AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing

// Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing   

 

General Information. Founded in 2020, the precursor of the School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing is the Department of Electronics of AXHU. Through the development of more than 20 years, it has built up a featured educational entity, comprising the Department of Electronic Communication, Department of Electronics, Department of Automation, and Department of Industry Engineering, which covers seven bachelor’s programs: Communication Engineering; Electronic Information Engineering; Internet of Things Engineering; Automation; Electrical Engineering & Automation; Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation; Robotics Engineering. The School has formed a promising, proportionally-staffing work team with a commitment of age group, professional title, educational background, disciplines, academic or teaching experience.

 

The School, remarkably, employed the senior executive of ZTE Corporation as the deputy dean at AXHU, being in charge of the Industry-University-Research projects, and by co-founding the ICT Industry College, the School channels the social facilities and personnel resources to AXHU education, and propels the enterprise to involve in a cooperative education.

 

Also, the School initiates and puts into practice the educational reform and a betterment of the talent cultivation pattern via “Three-fold Integration, Six-pronged Presence, Zero Distance,”—“Industry-University Co-operation; Theory-Practice Co-working; Learning-Startups Co-building”; “Factual Facilities, Real Setting, Practical Positioning, Effective Processing, Oriented Task, Rational Censorship”; “a seamless connection between talents cultivation system and enterprises’ actual expectations.” In recent three years, being in alignment with the dynamic drive of electronic communication industry, it practically carries out the project-based teaching and academic research, and restructures its curriculum system and practical teaching mode. And consequently, the School has made some breakthroughs in the national or provincial competition for university students (totaling more than 120 provincial-level awards, and 10 national-level awards), such as the “NXP Cup” National University Students Intelligent Car Race, “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge (logic control design and development), and harvests the national- or provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship training projects amounting to more than 200, and the graduating students’ employment rate is up to 96.6%. According to the feedback form the employment units, which shows that the AXHU graduates enjoys high comprehensive quality, regarding the professional ethics, dedicated spirit, academic knowledge, hands-on capabilities, adaptability, organizing and networking competence, etc.

 

Embracing the historical chance of “Internet Plus,” “Industry 4.0” and “Made in China 2025,” in accordance with the overall goal and demands of the local application-based high-level university, the School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing will stay a proactive momentum to blueprint, to team up, and to make breakthrough, and consistently adheres to the quality-oriented educational practice, so as to foster the undergraduate students to become the sound “Crossover” talents with an innovative capability, professional strength, and all-round development.  

 

 

// FACTS:

Undergraduate students: 3,000 plus

Faculty and Staff: 150 (of which, 111 dual-qualification teachers)

Academic title: 71 (full professor, or associate professor)

Senior professional title: 70

Educational Background: 150 (master’s degree), and 39 (doctoral degree)

Guest Experts: 20 plus senior engineers from renowned social enterprises

 

Teaching awards:

1 National First-class Major Construction Site (Communication Engineering)

1 Anhui Provincial First-class Major Construction Site (Automation)

1 Provincial-level Branded Major

1 Provincial-level Featured Major

1 Provincial-level Traditional Major for Reform

1 Provincial-level New Industrial Technologies Engineering

3 Teaching Teams (Provincial-level, or AXHU)

16 Honors in all (Provincial-level Famous Teacher, or New Star Lecturer)

 

 Academic research:

220 plus Research Papers (of which, 100 EI)

4 Provincial-level Progress Awards (of which, second prize, or third prize)

50 plus teaching and scientific research projects of Anhui Provincial Education Department

12 Provincial-level Teaching Achievements (of which, 3 first prizes)

15 Provincial-level First-class Courses (Digital Circuit, Principles of Mono-Chip Computers and Interface Techniques, etc.)

10 textbooks (or monographs)

 

Labs (Building Area: 7,000 square meters; totaling 29):

Mobile Communication Laboratory

Robotics Innovation and Application Laboratory

Internet of Things Integrated Laboratory

Power Electronics and Electrical Machinery & Drive Laboratory

Intelligent Information Processing Laboratory

Mono-Chip Computers Laboratory

Hydraulic Pressure and Pneumatic Pressure Laboratory

...

 

Research institutes:

1 National-level Education Center for Internships in Engineering

1 Provincial-level Institute for Future Technology

5 Provincial-level Demonstration Centers for Experiment and Training

2 Provincial-level Centers for Virtual Simulation Experimental Teaching

5 Provincial-level Maker Workshops

20 Bases for Practical Teaching (with Leading Enterprises, e.g., Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd, ZTE Corporation)

1 Industry-University-Research Cooperative Alliance (with Anhui Provincial Institute of Electronics, DT mobile Co., Ltd, and Shengzheng XunFang, Co., Ltd, etc.)

 

 

// Current Leadership

LI Xiaohui, doctoral degree, full professor, supervisor of doctor’s program, Anhui Provincial Famous Teacher, Recipient of Baosteel Excellent Teacher Award, is also the member of expert committee of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (Electronic Circuit Teaching and Industry), the member of the China Association of Higher Education (Electronic Education, and University Students’ Quality Research), and the vice director of the Electronic Circuit Teaching Research Institute of the Higher Education in East China.

The main academic area of his centers on the multimedia communication and broadband mobile communication. And the teaching and academic achievements include: 1) 1 second prize of the National-level Teaching Achievements; 2) 3 grand prizes, 1 first prize, 3 second prizes, and 1 third prize of the Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements; 3) 1 third prize of MOE (the Ministry Of Education of the People’s Republic of China) Scientific Progress Award; 4) 1 third prize of Anhui Provincial Higher Education Scientific Progress Award; 5) 3 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China; 6) 1 project of National Social Science Foundation of China; 7) more than 100 academic research papers; 8) 2 National-level Teaching Materials for the 12th Five-Year Plan (Digital Circuits and Logical Programming, and Multimedia Communication Technology, *electronic information of the general higher education of China), and 1 textbook (Communication Technology and Modern Life, *series of the National College Students Cultural Quality Education Base).  

 

XU Miaomiao, 40, born in the city of Huainan, Anhui Province, doctoral degree, associate professor, joined AXHU in August 2008, and engages in both administration and academic research and teaching at AXHU—sequentially, the secretary of the Teaching Affairs Department, deputy director of the Teaching Affairs Department, deputy director (executive member) of the Human Resources Department, and general secretary of the CPC AXHU Committee of the School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing and also the executive dean. In recent years, the academic achievements of her are outlined as follows: 1 second-class teaching research project, 1 third-class teaching research project, 1 project of Anhui Provincial Excellent Young Talents Fund, 5 provincial-level teaching and scientific research projects, 1 monograph, 7 research papers, and 1 second prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Award.

 

WANG Qin, 36, female, doctoral degree, associate professor, was born in the city of Zongyang, Anhui Province. In sequence, Wang works at AXHU as the chief officer of the Teaching Affairs Department, assistant dean of the School of Electronic Engineering, and deputy director of the AXHU Assessment and Construction Office. In November 2019, she was installed as the deputy dean of the School of Electronic Engineering. The main academic achievements of her comprise 1 provincial-level textbook, 10 research papers, 5 teaching and scientific research projects of the Anhui Provincial Education Department (director, or member), 2 application-based new patents, 3 awards of AXHU Teaching Achievements, and Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer of 2016.

 

FAN Wenqi, 33, male, lecturer, was born in the city of Dangshan, Anhui Province. Sequentially, Fan is in charge of posts at AXHU—chief officer, assistant director, and deputy director of the Publicity Department of AXHU. In December 2021, Fan took office as the deputy dean of the School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing. The main academic achievements of his include 2 AXHU key scientific research projects and 2 research papers.   

 

BAI Zhiqing, 43, born in Jinzhai County, Lu'an City, Anhui Province, doctoral degree, associate professor, first-class technician, assistant dean of the School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing, Anhui provincial high-level “dual qualification teacher,” joined AXHU in August 2020. Currently, Bai takes office as assistant dean of the School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing. In recent years, the main academic achievements of his comprise 2 second-class teaching and scientific research projects, 5 three-class teaching and scientific research projects, 5 “crossing research” projects, 3 textbooks (co-author), 15 research papers, 10 national patents, 1 product invention, 1 second prize of AXHU Teaching Achievements, and 6 awards of the Provincial-level Discipline Competition for University Students (instructor).

 

CHEN Jing, 37, female, master’s degree (in economics), lecturer, editor, chief officer of the Department of School Journal of AXHU, the School’s secretary for teaching affairs, was born in Lu'an City, Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. The academic achievements of her include 1 provincial-level scientific research project, 2 school-level scientific research projects, and more than 10 research papers (of which, 2 national-level prizes).

 

WANG Linghui, 31, female, master’s degree (in literature), was graduated from the Anhui Normal University. Wang takes office as the secretary for students’ affairs of the School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing.

 

WU Meihong, 43, female, bachelor’s degree, lecturer, mentor (intermediate), the School’s secretary for both administrative affairs and students’ affairs as well, was born in the city of Rugao, Jiangsu Province. The academic achievements of her include 2 national-level research papers, and the honor AXHU Outstanding Staff.

 

SUN Jing, 35, female, doctoral degree, lecturer, deputy director of the Department of Automation, AXHU New Star Lecturer, visiting scholar at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), teaches the courses, Circuits and Modern Control Theory, to the undergraduate students. The main achievements of her comprise 1 provincial-level teaching and scientific research project, 5 school-level scientific research projects, 1 “crossing research” project, 1 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship project (mentor), 2 provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), 1 award of the provincial-level Teaching Achievements, 4 awards of the AXHU Teaching Achievements, 7 research papers (of which, 2 published on the core journals), 2 national-level patents, 1 first prize, 1 second prize, and 1 third prize of the AXHU Teaching Contests (also the Best Stage Style Award), and AXHU Outstanding Staff.

 

YAO Ling, 38, female, doctoral degree, associate professor, deputy director of the Department of Communication, teaches the courses, High Frequency Circuit, Mobile Communication, and Computer Network, to the undergraduate students. The main achievements of her include 5 projects (of the Quality Engineering Program of Anhui Provincial Education Department), 1 first prize and 2 third prizes of the AXHU Teaching Contests, 1 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship project (mentor), 2 provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), and 15 awards of provincial- or national-level university students’ competition (of which, 1 national-level first prize).

 

SUN Wengfang, 38, female, lecturer, deputy director of the Department of Engineering, teaches the courses, Automobile Mechanics, Automotive Materials, and Materials of Mechanical Engineering and Hot Working Technology, and Engine Structure and Maintenance to the undergraduate students. The main academic achievements of her include 4 national patents, 3 provincial-level teaching and scientific research projects, 4 school-level teaching and scientific research projects, 7 research papers, 2 awards of AXHU Teaching Achievements, 3 third prizes of the Anhui Provincial Innovation Competition for the Advanced Mapping Technology and Product Information Modeling (mentor), 1 second prize and 1 third prize of the National College Students Mechanical Innovation Design Competition (mentor), 2 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), and 1 provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship project (mentor).

 

WANG Qijian, 36, male, master’s degree, lecturer, deputy director of the Department of Information Engineering, teaches the courses, Wireless Sensor Network, Analog Circuit, Digital Signal Processing, Professional Ethics of Internet of Things, etc., to the undergraduate students. The main academic achievements and honors of his include 4 projects of the Quality Engineering Program of Anhui Provincial Education Department, 4 projects of the Quality Engineering Program of AXHU, 20 academic research papers, 1 award of the AXHU Teaching Achievements, 1 second prize of the AXHU Teaching Contests, 3 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), AXHU Outstanding Staff, and Excellent Member of the CPC AXHU Committee.

 

 

// Organization Structure (of School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing)

Department of Communication

—Communication Engineering

—Internet of Things

Department of Industry Engineering

—Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation

—Urban Rail Transit Electromechanical Technology

—Automotive Maintenance & Detection

Department of Automation

—Automation

—Electrical Engineering & Automation

—Robotics Engineering

Department of Electronics

—Mechanical-Electrical Integration (or Mechatronics)

—Electronic Information Engineering

 

 

// Academic Staff

The School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing currently has more than 60 full-time tenured members, comprising 46 professors or senior engineers (72% of all faculty members) and 18 doctorates (28% of all faculty members). In recent years, the School harvests many of the awards, including 2 recipients of Anhui Provincial Famous Teacher, 5 recipients of Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer, and 11 projects of “Visiting Scholars in China”. In 2000-22, the faculty and staff members have published more than 220 papers on the journals at home and abroad, and are engaged with over 120 projects of teaching and scientific researches at different levels.  

 

XU Xianfan, male, born in 1957, full professor, supervisor of master’s program, received his  bachelor’s degree (in Radio Technology) from the Anhui University (AHU). Xu’s specialization and academic interests are related to the High-frequency Electronic Circuit, Electronic Measurement and Instrument, and otherwise. Historically, Xu participated in an array of research and development programs, including the national critical project of science and technology—Online Intelligent Instrument for Detecting Impurities, the innovative project of science and technology by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)—Remote, Non-Contact Read-Write System of IC Card, and the project of Science and Technology—China Tobacco Machinery: Online Detection System of Shredded Tobacco Leaf Fabric, etc.

Moreover, Xu has directed lots of Anhui provincial-level programs of science and technology, such as the critical project of Anhui Provincial Education Commission—To Recognize Materials via Laser Image, the critical project of Anhui province science and technology—Dynamic Recognition and Sorting System for Special Objective Image, the innovation fund project of the small and medium-sized enterprises by the MOST—Dynamic Recognition and Sorting system of Logistics, which respectively wins the second prize of Science and Technology Progress Awards in Electronic Industry of Anhui Province, the first prize of Anhui Provincial Science and Technology Progress, the second prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Award, and the grand prize of the Anhui University’s Teaching Achievements award. And he has published several academic papers on the journals (including international conferences) at home and globally. Currently, Pro. Xu takes office as the director of the Department of Communication at AXHU.     

 

LIU Yongping, born in January of 1964, full professor, also senior engineer, research fellow, certified safety engineer, is studying for master’s degree. Liu’s academic subjects and specialism focus on the instruments and apparatus of coal mine safety, fire alarm, thermal pollution protection, infrared technology, etc., and Liu is engaged with the relevant professional works including the electrification, automation, detection technology, Sensor, and the like. As an experienced academic, he teaches the specialized courses to the undergraduate students, including the Motion Control System, Principles of Microcomputer and Interface Techniques, Fault Diagnosis Technology of Electrical Equipment, as well as Workplace Ethics—Professional Career Guidance and Planning. The teaching and academic research achievements of his consist of the 32 scientific research projects, 6 “Standards”, 20 academic papers, 2 patents, 2 monographs (co-author), and 5 third prizes of provincial- or ministerial-level Science and Technology Progress Awards.

 

ZHENG Changbao, male, doctorate, full professor, supervisor of master’s degree, executive member of China Electrotechnical Society (of power electronics), member of China Power Supply Society (new energy and electric energy conversion technology), member of Electrical and Information Standardization Technical Committee of Anhui Province, member of Power Quality Standardization Committee of Anhui Province, was born in in 1963 and is a native of Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. Zheng’s academic specialization is of the power electronics, power quality and motion control, and, as the lead technician, he collaborates into the development of the Large-scale Power Quality Control Devices—AVC, DVR and APF (in the category of “TCR+FC”). The teaching and academic research achievements of his include 30+ projects of scientific research of all kinds, such as 1 critical project of Anhui provincial science and technology (director), 1 national key planned project of research and development, 2 prizes of the Provincial- or Ministerial-level Science and Technology Awards, 2 patents (authorized invention), and 50+ academic papers.     

 

CHEN Yehui, born in June of 1984, female, master’s degree (in science), full professor, the outstanding CPC member (of provincial-level Innovation and Progress), Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer, is graduated from the Hefei University of Technology (HFUT). Chen teaches the content courses—the Principles of Mono-Chip Computers and Applications, DSP technology and Application—to undergraduate students, directs 1 project of Anhui Provincial Outstanding Youth Foundation and other 2 teaching research projects (of which, 1 second-class, and 1 third-class), and wins 1 first prize, and 2 second prizes of the Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Award. And She has published more than 20 academic papers (of which, 5 first-class papers), and guides the undergraduate students to participate in the provincial- or national-level contests of 15 (of which, 1 national-level first prize, and 2 national-level second prizes), and compiles 2 planned textbooks of the 12th Five-year Plan of Anhui Province (first author, or co-author).

