Speech by the President at the opening ceremony of University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

The principal’s speech at the opening ceremony of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China is as follows:

Dear students and teachers:

Good morning everyone! Today, we held the opening ceremony for the 2022 graduate students in a combination of online and offline methods. We witnessed 861 doctoral students and 6,246 master's students becoming the new owners of the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. On behalf of all teachers, students and staff, and on behalf of Secretary Yafei, I would like to extend a warm welcome and sincere congratulations to you!

Among you is Zhou Jian, a doctoral candidate in engineering from the School of Computer Science. When a flash flood occurred in Datong County, Qinghai on August 18, he led a team to deploy the Pterodactyl large-scale fixed-wing emergency communication system and flew 600 people overnight. kilometers, providing emergency communication support for the hardest-hit areas for 16 consecutive hours, and then went to Jiangbei, Beibei and other places in Chongqing to use drones to carry out forest fire rescue;

Tang Deshan, a direct postgraduate student of the School of Electronics, has an undergraduate degree During this period, he participated in the research of advanced semiconductors and integrated microsystems, published papers as the first author in IEEE MTT, an authoritative journal in the international microwave/millimeter wave field, and won the 2021 IEEE MTT Student Scholarship, which is awarded to undergraduate and master's students by the IEEE MTT Association. The highest honor;

There is Li Weihao, a doctoral student from the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He twice won the title of "Chengdu Outstanding Student", the highest honor for students in our school, at the undergraduate and master's levels, and won the China International Aircraft Design Challenge. The finals scientific and technological innovation competition won many awards including the first prize in the country, and applied for 5 invention patents. The group of 2022 graduate students represented by these students demonstrates the youthful demeanor and spirit of the students in pursuing excellence and serving the society.

Among the 7107 graduate students this year, there are 4787 boys and 2320 girls. The ratio of boys and girls is much better than that of undergraduates, which shows that the school has attracted a large number of outstanding girls both inside and outside the school and from all over the country who are determined to become electronic students. Innovative creators, outstanding engineers, business and management elites in the information field. In fact, the senior students at school are your role models.

Cheng Lei, a 2019 doctoral candidate in the School of Electronics, has achieved important research results in the preparation of new two-dimensional semiconductor nanomaterials, microelectronic dynamics transformation and its energy and environmental applications. She has been published in authoritative publications such as Advanced Materials The journal published a series of academic papers as the first author, including 3 highly cited papers. He won the honorary title of "Academic Rookie" of the school and won the National Scholarship for Doctoral Students for two consecutive years.

Currently, Cheng Lei is working on the research of nano-semiconductor functional materials for high-performance clean energy conversion and storage, and once again published research results in Advanced Materials as the first author, proposing a new type of nano-semiconductor function The catalytic synthesis method of materials has made new breakthroughs in the photoelectrocatalytic mechanism.

Wang Yumiao, a 2019 doctoral candidate in the School of Information and Communications Technology, is engaged in radar detection technology research. As the first person in charge of the students, he was deeply involved in the research and development of a key radar project. For the first time, he combined radar equipment with artificial intelligence and proposed a generation method. The adversarial learning strong clutter suppression technology has been verified through experiments to greatly improve the strong clutter suppression capability.

Classmate Wang Yumiao once traveled for more than 300 days for joint debugging, and spent nearly half of the year conducting debugging. The longest continuous business trip for a single person was 33 days. In order to save time commuting between the experimental field and the hotel, Wang Yumiao took the initiative to apply to live alone in the simple accommodation area provided by the experimental field. She proved with practical actions that girls can also do a good job in national defense.

Huang Shan, a 2017 doctoral candidate in the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, is a “maker”. She has won the championship in the Asia-Pacific Student Robot Competition, the gold medal in the "Creating Youth" National College Student Entrepreneurship Competition, and the gold medal in the "Internet" National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. In 2020, she was selected into the Forbes Asia Under 30 Elite List, and won the 2019-2020 College Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Competition. Newsmaker of the Year, the 11th "China Youth Entrepreneurship Award" and other honors.

Huangshan has founded several robotics technology companies. Combining his knowledge, competition experience and market demand, he has successively launched several models such as badminton robots, fully autonomous mobile retail terminal robots, and fully autonomous delivery service robots. product. As a young maker, Huang Shan reported his entrepreneurial situation to Premier Li Keqiang twice and received "like" from the Prime Minister. Currently, the company she founded has received multiple rounds of financing and is developing well.

