On the afternoon of November 23, 2013, the 2013 Meeting for Undergraduate Students from Department of Industrial Engineering was successfully held in Ming Li Building. The deputy head Prof. Zhang Wei and the deputy party secretary Li Lefei, as well as all counselors and undergraduate students in all grades, attended the meeting. The conference not only summed up some of the innovations made in the teaching work, but also portrayed a new future for it.
The conference was chaired by Li Lefei, with Zhang Wei as the speaker. During the meeting, Pro. Zhang explained the innovation in the teaching work of our department to give us a clearer understanding of our future teaching plan, which made all confident about our future development.
Each teacher /student is the initiator and beneficiary of the reform
There was a big change this year in our department on the graduate enrollment. On one hand the number of master’s had declined; on the other hand, the number of Ph.D. greatly increased. Pro. Zhang mentioned that it was the development direction of the university.
As we all know, our department was young but dynamic. Reform had never stopped after the 12- year department construction. Undoubtedly, innovation in teaching was one of the strong promoters for the progress from international teaching, to continuously move forward the world's most advanced industrial engineering. Meanwhile, our teachers and students were not only active explorers of the new reform program, but also the beneficiaries of the reform. We were building a world-class industrial engineering department, and we must continue to innovate in teaching.
Academic research of teachers and PhD will quickly gain a big step
What was the direction of our teaching reform? And what about the results? Prof. Zhang explained that since this year, the pattern of "More PhD, less master" in our department had been formed. It was the requirement not only to improve our international academic impact, but also for the reform of the department personnel system.
International academic impact meant more advanced scientific research. Since Ph.D. was a very important force in university research, in the future a higher demand for scientific research results would be made to Ph.D. and master’s students. In addition, a new teacher personnel system also encourage teachers to do more research. What’s more, our university is emphasizing more on good research, and thus under such situation, we adopted these innovating measures in our teaching system this year.
"We believe that academic research of teachers and PhD will quickly gain a big step." Zhang said with full of joy.
We are concerned about the development of every student
Each teacher and student should be the beneficiaries of the reform, which was the pursuit we would never change. From the introduction of our teaching requirements, we found that our department emphasized more on the comprehensive ability of students than on our grades, and it benefited all students greatly.
And in order to focus on different people, the department launched a considerable number of policies, including the before instructor program aimed at the different life planning of students and the upcoming program "Abroad Train". For different students, we wanted to make them beneficiaries in the reform, for the reason that concerned about the development of each student, was not only a goal, but also one of the aspects we focused in the innovation.
Finally, in the interactive session, Pro. Zhang Wei answered questions collected about teaching plan. Through the interpretation and interaction, the department and students directly communicated and contributed to the construction of a future teaching system. We firmly believed our academic research would get a fast step, and the innovation would eventually promote the further development of our department as usual, and at the same time benefit every teacher and student.
Student Correspondent: Pan Yiming