 

ZHANG Fan, born in May of 1974, male, doctorate (in science), also postdoctoral research fellow, full professor, senior member of the Chinese Institute of Electronics (CIE), and representative of the National Congress of Members, member, also representative, of the Anhui Association for Science and Technology, discipline pacesetter of Information and Communication Engineering, is the recipient of the “National Outstanding Worker” Award and the first prize of the Project Competition for Building Application-oriented High-quality Education of Private Universities in the Yangtze River Delta, and the honor of the Outstanding Contribution Award (reviewer for the journal of Elsevier). And Zhang teaches 16 specialties courses and compiles 14 textbooks (or monographs), publishes 100 + academic papers (more than 50 papers folded into the First-class or Core Journals), takes office as the reviewer with 7 SCI/ EI journals, also member of organizing committee of International Coalition—IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and the chairperson of its subdivisions, earns 25 patents (authorized invention) of all kinds, and undertakes 36 massive projects.

 

WANG Qing, female, associate professor, master’s degree (in Electronic Circuit and System), a native of Zongyang County, Anhui Province, was born in February of 1986. Historically, Wang takes office as the executive member of AXHU Teaching Affairs Department, the assistant dean of AXHU School of Electronic Engineering, the deputy director of AXHU Assessment and Construction Office, and the deputy dean of AXHU School of Electronic Engineering. Moreover, the teaching and academic research achievements of her comprise 1 provincial- and ministerial-level textbook (co-author), 10 academic papers, 5 provincial-level projects of teaching and scientific research (director, and member), 2 new application-oriented patents, and 3 teaching achievements awards (of Anhui Provincial Education Department, or AXHU), and 2016 Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer.

 

BAI Zhiqing, male, born in 1979, a native of Jinzhai County, Anhui province, master’s degree, associate professor (of Electronic and Electrical Engineering), Anhui provincial “senior dual-qualification teacher,” electrician (first-class technician), examiner of electrician accreditation (elementary, intermediate, and senior), mentor of the Masses’ Entrepreneurship Space for Partnerships in the city of Huainan, Anhui Province, several times of acting as the assessor of Intermediate Vocational Skills Competition (of the city of Huainan), has applied for 9 new application-oriented patents (authorized invention) and 2 software copyrights, directs 7 projects of teaching and scientific research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department, publishes 20 academic papers in the areas of teaching and scientific research, and compiles 7 textbooks (co-author). Moreover, Bai has guided his undergraduate students to participate in and win awards of the Anhui Provincial Vocational Skills Competition and Anhui Provincial Internet of Things Innovative Application Contests. The academic interests and specialism of his are of Intelligent Sensing Technology.

 

YAO Ling, female, born in October of 1984, master’s degree (in science), studying for doctoral degree, associate professor, deputy director of the Department of Communication, teaches the courses, “High Frequency Circuit”, “Mobile Communication,” and “Computer Network”, to the undergraduate students. The main academic achievements of her include 5 projects of the Quality Engineering Program of Anhui Provincial Education Department, 1 first prize and 2 third prizes of the AXHU Teaching Contests, 1 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship project (mentor), 2 provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), 15 awards of provincial- or national-level competition for university students (of which, 1 national-level first prize).

 

SUN Wengfang, born in October of 1984, female, associate professor, deputy director of the Department of Engineering, teaches the courses, “Automobile Mechanics”, “Automotive Materials,” “Material of Mechanical Engineering and Hot Working Technology,” and “Engine Architecture and Maintenance” to the undergraduate students. The main academic achievements of her include 4 national patents, 3 provincial-level teaching and scientific research projects, 4 school-level teaching and scientific research projects, 7 academic research papers, 2 awards of AXHU Teaching Achievements, 3 third prizes of the Anhui Provincial Innovation Competition for the Advanced Mapping Technology and Product Information Modeling (mentor), 1 second prize and 1 third prize of the National College Students Mechanical Innovation Design Competition (mentor), 2 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), 1 provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship project (mentor).

 

SUN Jing, female, born in March of 1987, master’s degree (in science), studying for doctoral degree, lecturer, deputy director of the department of Automation, AXHU New Star Lecturer, visiting scholar at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), teaches the courses, “Circuits” and “Modern Control Theory,” to the undergraduate students. The main achievements of her comprise 1 provincial-level teaching and scientific research project, 5 school-level scientific research projects, 1 “crossing research” project, 1 national-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship project (mentor), 2 provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), 1 award of the provincial-level Teaching Achievements, 4 awards of the AXHU Teaching Achievements, 7 academic research papers (of which, 2 published in the core journals), 2 national-level patents, 1 first prize, 1 second prize, and 1 third prize of the AXHU Teaching Contests (also the Best Stage Style Award), AXHU Outstanding Staff.

 

GE Chuangwen, associate professor, doctorate, born in the city of Chaohu, Anhui Province and in 1968, receiving his bachelor’s degree (in Physics) at the Anqing Normal University, with a continuing education at AIOFM (Anhui Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences), is cordially engaged with the teaching and scientific research of higher education. And the academic interests and specialism of his are of the Laser and Optoelectronic Technology, and the Optoelectronic Information Science and Technology, and published dozens of academic papers and research reports.

 

WANG Yanlin, female, born in June of 1988, master’ degree (in science), associate professor, teaches the courses—PLC and Its Application, Computer Aided Design, Interface Techniques, and otherwise—to undergraduate students, the director-general of AXHU delegation for “Siemens Cup” CIMC—China Intelligence Manufacturing Challenge. The academic achievements of her comprise the 6 projects of teaching and scientific research (director), 7 academic papers (first author), 1 Grant Prize, 2 first prizes, and 1 second prize of the National Competition for University Students (mentor) and other provincial-level awards (mentor), and 5 national- or provincial-level university students’ innovation and entrepreneurship projects (mentor), and 2 new application-based patents (authorized invention) and 1 first prize of the Teaching Contest for the Electrotechnics of Higher Education.

 

YANG Zhao, female, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, the School’s secretary for academic research, teaches the courses—Detection and Conversion, Virtual Instrumentation, Computer Graphics, and otherwise—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of her include more than 10 scientific research projects at the provincial level or AXHU (director, or member), the national- or provincial-level university students’ innovative projects of 6 in all (mentor), 2 awards of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements and 1 award of AXHU Teaching Achievements, 1 second prize of the National Competition for University Students (mentor), and 1 Grand Prize, 3 second prizes, and 1 third prize of the Anhui Provincial Students Competition (mentor). And Yang, as the first author or corresponding author, has published 8 academic papers (of which, 5 first-class), and earns 6 national patents and wins the second prize of the fourteenth session of AXHU Teaching Competition for Young Teachers.

 

TAO Yanhui, female, regimental-level veteran-changed cadre, receiving the master’s degree (in Power Electronics and Drive) from the MOE (Ministry of Education) Research Center for Photovoltaic System Engineering, has more than 10 years of teaching experience at the military academies of China. In the October of 2016, Tao joined in AXHU, and the teaching and academic research achievements of her include 6 first-class papers, many provincial- or school-level scientific research projects (director, and member), award-winning instructor at kinds of competition for university students (of which, second prize of the Anhui provincial e-sports competition, and third prize of the Anhui provincial robotics competition). In the coming days, Tao gets herself resolved to be a “pathfinder” by self-improvement, step-by-step practice, and dedicated work, so as to become a beacon to light the students’ life journey.      

 

CHENG Ming, male, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, receives master’s degree (in Electronics and Communications) at the Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), and teaches the courses—Digital Circuit, Electronic Circuit CAD, Electrical Machinery & Drag, etc.—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of his comprise 5 projects of scientific research, 8 projects of teaching research, 1 second prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Award, 1 national new application-based patent, 10 academic papers, 6 awards of National- or Provincial-level Competition for University Students (of which, 2 second prizes of national-level awards—students’ instructor).  

 

ZHAO Yurong, female, born in April of 1987, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, faculty member of the Department of Communication, teaches the content courses—Electromagnetic Field and Electromagnetic Waves, High Frequency Circuit, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of her comprise 5 projects of Anhui Provincial “Quality Engineering Program,” 3 projects of AXHU “Quality Engineering Program,” 8 academic papers (of which, 1 first-class), 1 third prize of Anhui provincial-level teaching competition, 2 first prizes, 3 second prizes, and 3 third prizes of AXHU teaching competition, 5 national-level and 8 provincial-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship projects for University Students (mentor), and 10 provincial- or national-level awards of university students competition (of which, 2 first prizes of national-level category—students’ instructor).

 

ZHANG Weizhong, male, doctorate (in science), associate professor, is the head of the specialized education in Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation. The academic subjects and interests of his are of the self-driving auto, the intelligent control of robots, and the like. Zhang teaches the courses—Principle of Mechanics, Mechatronic Systems, Hydraulic and Pneumatic Transmission Technology, and otherwise—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of his include the 1 key research project in natural science of Anhui Provincial Education Department (director), 2 “crossing research” projects (director), 2 projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (member), the self-developed project (director)—its self-driving vehicle has passed test and is accredited by the officially-designated technical sector, 3 textbooks (first author), more than 10 academic papers (of which, 4 EI), and over 20 patents (authorized invention).     

 

ZHANG Xinhe, male, born in July of 1974, bachelor’s degree, senior engineer, the academic subjects and specialism of his are of the Industrial Intelligent Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence Control, and otherwise. Zhang teaches the content courses—Mechanical Manufacturing Automation Technology, Mechanical Manufacturing Equipment Design, Hydraulic and Pneumatic Transmission Technology, and the like—to undergraduate students. Remarkably, Zhang is engaged with years of on-site administration in the aspect of Electromechanical Technology at some enterprises, takes office as the chief engineer of mechatronics system, and has a strength of both real-world work experience and practically innovative capability. The academic achievements of his include kinds of technical innovation or renovation projects of 13 in all (director)—with a value of about RMB 80 million, 2 first prizes, 4 second prizes, and 3 third prizes of Enterprises Technology Innovation, 3 new application-based patents (authorized invention), and 4 academic papers in teaching and scientific research.

 

JIANG Yi, female, born in September of 1979, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, teaches content courses—Simulation Electronic Technology, Digital Electronic Technique, and Computer Principles and Interface Techniques, and otherwise—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements and honors of her comprise of the 7 projects of teaching and scientific research (of military academy), 2 second prizes of the Military Scientific Progress Awards, 2 second prizes and 1 third prize of school-level teaching achievements awards, 5 textbooks (author, or co-author), 16 academic papers (of which, 5 EI), 1 second prize of National Electronic Design Contest for University Students—Anhui Area (mentor), 2012 New Star Teacher of the PLA (Chinese People's Liberation Army) Army Academy of Artillery and Air Defense, 1 first prize of 2015 Teaching Contest of the Electrical Engineering Courses for Young Teachers of Anhui Provincial Higher Education, and 1 third prize of 2016 Micro-lecture Competition of National Pedagogy and Education (of higher education).

 

LI Hongxing, female, born in November of 1982, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, teaches content courses—Circuit Analysis, Analog Circuit, Power Electronic Technology, Measuring and Testing Techniques, and otherwise—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of her include 2 projects of AXHU Quality Engineering Program (director), 1 first prize and 1 third prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, 1 second prize of Anhui Provincial Wisdom Class Teaching Contest, 4 projects of National-level Training Plan for University Students’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship (mentor), 1 second prize, 1 third prize, and 1 Excellence Award of provincial-level discipline competition (mentor), 1 key project of the natural science research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (member), 10 academic papers, and 4 new application-based patents (authorized invention).

 

LI Changkai, male, born in March of 1982, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, mentor of the Science & Technology and Innovation Association, teaches the content courses—Circuit Analysis, Digital Image Processing, Communication Theory, Electromagnetic Field and Electromagnetic Waves, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic fruition of his includes 1 key project of teaching research of Anhui Provincial Education Department, 1 project of “Maker Lab Plan,” 1 key project of the natural science research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director), 1 key project of natural science research sponsored by AXHU, 5 academic papers (of which, 2 EI),1 first prize and 1 third prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards, 1 textbook (co-author), more than 10 awards of the academic discipline and skills competition (in category of AB) for university students (mentor), and 1 national-level and 4 provincial-level projects of the innovative training program for university students (mentor).

 

LIU Sha, male, born in May of 1963, bachelor degree (in science), senior engineer, teaches the content courses—Principles of Electric and Electronic Engineering, Simulation Electronic Technology, Digital Electronic Technique, EDA Technique and Its Application, Electrical Machinery & Draw, Power System Analysis, Power Quality Analysis and Control, and the like—to undergraduate students. In particular, Liu has years of work experience at ABB, the world-class leading enterprise in the domain of electric power and automation, being engaged with technological support and administrative service as an expert specific for both the electrical product design and experimental technology and the supply chain management or project management at foreign-owned enterprises, who has directed series of projects related to the design and experiment of the power transformer and mutual inductor and who is good at the composition structure and working principle of power transmission-and-distribution equipment and is of expertise in the fields of electromagnetic calculations and structural design of electrical products.

 

SHEN Xiaofang, female, doctorate (in science), also postdoctoral research fellow, teaches the content courses—Electric Circuit, Digital Circuit, Automatic Control Theory, and the like—to undergraduate students. The main academic achievements of her include 1 project of National Natural Science Foundation of China (member), 2 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China—Youth Fund (member), 1 project of “973 Program” (member), 1 critical project of science and technology of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of Science and Technology (member), 1 project of Anhui Provincial Rejuvenation Plan (director), 3 constructive projects of Anhui Provincial Quality Engineering Program for Engineering Courses (member), and other projects of AXHU Quality Engineering Program (director), 2 projects of the innovative training program for university students (mentor), and more than 10 academic papers (of which, 6 EI or SCI).

 

SU Qiaoping, female, born in March of 1980, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, mentor of the Innovation and Social Practice Association for Energy Conservation and Pollution Reduction, teaches the content courses—Power Electronic Technology, Power System Relay Protection, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of her include 1 project of scientific research of Anhui Provincial Education Department, 4 projects of Anhui Provincial-level Quality Engineering Program, 1 project of AXHU Quality Engineering Program, 1 second prize of AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, more than 10 academic papers, 2 new application-oriented patents (authorized invention), 1 third prize of National Electrical and Electronic Experimental “Teaching Case” Competition, 1 second prize of provincial-level competition for “Mobile Teaching,” and 2 first-prizes, 1 second prize and 1 third prize of the provincial-level competition for university students (mentor).  

 

WANG Enliang, female, born in June of 1980, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, is graduated from the Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), and teaches the content courses—Digital Signal Processing, Circuit Analysis, and the like—to the undergraduate students. The academic fruition of her comprises the 4 times of earning the Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, AXHU Famous Teacher, AXHU Skeleton Teacher, 8 projects of scientific research (director, or member), more than 40 projects of Anhui provincial-level teaching research (director, or member), over 20 academic papers, 1 first prize of national-level competition for university students (mentor), 2 first prizes of provincial-level competition for university students (mentor), 5 new application-oriented patents (authorized invention), 2 computer software copyrights, and 1 second prize of national teaching contest in Electrical Engineering of higher education.

 

TAN Linglong, female, born in May of 1985, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, AXHU Skeleton Teacher, Visiting Scholar at the Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), teaches the content courses—Signals and Systems, Digital Image Processing, Principle of Communication, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic fruition of her includes 1 second prize and 1 third prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, 1 project of Anhui provincial fund program for academic touring and research at home and abroad (director), 1 first prize of AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, 1 project of Anhui provincial teaching research (director), 1 project of AXHU High-Quality Courses (director), 1 key project of AXHU scientific research, more than 20 academic papers (of which, 7 EI), 4 new application-oriented patents (authorized invention), 4 software copyrights, and many awards of discipline competition for university students (mentor).

