Alumni of HIT return to alma mater

2020/10/30

In late autumn, oursceniccampus welcomed alumni from all over the country. During the two-day period, alumni shared their friendship with teachers, recalled the good times and talked about the future development in a series of activities such as discussion and exchange, campus visits and academic discussions.

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Pictures of some back-to-school alumni

On the morning of October 24, theinauguralCivil Engineering Research Building and the History Museum of School of Civil Engineering as well as the unveiling ceremony of the "Siyuan" stone were held. XiongSihao, Secretary of the Party Committee of HIT, attended the ceremony, unveiled the building with the alumni, and presented alumni Lv Hongjun with the certificate of senior honorary trustee.Lv collaborates with 41 other alumni, classes and enterprise like XinghewanCorporation to sponsor the Civil Engineering Research Building. Finally, the total number of donators is over 2000. The construction of this building began on May 11, 2018, and was officially completed on the centennial of HIT.

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XiongSihaopresented alumni LvHongjun with the certificate of senior honorary trustee

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the unveiling ceremony of the Civil Engineering Research Building

The alumni back-to-school meetingheld on the morning of the 24th is also the celebration meeting that carries on the theme of “A Centennial Commemoration of School of Civil Engineering”. President Zhou Yu attended the meeting and addressed a speech. He fully affirmed the 100-year development process and achievements of the School of Civil Engineering. He also expressed his thanks to concern and support fromalumni. In the end, he put forward his hopes and requirements for the next 100 years. 

Academician Shen Shizhao, retired leader Sun Heyi, member of the Standing Committee of the HIT Party committee—JingRui and head of the Organization Department of HIT—SunXue, and Fan Feng, assistant to the president, together with many others, attended the related activities.

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President Zhou Yu attended the meeting

More than 300 alumni from around the country gathered to talk about the school-friendship and conspire for the future of the school during homecoming day of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. Yao Limin, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and Huang Yudong, assistant to the principal and director of Personnel Department attended the event.

They presented retired teachers and alumni representatives with a bookWorking Together and Striving for Far Away-The Development History of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and the badges of centennial history.

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Alumni of the School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering in homecoming day

From Oct 24 to 25, the Faculty of Computing held a series of activities, which set up a platform to communicate. Vice President and President of HIT (Weihai) Xu Xiaofei, former Vice President QiangWenyi and Vice President of Alumni Association Cui Guolan attended the event.

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Alumni ofthe Faculty of Computingin homecoming day

On Oct24, the Heilongjiang Alumni Association of the School of Environment was formally established at the Alumni Forum under the theme of "Gathering Wisdom, Bravely Undertaking Responsibilities and Fulfilling Dream ". Vice Presidents Liu Hong and Academician Zhang Jie, Vice President and former Vice President Ren Nanqi of HIT Alumni Association, Vice President of HIT Alumni Association and retired leader Jing Rui participate in this event.

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Alumniof the School of Environment in the forum

On Oct 25, the launch of the “Jiaotong”square construction project and the unveiling ceremony of the "Huida" stone were held. Tian Lin, deputy director-general of the Provincial Transportation Department, and the Party Secretary and Chairman of Heilongjiang TradingCorporation—Shang Yunlongwere present at the live event. Theschool leaders, together with alumni and representatives of teachers and students, unveiled the "Huida" stone and prodded soil for the alumni tree "Taxus".

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The launch of the “Jiaotong” square construction project and the unveiling ceremony of the "Huida" stone

During the homecoming, wonderful academic seminars took turns—the Faculty of Computing held discipline construction forums, young scholars and alumni academic reporting and young scholars' report meeting respectively. Alumni listened to the discipline development report of the Faculty of Computing and offered suggestions for the future development. Young alumni from Peking University, East China Normal University, University of Electronic Science and Technology and other universities shared their own scientific research experience and insights, and exchanged views with graduate students.

The School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering held the 4th Electrochemical Energy Technology Frontier Forum and Polymer Materials Seminar, inviting outstanding alumni and a multiple of experts and scholars from academia, industry and investment communities to share cutting-edge disciplines and scientific research results, bringing. This audio-visual feast wowed all teachers and students.

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the 4th Electrochemical Energy Technology Frontier Forum

The Forum on Discipline and Industry Development under the Background of Strengthening the Country with Transportation sponsored by the School of Transportation Science and Engineering was conducted in school. Alumni were invited to share their achievements and experiences on such topics as "Direction and Problems of Transportation Development and Reform", "Technical Requirements of Dalian Bay Submarine Tunnel" and " Intelligent Transportation Construction in Heilongjiang Province under the Background of Strengthening the Country with Transportation".

The School of Civil Engineering and other schools also hosted alumni-specific academic presentations.

During the homecoming, the alumni also joined a panel with teachers and students, watched cultural performances, visited museums, space museums and laboratories, reminiscing about their university days and expressing good wishes to HIT.

At the alumni seminar of the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, alumni expressed their sincere love for their alma mater, their deep thoughts for their classmates, and their expectations and blessings for their alma mater and the country.

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Alumni seminar of the School of Electronics and Information Engineering

As one of the homecoming activities for alumni of the Sports Department, the leaders attending the meeting and alumni representatives jointly unveiled the Alumni Association of Outstanding Athletes of Harbin Institute of Technology. The alumni in the discussion recalled the sports history of HIT and discussed the development of school sports in the new century.

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Alumni in the homecoming activities

In the culture gala with the theme of “Song of Computing and Welcoming the Alumni”, three generations of alumni and undergraduate, postgraduate, Ph.D. students from the Faculty of Computing took the stage to express their blessings to the motherland, their alma mater and the Faculty with deep feeling.

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The culture gala of the Faculty of Computing

The School of Foreign Language organized a symposium for returning alumni,and a visit to the museum and the space museum. The activities were webcast live, allowing alumni who could not attend the event to travel around the campus.

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Alumniof the School of Foreign Language

The School of Chemistryand Chemical Engineering, School of Civil Engineering, School of Environment and other schools also organized alumni to visit the Space Museum, Museum, Institute History Museum and related laboratories in batches, so that alumni can review the excellent school-running tradition, profound cultural background and brilliant achievements of HIT in the past 100-year development history.

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Visiting activities for alumni

The two-day alumni homecoming has come to an end, while we will welcome more alumni to return in the following days.