22 10 2018
In the afternoon of October 12th, a major exposition was held in the Cultural Square, Zijingang Campus, Zhejiang University. This exposition was a part of Zhejiang University Major Festival for 2018 freshmen. What’s more, there were other kinds of activities such as major info sessions, lab-opening day and online visiting majors. This festival was held by Qiushi College of Zhejiang University and all departments took part in it in order to get more than 6000 freshmen knowing about their choices of majors.On that day, Vice Secretary of the Party Committee of Zhejiang University Zheng Qiang sent a video to celebrate. Leaders and professors of Qiushi College of Zhejiang University, Undergraduate School of Zhejiang University and all departments began the ceremony together.The president of Qiushi College of Zhejiang University Qiu Limin stated that this kind of festival was the first trial in domestic sphere. Creating this festival was to help freshmen know about the college deeply and widely. This festival was an experiment to lead them to open their horizons and set their goals during the phase of choosing majors and an innovative measure to promote liberal education reform and ensure high-quality education.
09 10 2018
During the autumn semester (Sept. 17 – Nov. 16, 2018), the first English original course named Structural Equation Modeling and Its Applications was set up for senior undergraduate students in the Department of Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, Zhejiang University. The course has attracted widespread attention among students and faculty members since its opening. Prof. Karl Schweizer from the Department of Psychology, Goethe University Frankfurt is the main lecturer, Prof. Zaifeng Gao is responsible for the management of the course, and Dr. Tengfei Wang acts as the teaching assistant.To date, Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) has been one of the mostly used statistical approaches to analyzing data in the areas of Psychology, Education, and Sociology etc. The SEM course is given by the Department of Psychology in first-class universities like University of Oxford but not in Zhejiang University. The lack of such education has been a major bottleneck restraining students from conducting empirical studies. The course introduces modern methods for statistical investigations in differential research. A core characteristic of these methods is the use of models for representing and investigating the structure of data. Hypotheses regarding the structure of data and general theories regarding the structure of ability and personality get transformed into statistical models, and in the statistical investigation it is checked whether they reflect the represent the data collected in empirical research sufficiently well. The students who successively complete the basic versions of the course will acquire basic knowledge of the method. The advanced version of the course teaches the attendants how to use statistical program packages (AMOS and LISREL) for applied research. The participants are trained in transforming the formal models into the code of the program, to run the program and to react appropriately to failures. The lecturer Prof. Schweizer has more than 30 years’ teaching and research experience in prestigious universities including Goethe University Frankfurt, Freiburg University, and Tübingen University. His course in statistics is one of the most popular courses among undergraduate and graduate students in Germany. He was previously the President of the European Association of Psychological Assessment (2009-2011), the Editor of European Journal of Psychological Assessment (2009-2013), the Member of prize committees awarding the G.-Lienert Prize (2003-2007), and currently the Associate editor of International Journal of Personality Psychology (2013-now). He was awarded the “Alfred-Binet-Preis (Psychology award)” because of his outstanding contribution to the area of Structural Equation Modeling. He has also directed 7 DFG projects, published more than 120 journal papers, contributed to 35 book chapters, and edited more than 10 books.Prof. Karl Schweizer
21 09 2018
The course final defense of Creative Design was successfully held in College of Civil Engineering and Architecture (CCEA), Zhejiang University on September 13. The course teachers, Prof. ZHAO Yuxi, Prof. DUAN Yuanfeng, Prof. LI Yuchao, Associate Prof. MENG Tao, Associate Prof. ZHANG Dawei and the course student representatives, together with Mr. ZHANG Liang, the vice director of the teaching affairs office of the undergraduate college of Zhejiang University, Mr. MAO Yiping, the researcher of the teaching affairs office of the undergraduate college of Zhejiang University, Prof. LV Chaofeng, the vice dean of CCEA, Ms. ZHANG Wei, the Deputy Chair of College CPC Committee, Ms. JIANG Xiuying, the ex-director of education section of CCEA, Mrs. LU linlin, the director of education section of CCEA, were members of the evaluation panel. The course design theme for this year is "Civil Engineering and Artificial Intelligence". The undergraduates in civil engineering from Zhejiang University, Guizhou University and Tarim University, a total of 77, participated in this course. During the curses, the students thought out of the box and actively explored the integration of civil engineering and artificial intelligence. From brainstorming, model manufacturing, and