 

YAO Qun, male, born in January of 1966, master’s degree (in science), also MBA (Master of Business Administration), senior engineer, has garnered both the work experience at social enterprises and the teaching practices at higher education, and has been engaged with the management and maintenance of enterprise equipment, and works as the team head responsible for the assembly and testing of imported digital-controlled machinery or devices. Yao teaches the content courses—Engineering Drawing, Fundamentals of Mechanical Design, Fundamental of Mechanical Manufacture, Computer Aided Design, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of his include 3 projects of AXHU teaching research (director), 3 textbooks (co-author), 2 academic papers of teaching research, 1 new application-oriented appearance patent (authorized invention), 1 third prize of provincial-level Advanced Image-forming Competition, and 1 third prize of provincial-level Robot Contest.

 

YU Yuting, female, born in May of 1982, female, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, New Star Teacher, Skeleton Faculty, teaches the content courses—EDA Technology, Hardware Description Language, Principles of Embedded Systems, and the like—to undergraduate students, the academic fruition of her includes the 1 provincial-level planned textbook (first author), 2 projects of provincial-level Quality Engineering Program (director), 6 projects of AXHU Quality Engineering Program (director), 6 projects of scientific research (director, or member), 14 academic papers (of which, 1 EI, 8 “Third Class”), 1 third prize of AXHU Teaching Contest (also Best Stage Style Award), AXHU First-Class Courses (lecturer), and 6 national- or provincial-level prizes at Electronic Design Competition or Smart Car Competition (mentor).    

 

ZHENG Rubing, male, born in October of 1964, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, has 27-year “front-line” teaching experience—being loyal to the people’s higher education and dedicated to learning, teaching and scientific research. Zheng teaches the content courses—Principle of Communication, Electromagnetic Field and Wave, Computer Principles and Interface Techniques, C31 System, Principle and Technology of Data Link System, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic accomplishments of his include 1 project of National Social Science Foundation (in Military Science), 12 projects of scientific research (of military academy), 1 second prize and 5 third prizes of the Military Scientific Progress Awards, 1 monograph (first author), 24 textbooks (first author, or co-author), more than 20 academic papers, 1 third prize of AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, and 2 copyrights (of applied software).

 

YANG Huai, male, born in March of 1963, master’s degree, associate professor, supervisor of master’s program, teaches the content courses—Intelligent Decision, Information System Integration, Automatic Control, and so on—to undergraduate or postgraduate students, who has educated over 30 postgraduates. The academic achievements of his include the discipline construction in the areas of Intelligent Control, Command Automation, and the like (director, or member), designing of Talents Cultivation Plans and curriculum standards (director), and structuring of high-quality courses and key labs (director), 8 prizes of the Military Scientific Progress Awards, over 10 prizes of the Teaching Achievements Awards of Higher Education or of the Innovation Awards for Scientific Research and otherwise, more than 30 publications (including the monographs, textbooks, and teaching materials), more than 60 academic papers, and the silver medal of Yucai Award and the Red Candle Award (of military academy).

 

MENG Xianmeng, master’s degree, senior engineer, associate professor, is the skeleton teacher of the Specialty in Communication Engineering. And his academic subjects and interests are of the Radar System, Array Antenna Design, and the like. The academic accomplishments of his include the general designing of Low Altitude Radar System (director), and many projects of scientific research of the Air Force Armament Division and the State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense (of the Chinese People's Liberation Army).

 

HOU Peihai, the skeleton teacher of the Specialty in Communication Engineering, master’s degree, associate professor, senior engineer, has years of designing experiences at enterprises, in the field of self-developed products, e.g., the motor vehicle for special purpose, and the electrical control circuit. The academic fruition and expertise of his are of the application of “finite element” software (ANSYS, ABAQUS, HYPERMESH, NASTRAN), the static analysis, the dynamic analysis, the “fatigue strength” analysis and so forth, and the textbook titled “Mechanical Graphing”（ISBN:978-7-312-03620-0）.  

 

WANG Jing, female, born in January of 1984, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, teaches the content courses—Digital Circuits, Modern Switching Techniques, Fundamentals of Internet of Things Control, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic accomplishments of her comprise the 2 prizes of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, 3 prizes of AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, 2 honors of the “AXHU Most Popular Teacher” and the “AXHU Excellent Mentor,” 8 academic papers, 6 projects of scientific research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director, or member), and 10 prizes of provincial- or national-level discipline competition (of different kinds) for university students (mentor).

 

XIE Wendi, female, born in July of 1987, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, faculty member of the Department of Communication Engineering, teaches the content courses—Principle of Communication, Communication Network Technology, Signals and Systems, Circuit Analysis, Wireless Network Optimization: High-level Signaling, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic accomplishments of her comprise more than 10 projects of Provincial-level or AXHU-based Quality Engineering Program (director, or member), more than 10 academic papers of teaching or scientific research, 1 new application-oriented patent (authorized invention), more than 10 awards (of first prize, second prize, or third prize) of provincial-level discipline competition (of different kinds) for university students (mentor), 5 projects of national-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship for university students (mentor), and 7 projects of provincial-level Innovation and Entrepreneurship for university students (mentor).  

 

JI Liqin, female, born in November of 1975, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, receiver of 2010 Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer, dual-qualification faculty, teaches the content courses—Digital Circuits, Principle of Mono-Chip Computers and Its Applications, Interface Techniques, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of her include the 2 projects of natural science research (director), 4 projects of provincial- or ministerial-level scientific research (member), 7 projects of Quality Engineering Program sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director, or member), 3 textbooks (first author, or co-author), more than 10 academic papers (of which, 2 EI), 1 patent (authorized invention), 2 third prizes of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, 5 AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, more than 10 awards (of first prize, or second prize) of the Smart Car Competition, the Intelligent Manufacturing Competition or the “Challenge Cup” competition for university students (mentor). Moreover, Ji is in charge of the Supervisor for the Association of Innovation and Science & Technology.   

 

TU Defeng, female, born in October of 1985, receives her master’s degree from the HFUT (Hefei University of Technology) School of Electronic Science and Applied Physics. In 2011-22, Tu works as faculty member of the AXHU School of Electronic Communication Engineering, and teaches the content courses—Principle of Mono-Chip Computers and Its Applications, Digital Circuits, ARM Processor Structure and Its Application, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic accomplishments of her comprise of the 2012 AXHU Skeleton Teacher (as candidate), 2016-2017 visiting scholar at Anhui University (of the program of “Young Skeleton Lecturer of China Higher Education”), 3 projects of scientific research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director, or member), 4 projects of AXHU-based or provincial-level Quality Engineering Program (director, or member), more than 10 academic papers of teaching or scientific research (of which, 4 EI), 4 national-level new application-based patents, 1 first prize of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, and 4 provincial-level awards of the discipline and science & technology competition for university students (mentor).

 

QIAO Hongjiao, female, born in March of 1988, master’s degree (in science), senior engineer, centers her academic subjects on the Industrial Intelligent Manufacturing, the Intelligent Control and the like, and teaches the content courses—Materials for Mechanical Engineering and Hot Working Technology, Fundamentals of Mechanical CAD Technology, Mechanical CAD/CAM, Automobile Performance and Application Technique, Automobile Manufacturing Technology, and the like—to undergraduate students. In addition, Qiao has years of working experience at enterprises, being engaged with product structure design and analysis, with which Qiao won the second prize of the corporate Science & Technology Advance Awards and the Intellectual Property Awards at Its Science & Technology Conference. And the self-developed Sanyuan Power Battery System of her is awarded “Anhui Provincial New Product Award.” And the academic fruition of her comprises of more than 40 national-level patents (of which, 7 Invention patents, and 20 new application-based patents), 4 academic papers (of which, 1 EI), and 1 “Enterprise Standard” (co-author).

 

ZHANG Jun, male, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, senior engineer, has years of working experience at enterprises, being engaged with product design and development. The academic subject and interests of his are in the field of Intelligent manufacturing technology, and Intelligent Equipment. Zhang teaches the content courses—Mechanical Design, Interchangeability and Measuring Technology, Mechanical CAD/CAM, Fundamentals of Mechanical CAD Technology, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of his comprise 3 key projects of natural science research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director, or member) , 4 key projects of AXHU natural science research (director, or member), 2 projects of AXHU Quality Engineering Program (director), 1 second prize of AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, 1 textbook (co-author), 8 academic papers, 1 patent (authorized invention), more than 20 new application-based patents, and more than 10 awards of the discipline and skills competition (in category of AB ) for university students (mentor).

 

SU Ningxin, female, born in January of 1984, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, teaches the content courses—Signals and Systems, EDA Technology, Modern Communication Technology, and the like—to undergraduate students. The scholarly accomplishments of her include more than 10 academic papers published on the core journals at home and abroad (of which, 1 EI), 2 projects of Quality Engineering Program sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department, 6 projects of AXHU-based pedagogical and teaching research, 2 prizes of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, 1 prize of AXHU Teaching Achievements Awards, 1 honorable title of Anhui Provincial Excellent Lecturer of Online Classes, 1 first prize and 1 third prize of the national-level discipline competition (in category of AB) for university students (mentor), and 4 awards of other provincial-level competition for university students (mentor).

 

WANG Yueqin, female, born in 1980, associate professor, studies for her master’s degree in Mode Identification and Intelligence Control at the Southwest University of Science and Technology (2004-07), and works as Electronics Engineer at Hefei Huojin Electronic Technology Co., Ltd., Anhui Cycling Engineering Academy (2007-12), and is employed as faculty member at AXHU (2012-22) to teach the content courses—Analog Circuit, Digital Circuit, Principle of Mono-Chip Computers and Its Applications, Digital Signal Processing, Electronic Circuit CAD, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic subjects and interest of her are of Signal and Information Processing. The scholarly achievements of her comprise 1 key project of provincial-level teaching research, 1 project of Domestic Academic Touring Research Program for Excellent Young Skeleton Talents (of Anhui Provincial Universities), 1 project of AXHU High-quality Courses for Resources Sharing, 1 project of AXHU teaching research (director), 1 project of AXHU scientific research (director), 4 academic papers (of which, 2 EI), 2 research papers in teaching, 2 second prizes of national-level competition for university students (mentor), and 1 first prize of Anhui provincial-level competition for university students(mentor).

 

XU Huifang, female, born in August of 1984, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, receives many of AXHU honors and prizes, including the Skeleton Teacher, Dual-qualification Teacher, Outstanding CPC Member (of AXHU), Excellent Mentor, Most Popular Teacher, and Excellent Staff. Xu teaches the content courses—Hardware Description Language, Principles and Design of Integrated Circuits, Integrated Circuit CAD, EDA Technology, Simulation Electronic Technology, Digital Electronic Technique, Circuit Analysis, and the like—to undergraduate students. The scholarly achievements of her comprise 12 academic papers, 9 projects of AXHU-based or provincial-level scientific research, 3 new application-based patents (authorized invention), 2 prizes of Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements Awards, 6 awards of provincial- or national-level discipline competition (of different kinds) for university students (mentor), and 8 training projects of the provincial- or national-level innovation and entrepreneurship for university students (director).  

 

ZHONG Lingling, female, born in February of 1980, master’s degree (in Circuits and Systems), associate professor, teaches the content courses—Engineering Drawing, Analog Circuit, High-frequency Circuit, Digital Circuit, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic accomplishments of her include 7 projects of Quality Engineering Program (director, or member), 3 projects of teaching and scientific research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director, or member), 2 textbooks (co-author), 16 academic papers (of which, 4 EI), and other awards of the teaching contests or academic events of different kinds.

 

PENG Xia, female, born in 1984, master’s degree (in Intelligent Information Processing), teaches the content courses—Analog Circuit, Optical Fiber Communications, and the like—to undergraduate students, and conducts the pilot project of Anhui Provincial Wisdom Class: “Optical Fiber Communications” (director) and the project of Anhui Provincial Demonstration Experiment Training Center—Experimental Teaching Center for Virtual Simulation of Mobile Communication (executive member). The academic achievements of her comprise 1 first prize of the first session of AXHU Wisdom Class Teaching Competition, some AXHU-based or provincial-level projects of teaching and scientific research (director, or member), some academic papers of teaching and scientific research (“Three Class”, or above), and some awards of the Internet of Things Application Innovation Competition (in category of B) for Anhui Provincial University Students (mentor).

 

SHI Daoling, female, associate professor, master’s degree, 2018 “Visiting Scholar” at Anhui University, has worked as the faculty member at the Department of Communication Engineering at AXHU since 2001, mainly teaching the content courses—Principle of Mono-Chip Computers and Its Applications, Interface Techniques, Digital Electronic Technique, Principles of Computer Composition, Wireless Sensor Network and the like, as well as supervising the relevant internships or practicums specific for undergraduate students. And the academic achievements of her comprise some projects of AXHU-based or provincial-level high-quality courses-building programs based on the Interface Techniques, Mono-Chip Computers and Its Applications, and otherwise (director, or member), 3 projects of AXHU-based or provincial-level teaching research (director), 3 projects of national-level innovation program for university students (mentor), 6 projects of provincial-level innovation program for university students (mentor), some awards of the provincial- or national-level science and technology competition for university students at different levels (mentor)—2014 Smart Cars Competition (first prize at the national level, also  first prize at the provincial level), 2019 Anhui Provincial Internet of Things Competition (first prize at the provincial level), 2018-2019 Anhui Provincial Skills Competition for Mono-Chip Computers (third prize at the provincial level).

 

HUANG Shijiang, male, born in October of 1962, master’s degree (in science), associate professor, teaches the content courses—Digital Logic Circuit, Simulated Electronic Circuits, High-frequency Electronic Circuit, and the like—to undergraduate students. The academic accomplishments of his include the 3 projects of scientific research of general higher education or of military academy (director), 2 third prizes of the Military Scientific Progress Awards, 1 second prize and 2 third prizes of the School-level Teaching Achievements Awards, 2 textbooks (first author), more than 20 academic papers (of which, 5 published on the “core journals”), 2 second prizes of the School-level Teaching Competition, 2 second prizes and 1 third prize of the “Teaching Quality Evaluation”, and 1 individual honor and 1 collective honor (Third-class Merits of the Military).   

 

HUANG Shizhao, male, born in June of 1976, doctoral degree (in science) , associate professor, teaches the content courses—Artificial Circuit, Digital Circuit, Signals and Systems, Principle of Communication, and Digital Signal Processing—to undergraduate students. The academic achievements of his comprise 1 key project of collegiate natural science research sponsored by Anhui Provincial Education Department (director), 4 projects of scientific research of military academy or at the provincial level (director), 2 second prizes and 2 third prizes of the Military Scientific Progress Awards, 1 award of the School-level natural science research achievements, 1 award of the School-level teaching achievements, more than 50 sets of Some type of self-developed “survey equipment” specific for the military service (director), 2 patents for national defense (authorized invention), 1 textbook (first author), and more than 10 academic papers.

 

 

// Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing   

 

// The Department of Electronics

—AXHU Specialty of Electronic Information Engineering—, “ANHUI PROVINCIAL FIRST-CLASS BRANDED SPECIALTY”

 

Synopsis. This Department of Electronics is one of the first established teaching units by AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing, which comprises 2 undergraduate programs, i.e., Electronic Information Engineering (including the specialization of Mobile Internet) and Electronic Science and Technology—the former is ratified as the Anhui Provincial-level Featured Specialty and also Pilot Major for Comprehensive Reform. This Department has structured a team of stable skeleton faculty and staff, characterizing with strengths of theoretical and practical capabilities of teaching and with scientific research potentials.

