The activity of “Selecting Top 10 News of the Training Center in 2022” has recently concluded. Through the voting of the Center’s teaching staff and the evaluation of the Party and administrative leadership teams, 10 news items such as “The Series of Activities to Celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Practical Teaching Base of Tsinghua University were Held” were selected.
1.The Series of Activities to Commemorate the 100th Anniversary of the Establishment of the Engineering Practical Teaching Base of Tsinghua University were Held
On April 16th, the commemorative ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Engineering Practical Teaching Base of Tsinghua University was held in the Lee Shau Kee Science and Technology Building. Yang Bin, vice president and provost of Tsinghua University, and Guo Dongming, director of the Engineering Training Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and President of Dalian University of Technology, attended the ceremony. The person in charge of the Science and Engineering Division of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, representatives of relevant departments and colleges of Tsinghua University, more than 400 members from over 200 universities of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Engineering Maker Education of the Ministry of Education, as well as retired leaders and teaching staff representatives of the Fundamental Industrial Training Center participated in the event online and offline. The online synchronous live broadcast had over 100,000 views.
The commemorative ceremony’s event
Themed “Standing at a New Centenary Starting Point,” the series of activities for this centenary commemorative ceremony included the 2022 Engineering Maker Education Summit Forum, the award ceremony of the “Tsinghua Craftsman Competition” of the 1986 Class (1991 Session) Alumni Award Fund of Tsinghua University, the commemorative exhibition of the centenary of engineering practical education “Recreating the Centenary Classics,” and the iCenter Open Day and other activities.
On April 16th, the 2022 Forum of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Engineering Maker Education of the Ministry of Education (hereinafter referred to as the “Virtual Teaching and Research Section”) hosted by the Fundamental Industrial Training Center was held in the Lee Shau Kee Science and Technology Building. More than 400 members from over 200 universities of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section participated in the event online and offline, and the online synchronous viewing volume exceeded 90,000.
Forum of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section
At the site of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section Forum, Li Shuangshou, director of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section and the Fundamental Industrial Training Center of Tsinghua University, introduced the nature, recent work, construction goals, construction content, and expected achievements of the section. Li Luming, dean of the School of Aerospace Engineering and the Institute of Medical-Engineering Cross of Tsinghua University, with the topic of “From Manned Spaceflight to Neuromodulation,” combined with his own scientific research work, shared his thoughts on engineering and engineering training education. Zhang Long, director of the Engineering Department of Higher Education Press, with the topic of “Innovating the Online Teaching and Research Form and Helping to Improve the Teaching and Research Level,” introduced from the aspects of the construction process of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section, the work arrangements of the pilot construction, the connotation, and development of it.
This forum is the first one since the establishment of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Engineering Maker Education of the Ministry of Education and is also one of the series of activities of the commemorative ceremony for the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Engineering Practical Teaching Base of Tsinghua University. The “Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Engineering Maker Education” led by Professor Li Shuangshou was successfully selected as the first batch of pilot projects for the construction of virtual teaching and research sections in colleges and universities by the Ministry of Education. As a new form of teaching organization and teaching development community, the construction goal of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section is to become an efficiently operating new form of education development community, an online and offline integrated learning and research community for engineering maker education, a platform for theoretical research and practical exploration of engineering maker education, and a test field and promotion station for the achievements of engineering maker education.
On December 2nd, the essay writing activity “Recalling the Struggles of the Past and Embarking on a New Journey in the Future” themed on the centenary commemoration and organized by the General Party Branch and the Trade Union of the Center was successfully concluded. The activity was launched in April and, after going through various stages such as solicitation of contributions and review, received more than 30 essays from in-service and retired teaching staff. Eventually, 26 essays were selected as award-winning works. The relevant essays were selectively published on the official website and WeChat official account of the Center and were further sorted out, edited, and compiled into a collection and printed into a book, which was retained as an important historical document of the Center.
Cover of the essay collection
The year 2022 was the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the practical teaching base of Tsinghua University. To inherit and carry forward the work and spirit pioneered by the predecessors, better continue to write the future chapter of engineering training, and meet new challenges, the General Party Branch and the Trade Union of the Training Center held an essay writing activity themed “Recalling the Struggles of the Past and Embarking on a New Journey in the Future,” calling on the teaching staff to summarize their achievements, gains and losses, what they have heard, seen, and felt in various works such as practical teaching and scientific research at the university, and discuss the future development direction of the Training Center.