The growth experiences of these three senior students show that the new girls have made the right choice. Of course, our boys are equally good. Dear students, as you are about to start your postgraduate studies, as the president, I would like to express three hopes for you.

1. Go beyond livelihood and be an explorer, discoverer and creator in the field of electronic information

Becoming a graduate student at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, as long as you successfully graduate under the academic standards of the school, you will It means an enviable job and an income worthy of your parents. Graduate students at UESTC never have to worry about work and livelihood issues. However, this does not mean that some of our students do not have a "sense of livelihood" in their subconscious minds, behavioral patterns and choices. This is manifested in involution, utilitarianism, excessive care about living conditions, and valuing short-term interests over long-term careers, etc.

Although we all know that these phenomena have certain social universality. But dear new students, you are studying at a university that has made irreplaceable contributions to China’s national electronics industry, information industry, and national defense. It shoulders the mission of cultivating senior professionals for China’s electronic information industry and promoting the development of electronic information technology. .

In today’s smart era, electronic information technology and industries are innovating and developing at an unprecedented speed, penetrating traditional industries and catalyzing the creation of new industries, which contains unlimited opportunities. Therefore, students should have more confidence, higher morale, and stronger ambition, go beyond livelihood, and use passion and dreams to explore, discover, and create in the field of electronic information technology.

2. Keep the school motto in mind and be a responsible person worthy of the times with the heart of "the great nation"

Students also know that the international competition and the game between great powers in today's world are becoming increasingly fierce. Last year, the U.S. Congress passed the Innovation and Competition Act, and this year it passed the Chip and Science Act. Many of the contents are directly aimed at China.

China is facing more severe technological and industrial challenges. The need for self-reliance, independence and control, solving the "stuck" problem of core technologies, and original innovation is more urgent. This also provides opportunities for students to use their talents and talents. Determined to achieve national rejuvenation provides a broader stage of the times.

At the Central Talent Work Conference in September last year, General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized: It is necessary to explore the formation of a world-class engineer training system with Chinese characteristics, and strive to build a team of engineers who love the party and the country, are dedicated and dedicated, and have outstanding technologies. A team of engineers with innovative capabilities and good at solving complex engineering problems, cultivating a large number of outstanding engineers.

Therefore, students, from the day you enter the school, you must adhere to the spirit of the school motto of "seeking truth and being generous" and aspire to be discoverers of engineering science, inventors of engineering technology, and engineers. The creator of the system and the realizer of business value.

3. Develop skills and strive to become outstanding talents with innovative leadership potential

UESTC is building a "world-class university with Chinese characteristics". General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out that “only universities that cultivate first-class talents can become world-class universities.” For a characteristic science and technology university like ours, it is necessary to cultivate more leading talents in academics, engineering and high-tech enterprises. In a word, they are innovative and leading talents.

To become a leading talent, especially an academic leading talent, theoretical foundation is very important, as it determines academic skills and originality ability. To lay a solid theoretical foundation depends not only on the results of course study, but also on the depth and challenge of study; it is not only necessary to digest and absorb the content of textbooks, but also to understand the issues raised in classic literature, and to have a certain depth and breadth of cutting-edge knowledge. grasp.

To become a leading talent, thinking, ability, and literacy should be fully developed, and both brain use and hands-on skills should be given equal emphasis.

The reform of engineering education increasingly emphasizes the cultivation of thinking methods and the cultivation of "soft skills", including the training of analytical, computational, experimental, design, critical, creative and systematic thinking, as well as personal attitude, Expansion of thinking perspectives such as interpersonal relationships and humanities and social environment. Students should also pay attention to management and business thinking.

Engineering and management have a natural connection. Almost all early management scientists were born as engineers. Most of our outstanding alumni who founded companies and served as executives were also engineers; any company must develop and grow. , whether it is financing, market and operations, or strategy, organization and governance, they are all inseparable from business.

Technological changes are changing the way of human existence, communication patterns and social organization forms. Technical innovators and engineers are increasingly becoming the protagonists of society. Future leading talents should have a stronger sense of social responsibility and technical ethics. consciousness.

We hope that students will develop their own unique innovation and creativity with a broad vision and grand structure, as well as the integration and organizational skills of knowledge synthesis, interdisciplinary intersection and system integration, and become future innovation leaders. Sexual talent.