 

// The status quo of the Department shows as follows:

 

Personnel:

19 full-time tenured faculty members

28 part-time teachers

2 laboratory assistants

7 full professors

12 associate professors

3 senior engineers

21 lecturers

5 teaching assistants

 

Labs:

Based on the Experiment and Training Center for Mechanics and Electronics, this Department has completed the construction of 10 specialized labs and 2 training centers, i.e., the Circuit Analysis Laboratory, Analog Circuit Laboratory, Digital Circuit Laboratory, High Frequency Circuit Laboratory, Principle of Communication Laboratory, Signal and System Laboratory, EDA (Electronic Design Automation) Laboratory, Interface Techniques/Mono-Chip Computers Laboratory, DSP (Digital Signal Processing) Laboratory, Mobile Internet Laboratory, and the Center for University Students’ Innovation, and Center for Electrical and Electronic Assembly. As such, the department focuses its practical teaching on the cultivation of undergraduate students’ application-oriented competence, via experiment-related content courses, practicums and internships, graduation design, or training and operation on the spot, which suggests a scientific working mechanism allowing the undergraduate students to have a balanced and coordinated development in a sound teaching and learning atmosphere specific for “Experiment, Training and Application” in importance.

 

Discipline and Courses:

Currently, the Department has 1 featured specialty, 1 project of comprehensive reform for specialty, 7 high-quality courses or featured courses (Digital Electronic Technique, Principle of Mono-Chip Computers & Applications, High-frequency Circuit, EDA Technology, Simulation Electronic Technology, Circuit Analysis, DSP Technology and Application).

 

Strengths of Specialty Education:

With the students-centered, faculty-led pedagogical ideologies, this department underscores the cultivation of high-end, application-based talents in respect to their growth of hands-on competence so as to tap their potentials of innovation, highlights an educational philosophy, featuring application, integration and professionalization, openness and breakthrough, makes its educational track linked to the trend of social demands and correspondingly structures the competence-driven system for teaching students who can formulate and develop and utilize what they had learned from in theory and in practicum (90% of the students participating in discipline competition), actualizes Zero-distance, or “seamless,” collaboration between the School Education and Social Market. In recent years, the students of the Department of Electronics earned 1 national-level Invention patent and 3 application-oriented patents, and won many of prizes and awards in the kinds of competition and contests at different levels, such as “Freescale Cup”  National University Students Intelligent Car Race, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, “Challenge Cup,” etc. Consequently, the graduates’ employment rate records above 95%, and the employment quality increases year over year.

 

Enterprise-University Cooperative Units:

CSG Smart Science & Technology Co., Ltd.

China Electronics Technology Group Corporation

Midea Hefei

Anjoyo, Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.

YURUN Group

...

 

A Culture of the Academia:

Electronic Information Engineering is one of the “forerunner” specialties at AXHU. In 2006, which begins to enroll undergraduate students and then becomes the Anhui Provincial Featured Major in 2013, also Anhui Provincial Pilot Major for Comprehensive Reform in 2015, Anhui Provincial First-Class Specialization—Branded Program in 2020. Knowing as “Tree-fold Advancement Major” means the high-level faculty, stat-of-the-art and well-equipped laboratory, and outstanding achievements in competition.  

 

Excellent Faculty and Staff:

At present, the Electronic Information Engineering Specialty has 28 teachers, which, to be exact, includes 21 associate professors (and/or senior engineers), 4 full professors (and/or senior research fellows), 1 member of Provincial-level Famous Teacher, and 2 members of Anhui Provincial New Star Teacher. In addition, which, teaming up with the social enterprises, employed 8 members of senior engineers or high-level administrators from the Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., the ANHUI SUN CREATE Co., Ltd., and the like. In recent three years, the teachers have published academic papers of more than 100 (of which, 10 first-class papers), earned 30 patents, over 20 provincial-level projects of teaching and scientific research, and 6 Provincial-level Teaching Achievements Awards (of which, 2 first prizes), as well as organized to co-compile a textbook titled “EDA Technology and Application”.

 

Emerging Star Teachers:

In 2021, associate Prof. SU Ningxin was honored the “Excellent Instructor” by the Anhui Robotics Society.

In 2021, XIA Mengqing was awarded the “Most Popular Teacher” and “Excellent Instructor for Students’ Contests.”

In 2021, CHENG Yehui was granted the “Youngest Associate Professor.”

 

A List of Academic Papers (EI):

TAN Linglong, Simulation of Heat Distribution and Thermal Damage Patterns of Pulse Laser for Uterus Using Finite Element Analysis, Pacific Rin Laser Damage 2021. (EI)

TAN Linglong, On-line Monitoring Method of Power Transformer Insulation Fault Based on Bayesian Network, ICST 2021. (EI)

YU Yuting, Energy-Saving Mechanism of Wireless Communication System Based on Particle Swarm Optimization, 2021 12^th International Conference on Measuring Technology and Mechatronics Automation. (EI)

TAN Linglong, A Blind Watermarking Algorithm for Digital Image Based on DWT, J. Phys. Conf. Ser. (EI)

TAN Linglong, Design and Implementation of Traffic Signal Control System Based on Parallel Simulation Technology, J. Phys. Conf.Ser. (EI)

YU Yuting, The Design of Two-Wheeled Robotic Self-Balancing Walking Control System, WCSE 2021. (EI)

YU Yuting, Design of Smart Home System Based on Raspberry Pi, ICCD 2021. (EI)

XU Huifang, Study on BP Neural Network Optimization by Improved Decay Parameter Genetic Algorithm, ICCSCT 2021. (EI)

TAN Linglong, Research on Speech Signal Denoising Algorithm Based on Wavelet Analysis, Journal of Physics. (EI)

TAN Linglong, Image Compression Technology Based on Wavelet Transform, Journal of Physics. (EI)

 

The Innovative Cultivation Models:

On the trend of rapidly IT-related development in the city of Hefei, the Specialty launches the discipline building in the Application of Integrated Circuit. At the same time, the School forwards a pattern of talents cultivation—“Three-fold Integration, Six-pronged Presence, Zero Distance,” i.e., 1) to realize a seamless connection between the talents cultivation and enterprises’ expectations, so as to gradually optimize its own teaching and scientific system, 2) to establish modern infrastructure, to create real-world teaching setting, to provide value-added job vacancies, to secure a higher efficiency while processing and operating, to design output-driven plans, and to carry out performance-oriented assessment—, and increasingly deepens the reform in teaching models. Precisely, any reformative momentum should be in tandem with the dynamic development of electronic industry, and then re-build a new curriculum architecture and internships system and explore a brand new pedagogical approaches via a realization of “Industry-University Integration, Theory-Practice Integration, and Learning-Innovation Integration.” As such, what the students had learned and obtained at AXHU space can be well transformed in the future career, and produce in the real-life environment.

 

The Rich Achievements Out of Curriculum Building:

Nowadays, this Specialty has completed the construction of Courses Resources Platform, including the 11 provincial-level high-quality open courses, MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses), Wisdom Class, etc. Meanwhile, it has built up 7 models of AXHU “Flipped Classroom”, kinds of High-quality Courses (video link open classes). And the Signals and Systems is ratified as the national-level first-class course in 2022, and the EDA Technology is enrolled into the Wisdom Education Platform of China’s Higher Education (MOE).

 

A List of Anhui Provincial-level Projects and High-quality Courses:

The provincial-level project of the large-scale open online classes: the Engineering Drawing, Digital Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Principle of Communication, Signals and Systems, High-frequency Electronic Circuits, and EDA Technology.

The provincial-level Pilot Program for the Wisdom Class: the Principle of Communication, and Digital Electronic Technique.

The provincial-level project of the High-quality Offline Open Class: the Digital Electronic Technique.

The provincial-level project of the High-quality Video Link Open Class: the Principle of Mono-Chip Computers.

 

Harvests at University Students’ Competition:

The Specialized Education in Electronic Information Engineering attaches a greater importance to the teaching and training practice of the “First Classroom” academic knowledge, while laying emphasis on the Scientific Innovation Training and Discipline Competition of what the “Second Classroom” can work out. And in effect, it’s educational practices harvest a larger number of Fruits, including 31 national- or provincial-level projects of University Students’ Innovation and Startups, 61 published papers, and 2 patents by the current students. The Specialty proactively boosts the Space for participating in discipline competition projects. With reference to the parameters—A/B-Category Collegiate Discipline Competition and Skills Contests (by Anhui Provincial Education Department), it opts for 11 competition programs suited for its educational practice and academic development, implementing a gradient three-step selection system—from School Level to Provincial Level to National Level.

 

A List of Students’ Awards at Provincial- or National-level Discipline Competition:

The national-level awards include the National University Students Intelligence Car Race (2 first prizes, 5 second prizes), and National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (1 second prize).

The provincial-level awards include the “Challenge Cup”—Anhui Provincial University Students’ Extracurricular Works Competition in Academia and Science and Technology (1 program), China College Students’ Internet+ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition (Anhui Area) (1 program), National University Students Intelligence Car Race (Anhui Area) (6 programs), National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (Anhui Area) (5 programs), National College Mechanical Innovation Competition (Anhui Area) (1 program), Anhui Provincial Robot Competition—Single Chip Microcomputer and Embedded System (1 program), Anhui Provincial University Students’ Single Chip Microcomputer and Applied Skills of Embedded System Competition (3 programs), Application and Innovation Competition of Internet of Things in Anhui Provincial Higher Education (2 programs), Anhui Provincial Robot Competition (4 programs), the Chinese Mathematics Competition (Anhui Area) (1 program), China Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (Anhui Area) (4 programs), “Wanxiu Champions League”—University Student’s Mathematical Contest in Modeling (1 program), and “Qifei Cup”—the Third Session of Anhui Provincial Aviation Model Open (2 programs).

 

Stable Employment and Startups:

Moving upward with the industries’ upgrade, economic development and social needs in the Anhui province, under the work guideline of “the work for university students’ employment weighting by all members, from all sides, in whole process,” this Specialty is dedicated to the continuing improvement and betterment of its talents cultivation modes. In recent three years, the employment rate of its graduating students is up to 96%, who are engaged in the jobs related to Information Transmission, Software and Information Technology Service, and the like.

 

2019-21 Graduating Students Employment:  

Time- frame	Number of Graduates	Job Seekers Headcount	Employment Rate	Program-specific Relevance Index	Self-Employment/ Entrepreneurship
2021	141	134	95.0%	75.2%	5.08%
2020	106	104	98.11%	62.2%	3.30%
2019	108	107	99.1%	79.6%	3.36%

 

 

                                                                               

//Communication Engineering (undergraduate)

 

National-level First-class Major Construction Unit: AXHU Communication Engineering—“State Gold Brick Education Program”

 

According to an official release by the General Office of MOE (Serial No. 7, 2021)—List of Provincial- and National-level First-class Undergraduate Major Construction Units, 2020/2021, AXHU’s Communication Engineering Major is granted the “National-level First-class Undergraduate Construction Unit.” In 2006, this specialized program is launched at AXHU. With a history of evolution in respect to its educational vision, industry-university integration, trend of modern communication technology, as well as transformation and upgrade of the industries in communication engineering, a new model for training talents comes into being, featuring “Three-fold Integration, Six-pronged Presence, Zero Distance,” so as to foster a large number of excellent engineers of communication engineering. After years of construction and development, it has become the Anhui Provincial Feature Major, Anhui Provincial Pilot Major for Comprehensive Reform, and Anhui Provincial Specialized Education Planning for Excellent Engineers. In 2019, it is approved the provincial-level first-class undergraduate major construction unit (Two Ten Thousand Initiative, also Double First-class Specialty Planning of MOE). In 2020, it is ratified the national-level first-class undergraduate construction unit, also one of only two universities in Anhui province—Anhui University, Anhui Xinhua University—, by MOE. The achievements of its development and construction are greatly recognized and reported by some mainstream media, such as the China Education Online, the Xinhuanet, the PhoenixNet, and so forth. In July 2021, this Specialty is to pair up with the ZTE Corporation, one of the leading enterprises among communication industries, establishes the AXHU-ZTE ICT Modern Industry School, jointly structures the multi-cultural and high-caliber faculty team, which is equipped with professionally advanced bases for training and internships, and deepens the integration between academic courses and professional accreditation to foster high-quality and applied talents of ICT, so as to make more contribution to the local economy and social development.

 

Bright Prospect for Development

The Specialty is the most popular disciplinary division in the field of Electronic Information, also well-developed and vibrant space, being exemplified with 5G Wireless Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing and Big Data, which is exerting a profound impact on but is meaningfully changing the people’s lifestyle. Particularly, the “New Infrastructure” and “Digital Economy” have earned an unprecedented support in the 14th Five-Year Plan of China. In 2021, the 5G technology is booming up in some presences, such as Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangshu, and Anhui, which are to implement the work plan in process—Planned Outline for Integrated Development in the Yangtze River Delta Economy District. As far as the “Interconnection and Interlink” of the infrastructure is concerned, the municipal- or provincial-level authorities aforesaid uniformly agree to accelerate the construction of a new generation Information Infrastructure in such areas. The Hefei-based “core zone” for 5G industrial development in Anhui province will create more and more opportunities magnetizing many of professionals and entrepreneurs and investors, etc..   

 

Excellent Teaching Staff

The Communication Engineering Specialty has been staffed by a vibrant team of 32 members (of which, 84% of the members being with senior academic titles, 100% of the members receiving doctoral or master’s degree) with a commitment of age group, academic titles, education background, cultural originality, and teaching experience in theory and practice, including:

7 full professors

20 associate professors

18 doctorates

1 honor in Anhui Provincial-level Teaching Group

2 honors in Anhui Provincial Famous Teacher

4 honors in Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer

 

— Better Faculty for Academic Tutorials

— Vanguard Group for Professional Instruction

 

Stronger Conditions for Schooling

This Specialty has structured 8 “platforms” for teaching, scientific research and training: AXHU-DT Mobile Educational Center for Internship, Demonstration Base for Provincial-level First-class Undergraduate Talents in Electronic Communication, Provincial-level Experiment and Training Center for Modern Communication, Provincial-level Experiment and Training Center for Electrical and Electronic Technology, Provincial-level Teaching Center for Simulation Experiment in Mobil Communication, Maker Workshop for College Students’ Electronic Design ... and more than 10 labs—Analog Electronics Technique Lab, Digital Electronic Technique Lab, Principles of Communication Lab, Signals and Systems Lab, High-frequency Circuit Lab, Broadband Communication Lab, Program-controlled Exchange Lab, Optical Fiber Communications Lab, Data Communication Lab, and Network Optimization Lab.

In 2021, teaming up with ZTE Corporation, AXHU jointly invested RMB 20 million to establish an array of professional labs, including 5G Mobil Communication Lab, Training Center for Optical Network, and Training Center for Network Simulation in ISIM Communication, and structured professional-level bases for the college students’ internship and experiment, by which to help them increase his or her own practical capability and obtain official accreditation for a professional access. Moreover, this cooperation realizes a seamless connection and create an ideal environment of experiment-based teaching for college students, which introduces advanced teaching and training facilities (enterprise-level equipment), covering the operational technology of the three major businesses, i.e., China Mobile, China Telecom, and China Unicom.

 

Cultivation Model of Distinction

Proactively, this Specialty is to meet the emerging requirements and follows up with the new turn of communications industries. And, via co-compiling the Talents Cultivation Plan, curriculum standards and teaching system of content courses and practicum, co-developing course resources and branded activities comprising a wider discipline competition, innovation and entrepreneurship education, sci-tech culture festivals and “Boutique Societies” such as “Innovation Protocol in Science and Technology,” as well as importing high-quality devices and equipment from social enterprises, it puts forth an innovative pattern for talents cultivation—the “Three-fold Integration, Six-pronged Presence, Zero Distance,” i.e., deeper integration between the institution of higher learning and social enterprises, between theories and application, and between learning and innovation; zero distance between talents cultivation and enterprises’ needs, between theoretical fundamentals and practical operation, and between academic learning in classroom and hands-on capability on spot; real-world presences regarding Facilities and Equipment, Conditions and Situations, work posts, proceedings, tasks and evaluations.  

