On September 9th, ZJUI plenary meeting was held in the Engineering Building, The meeting mainly conveyed and learned the spirit of the mid-year meeting of ZJU and the campus, studied the next five-year plan of ZJUI, and deployed the educating work of the fall semester of 2020.
Prof. LI Erping, Dean of ZJUI, sketched the construction and development plan of ZJU and the campus in the next five years, and made a report on the development of ZJUI in the next five years. Prof. Li pointed out great changes deserve great actions, new beginnings require new drivers. In the past four years, ZJUI has made leap-forward development from scratch. In the next step, we should pay attention to the theme of‘integration and innovation’ of today, international feature of ‘educating globally’, ZJU characteristics of ‘double first-class initiative’, and further deepen innovative educational models, fully develop the advantages of cross-disciplines, improve the system of faculty recruitment and development, strengthen the sustainability of international cooperation, enhance the ability to respond to global changes, and improve the governance capacity. He emphasized, it is necessary to seize the opportunity of state building of interdisciplinary, promote the frontier scientific research in interdisciplinary engineering field, and strive to become the most influential international engineering education provider in China.
Prof. MA Hao, Vice dean of ZJUI, reported the student admission and development of the teaching labs and research labs of ZJUI this year. He said that the current progress of laboratory construction is generally in line with the expectations, which will further provide strong support for teaching and scientific research, and contribute to the development of the institute in the next step. LU Qiang, Assistant Dean, Director of Academic Affairs Office for Undergraduate, made teaching arrangements for the new semester.
All faculty and staff attended the meeting and held extensive discussions on the development of teaching and scientific research, discipline construction, and faculty recruitment and promotion etc.
