The undergraduate school has recently made new progress in building practice teaching base relying on top enterprises for students to undertake their graduate design for a long term and with real devotion by truthfully implementing work concerning undergraduates’ long-term internship and exploring in multiple direction new ways, models and connotation of cooperation between universities and enterprises and talent education model reform. On December 7th, 2011 undergraduate school and Shanghai Electric signed a letter of intent concerning jointly building practice teaching base.
On December 7th, 2011 a team formed by teaching affairs office of undergraduate school in ZJU, with members Xie Guihong, deputy director of teaching affairs office, Ma Hao, deputy president of college of electrical engineering, Pan Zaiping, dean of department of electrical engineering and automation of college of electrical engineering, Zhou Hao, deputy director of thermal energy office of the department of energy engineering, He Shiming, director of undergraduate teaching office of department of mechanical engineering, Zhu Lianzhong, deputy director of public relation office of student career center and Chen Lihua, deputy director of professional education office under teaching affairs office, visited Shang Electric who was well-prepared for the visit by giving much attention to the visit. Not only did it discuss the event before the visit by convening a meeting, but also arranged human resources departments of subordinate key pillar enterprise to take part in the meeting at that day. The two parties communicated warmly and frankly concerning jointly building collegiate practice teaching base and discussed ministry of education’s plan of promoting the education of excellent engineers and the importance and urgency of enterprises’ participation in the education of engineering students. Through communication they reached a consensus in the principle of mutual benefit, cooperation, and mutual support to jointly build the collegiate extracurricular practice teaching base, on the basis of which they signed the letter of intent. Besides they consented that both should maintain exchange and communication and take an active part in expanding the scale and field of cooperation.
Shanghai Electric is one of the largest groups in equipment manufacturing industry in China, boasting the advantage of providing comprehensive service of a complete set of equipment and generally contracting projects and providing modern equipment. It ranks fifth among Asian mechanical brands and first among those in China in the election of “Top 500 brands in Asia”. From the mid 19th century to today it has a long history of almost 100 years, witnessing the progress of equipment in China from naught to birth and the sixty years of rapid development from small size to large size and it has become a modern international large-sized equipment group with outstanding specialization, conspicuous advantages and sustainable development. It takes efficient clean energy and new-energy equipment as its core business with energy equipment accounting for about 70% of its sales income. Its dominant products include 1000 MW ultra supercritical thermal power generating units, 1000 MW nuclear power generating units, weight equipment, power transmission and distribution, elevator, printing machinery and machine tool etc.