Along with the social enterprises, this Specialty is to co-develop course resources and the internship and training opportunities totaling 30 projects (such as Mobile Communication Network Planning, Adjusting and Opening of Wireless Network Base Station Equipment, Data Communication Network Design and so on), employs career experts to examine and refine the teaching plans involving the core courses syllabus and the teaching contents, transplants the updated standards, new techniques and workmanship as well as representative cases into teaching activities, and carries out the relevant teaching, assigning, tasking and evaluating both under the conditions of TD-LTE experimental equipment and network service providers’ paradigms and on basis of the concrete requests for certain work post of equipment engineers and network optimization engineer at wireless network base station, and the wireless network planning and design or the equipment manipulation of the wireless network base station (such as installing, opening, adjusting, testing and optimizing).

 

University-Enterprise Cooperation to Fulfil Potential

This Specialty has established a raft of off-campus training bases for practicum and internship through cooperating with 12 promising enterprises—ZTE Corporation, SHANGHAI ZXELINK CO., LTD., Boomsense Technology Co., Ltd., China Information Consulting & Designing Institute CO., LTD., Zhonghui Building Technology Co., Ltd., Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., SUN CREATE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Quectel Wireless Solutions Co., Ltd., and so on.

At the same time, it has also cooperated with ZTE, the flagship enterprise in communication industries, to build up ICT Modern Industrial Institute, and takes advantage of both upstream and downstream enterprises of ZTE to establish high-quality enterprises resources tank (for professional training and employment), which can offer about 500 paid internship posts catering for graduating students from the city of Hefei, the areas of Yangtze River Delta, or even across China, which can provide for them cognitive training, engineering practice, continued education, internship and employment. And the average income can reach RMB 4.2 thousand per month.

 

Enterprise Resources Tank

for University-Enterprise Cooperation (abridged)

 

Name	Type	Size	Post(s)
ZTE Corporation	Listed Company	10,000+	Communications Engineer, and otherwise
SHANGHAI ZXELINK CO., LTD.	Listed Company	500+	Development Engineer, Communications Engineer, and otherwise
DT Mobile	Listed Company	2,000+	Communications Engineer, and otherwise
HTmicrowave	Private Enterprise	100+	Communications Engineer, and otherwise
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	5,000+	Development Engineer, and otherwise
SUN CREATE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.	Listed Company	3,000+	Communications Supervision Engineer, and otherwise
Gongcheng Management Consulting Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	6,000+	Communications Supervision Engineer, and otherwise
Boomsense Technology Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	1,000+	Communications Engineer, and otherwise
Super Telecom Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	500+	Communications Engineer, and otherwise
China Information Consulting & Designing Institute CO., LTD.	State-owned Enterprise	6,000+	Communication Design Engineer, and Survey Engineer
Runjian Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	1,000+	Network Optimization Engineer, Project Development Manager
ZTEJC Co., Ltd.	Joint-equity Enterprise	1,500+	Communications Engineer, and Network Optimization Engineer
Xi’an Licheng Zhiyuan Network Technology Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	100/200	Communications Engineer
Huaxin Consulting & Designing Institute CO., LTD.	State-owned Enterprise	1,000+	Communications Survey Engineer, Project Budget Engineer, and otherwise
Hangzhou Huaxing Chuangye Communication Technology Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	1,000+	4G/5G Communications Engineer, and Network Optimization Engineer
Guomai Technology Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	3,000+	Network & Operation Engineer, and Project Assistant in Communications Engineering
DingLi Corporation Ltd.	Listed Company	2,000+	Network Optimization Engineer
BJACTION Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	1,000/5,000	Optical Transmission Engineer, and Core Network Debugging Engineer
Tianbo Electronic Information Technology Co., Ltd.	State-owned Enterprise	1,000/5,000	Network Optimization Engineer
Hangzhou Dongxin Network Technology Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	2,000+	Network Optimization Engineer
Wangsu Science and Technology Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	5,000+	Network & Operation Engineer
8Telecom International Holdings Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	500/1,000	Wireless Network Debugging and Testing Engineer
Wuhan Hongxin Technical Service Co., Ltd.	State-owned Enterprise	5,000+	Communications Engineer
Zhonghui Building Technology Co., Ltd.	State-owned Enterprise	1,000+	Communication Supervision Engineer, Project Development Manager
Shanghai Yinda Technology Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	1,600+	Communication Supervision Engineer, Network Optimization Engineer
Nanjing Bestlink Technology Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	1,000+	Communication Technology Engineer, and otherwise

 

Success in Discipline Competition

Notably, this Specialty has channeled more than 1,600 graduates to the Communications industries of China. In 2006-22, more than 80 undergraduate students earned the National Scholarship or National Encouragement Scholarship and over 300 undergraduate students won AXHU awards. And the scale of students’ engagement in all kinds of extracurricular sci-tech events or social activities reach 100%. Moreover, the students bag more than 20 national-level awards and over 100 provincial- or ministerial-level prizes (of the National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, “Mobil Communication” competition, China “Internet+” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, Intelligent Vehicle Competition, etc.), and 18 projects of national-level “College Students Innovation Planning,” publish 31 academic papers, win 22 patents, and complete more than 120 career certification requirements, such as MOE Certification (1+X), Huawei Certification (HCIA), DT Mobile Certification (DCNE), etc.   

 

High-quality Employment

According to the third party’s survey, the employment rate in recent three years is up to 98.6%, and the specialty-related employment rate reaches 82%, and 63.4% of the graduating students are employed by large and medium-sized enterprises or private companies, such as China Telecom, TD Mobile and iFLYTEK, who are mainly engaged with technical support, software testing, engineering management, and the like. The “starting salary” attains RMB 5.37 thousand each month on average, which is higher than the monthly per capita income of Anhui province. And many of graduating students themselves progress rapidly and become the backbone officials or administrative staff at such workplaces, or are admitted to master’s programs at renowned institutions of higher learning, including University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NUPT), Hefei University of Technology (HFUT), etc..

Speaking highly of the incoming graduates, the employment units believe that they are showing amazing quality and promising characters—dedicated spirit, positive work attitude, sense of responsibility, solid theoretical knowledge, high-performing capability of environmental adaptation, organizational coordination, and social communication, and the general satisfaction rate is 95%.

 

And a large number of outstanding talents are emerging, including:

WU Lilei, regional manager (in east China) of the Beijing TT Aviation Technology Co., Ltd.

ZHANG Yaoshun, chief officer of the Risk Control Department of the Ant Financial Services Group, Alipay (Alibaba Group’s affiliate, also the world’s largest unicorn company)

YE Zhoudan, chief product officer of the Hefei Chuangcheng Technology Co., Ltd.

WANG Fangbing, general manager of the Anhui Licheng Enterprise Services Co., Ltd.

YU Yao, vice director of the Review and Approval Office of the Ningguo Municipal Commission of Development and Reform

WANG Yangyang, deputy operating manager of the Hefei SUNAC

HONG Zhiling, project manager of Zhejiang Rural Credit Cooperative

LIU Jiangtao, staff member of the Communication Information Center of the Changjiang Maritime Safety Administration

...

                                                                                    

//Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing   

 

//Internet of Things Engineering（undergraduate）

A Specialization to Break New Ground at AXHU

 

Internet of Things ABC

“The Internet of things (IoT) describes the network of physical objects—'things'—that are embedded with sensors, software, and other technologies for the purpose of connecting and exchanging data with other devices and systems over the Internet. Things have evolved due to the convergence of multiple technologies, real-time analytics, machine learning, commodity sensors, and embedded systems...” —from Wikipedia

This Internet services can help realize a wider range of intelligent application in identifying, positing, tracing and managing, etc. On the basis of Internet technologies, IoT evolves to support thing-to-thing or people-to-thing communications and data exchange and transmission over the Internet.

IoT is one of the key strategic industries of China, featuring an extension of industrial chains and covering many industrial clusters, which is regarded, following up with the development of personal computer, Internet and mobile communications, as the third tide of global information industries, and is widely accepted as the main pathway to develop IT industries in new era.

Within the period of COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control, people from all the world got astonished at the “China Speed” and its rapid progress in all aspects after witnessing the through-course construction of Huoshenshan Hospital and Leishenshan Hospital in the city of Wuhan, Hubei province, which just only resorts to IoT technology—IPC+5G channel+Cloud Storage—to come into reality. Moreover, IoT works effectively in other areas, such as intelligent public transportation system, Internet of Vehicles, Bike Sharing service, monitoring of Charging Point, intelligent traffic light control, Intelligent Parking, and so on. With these challenges and opportunities, the engineers of IoT will have a bright future.

 

The top 10 applications of IoT include:

Intelligent Manufacturing—monitoring the mechanical equipment in plant, indoor environmental quality, and the like.

Intelligent Retailing—conducting targeted promotion by linking convenience stores and vending machines to the Internet terminals and via analyzing users’ image data.

Intelligent Agriculture—observing the growth of field crops and live stock.

Intelligent Safeguard—collecting data and overseeing the surroundings via surveillance cameras.

Intelligent Architecture—utilizing sensors to digitize the devices and equipment in buildings to save energy.

Intelligent Logistics—monitoring the physical distribution and transport vehicles via information technology.

Intelligent Transportation—monitoring the vehicles, roads and traffic lights via Image Recognition-based technology.

Intelligent Energy Sources—conducting real-time supervision of energy sources consumption and environmental pollution to save energy and protect environment.

Intelligent Medical Care—recording patients’ physical condition and developing digital hospitals via sensors and mobile devices.

Intelligent Home System—building smart living environment via making the indoor things accessible to the Internet network, so as to complete real-time voice control.

 

This Specialization Evolving at AXHU

Being in line with social development and its sharply increasing demands on IoT talents, this Specialty inaugurated at AXHU in 2013, and then enrolled its first 51 undergraduate students in 2014. Hitherto, it has cultivated IoT talents of 364 in all. Adopting a brand new educational philosophy and the state-of-the-art teaching methods, deepening the integration between social industries and institutions of higher learning, and keeping pace with the trend of professional development as well as industrial upgrade and transformation, this Specialty has, with years of construction and development, become the school-level “feature specialization” and “pilot specialization for comprehensive educational reform”. In 2019, its IoT Comprehensive Training Center was ratified Anhui provincial-level demonstration unit.   

This Specialty attaches great importance to the undergraduate students’ basic knowledge of IoT and their all-round quality, and grows them to acquire innovative capabilities with respect to multidisciplinary application in the new era, which aims to cultivate a larger number of application-oriented high-quality IoT talents in the areas of Industries, Agriculture, Logistics, Transportation, National Grid, Environmental Protection, Medical Care, Education, etc., to cater for Internet industries (of Computer, Electronics, Communications, and so on), who can be engaged with certain jobs relating to technological research, comprehensive analysis, systematic planning and development, project implementation and operations management, etc.

 

What Contents to Learn and Research

Combining with the core technology of Iot, navigating the objective of IoT talents cultivation, highlighting “Module” curriculum, and giving priority to preparing the talents specific for the Smart Home System and the Intelligent Community, this Specialty falls on two concentrations: 1) Intelligent Information Perception and Processing; 2) IoT-related Application Development and Service, to schedule a well-structured curriculum system from three aspects, which include:

 

Keywords: multidisciplinary; practice and innovation; professional abilities

 

Stage 1: Perception

Bachelor’s Degree Concentration

Speech Signal Processing/ Digital Image Processing/ DSP Technology and Application  

 

Core Courses Requirements

Principle of Sensing Device/ Fundamentals of Internet of Things Control/ RFID Principle and Application/ Digital Signal Processing

 

Basic Courses Requirements

Electric Circuit Analysis/ Analog Circuit/ Digital Circuit/ Circuit Board Design

 

Requirements in Professional Education & General Education

Ideological and Political Theory Courses/ Modern and Contemporary History/ Basic Principle of Marxism/ Mao Zedong Thought/ Situations and Policy/ College English/ Physical Education/ College Chinese/ Computer Basics/ C Language/ Advanced Mathematics/ Professional Education/ First-year Seminar/ Career Planning/ Employment Guidance/ Entrepreneurship Education/ Mental Health Education/ Innovative Thinking and Methods/ Professional Ethics

 

Stage 2: Network

Bachelor’s Degree Concentration

NB-IoT Technology/ IoT Communications Technology/ IoT Security Technology

 

Core Courses Requirements

Wireless Sensor Network/ ZigBee Development Technology and Practice

 

Basic Courses Requirements

Principle of Communications (B)/ Fundamentals of Mono-Chip Computers and Application(A)

 

Requirements in Professional Education & General Education

Ideological and Political Theory Courses/ Modern and Contemporary History/ Basic Principle of Marxism/ Mao Zedong Thought/ Situations and Policy/ College English/ Physical Education/ College Chinese/ Computer Basics/ C Language/ Advanced Mathematics/ Professional Education/ First-year Seminar/ Career Planning/ Employment Guidance/ Entrepreneurship Education/ Mental Health Education/ Innovative Thinking and Methods/ Professional Ethics

 

Stage 3: Application 

Bachelor’s Degree Concentration

Android Development and Application/ Python Language Programming and Design/ Cloud Computing and Application/ Fundamentals of Big Data

 

Core Courses Requirements

Comprehensive Training for IoT System Development

 

Basic Courses Requirements

Data Structure (B)/ Computer Network/ Principles of Database/ Operating System (B)

 

Requirements in Professional Education & General Education

Ideological and Political Theory Courses/ Modern and Contemporary History/ Basic Principle of Marxism/ Mao Zedong Thought/ Situations and Policy/ College English/ Physical Education/ College Chinese/ Computer Basics/ C Language/ Advanced Mathematics/ Professional Education/ First-year Seminar/ Career Planning/ Employment Guidance/ Entrepreneurship Education/ Mental Health Education/ Innovative Thinking and Methods/ Professional Ethics

 

Curriculum Architecture. Based on gradient education and training cycle—from Perception to Network to Application—to structure four-sphere courses system above, which can also be adaptable to individual student’s academic interests and career option.

This Specialty has always been highlighting its curriculum building, and the academic staff are engaged with a comprehensive teaching reform with respect to the teaching contents, teaching modes, examination and evaluation measures, etc. Over the past five years, it achieves lots of significant outcomes, including 7 provincial-level high-quality courses and 2 AXHU-based high-quality courses (of which, 5 courses equipped with digital teaching resources and network learning platforms).

 

Strengths of Faculty and Staff

This Specialty greatly values its high-caliber team building, beefs up their teaching capability, and spotlights the academic research and teaching of excellence. According to the practical needs of the discipline and specialized development, a growing number of high-level academics or lead professionals join in this teamwork at AXHU. Adhering to a guideline of “Focusing on capability, Pursuing for effectiveness and efficacy, Following up new ideals, Actualizing self-development, and Zooming in individual characteristics,” this AXHU’s specialty has grown 20 tenured faculty members of IoT, including:

2 full professors

14 associate professors

2 supervisors for master’s program

2 honors in Anhui Provincial Famous Teacher

3 honors in Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer

 

Space for Experiment and Training

This specialty is nothing but a new branch in the field of information engineering, which needs to reinforce its platform building in process, and is turning to discipline competition and sci-tech breakthroughs. Till now, it has built up a raft of labs, training bases or demonstration centers, including 10 labs for specialized training, 9 labs for specialty-based application, 4 training centers for college students innovation, and 1 Incubator Platform, in which the Experimental and Training Center for IoT is ratified the Anhui provincial-level demonstration training center, and the Experimental and Training Center for Automatic Detection is approved the AXHU-based exemplary model training center.   

The IoT is combining with an understanding of “Intelligent Community” and “Intelligent City” to design the Training Base for IoT-based Intelligent System, which consists of over 10 comprehensive applications covering the environmental monitoring, parking management, intelligent traffic lights, intelligent bike sharing, intelligent drainage system, intelligent building, and so on. Plus, it has created an ideal environment where the students can not only complete their own practicums, but also hone themselves going for the sci-tech innovative engagement with discipline competition, such as the Anhui Province Colleges and Universities Internet of Things Application Innovation Competition and the Mono-Chip Computers Design Competition, by which to cultivate and enhance students’ capability of theoretical research, practical application, innovative thinking in the area of IoT.