final presentation, the student teams showed their creative ideas and great sense of collaboration. All the teachers and students on site were led by the teams to imagine the intelligent civil engineering in 2050, deeply impresed by their works, such as the AI moving castle, the flying buildings, the floating space supply stations, the hexagonal rotary farm, the intelligent modular structure et al. At the end of the course defense, the Best Team, the Best-Model team and the Best-Presentationstudent were selected and awarded. Creative design has been developing for ten years. On the occasion of this course’s beginning in the 2018 academic year, the 10th anniversary was held on September 4, 2018. During her visit to Imperial College London, Prof. ZHAO Yuxi, founder of the course, came into contact with the open and cooperative undergraduate teaching model of Imperial College London. After she returned to Zhejiang University, with the support from College of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the department of civil engineering, she organized a young teaching team and set up this course in 2009.With the development of the curriculum, Tsinghua University, Southeast University, Tongji University, Beijing Architecture University, Guizhou University and Tarim University gradually joined, contributing to the development of this course.More about Creative Design, please visit:http://www.oldccea.zju.edu.cn/czxsj/redir.php?catalog_id=11
14 09 2018
On Sep. 7th, the 2018 Undergraduate Education Conference of Zhejiang University was held in Zijingang Campus and the First Class Undergraduate Education Working Project of Zhejiang University (2018-2020) formally started. The Party Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang University Committee Zou Xiaodong, the principal of Zhejiang University Wu Zhaohui, the vice principal of Zhejiang University Luo Jianhong all gave the theme speeches. The Vice Party Secretary of the CPC Zhejiang University Committee Zheng Qiang presided at the conference.On the conference, Zou Xiaodong declared the speech named “Forging first class undergraduate education in the world.” He took 5 points, goal, importance, soul, quality and responsibility as key points to talk about his thoughts towards undergraduate education.Wu Zhaohui pointed out that the undergraduate students of Zhejiang University have got apparent development in recent years. He mainly focused on three points. The first one is that we should grab the root and the trend of the new era undergraduate education. Then he said that it was important to make further efforts to encourage new ideas and promote the undergraduate education as a strategic part of the Double First-Class. At last he encouraged further reform and innovation for the Zhejiang University Project of the First-class Undergraduate Education.Luo Jianhong analysed the challenge and the opportunity of the new era undergraduate education. He declared that first-class undergraduate education is a main mark of the world’s first-class university. To construct first-class undergraduate education is the historical responsibility that Zhejiang University should shoulder.The principal of the undergraduate school of Zhejiang University made further explanations on the project.The participants of the conference combined the report with the facts to make further discussions.The vice principals of Zhejiang University, Zhang Hongjian, He Lianzhen attended the conference. In addition, the directors of main departments of Zhejiang University also attended the conference.
14 09 2018
On 20th July, a group of 29 pre-selected undergraduates set out for the 2018 Global Immersion Programme (GIP) at Cambridge University. The GIP is an academic programme between Cambridge University and Zhejiang University that covers an array of cutting-edge topics. This programme encourages deep thinking and celebrates speculative spirit though active questioning. All 8 courses of the 2018 GIP were delivered by heavyweight professors and senior lecturers from various disciplines at Cambridge University – Dr. Gill on the history and prospects of Cambridge high-tech industry; Dr. Scott on green energy and its development status in UK; Dr. Wilson-Lee on Shakespeare; Dr.Impullitti on Brexit, globalisation and international trade; Prof.Burnard on creativity; Dr. Daly on the operation of the English legal system; Prof.Daugman on artificial intelligence and Dr. Yin on Chinese business and the challenge of the digital age. Outside the lecture room, the 29 students deeply study in St. John’s innovation centre and learned the operating philosophy and principles of the incubator. In addition to the intense and brain-storming courses, the Programme Manager Miss Li Jinzhao from the Cambridge China Centre arranged a spectrum of cultural activities for everyone. Guided by several Cambridge students, the group travelled all over Cambridge landmarks. As a break, the students also went down to London for the Buckingham Palace's ceremony and the British Museum. By the end of the programme, each small group presented their own venture project. All 29 students learned a lot from the intense collision of ideas. As the Programme Director Dr. Eden Yin mentioned, contemporary youngsters should have a sense of crisis and a spirit of innovation, and take on the responsibility of building a better society.
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