2. The 2022 Tsinghua Maker Day Series of Activities were Held
From November 26th to 27th, the series of activities of 2022 Tsinghua Maker Day were held both online and offline. Representatives of Tsinghua teams winning awards in various scientific and technological innovation competitions, teachers and students from the university’s creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship platforms and student associations, scholars from domestic and foreign universities, well-known makers and maker educators from all walks of life participated in the activities. The online synchronous live broadcast had over 120,000 views.
Group photo of the online attendees
Themed “Gathering Forces for Creation and Building Momentum for Innovation,” the 2022 Tsinghua Maker Day activities included three forums: the New Era Maker Education Forum, the New Era Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Development Forum, and the 8th Advanced Symposium on Engineering Cultural Quality Education; two exhibitions: the 2022 Tsinghua Industrial-Education Integration Enterprise Exhibition and the 2022 Tsinghua Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Achievement Exhibition; and a series of activities such as the preliminary competition of the First Tsinghua Medical-Engineering Integration Competition, the Metaverse Theme Salon, the 4th SDG Open Innovation Marathon Challenge, the International Exchange Workshop on Innovative Learning Experience Design, and the Open Activity of the Versatile Spinning Top. The participating teachers and students shared the latest teaching and research achievements in the activities and further explored the cultivation model of top-notch innovative talents in the new era.
Exhibition of Tsinghua’s achievements in innovation and entrepreneurship education in 2022
This series of activities was hosted by the Academic Affairs Office of Tsinghua University, organized by the Fundamental Industrial Training Center, co-organized by Tsinghua Chuang +, x-lab, the Art and Technology Innovation Base, i-Space, interest teams, the Cultural Quality Education Base, the Maker Space Association, the Student Entrepreneurship Association, and the Technology and Engineering Education Center of the Yangtze River Delta Research Institute of Tsinghua University in Zhejiang, and supported by the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education Alliance of Chinese Universities and the Maker Education Base Alliance.
3．The “Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Engineering Maker Education” was Successfully Selected as the First Batch of Pilot Projects for the Construction of Virtual Teaching and Research Sections by the Ministry of Education
In February, the General Office of the Ministry of Education announced the list of the first batch of pilot projects for the construction of virtual teaching and research sections in colleges and universities across China. The “Virtual Teaching and Research Section of Engineering Maker Education” led by Professor Li Shuangshou of the Fundamental Industrial Training Center of Tsinghua University was successfully selected and obtained the first batch of construction pilots. This project was declared in August 2021 and belongs to the “Teaching Research and Reform Special Topic Category” and was recommended by the “Engineering Training Teaching Steering Committee” of the Ministry of Education.
Up to now, the Virtual Teaching and Research Section has 410 members, coming from more than 200 domestic universities and over 10 enterprises. The section has six regional teaching and research groups in north China, northeast China, northwest China, southwest China, east China, and central and south China, as well as the Tsinghua University physical teaching and research group. Five main work contents of teaching research, capacity improvement, resource construction, competition-course integration, and publicity and promotion have been coordinated and determined, and the corresponding five working groups have been set up, with the regional teaching and research group leaders also serving as the working group leaders. On the basis of the five working groups, an expert advisory group has been established to provide suggestions for the work of the Virtual Teaching and Research Section and assist in the work.
The public list of the Ministry of Education
The Virtual Teaching and Research Section, with the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, conducts research and practice on engineering maker education that deeply integrates engineering training and innovation and entrepreneurship. As a new form of teaching organization and teaching development community and a student-centered open and shared engineering maker cultivation platform, the teaching and research section will carry out work in aspects such as model construction, teaching research, resource sharing, and achievement promotion. Through the joint efforts of the members of the teaching and research section, it will be built into: an efficiently operating new form of education development community, an online and offline integrated learning and research community for engineering maker education, a platform for theoretical research and practical exploration of engineering maker education, and a test field and promotion station for the achievements of engineering maker education.
4. Love Labor, Most Tsinghua | The Training Center Held a Series of Activities during the “Labor Education Month”
On April 23rd, the award ceremony of the First “Tsinghua Craftsman Competition” of Grade 1986 (Class of 1991) Alumni Award Fund of Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as the Competition) was held in the Lee Shau Kee Science and Technology Building. President Wang Xiqin attended the award ceremony and delivered a speech. More than 70 representatives of the 1986 Class alumni and award-winning students participated in the award ceremony on site.
