua University

Year Name Description
1952-1960 Metalworking Teaching and Research Group The Teaching and Research Group emerged following college and department restructuring in 1952

 

The Teaching and Research Group was affiliated to the Department of Mechanical Manufacturing

1960-1966 Metalworking Teaching and Research Group In 1960, the Department of Mechanical Manufacturing was divided into the Department of Metallurgy and the Department of Precision Instrument

 

The Teaching and Research Group was affiliated to the Department of Metallurgy

1966-1978 The metalworking course was scrapped and the Teaching and Research Group fell apart at the onset of “Cultural Revolution” in 1966. The Plant founded in 1971 its Teaching Group to accept worker-peasant-soldier students for “training and working”
1978-1983 Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Group Tsinghua re-established Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Group in 1978

 

The Teaching and Research Group was affiliated to the Machinery Plant

1983-1996 Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office The Teaching and Research Group was renamed Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office in 1983

 

The Teaching and Research Office was affiliated to the Machinery Plant

1996-2001 Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office Tsinghua founded Tongli Company and the Fundamental Industry Training Center in 1996

 

The party affairs, administration and personnel of the Teaching and Research Office were affiliated to Tongli Company while the business of teaching was affiliated to the Fundamental Industry Training Center

2001-2008 Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office Tsinghua divided, in 2001, the management of personnel between Tongli Company and Fundamental Industry Training Center,

 

As a result, the party affairs and the administration of the Teaching and Research Office were affiliated to Tongli Company while the business of teaching and personnel of the Teaching and Research Office were affiliated to the Fundamental Industry Training Center

2009-2012 Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office In 2009, Tsinghua transformed the Fundamental Industry Training Center into a real entity to be part of the School of Mechanical Engineering

 

The Teaching and Research Office was affiliated to the Fundamental Industry Training Center

2012- Electromechanical Teaching and Research Office The Fundamental Industry Training Center restructured its internal framework in 2012 by combining Metalworking Technology Teaching and Research Office and Electronic Technology Intern Teaching and Research Group to form its Electromechanical Teaching and Research Office

 

The Teaching and Research Office was affiliated to the Fundamental Industry Training Center



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