Intelligent Youth, Creative Future——

13th“Mitsubishi Electrics”National Electric Engineering and Automation Competition for College Students Has Concluded a Perfect Ending

By Zhang Jing fromSchool of Electric Engineering

Translated by Wu Fei; edited by Pang Baokun

In order to produce more talented professionals catering to the demand of new engineering under the Intelligence Age, 13th“Mitsubishi Electrics”National Electric Engineering and Automation Competition for College Students was held in our university from July 31stto August 1st, 2019.

Group photo of all participants

Since 2007, the competition has been successfully held for 12 times, with increasingly enlarged influence. This year, the competition is directed by the Teaching Steering Committee for Electrical Majors in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education and Chinese Association of Automation, and co-sponsored by Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Co. Ltd. and Harbin University of Science and Technology (HUST), with the theme of “intelligent youth, creative future——entering intelligence+”. Since registration from April 10th, after selection over 3 months, there are 77 teams from 53 institutes qualified for the finals.

The Experts gathered together for the opening ceremony of the event

At 8:15 on July 31st, the opening ceremony of the competition started at the stadium of HUST. 24 experts from national colleges and scientific institutions as well as all teachers and students participating in the competition attended the ceremony. Firstly, our president Zhao Lin delivered his gratitude to the trust and recognition from the competition organizing committee. President Zhao regarded that the competition could motivate students’desire for innovation and entrepreneurship, deepen the cooperation between universities and enterprises, and promote the reform of practical teaching system. President of Mitsubishi Electric Automation (China) Co. Ltd., Wang Jian, hoped that this competition could establish a platform for communications between teachers and students, between colleges, and between colleges and corporations. And then, Head of the Teaching Steering Committee for Electrical Majors in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education, Hu Min, stressed that high-level competition is an important platform to promote students’development as well as education of innovation and entrepreneurship. Based on convergence of information technology and college teaching, college specialty construction and capability of professionals training will be substantially improved.

Teams preparing for the competition

From July 31st, the two-day competition consists of 2 parts including device demonstration and defense. 77 delegations from Zhejiang University, Chongqing University, Tianjin University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jilin University, Xiamen University, Harbin University of Science and Technology, and so on. The works concern intelligent agriculture, AI service, intelligent industry, etc. catering to the demand of our nation’s intelligent development, the works are oriented by technology, intelligence, and innovation, covering the fields like artificial intelligence, applied intelligent control, etc.

Contestants’demonstration to the judges

Spot demonstration is to present the contestants’design in the form of material objects. The contestants need to demonstrate and illustrate their operating process and ideas of innovation to the judges, to show practical application of their works. The contestants have been working together in teams for several months, in order to prepare for the competition, which provides a good platform for cooperation and communication among students. Contestants not only gain friendship through teamwork, but also broaden their horizon from the experts’professional guidance.

Scenery of defence

During the defense, 16 experts and scholars from the well-known universities, scientific institutes and technical corporations, gave an examination to the contestants. The time limit is 15 minutes, including 5 minutes for presentation, and 10 minutes for communication. This provides an opportunity for students to approach the famous guys and forefront information. The contestants not only gain latest knowledge from the competition, but also practice their comprehensive abilities. Such experiences may lay a foundation for student’s future development.

Intelligent innovation will never end

At 18:30 August 1st, the competition came to the ending at 0220 hall, Building No.1 of the west campus. After 2-day fierce competition, 1stPrize, 2ndPrize, 3rdPrize, Best Popularity Prize, and Special Enterprise Prize have been selected and awarded.

Chen Qingguo, Vice President of HUST is making a speech

At the Award Ceremony, Professor Chen Qingguo, Vice President of HUST delivered gratitude to the present experts and scholars at the beginning, as well as congratulations to the awarded teams. He admitted that the competition makes our campus full of the atmosphere of learning science, loving science, and applying science. This is not only a presentation of students’quality and ability from 53 universities, but also a presentation of inter-college cooperation and college-corporation cooperation.

Hou Zengguang, Deputy Director of Chinese Association of Automation is making a speech

Hou Zengguang, Deputy Director of Chinese Association of Automation, congratulated all awarded teams, and reminded them not to be self-satisfied. He pointed out that the campus was small but the society was big while the competition stage is small but the electric career is big. The competition opened a window for students to enable them to realize the broadness of knowledge and career.

Ge Baojun, Deputy Director of the Teaching Steering Committee for Electrical Majors in Colleges and Universities, is making a comment on the competition

Ge Baojun, Deputy Director of the Teaching Steering Committee for Electrical Majors in Colleges and Universities of the Ministry of Education made a comment on the competition. He concluded several features of this competition. First, the contests is of high quality, high enthusiasm, profound capability, and outstanding innovation. Second, the competition is combined traditional culture with intelligent application. Third, the application of artificial intelligence is eye-catching, and works are more related with Internet, Internet of things, autonomous technique integration, and application of mobile APP. Finally, the product design is closer to people’s life, with great market potential. Contestants become more problem-oriented and conscious of environment conservation. He admitted that as an expert of the competition, he witnessed the growth of it. It is worth mentioning that there was the first international team participating in the competition this year which attracted audiences from several countries. This is just a strong evidence to show the increasing influence of the competition.

A group photo of 1stPrize winners and award presenters

A group photo of 2ndPrize winners and award presenters

A group photo of 3rdPrize winners and award presenters

A group photo of Special Enterprise Prize winners and award presenter

A group photo of Best Popularity Prize winners and award presenter

The opening ceremony is full of pleasure, which comes from sharing and gaining. All teachers and students reviewed the exciting moment and final works following the videos. 2 teams from our university win 1stprize. It is the accumulation and never-stopping hard work by teachers and students in the Theoretical Electrical Engineering Innovation Laboratory of School of Electrical Engineering that lead to the success.

3 students are sharing their works and experiences

The competition has been successfully ended, with great support from our school’s leaders and relevant departments. The competition comes to an end, but the footstep of innovation and entrepreneurship will never come to the end. It is just a new beginning. At the age of intelligence+, only innovators will go ahead and be the winners. Contemporary college students should make use of innovation to contribute for the Chinese dream and describe a splendid picture for our nation.

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