Wang Xiqin gives a summary speech
The Grade 1986 (Class of 1991) Alumni Award Fund of Tsinghua University was officially established at the 30th anniversary celebration of the graduation of Grade 1986 alumni on April 24th, 2021. The First Competition was officially launched at the 2021 Tsinghua Maker Day, and the cumulative number of students participating in the school was more than a thousand, with the number of registered projects exceeding 200. After the resolution of the review committee, a total of 6 Excellence Awards, 8 Merit Awards, and 8 Progress Awards were selected in the Craftsman Inheritance Track, and 1 Grand Prize, 3 First Prizes, 9 Second Prizes, and 23 Merit Awards were selected in the Exploration and Innovation Track.
This competition was organized by iCenter. The purpose of the competition is to inspire the young generation of students in the school to inherit the “Tsinghua Craftsman Spirit,” demonstrate innovation awareness and practical ability, promote students to actively explore the cutting-edge fields of science and technology and engineering with a forward-looking vision, create an atmosphere of “doing innovation with real swords and guns,” cultivate students to grow into top-notch talents with high quality, strong practical ability, and both soft and hard skills, provide support for the realization of students’ innovative works, and promote the birth of more scientific and technological and engineering innovation achievements.
Group photo of the attendees
On May 23rd, the students of the “Manufacturing Engineering Experience,” “Handmade Innovation Practice,” and “Manufacturing Engineering Practice” courses of the Traning Center, under the guidance of doctoral teaching assistants, visited the Creative Labor Education Culture Exhibition of the Center in groups. The exhibition was planned and organized by the Center and was open for continuous viewing during the 111th anniversary of Tsinghua University and the “Labor Education Month” for students.
Students visit the exhibition in groups
Guided by General Secretary Xi Jinping’s “Perspective of Labor,” the exhibition, through units such as “Creative Historical Context,” “The Road of Labor Education and Engineering Practice,” “The Importance of a Complete Discipline System for Labor Education,” “The Creative Labor Course of the Training Center,” “Traditional Culture and Creative Labor,” and “New Educational Concepts,” creates a creative labor atmosphere, helps students establish the aspiration to build a manufacturing powerhouse, shapes creative labor values, learns modern manufacturing engineering knowledge, cultivates engineering ability and engineering thinking.
The creative labor culture exhibition of the Training Center has been planned and implemented since April 2021 and is also a key project of the School Culture Construction Office in 2021. The exhibition aims to comprehensively display the educational achievements of labor education at Tsinghua University, carry forward the “Craftsman Spirit,” establish the concept of labor, cultivate labor literacy, create a creative labor atmosphere, guide students to participate in creative labor, and achieve more extensive and in-depth popularization and exchange of labor culture.
From May 26th to 27th, the “Handmade Innovation Practice” course of the Training Center held the “Model Workers Entering the Classroom” activity online. The activity invited Li Wanjun, a national model worker, a recipient of the National May 1 Labor Medal, and the honorary title of the First Great Craftsman of the Country; Liu Hong, a national model worker, a recipient of the Capital Labor Medal, and a national pacesetter for female workers’ contributions; and Wang Wenhua, a national model worker, a national technical expert, a recipient of the Capital Labor Skills Medal, and a skilled craftsman in Beijing, to share and communicate on the topics of “The Selfless Dedication Spirit for the Prosperity of the Motherland,” “Becoming a Red and Professional National Talent,” and “The Craftsman Spirit and Core Technologies” respectively. Nearly a hundred students from Tsinghua University and Peking University who took the “Handmade Innovation Practice” course, teaching staff of the Training Center, and teachers and students from relevant colleges and universities participated in this activity.
“Handmade Innovation Practice” is a practical course with the theme of “labor education” offered by the Training Center, and the “Model Workers Entering the Classroom” activity is an important ideological and political teaching link of the course. The activity has been carried out for three semesters and aims to help students correctly understand the connotation of labor in the new era, perceive the diligent labor spirit, and guide everyone to firmly establish the concept that “labor is the most glorious, the most noble, the greatest, and the most beautiful.”
Group photo of the attendees
5. The Central Force in the Battle Against the Epidemic
In May, in the face of the severe and complex epidemic prevention and control situation in Beijing, the 20 teaching staff of the Training Center at Beijing Bailie University (hereinafter referred to as “Bailie”) strictly implemented the deployment requirements of relevant epidemic prevention and control work, fulfilled their personal epidemic prevention obligations, and actively participated in the epidemic prevention work of Bailie School while ensuring their own epidemic prevention safety and teaching work, interpreting the responsibility of Tsinghua people with practical actions.