And the scale of IoT students’ engagement in all kinds of extracurricular sci-tech events or social activities reaches 100%. Moreover, the students earn more than 10 national-level awards and over 40 provincial- or ministerial-level prizes (of the National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, Internet of Things Application Innovation Competition, Mono-Chip Computers Design Competition, etc.) and 44 projects of provincial- or national-level “College Students Innovation Planning,” publish 17 academic papers, and win 12 patents.   

 

Future Career of IoT Students

While building the specialty, this department ceaselessly drives the university-enterprise cooperation to jointly cultivate the undergraduate students by pooling high-quality resources and strengths on all fronts, such as research institutes, institutions of higher learning and social enterprises, and makes some remarkable breakthroughs in this aspect. And its partner units comprise the central research institute of Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., the SUN CREATE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., the Tedu.cn/ TARENA INTERNATIONAL INC. (Anhui), the ZONESION (Wuhan), etc., to co-build the bases, labs and courses. Based on the diverse university-enterprise platforms to optimize the “practical link” and to put the training of students’ hands-on capability in place, the entire undergraduate education strictly requires the contractual enterprises to have a whole-process participation within a cycle of four years.

By co-building efforts in such areas, practically, the students can have access to the new knowledge and techniques of IoT-related enterprises, and then graduating students’ edges as for his or her coming career option are improved sharply. Furthermore, the matriculation rate of the students to master’s program always keeps a higher level, and the employment rate also reaches 95% or above. After graduation, the IoT Student can land a job at the enterprises, public organizations, science and research institutes, and institutions of teaching and scientific research at all levels, who can be engaged with a broad range of businesses relating to research and development, testing, project management, engineering technology, academic education and professional training, or otherwise. With that, much more outstanding talents are emerging year on year:

 

SONG Yuhui, a graduate of 2018, CPC member, was admitted to the master’s program of Computer Science and Technology of Anhui University in April 2018. While studying at AXHU, Song earned 1 third prize of Anhui Province Colleges and Universities Internet of Things Application Innovation Competition, 1 third prize of Anhui Province College Students Mono-Chip Computers Design and Embedded System Application Skills Competition, 2 projects of Anhui Province College Students Innovation Planning, and published 2 academic papers (fourth class) in science and technology. And in February 2021, Song was admitted to the doctoral program of Computer Science and Technology of Anhui University and the academic concentration is the digital image processing.

 

WANG Qi, a graduate of 2020, received an honor in AXHU Outstanding Student Leader. While studying at AXHU, Wang also earned 1 second prize and 1 third prize of Anhui Province Colleges and Universities Internet of Things Application Innovation Competition, 1 third prize of the eighth session of “China Unicom Challenge Cup” Anhui Province College Students Extracurricular Academic Sci-tech Works Competition, and 2 projects of Anhui Province College Students Innovation Planning. After graduation, Wang lands a job at DHC, a famous IT corporation of China, and is engaged with research and development of the software of optical IoT, being as a member of the research projects of the remote sensing device of automobile exhaust and the portable laser gas telemetry (which is the first all-laser remote sensing product of China, which ranks among the best regarding its comprehensive performance and fills the gaps of China). At the workplace, Wang earns dozens of honors and awards such as the “Advanced Individual in Technological Innovation, and Best Progressive Learner”.

 

                                                                             

//Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing

 

//Robotics Engineering (undergraduate)   

 

An Invitation

Stepping up to this Magic Land—Robotics Engineering,

Together, we make a difference.

Three years later, we cover a distance.

Aha, the wide-eyed newbies are coming,

Following up our footprints,

To move, to find, and to create.

 

What an appealing outlook it rolls out in the new era! The Robotics Engineering comes under the framework of the national construction and strategic development of frontier technology, belonging to a cross-disciplinary section which integrates the Automation, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, etc.

 

Warm-up. The Robot is a resemblance of the bio-function and cognitive patterns of human beings—Its Eyes are like a sensor to capture information via “Detecting and Transforming,” or Its Brain works as the headquarters for computing, control, information processing via “Fundamentals of Mono-Chip Computers and Interface Techniques,” “DSP Technology and Application” and “ARM Processor and Its Application,” or Its Foot is nothing but a machinery equipment or controlled object via “Mechanical Design” and “Electrical Machinery and Drive,” or Its Joints and Muscle are compared to a group of practitioners to carry out information control via “Self-control,” “Environmental Control,” “Computer Control,” “PLC and Its Application,” “Power Electronics Technology” and “Mechatronics Technology” (component courses underpinning the Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge for College Students).

 

Despite an emerging discipline of AXHU, the magnificent potentials are to be unleashed in coming days. At AXHU, charted in 2019, this Specialty set out its enrollment and became one of the first degree programs in Robotics Engineering structured by the institutions of higher education of China. Being on the trend of the national-wide strategic development of intelligent manufacturing and robotics technology, the educational practice and goals emphasize an accumulation of theoretical knowledge and specialized know-how and skills in the field of Scientific Engineering to prepare the high-quality technicians in engineering to work out the robot-related design and development and application.   

 

Academic Powerhouse

Boasting outstanding academics, experts and scholars—35% of whom have an educational background of overseas study, and 100% of whom receive master’s degree, 5 doctorates, 2 full professors and 10 associate professors—, this 14-member teaching team has been accepted as the Anhui Provincial Excellent Teaching Team by Anhui Provincial Education Department.

 

Versatile Workshops

Based on two provincial-level demonstration experiment and training centers (i.e. Power Electronic Experimental Center and Comprehensive Training Center for Automation) as well as an Experimental Center for Robotics, this Specialty carries out its experimental teaching in process. In particular, the provincial-level demonstration experimental and training centers are respectively equipped with an array of specialized workshops, such as the Circuit Lab, Analog Circuit Lab, Digital Circuit Lab, Power Electronics and Motor Drive Lab, Automation Control Lab, Sensor Lab, Robotics Lab, Automation Lab, Mono-chip Computers Lab, EDA Lab, DSP Lab, College Students Innovation Lab, etc.

For instance, the Robot Lab, which provides a wider range of technical support involving all kinds of industrial robots, includes the advanced DOBOT of China to complete the relevant robot-based experiments, such as handling and carrying, stowing, sorting, image recognizing, 3D Printing, artificial intelligent algorithm, etc., and the one-armed industrial robot training platform and the coordinated training platform, by which to fulfil the production by the complete assembling line or at the industrial robot work station, as well as to drive the development of its derivative product such as writing, transcribing, chess playing, and the like. In addition, while participating in some robot competition for college students to access frontier science and technology, this department purchases some “service robots” such as humanoid robot, wheeled-robot and robotic gripper, which can act as dancing, relaying, intelligent sorting at some competition events.

 

Well-proportioned Courses

The knowledge structure of Robotics Engineering is mainly involved with Control Science and Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science and Technology, etc. The undergraduate students are to learn basic specialized theories and knowledge in programming, application and operation, maintenance, system development and design relating to the industrial robots, and are trained to improve their own professional abilities and specified skills.

 

Keywords: integration between industries and higher education; combination between theories and practice; connection between competition and innovation

 

Step 1: Integrated Abilities

Graduation Internships/ Graduation Projects

 

Step 2: Skills Development

Intelligent Robotic Technology/ Machine Vision/ Python Language Programming

 

Step 3: Core Skills

Industrial Robot Control/ Industrial Robot Programming/ Robotic System Integration

 

Step 4: Specialized Skills

Metalworking/ Electrical and Electronic Training/ Mono-chip Computer and Interface Technology Training/ PLC Programming Training

 

Step 5: Basic Skills

Advanced Mathematics/ Linear Algebra/ Probability Theory and Mathematical Statistics/ College English/ College Physics/ Computer Base/ C Language Programming/ Mao Zedong Thought

 

Step 6: Professional Preparation

Ideological and Ethical Cultivation and Law Base/ Outlines of Modern and Contemporary History of China/ Basic Principle of Marxism and Introduction to the Theoretical System of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics/ Ideological and Political Theory and Practice/ Robot-based Professionals Moral Cultivation

 

In-depth University-Enterprise Cooperation

This Specialty attaches great importance to the integration between Teaching and Producing, and between University and Enterprise, by which to leverage the industrial development to boost its Specialty building. And it has contracted with a batch of social enterprises to establish strategic alliances and the off-campus training bases for college students, comprising Anhui Province Association of Automation (also known as the Committee of Robotics Specialty), Hefei VSTC Co., Ltd., Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., Wuhan JSX Co., Ltd., Hefei Rongke Information Development Co., Ltd., etc. And with the HRG (Hefei Institute), it will co-build the AXHU-HRG Robotics Institute.  

 

Varied Students Activities

What a different presence it shapes! Turning to the “Robot+” cross-disciplinary individualized training, the “Grouped Mentors+” project-based practical teaching, and “Research-Competition-Innovation+” open, innovative and inclusive educational mode, aligning the disciplinary frontiers with project-driven findings, adopting customized cultivation, multidisciplinary mentors-led project-based teaching, and employing incremental and gradient practical teaching, this educational practice aims to nurture the students to acquire an all-rounded quality featuring a positive learning attitude, self-paced development, and innovative potentiality.                              

 

Broader Career Landscape

The Specialty being listed into framework of the national key majors construction and being with a wider breadth of career development and options, the graduating students can be engaged with the work, such as the research and development, programming, adjustment and maintenance, sales and management at the manufacturing enterprises of industrial robots and service robots, in the fields of Power Electronics, Embedded System, Computer Technology, and design and making of electrical machinery. Or the graduates can work on the Robotics-related teaching and scientific research or management, etc., at schools and research institutes across all levels.

The “industrial robots” entitled a reputation “Brilliant Pearl on Crown” of Manufacturing Industries, involving the automobile manufacturing, 3C electronic manufacturing, hardware manufacturing, logistics and transportation, etc., has substituted the traditional human labor in many areas, and the times of Robot is coming. During the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, the Robot “Beijing Intelligent Manufacturing” is in the spotlight of the world stage, which can act as the touring guide, security patrol, delivery service, sanitation and cleaning, etc. Presumably, in the next 10 years, the 85% of industrial production at the labour-intensive industries will be gradually replaced by robot-equipped production lines. Obviously, as far as the graduates’ future career is concerned, Robotics Engineering industries must give a full play to their potentials in the new era.  

 

                                                                                

//Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing

 

//Automation (undergraduate)

 

The Department of Automation includes three undergraduate programs, i.e., Automation, Electrical Engineering and Automation, and Robotics Engineering. Specially, the specialization of Automation is granted Anhui provincial-level first-class specialty construction unit, “cornerstone specialty” of Anhui provincial-level exemplary model training base for first-class undergraduate talents of electronic communications, AXHU-based feature specialty, and AXHU-based specialty for comprehensive pilot reform.

The teaching staff is honored Anhui Provincial-level Teaching Team, comprising 21 full-time teachers (of which, 16 full or associate professors, 2 lecturers, and all members receiving master’s degree or doctoral degree). Besides, it has 15 part-time teachers with the middle or senior professional titles).

And this Department has built up 12 specialized labs (for Circuit, Analog Circuit, Digital Circuit, Mono-Chip Computer and Principles of Microcomputer, DSP, Embedded Operating System, Power Electronics and Electrical Machinery Drive, Automatic Detection, Automatic Control, Electrical Engineering in General, Innovation and Application of Robotics, and Automatic Synthetic Application), 1 Center for College Students Innovation, 1 Training Center for Electrical and Electronic Application, 4 Anhui Provincial-level Demonstration Centers for Training and Experiment (e.g. Demonstration Training Center for Electrical and Electronic Application, Demonstration Training Center for Automatic Comprehensive Application...), 1 Anhui Provincial-level Virtual Simulation Center, 5 Anhui Provincial-level College Students Maker Labs, and 1 University-Enterprise Cooperation Base for Practical Education (i.e. AXHU-HUICHEN Practical Education Base), by which to work on the experimental courses, curriculum designing, internships and practicum, and comprehensive training for growing the students’ capability of application and operation in the real world.

 

As for curriculum building, the achievements of this Department include:

Digital Electronic Technology—national first-class course, Anhui provincial-level resources sharing course, Anhui provincial-level MOOC, Anhui provincial-level wisdom course, Anhui provincial-level high-quality offline open course, and Anhui provincial-level demonstration class.

Fundamentals of Mono-Chip Computers and Interface Techniques—national first-class course, Anhui provincial-level high-quality video open course, and Anhui provincial-level high-quality resources sharing course.

Power Electronic Technology—Anhui provincial-level MOOC, and Anhui provincial-level wisdom course.

Engineering Drawing—Anhui provincial-level MOOC.

Analog Circuit—Anhui provincial-level high-quality course.

Circuit—Anhui provincial-level high-quality course.

Electrical Control and PLC—AXHU high-quality course.

PLC and Its Application—AXHU video open course.

Electrical Control Technology for Machine Tools—AXHU teaching reform course.

Principle of Automatic Control—AXHU teaching reform course.

Engineering Drawing—AXHU teaching reform course.

 

As for the specialty building, this Department has respectively formed some stable cooperative relationships with the No. 38 Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., Midea Group, Anhui Huichen Intelligent Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd., etc., to co-work for its faculty training, curriculum planning, projects development, internships and training, students employment, and so on.

According to the requirements of the applied talents training, current social situations and specialized orientation, the Department develops its own Knowledge Architecture and curriculum system, and underlines the students’ innovative thinking and practical capability, by which to absolutely narrow the gap between outcomes of talents training and social expectations. In recent years, the students harvest many honors and awards at all kinds of national- or provincial-level discipline competition or contests, such as National University Students Intelligent Car Race,  National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, “Challenge Cup,” “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge (CIMC), China “Internet+” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, and CHINA ROBOT COMPETITION (or Robocup Open), etc.   

 

                                                                               

// Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing  

 

// Electrical Engineering & Automation (undergraduate)

 

Deepening the Integration between University and Enterprises, Upgrading the Major via Intelligent Transformation...

—A Specialty to Champion Your Lifelong Career  

 

With an evolution of renewable energy sources in China, it will accelerate its development of solar energy, wind energy, new energy automobile, etc., to replace the fossil energy at scale, and strategically emphasizes the overarching work to save energy and reduce its consumption, which reflects the importance and emergency of New Energy building. To meet the growing demands of the talents in New Energy, the Electrical Engineering & Automation set out at AXHU in 2015,  and enrolled its first batch of undergraduate students in 2016. And its concentration is of the new energy and intelligent electrical control, and the specialized knowledge underlines the power generation, power transmission, electrical power system, power transformation, power distribution, and power utilization. In 2019, this Specialty is listed into the teaching reform program of the Anhui Provincial Intelligent Upgrade and Transformation in New Engineering Majors.

 

Power Grid Management/ Application Server

Data Collecting and Transmitting, via RTU (Remote Terminal Unit), is to link Electrical Power Generation/ Electrical Power Transmission/ Electrical Power Transformation/ Electrical Power Distribution/ Electrical Power Utilization.

Since its running at AXHU, this Specialty has always been keeping pace with the new trend and emerging technologies of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things, etc. To uphold the China’s initiative on environmental protection in respect to “Carbon Peak” and “Carbon Neutrality,” via continued innovation and in-depth integration between universities and enterprises, specialized intelligence upgrade and transformation, which is dedicated to preparing high-quality talents majoring in new energy and electrical control in the field of Electrical Engineering.

 

Bright Future

The technology in Electrical Engineering and Automation is often viewed as the major solution to drive the China’s evolution toward an industrialized and economic society, which, by combining with artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, etc., makes itself become digitized and smart in process.  

Under the background of “Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality,” this Specialty should take up a new historical mission. The “China 2021 Report on the Work of the Government” points out, all the sectors should guarantee to realize the initiative through a series of measures being like the development of new energy and the sci-tech innovation. The “2021-2035 Industrial Development Planning for New Energy Automobiles,” as well as the relevant policies and programs issued by the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, aims to support and advocate the development of renewable energy, e.g., wind power, electric power, photovoltaic power, and to explore a broader space in the near future. And the Specialty will obtain much more opportunities in the areas of New Energy, Internet of Energy, Intelligent Energy, Electrical Control, etc.

