In order to further improve the training mechanism of deep integration of production, education and research in the Innovative Leading D. Eng. Project, Southwest China, Tsinghua University (hereinafter referred to as the “Southwest China Project”), and improve the training quality of doctor of engineering, Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, as the regional base of the project, successfully held the first meeting for supervisors and students admitted in 2022 engaged in the Southwest China Project.

At the meeting

The meeting consists of a base visit, speeches, an appointment ceremony and a group exchange symposium and so on, completed online and offline. The main venue offline was located at Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute. More than 50 people, including teachers in charge of the Graduate School of Tsinghua University, professors responsible for the Southwest China Project, supervisors from Tsinghua University, representatives of industry and corporate supervisors, and doctoral students of engineering admitted in 2022 engaged in the Southwest China Project, attended the meeting. The speeches, the appointment ceremony and the group exchange symposium were presided over by Liu Wanhua, Vice President of Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute (hereinafter referred to as the Research Institute), and Wang Jia from the Education and Training Center.

Visit the base

The supervisors and doctoral students of engineering admitted in 2022, who are engaged in the Southwest China Project and participated in the meeting, visited the Energy Internet System and Key Equipment Laboratory, Smart City Energy System Laboratory and Scientific and Technological Achievement Exhibition Hall of Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute, and learned about the Institute’s major innovative achievements in the fields of equipment, smart systems, information empowerment and energy carbon neutrality.

Visit the laboratory at the project base

Speeches and the appointment ceremony

Xiao Xi, Deputy Dean of the Graduate School of Tsinghua University, and Kang Chongqing, Dean of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics (EEA) of Tsinghua University, President of Tsinghua Sichuan Energy Internet Research Institute and Chief Responsible Professor of the Southwest China Project, delivered speeches and put forward hopes to the doctoral students of engineering who were admitted in 2022 and engaged in the Southwest China Project 2022.

Xiao Xi delivered a speech at the meeting

Kang Chongqing delivered a speech at the meeting

Wang Jia, Director of the Education & Training Center of the Research Institute, introduced the construction of the base of the Southwest China Project and the features of training in the project. Guided by the Graduate School of Tsinghua University, the Research Institute has set up a three-in-one “three-teacher” guidance model for the training of doctoral students of engineering, namely “supervisors from Tsinghua University + supervisors from enterprises + supervisors from the industry”, implementing the whole process of training management and service.

Wang Jia introduced the construction of the base and the features of training

Witnessed by the guests at the meeting, Liu Wanhua, Vice President of the Institute, and Liu Yi, Vice President of the Research Institute, on behalf of the Southwest China Project, issued a letter of appointment to the representative of supervisors from enterprises and the industry.

Representative supervisor from the industry accepted the letter of appointment

Representative supervisors from enterprises accepted the letter of appointment

Subsequently, Pan Xiaoyong, Deputy General Manager of Sichuan Changhong Electronics Holding Group Co., Ltd., and Fan Jiansheng, professor of the Department of Civil Engineering of Tsinghua University, as representatives of supervisors from outside and inside of the University, delivered speeches and put forward suggestions for the future study of doctoral students of engineering. Xiao Bingfeng, deputy monitor of class 11 admitted in 2021 and Lv Zhiguo, secretary of the temporary party branch of class 11 admitted in 2022, spoke as student representatives and talked about their learning experience and expectations.

Supervisor and student representatives delivered speeches (from left to right, from top to bottom: Pan Xiaoyong, Fan Jiansheng, Xiao Bingfeng, Lv Zhiguo)

Group exchange

At the meeting, in order to make doctoral students of engineering and supervisors from outside fully communicate with each other and jointly improve the training mechanism, all of them were divided into 4 groups for free discussions. The Research Institute also invited 2 doctors from Tsinghua University to participate in the discussion for each group according to their majors.

Group discussion

Each group made a lively and in-depth discussion on how to realize the effective combination of scientific research and engineering, how to improve the capacity of interdisciplinary integration and innovation, how to guide students’ training by supervisors from outside, and how to realize thesis collaboration. The doctoral students actively put forward their own ideas and train of thoughts, while the supervisors provided professional guidance based on their professional knowledge and research experience. Finally, representatives from each group delivered summary statement on their discussion results.

Watch the live broadcast of the meeting between members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee and Chinese and foreign journalists

The meeting ended at the beginning of the meeting between the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the 20th CPC Central Committee and Chinese and foreign journalists. All people watched the live broadcast and listened carefully to the important speech of General Secretary Xi Jinping, witnessing this important and far-reaching significant historical moment, which drew a successful conclusion for the first meeting for supervisors and students admitted in 2022 engaged in the Southwest China Project. In the future guided by the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Research Institute will explore a characteristic training mode based on the actual situation of the base, and provide great service and guarantee support for the innovative development of the Southwest China Project.