The temporary Party group during the lockdown period in Bailie College
On May 12th, the control level of Bailie College was upgraded, and the 20 teaching staff of the Training Center were in the control area and completely isolated from the outside world. On May 14th, after the joint meeting of the Party and administrative leadership of the Training Center was studied and decided, during the lockdown period, a temporary Party group during the lockdown period in Bailie (hereinafter referred to as the “Temporary Party Group”) was established. On the evening of the 14th, the Training Center held an online meeting to establish the Temporary Party Group. At the meeting, Tang Bin, secretary of the General Party Branch of the Training Center, proposed that each Party member should give full play to the vanguard and leading role of Party members during the special period, actively participate in the epidemic prevention and control work of Bailie School while doing a good job in the work of employees.
Assit in information collection, supply distribution, and other work
The Temporary Party Group acted upon orders, faced difficulties head-on, and consciously fulfilled its responsibilities. It formulated emergency response plans for various possible problems, first ensuring the personal safety of each teaching staff living in Bailie; in addition, the Temporary Party Group actively paid attention to and closely cooperated with the work of the epidemic prevention and control leading group of Bailie, and organized Party members and employees to serve as volunteers for epidemic prevention work and participate in various guarantee work for epidemic prevention and control of Bailie College under the premise of not affecting teaching work. The figures bustling around in Bailie College always demonstrated the competence and responsibility of Tsinghua people.
On May 14th, to implement the epidemic prevention policy requirements of Beijing, the school’s epidemic prevention and control leading group decided to strictly close the school gate. Except for epidemic prevention and control and supply guarantee personnel, other personnel were not allowed to enter or leave, which brought great challenges to the practical teaching of the Training Center. And Li Rui, executive director of the Mechanical Manufacturing Laboratory of the Training Center and the on-campus safety management cadre, was also called the “all-round teacher.”
Learning operations with the technical director online
During the school closure period, in addition to completing the various inspection and reporting work arranged by the school, Li Rui also needed to tidy up the classrooms, prepare teaching materials and equipment, and help various courses complete the processing of various parts. Even in the technical fields he had never been involved in, Li Rui also actively learned remotely with the technical person in charge through online means and finally completed the part processing of all courses, ensuring the smooth completion of all practical courses in the center.
6. Flipped Classroom “2.0” | The True “Flipping” Brought by the Online and Offline Integrated Practical Teaching of the Training Center
In the spring semester of 2022, the Training Center offered multiple practical courses. Among them, the three courses of “Manufacturing Engineering Experience,” “Handmade Innovation Practice,” and “Manufacturing Engineering Practice” had a total of 481 students enrolled. The course works had entered the final assembly and debugging stage after the previous design and production stages and urgently needed the specific guidance and close cooperation of front-line teachers.
On May 14th, in accordance with the changes in the epidemic prevention and control situation in Beijing and the notice requirements of our school on conducting course teaching online, all practical teaching work in the training center was adjusted to be carried out in an online and offline integrated manner. This time, the teachers conducted teaching online, and students completed the work on-site. Through opening up teaching venues to ensure students’ offline learning; coordinating online and offline to ensure the safety of practical operations; integrating multiple models to ensure the same quality and effectiveness of teaching, a special form of “flipped classroom” was realized
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Students obtain hand-on experience offline, teachers conduct teaching online
7. 【26th Education Work Discussion】The Symposium on “Design and Practice of the Labor Education System in University Courses within the Training Program” was Held
On June 23rd, the symposium on “Design and Practice of the Labor Education System in University Courses within the Training Program” of the 26th Education Work Discussion was held online. This meeting was jointly organized by the Fundamental Industrial Training Center and the Academic Affairs Office. The meeting focused on the topic of the 26th Education Work Discussion of the school and conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions around “giving full play to the main channel of curriculum teaching in labor education.”
Liu Pei, Li Shuangshou, Gu Jianjun, and Zhu Huabing spoke (from left to right, from top to bottom)
Liu Pei, deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of Tsinghua University, Gu Jianjun, a professor from the School of Education Science of Nanjing Normal University and the head of the Compulsory Education Labor Curriculum Standards Group of the Ministry of Education, Zhu Huabing, a professor from the School of Mechanical and Engineering of Hefei University of Technology and the deputy director of the Engineering Training Teaching Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, and Li Shuangshou, the director of the Training Center of Tsinghua University, gave speeches respectively. The person in charge of the labor courses in the school, all the teaching staff of the training center, and nearly 200 members of the virtual teaching and research section of engineering maker education from more than 100 engineering training centers of colleges and universities across the country and engaged in engineering practice and innovation education participated in this symposium.