 

Curriculum Architecture in Module

Combining with the technologies in the artificial intelligence and big data, referring to the  education accreditation in Engineering and the orientation in the intelligent upgrading and renovation, breaking down the barriers, realizing the objectives of the Carbon Peak and Carbon Neutrality, this Specialty prepares the talents in the context of higher education via revising its Talents Cultivation Plans and constructing a brand-new curriculum system.

 

Four-sphere Studies:

Power Quality Analysis

Electric Power System Analysis

Electrical Fault Diagnosis

Relay Protection

 

Four-step Solution:

Electric Power Generation (solar energy)

Electric Power Transmission

Electric Power Distribution

Electric Power Utilization (electric motor drive and control)

 

Three-tiered Distribution:

Advanced Mathematics/ Linear Algebra/ Probability Theory/ College Physics

Engineering Drawing/ Electrical CAD/ Electrical Circuit/ Analog Circuit/ Principles of Automatic Control

Computer Control Technology/ Mono-Chip Computers and Interface/ DSP/ PLC and Its Applications/ Detecting and Transforming

 

In accordance with the Basic Courses Requirements, Core Courses Requirements, and Bachelor’s Degree Concentration, via structuring a curriculum system comprising the basic module, control and detecting module, electrical power analysis and equipment protection module, and new energy power generation and utilization module, this Specialty is to shore up and lay a solid foundation for the fourfold applications of new energy system in Electric Power Generation, Electric Power Transmission, Electric Power Distribution, and Electric Power Utilization. Moreover, the System gives a greater priority to its practical teaching and learning, which includes a three-dimensional integration with the basic practicum, specialized practicum and innovative practicum, so as to provide the area and arena to strengthen the students’ hands-on abilities, which accounts for 35.1% of the total credits as required for this undergraduate program. Meanwhile, the students are equitable access to the labs every semester and to “4+1+X” disciplinary competition, by which to spur the students to ceaselessly grow their innovative thinking and practical capability.

 

Three-dimensional Complex:

Basic practicums: Basic Experiment (11 courses)/ Basic Curriculum Design (1 course)/ Basic Training Teaching (3 courses)

Specialized practicums: Specialized Experimental Teaching (4 courses)/ Internship Teaching (3 courses)/ Specialized Training (2 courses)/ Specialized Curriculum design (1 courses)/ Graduation Thesis

Innovative practicums:“4+1+X” Disciplinary Competition/ Academic Papers/ Patents/ Industry-University-Research Practice

 

High-caliber Teaching Group

The Specialty has formed a well-structured teaching group comprising both 12 full-time members and over 10 Enterprise Tutors (of which, 84% of the members receiving doctoral or master’s degree, 58% of the members with yeas of working experience at social enterprises) with a commitment of age group, academic titles, education background, cultural originality, and teaching experience in theory and practice, and with many landmark outcomes in the areas of teaching practice, university-enterprise cooperation and academic research, who include:

2 full professors

8 associate professors

2 engineers

1 Anhui provincial-level teaching group

4 honors in Anhui Provincial Famous Teacher or in Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer

7 high-quality courses: Digital Circuit, Principles of Mono-Chip Computer and Application, Power Electronic Technology, Analog Circuit, Circuit...

Many teaching and scientific research platforms: Institute of Intelligent Automation Research , AXHU-HUICHEN Practical Education Base...

About 20 provincial- or school-level scientific research projects (of the research funds totaling around RMB 3 million)

5 Anhui Provincial Teaching Achievements (including 3 second prizes and 2 third prizes)

 

— Outstanding Academic Staff (as mentioned above)

— Master Fellows from Famous Enterprises

 

A list of Enterprise Tutors (Excerpt)

With Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., Dr. XU Jun, the chief supervisor of the Research Center for Power Electronic Technology of the Central Research Institute, and the deputy dean of the School of Intelligent Manufacturing (for Industry-University-Research affairs)

With Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., ZHANG Yuehuo, the general manager of the Center for Solutions, the Division of Optical Storage

With Anhui Huichen Intelligent Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd., ZHOU Xilei, the chairman

With Hefei DTI Electric Drive System Co., Ltd., YING Long, the general manager

With Beijing Sifang Automation Co., Ltd., LI Gengyi, the engineer

With Beijing Sifang Automation Co., Ltd., ZHOU Quan, the engineer

With ANHUI ACADEMY OF COAL SCIENCE, LI Weilong, the associate researcher

With ANHUI ACADEMY OF COAL SCIENCE, ZHANG Canming, the assistant researcher

...

 

Platforms for Enterprise-level Training

This Specialty is armed with a cohort of experimental and training conditions, including 6 practice platforms for teaching and scientific research—Anhui Provincial-level Center for Automation Comprehensive Experiment and Training, Anhui Provincial-level Platform for Virtual Simulation Experiment, Anhui Provincial-level AXHU-SUNGROW Base for Education Cooperation, Anhui Provincial-level Training Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering, AXHU-HUICHEN Practical Education Base, and Experimental and Training Center for Automatic Detection, and more than 10 specialized laboratories, such as Power Electronics and Motor Drive Laboratory, Electrical Laboratory, Power System Relay Protection Laboratory, 110KV Automation Substation Virtual Simulation Laboratory, DSP Laboratory, Sci-tech Innovation Laboratory, Automation Control Principles Laboratory, Detection Laboratory, etc.

In 2013, coupled with the ZHEJIANG TIANHUANG SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRAL CO., LTD., the Specialty co-built the Electrical and Electronic Motor Drive  Laboratory. And in 2018, along with the Beijing Sifang Automation Co. Ltd., it jointly established the Power System Relay Protection Laboratory and the 110KV Automation Substation Virtual Simulation Laboratory, where the students can not only carry out specialized training but also obtain the relevant professional accreditation. Moreover, it introduces the state-of-the-art practical teaching facilities (enterprise-level equipment), constructs the teaching contents in stratification through “Verification+Design+Integration,” and adopts the new teaching modes in “Six-pronged Presences”—the facilities and equipment, conditions and situations, work posts, proceedings, tasks and evaluations—to realize the integration between theories and practice, the “zero distance” between theoretical fundamentals and practical application, and the seamless connection between the university and industries, so as to create a sound experimental teaching environment for the undergraduate students.

 

Power System Relay Protection Laboratory

Automation Detection Laboratory

Automation Control Laboratory

Electrical Laboratory

 

High-Quality Collaborative Partners

Giving great priority to the whole-process collaboration with the reputed enterprises and social entities, this Specialty has established more than 10 off-campus practical teaching and training bases, such as AXHU-SUNGROW Training Base, AXHU-HUICHEN Practical Education Base, AXHU-SUN CREATE ELECTRONICS Training Base, AXHU-CETC (38th Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation) Training Base, AXHU-Tong Yu Electronics Training Base, AXHU-Jingzhuo Optoelectronics Training Base, etc.

And this Specialty is dedicated to preparing the talents who are competent in the areas of new energy and intelligent electrical control, and to cooperating with the world-leading photovoltaic industries such as the Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.. To be exact, it invites Dr. XU Jun, the chief supervisor of the Research Center for Power Electronic Technology of the Central Research Institute, Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., to take office as the deputy dean of the School being in charge of its University-Industry-Research affairs, by which to drive the application-oriented talents training to improve the undergraduate students’ hands-on capability, and to further the integration between university and enterprises to build high-quality training bases. Meanwhile, this School recommends its faculty members to such enterprises every year, and also invites their engineers to participate in its practical education and application-based curriculum construction by introducing the updated professional standards for talents cultivation to guide and secure its undergraduate education quality.

 

Enterprise Resources Tank

for University-Enterprise Cooperation (abridged)

Name	Type	Scale	Post(s)
Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.	Listed Company	5,000+	Development Engineer, and otherwise
Anhui Huichen Intelligent Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	100+	Project Management, and otherwise
SUN CREATE ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.,	Listed Company	3,000+	Electrical Engineer, and otherwise
HTmicrowave	Private Enterprise	100+	Electrical Engineer, and otherwise
38th Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation	State-owned Enterprise	3,000+	Module Testing
Anhui Jingzhuo Optical Display Technology Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	10,000+	Electrical Engineer, and otherwise
Anhui Tong Yu Electronics Co., Ltd.	High-tech Enterprise	100+	Products Debugging
REHEO Science and Technology Co., Ltd.	Start-up	200+	Integration Testing
Hefei Kaiyue Semiconductor  Technology Co., Ltd.	Private Enterprise	100+	Integration Testing

 

Diverse Extracurricular Activities

Certificates

They are for special type of work, covering the high voltage engineering, low voltage  engineering, aerial work of installation, maintenance and dismantlement, electrical cable, electrical testing, relay protection, etc.

Competition

The scale of Electrical Engineering and Automation students’ engagement in all kinds of extracurricular sci-tech events or social activities reaches 100%, including the National University Student Social Practice and Science Contest on Energy Saving & Emission Reduction, the China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge (CIMC), and so on. In recent three years, the students win 27 provincial-level awards of all types, and 5 prizes at the CIMC (1 National Grand Prize, 1 first prize, 3 second prizes and 1 third prize).

Innovation Training

Based on the China Energy Conservation Association (CECA), this Specialty proactively carries out the innovation and entrepreneurship training for college students. In recent three years, it has harvested 42 projects of the national- or provincial-level college students innovation planning, which greatly improve the students’ capability in innovation and entrepreneurship.

 

Employment and Admission

Employment

Compared with the graduating students’ employment in the sectors of national power, new energy, design and production, sales and service, etc., the employment rate of the Electrical Engineering and Automation students is always among the top rankings. Speaking highly of the entrants, the employment units believe that they are characterized with noble morality and comprehensive strengths—dedicated spirit, positive work attitude and responsibility, solid theatrical knowledge, high-performing capability of environmental adaptation, organizational coordination, and social communication, and the general satisfaction rate is 95%.  

Admission

Additionally, many of the graduating students are admitted to the master’s programs of Electric Power, and the admission rate is up to 67%—some of them showing as follows:  

 

Specialty & Year of Graduation	Name	Institution of Admission	Target Specialty
Electrical Engineering and Automation, Class of 2020	XU Chao	Fujian University of Technology	Energy and Power
	ZHU Tongqing	Tiangong University	Electrical Engineering
	YIN Mengdie	Guangxi University of Science and Technology	Electrical Engineering
	GAO Yinjie	Anhui University of Science and Technology	Electrical Engineering
	YAN Chong	Anhui University of Science and Technology	Electrical Engineering
	WANG Chuangfeng	Hefei University	Electronic Information
	WU Jing	Changsha University of Science & Technology	Mechanical Engineering
	LIU Qiang	Hefei University of Technology	Electronic Information
	XU Junhu	Anhui University of Science and Technology	Electrical Engineering
	WANG Ludi	Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology	Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Automation, Class of 2021	JING Zhicheng	TianJin University of Sport	Physical Education
	WANG Huiru	Anhui University of Technology	Electrical Engineering
	WU Haibo	Anhui University of Science and Technology	Energy and Power
	WANG Shen	Shanghai University of Electric Power	Electrical Theory and New Technology
	WEI Yi	Hefei University	Materials and Chemical Engineering
	ZHOU Tao	Anhui Agricultural University	Materials and Chemical Engineering
	WANG Peng	Changzhou University	Energy and Power
	SUN Sichang	Hefei University	Materials and Chemical Engineering
	LUO Wenfei	Anhui University of Science and Technology	Energy and Power
	LIU Wei	Shanghai Polytechnic University	Electronic Information
	HE Liu	Anhui University of Science and Technology	Electrical Engineering
	HE Fengjuan	Jilin Jianzhu University	Energy and Power
	YIN Xingling	Hefei University	Electronic Information
	MA Song	Chengdu University of Information Technology	Transportation

 

                                                                                

// Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing   

 

//Automation（undergraduate）

 

Anhui Provincial First-Class Major Construction Unit

 

Preface. This Specialty is principally engaged with the principles and methods of automation control, unit technique, integration technology, as well as the concrete applications of control systems of all types, featuring a combination between control and regulation, between strong electricity and weak electricity, and between software and hardware, and is also an inclusive, multidisciplinary specialty in Science, covering the scientific technology, engineering, liberal arts and management, which is based on the automation control theory and employing the electronic technology, power electronic technology, sensor technology, computer technology and network and communication technology as its tools to help realize the “automatic control” at the different industrial sectors as well as in all walks of life.   

This Specialty was launched in 2007 and then enrolled its first undergraduate students. At present, the number of the current students reaches 271. In 2011 and 2015, it was respectively granted the school-level “feature specialty” and the school-level “pilot specialty for comprehensive teaching reform”. In 2019, it became the critical “cornerstone specialty” contributing to the in-process construction of the master’s program in Electronic Information at AXHU. In 2020, it was approved as the “pillar specialty” to support the pioneering demonstration base for training first-class undergraduate talents. And in 2021, it obtained an accreditation from the national authority of professional engineering.  

 

Dual-Qualification faculty Team Building

The Specialty has formed a well-structured teaching group comprising 17 full-time members (of which, 100 % of the members receiving master’s degree or doctoral degree, 100 % of the members being with the Dual-Qualification accreditation), including:

3 full professors

10 associate professors

5 doctorates

1 Anhui provincial-level teaching group

2 honors in Anhui Provincial Famous Teacher

6 honors in Anhui Provincial New Star Lecturer

3 honors in Anhui Provincial Outstanding Talent

Meanwhile, it pools over 10 professionals from some enterprises, such as the Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd., and Anhui Huichen Intelligent Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd., to put the dual-qualification teaching practice in place and promote a diversified construction of higher education. And the Industry-University-Research cooperation brings about some marked effects.  

 

Full-time Faculty Members (as mentioned above)

 

A List of Enterprise Tutors (Excerpt) 

No.	Name	Title	Work Unit	Position
1	XU Jun	Senior Engineer	Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.	Chief Officer of the Research Center for Power Electronics, Central Research Institute/ Deputy Dean of AXHU School of Electronic Engineering (for the Industry-University-Research Affairs)
2	ZHANG Yaohuo	Senior Engineer	Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd.	General Manager of the Center for Optical Storage Solutions
3	YANG Xiuling	Engineer	Anhui Huichen Intelligent Electronic Technologies Co., Ltd.	General Manager
4	WANG Gan	Engineer	ZET-CE Management Co., Ltd.	Deputy Dean of the AXHU-ZET-CE ICT College of Modern Industry (for the Industry-University-Research Affairs)
5	LI Weilong	Associate Researcher	Anhui Academy of Coal Science	R&D staff
6	LIN Shengbin	Engineer	Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd.	Director of the Project Center
7	WU Hongwei	Engineer	Hefei Xiangtong Electrical Technology Co., Ltd.	General Manager
8	WANG Jing	Senior Engineer	DT Institute for Electrical Technology (East China)	R&D staff
9	GE Xinsheng	Senior Engineer	Hefei General Machinery Research Institute Co., Ltd.	Engineer
10	LIU Wei	Engineer	Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences	Engineer

 

Deepening the Reform in Modular Curriculum System

Referring to the educational accreditation of the new scientific technology and engineering, and revising the “talents cultivation plan” across the board, this Specialty actively drives the construction of the outcomes-oriented modular curriculum and designs the subsets of curriculum system to structure a big platform.  

 

—Curriculum Architecture in Modules (including Information Capturing, Information Processing, Information Control, Controlled Object, Artificial Intelligence)

 

# Theoretical Teaching

Information Capturing—Detection and Transformation

Information Processing—Principles of Mono-Chip Computer/ DSP Technology and Application/ ARM Processor and Application

Information Control—Principles of Automatic Control/ PLC and Application/ Power Electronics Technology...

