Since ZJU and HEC began to cooperate in collegiate practice teaching in October, 2011, communication has been conducted smoothly and successfully with the first team of students who undertake internship in HEC in a long term having begun their internship and graduate design by February, 2012. On March 29th, 2012 Chen Jin, deputy president of graduate school of ZJU leads the team to HEC, ending up with signing an agreement in jointly building practice education base and holding the ceremony of naming “ZJU-HEC collegiate practice education base”.
HEC was founded in 1951, one of 53 key SOEs related to the lifeline of national security and economy directly under central management, being responsible for large- and medium-sized generating equipment R&D and being national R&D center of hydroelectric equipment engineering technology and national key laboratory of hydroelectric equipment approved by The Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China. In 2012 four students in ZJU prepare their graduate design under the mentors in HEC, who has already finished their opening speech of dissertation and a mid-term inspection of their graduate design has been jointly conducted by mentors in HEC and ZJU. Chen Jin encourages students to grasp the extraordinary opportunity to learn from mentors in HEC who are richly experienced and responsible, and strive for good performance while he learns about the strong research power of HEC and advanced research equipment by visiting HEC and listening to the introduction of the enterprise on the spot. He also extends his thanks to HEC and wishes a deeper, more comprehensive and smooth cooperation between two parties.
In the signing ceremony ZJU and HEC also discusses about the following cooperative form and steps.