8. The Series of Practical Teaching Exchange and Learning Activities with the Theme of “An Excellent Lesson, Shaping the Future of Engineering Innovation” Successfully Concluded
To promote the improvement of the teaching level and ability of the practical teaching staff in colleges and universities and promote the construction and innovative development of theoretical and practical courses, from April to July, the Training Center, jointly with Beihang University, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology and other universities, held six practical teaching exchange activities in 2022 with the theme of “An Excellent Lesson, Shaping the Future of Engineering Innovation.” More than 6,000 teachers from various universities participated in the activities.
The activity aimed to “temper the basic teaching skills and strengthen the construction of teachers’ professional ethics,” carried forward the spirit of model workers and the spirit of craftsmen, demonstrated excellent teaching courses, and practiced the trinity teaching concept of “value shaping, ability cultivation, and knowledge imparting.” The activity started in April and ended in July, with a total of 6 sessions organized.
Photo of the first event
9. The Joint Team of the Fundamental Industrial Training Center Won the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCSE 2022
From August 18th to 21st, the 17th International Conference on Computer Science and Education (IEEE the 17th International Conference on Computer Science & Education, IEEE ICCSE 2022) was held in Ningbo, Zhejiang. The Industrial-education integration team jointly composed of Professor Li Shuangshou from the Fundamental Industrial Training Center of Tsinghua University and others, based on the teaching practice cooperation, formed the paper “Industrial-University Converged Education Practice Based on Open Source - A Case from THOUGHT” (One case of THOUGHT: Industrial-university converged education practice on open source), and won the Best Paper Award at IEEE ICCSE 2022.
In this conference, experts, scholars, and teachers and students from 183 universities in 8 countries including China, the United States, Australia, Germany, Italy, Thailand, India, and Japan participated in the academic exchange both offline in the main venue and online. A total of 685 papers were submitted, and 8 papers were nominated as the best paper candidates. After the on-site defense, 3 best paper awards and 4 best paper nomination awards were finally selected.
The Certificate
The award certificate. The IEEE ICCSE conference started in 2006. This year, after being held successively in Singapore, Melbourne in Australia, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Vancouver in Canada, Cambridge in the UK, Nagoya in Japan, Houston in the US, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Toronto in Canada, Delft in the Netherlands, and Lancaster in the UK for 11 years, it was held offline in China again. It is a well-known conference in international computer education and computer science research. This IEEE ICCSE 2022 focused on the frontier issues of computer science and education, implemented the development concepts of innovation, openness, and sharing, and jointly explored new methods of interdisciplinary integration of computer science and education around the theme of “rapidly developing digital literacy and skills.” This conference was hosted by the National Research Association of Higher Education Computer Education (a national first-class legal person society), co-organized by Zhejiang University and Ningbo Institute of Technology, and technically supported by the IEEE Education Society.
10. The Launching Meeting of the iCenter “Course Competition Project” - Academy Special Session was Held
On January 10th, the launching meeting of the iCenter “Course Competition Project” - Academy Special Session was held in the Lee Shau Kee Science and Technology Building. Su Peng, the Party secretary and director of the Academy Management Center, Li Zhengcao, the deputy dean of Weiyang Academy, Xu Luping, the deputy dean of Xingjian Academy, Li Shuangshou, the director of the Basic Industrial Training Center, Tang Bin, the Party secretary, Yao Qiming and Hong Liang, the deputy directors, the relevant responsible teachers of the training center, and more than 30 students from each academy attended the launching meeting. The launching meeting was chaired by Tang Bin.
This activity was jointly organized by the Fundamental Industrial Training Center and the Academy Management Center, attracting more than 30 students from Weiyang, Xingjian, Zhili, Tanwei, Xinya, and Rixin academies. Based on the M05 unit “Sea, Land and Air Battle - Course Competition Certificate Project” of the iCenter’s “Manufacturing Engineering Experience” course, with the “China Undergraduate Engineering Practice and Innovation Ability Competition” hosted by the Ministry of Education as the platform, and with the directions of “sea, land and air” such as the current and future development of smart manufacturing, future intelligent drone delivery, and daily waste classification as the course themes, comprehensive practical project development was carried out under the concept of “innovation, coordination, green, openness and sharing.”
Group photo of the teachers and students
