Reported by: CAO Wentao
Photographed by: CHU Kai
Translated by: LI Zhijia
Edited by: Jennifer Taylor
The 13th Challenge Cup National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition ended on October 17th. In the finals, the work our school submitted was awarded the outstanding award. This is the only national grand prize that has been obtained by the Heilongjiang Province since the launch of the Challenge Cup.
The competition was co-sponsored by the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League of China, the China Association for Science and Technology, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China, the All-China Youth Federation and undertaken by Soochow University. The Contest attracted more than 4,000 students and teachers from 440 universities on the mainland and 14 Hong Kong and Macao universities to participate. Altogether 1,135 works entered the finals but eventually only 34 works won awards. Among them, one of the works from our university, directed by the Associate Professor of School of Materials Science and Engineering HUANG Yongxian, and completed by 2013 graduate of School of Materials Science and Engineering WAN Long and LV Zongliang, KE Yi, CHENG Xi and KANG Bo from the school of Mechatronic Engineering titled New Techniques of Self-supporting Friction Stir Welding and the Design of Soldering Set – An International Advanced Joining Techniques for the Construction of High-speed Railway Vehicles won the outstanding award. That is the best result that HIT students have achieved since we first participated in the Challenge Cup. The other three works our university submitted obtained a third prize. Our school was also awarded the Outstanding Organization Award of the National Challenge Cup Contest.
Since 1989 the Challenge Cup National Undergraduate Curricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition has been held every two years. It has now become the largest and most influential undergraduate science and technology innovation contest in the nation. The theme of the competition was Challenge Innovation Road • Achieve Chinese Dream. Since beginning in March of this year, nearly 2,000 universities have held the contest and submitted nearly 20,000 works to the Challenge Cup official website.
A student introducing their work
Teachers and students who participated in the competition