Controlled Object—Fundamentals of Mechanical Design/ Electrical Machinery and Drive

Artificial Intelligence—Robot Technology/ Robot Dynamics/ Robot Operating System

 

# Practical Teaching

Basic Experiment/ Basic Training/ Specialized Experiment/ Specialized Training/ Innovative Practice

 

# Extracurricular Activities

Association of Science and Technology and Innovation/ Association of Robot/ Association of Energy Saving & Emission Reduction/ “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge (CIMC)/ National University Students Intelligent Car Race/ China “Internet+” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition/ National College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Planning

 

Also, it does its utmost to translate the edge-cutting technology and sci-tech research outcomes into the teaching contents, and has developed 30+ projects in design, such as Robot Cleaner, Minesweeper, and the like. And it resorts to the teaching mode “Six-pronged Presence” and combines with the real-world workplaces of industrial robots, referring to the requirements of Artificial Intelligence and being centered on the robot-powered writing, handling and carrying, Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV), etc., by which to attempt every endeavour for the content courses, so as to realize a seamless connection between academic learning and industrial production and between theoretical cognition and hands-on operation.

And this Specialty has garnered many enabling components for overall curriculum building, of which the 7 courses, i.e., Digital Circuit, Principles of Mono-chip Computer and Interface Technology, Power Electronic Technology, Engineering Drawing, Analog Circuit, Circuit... are granted more than 20 awards or honors in the High-quality Resource Sharing Courses, MOOC, Wisdom Class, Teaching Demonstration Class, and Provincial-level First-class Courses, respectively. Notably, the course “Digital Circuit” is accepted into the Smart Education of China (Higher Education)

 

Building up Enterprise-level Training Platform

This Specialty has established 1 national-level center for engineering-based practical education, 4 Anhui provincial-level demonstration centers for experiment and training, 5 Anhui provincial-level college students Maker workshops, 1 Anhui provincial-level virtual simulation center, and more than 10 specialized laboratories—the Simulation Electronic Technology Lab, Automatic Detection Lab, Automation-based Comprehensive Training Lab, Electrical Machine and Drive and Power Electronics Lab, Electrical Intelligence Lab, Robot-based Application Lab, etc..

Since 2013, this Specialty has put some phased university-enterprise cooperation initiatives in place, pooling the valuable industrial resources in the city of Hefei or its neighbouring areas, such as the lead enterprise, Growing Power Supply Co., Ltd., by which to carry out the university-industry-research collaborative education, to organize the diversified high-caliber faculty and staff, to equip the training bases with the enterprise-level, high-end facilities, to integrate the specialized courses with the professional accreditation, to introduce the latest rules and standards for talents training, and to make concerted efforts specific for the labs, courses, teaching materials, scientific projects, faculty training, and disciplinary competition.   

 

Exploring the Space of Extracurricular Activities

To today, this Specialty has channeled over 1,500 graduates to the Automation-based industries of China. The undergraduate students at school earn more than 80 National Scholarship or National Encouragement Scholarship as well as over 600 AXHU awards. The scale of the students’ engagement in all kinds of extracurricular sci-tech events or social activities reaches 100%. And the students win over 10 national-level prizes and more than 100 provincial-level prizes at the National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, “Challenge Cup” National University Students Science and Technology Disciplinary Competition, “Siemens Cup” China Intelligent Manufacturing Challenge (CIMC), “Freescale” National University Students Intelligent Car Race, etc., earn over 50 national- or provincial-level projects for university students entrepreneurship, and publish more than 10 academic papers.

 

Fostering High-quality Undergrads

According to its employment data in the recent three years, 67% of the graduates are employed at the large and medium-sized enterprises, such as Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd., Sungrow Power Supply Co., Ltd., who are mainly engaged with the work relating to technical support, software testing, engineering management, and the like. Besides, the graduating students’ employment rate reaches above 96% and the Specialty-related employment rate is up to 82%, and their salary begins at a minimum of RMB 5,850 per month, which is higher than the monthly per capita income level of Anhui province on average. Shortly after graduation, some graduates step up to the administrative group at the enterprises, while some are admitted to the first-class master’s programs of higher education of China, such as the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications (NJUPT), Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NUST), HeFei University of Technology (HFUT), etc.

With reference to the related employment analysis report by the MyCOS as well as the questionnaires survey of some employment units, employers, speaking highly of these newcomers, believe that the AXHU graduates are showing great potential and promising merits—all-round strengths, dedicated spirit, positive work attitude and responsibility, solid theoretical knowledge, high-performing capability of environmental adaptation, organizational coordination, and social communication. And, for three consecutive years, the general satisfaction rate reaches 95% .

 

—Successfully, a large number of outstanding talents appear in the workplaces, including:

ZHOU Yichen, AXHU graduate of 2013, won the first prize of the National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (Anhui Area) and the first prize of the “Freescale” National University Students Intelligent Car Race (Anhui Area) at school, and then was employed into the Hefei Win Power Co., Ltd. to be engaged with the research and development of DSP software for the off-grid and grid-connected operation of the small-sized Wind Turbine Controller. Nowadays, he takes office as the product manager and senior software engineer and has completed 2 authorized patents for invention, 9 patent applications for invention, and 5 authorized patents for new application.     

Tao Ye, AXHU graduate of 2016, won the first prize of the National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest (Anhui Area) and the second prize of the National University Students Intelligent Car Race (Anhui Area) at school, and then was employed into the Research and Development Department of the Shanxi Huayee Science Co., Ltd. to be mainly engaged with research and development of the remote sensing detection device for automotive exhaust emission—its comprehensive performance index places in the first ranks, which fills the void in this area of China. While working at the company, he is awarded prizes and honors many times, such as “Advanced Individual,” “Best Progressive Learner,” and the like.

 

LUO Wencheng, AXHU graduate of 2017, earned AXHU scholarship or national scholarships many times at AXHU. And he was admitted into the master’s program in Control Engineering of the North China University of Technology (2017-22), during which time he published 3 academic papers (SCI, or EI), and received many awards including the Skeleton Scientific Researcher, Outstanding Student Cadre, Graduate Fellowships. In 2020-22, he studied for the doctoral degree of Control Science and Engineering at the Beijing Institute Of Technology, and published 3 dissertations (SCI) and also received its scholarships many times at the school.

 

ZHANG Pengcheng, AXHU graduate of 2018, won the first prize of the ANHUI PROVINCIAL ROBOT COMPETITION and the third prize of the Anhui Provincial University Students Competition for the Applied Skills of Mono-Chip Computer and Embedded System. Subsequently, he was admitted to the master’s program of the Shanghai University of Engineering Sciences (SUES) and his concentration is involved in the Position Sensitive Detector, Sensor Information Fusion and Automatic Detection Device. While learning at SUES, he chaired the SUES-based innovation project—Robot Gripping Table Tennis Ball Based on Machine Vision. Presently, he works at the INESA (Group) Co., Ltd., and is engaged with the development of Embedded System.

 

                                                                                 

// Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/ School of Intelligent Manufacturing   

 

//The Department of Industry Engineering

 

The Department of Industry Engineering was founded in 2011, which includes 2 undergraduate programs, i.e., Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation, and Automobile Service Engineering, and which currently has around 600 undergraduate students.

 

—The Department has formed a well-structured teaching group comprising 10 full-time academic staff members, 10 part-time teachers, and 1 laboratory assistant, who are of excellence in teaching practice, scientific research, and productive capacity.

1 full professor

6 associate professors

1 senior engineer

10 lecturers

3 teaching assistants

4 doctorates

 

—At present, this Department is carrying out a raft of scientific programs and academic research, including:

1 key project sponsored by the Anhui Provincial Education Department

4 AXHU-based projects (of which, 2 key projects)

5 AXHU-based projects in Quality Engineering

30+ academic papers

40+ authorized patents

 

In process, it has constructed complete sets of specialized laboratories—Tolerances Laboratory, Gears Cutting and Mechanism Diagram Laboratory, Machine Parts Laboratory, and Mechanical Motion Model Laboratory—to support practical teaching for the courses in Mechanical Principle, Mechanical Design, Tolerances and Interchangeability. And the rate of the capacity utilization is increasing, while the size of experimental conditions is expanding year by year.    

Guided by the norms of “Accurate Positioning Strategy, Advanced Pedagogical Philosophy, Featured Academic Complex, High-Quality Specialized Talents,” this Specialty is centered on the running of high-caliber application-oriented institution of higher education and stays true to the mission of fostering qualified professionals or experts or minds serving for the regionally economic and cultural construction in the city of Hefei, of Anhui Province, and across China. In recent years, the Department’s undergraduate students bag more than 10 awards at all kinds of disciplinary competition, such as the National College Mechanical Innovation Competition, National College Students Advanced Mapping Technology and Product Information Modeling Innovation Competition, and Electrical and Electronic Competition, by which to lay a  best-possible foundation for building their future careers.

The University-Enterprise collaboration includes the Training Center for Technicians (of Hefei University of Technology), Anhui Wontone Automobile-Maintenance Institute, Hefei Changyuan Hydraulic Co., Ltd., Hefei Automobile Axle Co., Ltd., Giti Tire Co., Ltd. (Hefei), Internship and Training Base (of HEFEI MEILING CO., LTD.), etc.

 

                                                                                  

// Introduction to AXHU School of Electronic Engineering/School of Intelligent Manufacturing   

 

// Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation（undergraduate）

 

Welcome to Join Us,

Rising to the Very Occasion,

Let’s Define a Different Future.

   

The Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation is a multi-purpose, application-based, interdisciplinary specialty, covering Machinery, Materials, Control, Electronics, Computer Information, etc., which inaugurated in 2014 and then enrolled its first undergraduate students at AXHU. Taking into consideration of “Industry 4.0,” the Chinese manufacturing industries themselves accelerate to complete a phased transformation and the intelligent manufacturing is booming and becomes a state-level strategic solution. In 2015, the central government of China initiates a 10-year Action Planning “Made in China 2025,” to evolve itself into a manufacturing power of the world. This Specialty is following up with the development of the Chinese manufacturing industries, and integrates with the cutting-edge productive elements to drive a holistic university-enterprise cooperation on the basis of mechanical structure design, processing and manufacturing. Consequently, it is granted many prizes or programs, including 1 provincial-level project for specialty upgrading and transforming, 3 provincial-level high-quality courses, 5 provincial-level scientific research programs, 5 high-quality courses (at provincial level, or at school level).    

 

Excellent Teaching Team

The Specialty comprises of 15 full-time members (of which, 73.3 % of the members being with the senior professional title, 40% of the members having years of working experience at social enterprises, 27% of the members receiving doctoral degree, 100 % of the members obtaining master’s degree, 73% of the members winning dual-qualification accreditation, and 2 members working as the “guest supervisor” for the master’s program of Anhui University, 1 member receiving the “Famous Teacher,” and 1 member earning the “New Star Teacher”).

And this Specialty invites the researchers, YU Biao and LI Bichun, from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who team up with AXHU faculty members to conduct scientific research on the control technology of intelligent platform and also apply successfully for several of cross-disciplinary projects, such as the Research on the Accuracy Control Technology of Wheeled-robot Platform, the Research on the Intelligent Handling Equipment Based on the Vans, and the Research on the Major Transforming Technology of Self-driving Vehicles, in which they contribute their share to underpin the disciplinary upgrade and transformation in the fields of Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation. Furthermore, the academic staff harvest 22 school- or provincial-level projects in Quality Engineering, publish 40 academic papers in the areas of teaching and scientific research, and earn 42 authorized patents. In particular, their research outcomes help the Hefei Yunjia Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. resolve some practical problems relating to the “accuracy control of the self-driving vehicles” (via over 20 scientific research projects of the research funds totaling around RMB 500,000).

 

Innovative Cooperation Mode

Along with the Anhui Shangzhan Mold Industrial Co., Ltd., this Speciality co-established AXHU-SHANGZHAN Innovation Class. By doing so, its further teaching reform rolls out, which is steered by the enterprises’ engineers, introduces their real-time research and development projects and translates their research fruits into the objective-driven, cases-based teaching practices for the undergraduate students, by which to consolidate their specialized base, to intensify their professional skills, to prepare them to be the sophisticated “Design Engineers,” and to grow their core competence for career development in the future.

And this Specialty has developed an array of university-enterprise cooperation bases (with the CHANGAN AUTO, Gotion High-tech Co., Ltd., Brainware Terahertz Information Technology Co. Ltd., Anhui Shangzhan Mold Industrial Co., Ltd., etc.), so as to foster a large number of high-quality talents featuring practical application and innovative capacity on the basis of the university-enterprise joint operation and the special impact of the enterprises’ personnel.

 

Featured Undergrads Training

Through years of construction and development, this Specialty itself has become a featured educational entity, which is combining between theoretical system and practical application, driven by scientific research projects and discipline competition, and highlighting the undergraduate students’ progress in innovation capacity. An Initiative for the application-oriented talents training, “Three-sphere Combination and Threefold Competence,” encourages the undergraduate students to proactively act on the scientific research and internships, innovation and business startups, as well as disciplinary competition, by which a multi-tiered educational mechanism, covering technology and skills, engineering and training, and application and innovation, takes shape.  

At school, the undergraduate students gradually acquire their specialized capacity to analyze and solve problems, which is adhering to a philosophy of “Practice What You Learned,” through practical activities (including experiment, training, internships, and social events), competition and contests (including the National College Mechanical Innovation Competition, National Undergraduate Electronics Design Contest, National College Students Advanced Mapping Technology and Product Information Modeling Innovation Competition, CHINA ROBOT COMPETITION or Robocup open, China “Internet+” College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, “Challenge Cup” National University Students Extracurricular Academic Sci-tech Works Competition), scientific researches (of the teachers-led research groups, Center for Mechanical Innovation, and projects for the university students innovation and entrepreneurship). Historically, the undergraduate students were engaged in a package of specialty-related research projects, such as the Self-driving Car in the Special Surroundings, Automatic Floor Cleaners, Self-driving Track-laying Vehicle, etc., by which to grasp the knowledge in relation to the intelligent control of mechanical structure, so as to make a full preparation for the tomorrow’s intelligent manufacturing.

In total, the undergraduate students take part in 29 projects of the provincial- or national-level college students innovation and entrepreneurship and 6 faculty-led scientific research projects, and publish 13 academic papers (first author), apply for over 10 patents (first inventor), and win more than 47 awards at the provincial- or national-level disciplinary competition or contests.

 

Employment and Business Startups and Admissions

Generally, the graduating students are channeled to the sectors involving Mechanical Design, Model Design, Mechanical Manufacturing, Production Management, CAD/CAM-based Application, and the like, and are mainly engaged with the work, such as research, design, manufacturing of all kinds of the mechanical and electronic products and the mechanical and electronic automatic control system and facilities, which, to be exact, is closely related with the application of the high-tech products and systems, such as the Industrial Robots, MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical System), Intelligent Devices, etc. In recent five years, the employment rate on average is up to 96%, while the admission rate to the master’s programs of the renowned institutions of higher education reaches 10% (such as the Hefei University of Technology, the Beijing Institute of Technology, the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, the Zhejiang University of Technology, etc.).   

   

Successfully, a large number of outstanding talents are emerging, including:

YUAN Zhong, majoring in Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation, is the AXHU graduate of 2017. After graduating from AXHU, he was employed by the Hefei Keju Cryogenic Technology Co., Ltd. to be engaged in the Machinery Survey and Alignment-related work at its Plasma Research Institute, involving the modification and assembly of EAST devices, the CFETR-based research and development (of the samples for pre-production), and the production or the verification and implementation of measurement scheme while assembling (for the Procurement Orders of the “Feeder,” “PF6,” and “CC”).

 

DONG Zhilin, majoring in Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation, is the AXHU graduate of 2017. After graduating from AXHU, he was admitted into the master’s program of Mechanical Engineering of the Anhui University of Technology (2017-20). Hitherto, he has been studying for his doctoral degree at the Beijing University Of Technology.

 

WANG Kun, majoring in Machinery Design and Manufacturing & Automation, is the AXHU graduate of 2017. After graduation, throwing himself into business startups, he became the co-founder of the Hefei HEAN Automobile Drivers Training Co., Ltd., which has a large-scale standardized training fields and is equipped with the well-conceived training programs, high-end facilities, and enabling teaching and learning conditions (including large-scale multimedia classrooms, and Virtual Training Center). Moreover, this unit has convened much more sophisticated professionals and experienced trainers to guarantee the trainees’ learning of success and excellence.